You know the feeling. You're surrounded by people, connected to everything, and somehow completely unreached. You've built a rich interior life — the books, the long walks, the thoughts you can't quite say out loud — and it works, mostly, until suddenly it doesn't, until one ordinary night something cracks open and you understand that watching your life carefully is not the same as living it.Almost is the story of Marcus Webb, a thirty-one-year-old who has perfected the ar...

PrefaceSome stories are meant to be hidden.This one is meant to be told.This book was written for anyone who has ever felt trapped by their past, by addiction, by loss, or by their own mistakes. It is based on real experiences. While names and certain details have been changed, the truth behind these pages remains untouched.What begins as escape slowly becomes a battle for survival.What feels like control becomes a cage.And w...

‘Interment’ is a masterclass in profound horror, a spellbinding descent into dread that builds relentlessly, casting a chilling shadow long after the final page. Death was just the beginning. In this purgatorial nightmare, Jonny is neither rewarded nor punished. Instead, it’s a struggle against a nightmarish reality of toxic whispers and monstrous shadows, where trust is the quickest path to a deeper grave. Survival depends on confronting unspeakable terrors, a love that defies reason, and...

Visit a Cville that's not quite like the one you know.Charlottesville Fantastic: Arcane Echoes from Virginia's Heartland invites you to experience the mysterious, the supernatural, and the humorous.Meet unforgettable characters including a vampire at a UVA sorority, a four-hundred-year-old dragon hidden in Shenandoah National Park, and an enigmatic tuxedo cat on the Downtown Mall. Twenty tales in total, each exploring the m...

This exciting book explores fashion not simply from an aesthetic point of view but also as a manifestation of social and cultural change.Focusing on fashion from 1850, noted fashion historians Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl consider the evolution of womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, decade by decade. The book looks at the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change, at the relationship between fashion and the visual, applied, and performing arts, the intertwined r...

In the grey corporate offices of GlobalText Solutions, Jim Witt is hiding - from his past, from his emotions, and from the fact that his shirt is currently inside out. Jim is a man composed entirely of caffeine, red pens, and regret. He moves through documents with the grim efficiency of a battlefield surgeon, amputating adverbs and nursing a hangover. He doesn't use Grammarly; he is Grammarly. Betty Barylowicz is done hiding. Armed with a bob cut sharp enough to kill and a PhD in translat...

In this pulse-pounding medical memoir, trauma surgeon James Cole takes readers straight into the ER, where anything can and does happen.TRAUMA is Dr. Cole's harrowing account of his life spent in the ER and on the battlegrounds, fighting to save lives. In addition to his gripping stories of treating victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings, attempted suicides, flesh-eating bacteria, car crashes, industrial accidents, murder, and war, the book also covers the ye...

If you’ve found yourself almost inconsolable after your pet died, please know that you’re normal.If you’ve found that your family and friends don’t seem to understand the level of your grief, please know that, too, is normal.Without comparing our relationships with our pets to those with people, we know that, because of the unique emotional relationships we have with our pets, their deaths produce a level of pain that is difficult to describe.If you relate to any or...

Inspirational and thought-provoking. A pocket-sized guide to living an empowered life full of wisdom for a modern era. Empowering Thoughts can be used to focus your world with positive intention and shift the way you perceive your reality.In the tradition of such classics as 'The Art of Peace' and 'Manual of the Warrior of Light', Empowering Thoughts delivers bite-sized wisdom and philosophy to anyone who wants to feel better, think better, and be...

Race, Gender and Image Restoration Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape explores themes that are relevant to the socio-political landscape of twenty-first-century America, including race and gender representation, social media and traditional media framing, and image restoration management. This book provides a comprehensive discussion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Image Restoration Theory (IRT) to establish a baseline for a conversation on celebrity image restoratio...

"The difference between BUSTER VOODOO and too many other tales of terror is its big heart, its generosity of spirit. In Dixon Green, Mason James Cole has created a highly nuanced, deeply felt character who will stick in your memory as much as his vivid descriptions of Hurricane Katrina and its grim aftermath will, as much as what lurks in Empty House and Marie Laveau's Zombie Nightmare will. It's a page turner, to be sure. But it's one with a mission beyond that, a glimpse into the so...

Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today.The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands, the authors examine how established mainstream artists/bands are continuing to market themselves in an ever-changing technological world, and how bands can use integrate...