"Your Career is a Journey, Not a Guarantee - Are You Ready for the Unexpected?"Put yourself in a situation where you walk into work one day, coffee in hand, only to be blindsided by the two words you never saw coming: You're fired. It is a moment that can leave even the most seasoned professional reeling, unless you're prepared.In ***Prepare to Get Fired!***, career coach and corporate survivor, John Burns FCMA, flips the script on job security with a bold, enterta...

Abiding Together 2026 Summer Book Study Pick!“This book is a friendship telling its story. It is friends telling together their experience of friendship in the Lord.”Friendship isn’t just a longing—it’s a holy calling. We are made for deep, life-giving connection. Yet in a world overwhelmed by digital noise and surface-level interaction, many of us feel more isolated than ever. Friendship in the Lord offers a timeless, grace-filled respons...

"Observations on Abortion" by John Burns is a thought-provoking exploration of the complex moral, ethical, and social dimensions surrounding the issue of abortion. Burns delves into historical perspectives, legal frameworks, and the psychological impacts on individuals involved in the decision-making process. His analytical approach encourages readers to consider various viewpoints, fostering a deeper understanding of the implications of abortion in society. The book serves as a critical r...

The human uterus, in the unimpregnated state, consists of a succulent substance, in which we may perceive fibresrunning in every direction. In the interstices of these we find a serous fluid, which can easily be squeezed out. By injecting the vessels finely with size or mercury, we observe them to be numerously intermixed with the fibres, but very small. A portion of these vessels follow an irregular course toward the inner surface or cavity of the uterus, and open there upon the membrane ...

Nick Sloan was the greatest private eye in the history of San Francisco, but tough times had his office growing cobwebs.It looked like a lucky break when a bombshell named Elizabeth Burnett walked in with her tale of woe and misery.Her $10,000 dollar retainer was as real as her cuts and bruises, especially since $5,000 was cash.Back in 1980 that was a lot of cabbage.Getting the dirt on his beautiful clients' business partners would be easy; one was a local real ...

B. John Burns was a middle-class Catholic school graduate destined, in the eyes of everyone who knew him, for law school. But after an unexpectedly rousing reception for one of his original songs at his senior class talent show, the only destiny in his mind was to become a rock star. "Baby Pictures" is a compelling autobiographical novel that tells his story of a life touring on the road – filled with nightclubs, hotels, and all that came with it. This is the story of a lifestyle that no l...

In "Observations on Abortion," John Burns presents a compelling exploration of the multifaceted ethical, philosophical, and social dimensions surrounding the issue of abortion. Written in a nuanced prose style that invites rigorous contemplation, the book delves into historical and contemporary debates, integrating scientific insights with personal narratives. Burns meticulously examines the moral implications of abortion, contextualizing them within wider societal frameworks, including wo...

In attempting the cure of inflammation, or its consequences, we must naturally be directed to the means of removal, by the nature of the action itself, and the object which we have in view. The treatment of the inflammatory action may be considered in two points of view; first, as this action consists in peculiar changes of the natural action, which changes we wish to remove; and, secondly, as this action naturally tends to disappear, and produce other actions, which require a peculiar tre...

“Do you want to be healed?”Jesus asks that question several times in the Bible—of the woman at the well, Bartimaeus the blind man, the woman caught in adultery, the rich young man—and he asks the same of you as well.Do You Want to Be Healed? is a 10-day personal retreat that uses a healing process similar to the one found in the author Bob Schuchts’s bestselling book Be Healed.Each day of the do-it-yourself retreat engages you with...

A look inside beautiful, one-of-a-kind homes around the world, from the tastemakers behind Kinfolk magazineWhat does it mean to live well at home today? In a world where it's easy to let our taste be driven by the algorithm, and for our homes to cease being spaces of comfort and self-expression and instead morph into an ever-changing, impersonal sameness, how do we design spaces that endure, and that belongs to us alone? W...

Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: First-Time Author, Spirituality Softcover (First Place) and a 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers Award: Inspirational (Second Place).For more than four-hundred years, Introduction to the Devout Life by Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales has been regarded as the essential guide to holiness and loving God. This spiritual classic takes on new life in Lift Up Your Heart, where Rev. John Bu...

Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics. Their poems explore topics surrounding immigration, internment, and racialization, as part of understanding intertwining strategies of exclusion both communities have faced. Their poetry forms new counternarratives that simultaneously critique the injustices of the past and leave room for...