Retired attorney Preston Howard obsesses about the newly elected, bombastic and narcissistic president, and three corrupt Austin police officers whom he represented and saved from capital murder charges and execution ten years before. After his wife divorces him and his drinking reaches gargantuan proportions, Howard's thoughts turn to murderous impulses as the only way he can stamp out one, or both of his fixations. Howard and his co-author, daughter Anne Howard, tell the story, often wit...

An audacious new eBook about the role of God and religion in modern-day life, with tips on how to life a spiritual life on your own terms.

Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding.By combining aesthetic expression and inquiry with critical reflection, the contributors in this volume use a variety of narrative strategies—autoethnography, mystoriography, creative cartography, the lyric essay, fictocriticism, collage, the screenplay, and poetics—to position place as the starti...

Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. Informed by the scholarship of Dwight Conquergood and his model for performance praxis, this collectio...

Think outside the big-box hotels and discover North America’s most inspiring outdoor getaways. In the first travel guide of its kind, authors Mike and Anne Howard of the acclaimed blog HoneyTrek.com dive into the origins of glamping and the 21st-century craving for unconventional experiences that effortlessly connect us with nature, family, and ourselves. Each chapter of Comfortably Wild offers a unique way to vacation, like the boutique farmstays in “Cultivate,” wellness retreats in "Reju...

What an honour and a joy to be present and to be part of the lives of so many people at birth, the most precious of times. The experience of birth and life is so amazing, and yet the return home of a soul so wanted, is heartbreaking for those that are left. Reassurance that this soul knows that at this time its body is incompatible with its chosen path of learning, yet will return to honour another form at the right time, is so healing.

A practical guide to letting go of the character defects that get in the way of true and joyful recovery.Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. As Bill P. explains, these are the "rocks" that can sink recovery- or at the least, block further progress. Based on the principles behind Steps Six and Seven, Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help readers move forward in recovery. The second edition feat...

From the world's most widely acclaimed Witches, a spellbinding guide to the practical applications and earthly benefits of psychic powers.Witchcraft is a revered, centuries-old art, grounded in the natural energy of the universe and the untapped power of the human mind. Gavin Frost and Yvonne Frost, world-renowned experts and best-selling authors on the occult, have mastered the techniques of the Craft for enhancing everyday life on earth. THE WITCH'S MAGICAL HANDBOOK shows all mer...

The definitive guide to uncovering the secret meanings of your dreams—with more than 25,000 entries covered to interpret your subconscious messages.With more than 25,000 entries Ryan covers every dream symbol and message imaginable—from sex and love, to lucid dreaming, nightmares, and intuitive and premonition dreams. Ryan explains how dreams are sending messages about your past, present, and future that can help you in your waking hours. Readers learn what these dr...

Through my connection and knowing Karla, her strength and heart in moving through her own tragedy of loss, which she shared with me in my book We Are Their Heaven, reveals her endless compassion that brings a perspective to grief that touches each of us in ways that leads us to awakening and hope.Allison DuBois - Medium and AuthorKarlas insight and efforts to integrate her understanding of grief into tools for emergency service workers at a time when everyone n...

From the Foreword: "The basic purpose of this book is to help you overcome your suislide toward disintegration by accompanying you through the initial rough and uncertain days that will follow the actual implementation of your decision to quit. This book's higher purpose is to help you discover why you took up the bottle in the first place, so that the issues you have been suppressing can be addressed. Finally, this little book's highest purpose is to help you find out more of who you actu...

You can change your feelings, release your emotions, change the script of your life and once more be on top of the world by using 6 easy skills.You can have the power to change everything, right away, if you want to.You can leave the pain behind and reach a level of happiness and peacefulness with these easy to use skills.These skills are not miracle skills but they are very powerful skills.They are, simply put, commonsense basic skills that teach you, one step at a time, to releas...