"ADHD isn't a curse—it's an engine. You just have to learn how to drive it."In this raw, insightful, and unexpectedly uplifting guide, Jake Taylor takes you deep into the lived experience of ADHD—from the inside out. Whether you're navigating your own mind or raising kids who feel like emotional hurricanes, this book offers practical tools, sharp neuroscience, and hard-won wisdom on how to regain balance without shame.With clear-eyed compassion, Jake Taylor unpacks the real...

Some years ago, I watched a documentary during which a neurosurgeon perforated the skull of a man and, using highly-advanced instruments, penetrated the man's brain about an inch-and-a-half in order to extract cancerous cells. Like most people, I was in total awe. 'The miracle of medicine' I thought. Later, while writing one of my space-adventure books: First Light / The Second Expedition, it occurred to me to give additional powers to the characters in said book. One of these powers allow...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem about a sailor who shot an albatross and the woe that followed him afterwards. Narrated by professional voice actor Jake Phillips, host of The Cultured Bumpkin literature podcast.

She’s trapped beneath the waves, he’s willing to sacrifice everything to bring her back.Brigid has been dragged before the goddess she once served and condemned to endless torment at the hands of the syren queen. Her body weakens with each passing day, and the only way to endure is to bury her hope—because rescue is a fantasy she can no longer afford.Caelum may have stopped his father, but his victory left him hunted, grieving, and alone. The syren who claimed his heart has...

In this electric enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy, the heir to the throne falls for a thief who plans to manipulate her into helping him steal from her father in an act of revenge and desperation.Will he steal her heart or her chance at the throne?Daughter and heir to the throne, Mancella Cliff yearns for a life without bloodshed. But as a child, she emerged from the Broken Citadel with the power to summon animals—only after killing them first. H...

An exploration and celebration of a controversial tradition that, contrary to popular opinion, is alive and active after more than 150 years.Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen investigate the complex history of black minstrelsy, adopted in the mid-nineteenth century by African American performers who played the grinning blackface fool to entertain black and white audiences. We now consider minstrelsy an embarrassing relic, but once blacks and whites alike saw it as a bla...

Equal parts workplace satire and character study in delusion, Slime Line is a fresh and urgently needed examination of work, grief, the male ego, and the false promise of environmental capitalism.A fresh and trippy portrait of the diverse underclass of the commercial fishing industry, Slime Line is a tragicomedy of one college dropout’s attempts to remake himself into a hard-nosed workingman.Fleeing the aftermath of a bizarre college prank...

The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death.In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents...

Have you ever had the feeling of having a mind that is too "noisy"?Do you find yourself thinking repetitively and negatively, unable to get rid of destructive thought patterns? Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by worries, fears, and anxieties that prevent you from living the life you want?If the answer is yes, then this ebook is for you.This book offers you a practical and comprehensive guide to breaking free fr...

This autobiographical account describes funny moments and some quite hilarious, but also has highly poignant and sad memories. They include the moment when a private soldier fainted three times in a row: before, during, and after his first vaccination; the hand-grenade class intended to wake up zombies; the story of the vagabond knife; actions of two of the three conscientious objectors in my outfit; the soldier that confused two lovely Chevrolet Corvette automobiles and drove away with th...

He's a roguish pirate, she's the girl he failed to protect years ago—now a deadly syren sworn to destroy him.Brigid was never meant to survive at sea. At fifteen, she drowned, only to become a syren. Now, her revenge is her purpose, and sailors are her prey. But when she recognizes a drowning man and spares his life, her loyalties shift.Caelum has spent his life fighting the brutal legacy of his pirate father by saving others. But when his mission drags him to the sea, he c...

Amid the halls of Harvard Law, a professor of legend, James Bradley Thayer, shaped generations of students from 1874 to 1902. His devoted protégés included future Supreme Court justices, appellate judges, and law school deans. The legal giants of the Progressive Era—Holmes, Brandeis, and Hand, to name only a few—--came under Thayer’s tutelage in their formative years.He imparted to his pupils a novel jurisprudence, attuned to modern realities, that would become known as legal r...