An introductory part of the Division Mythos, "Beneath the Weeping Willow" is a surreal yet touching glimpse into the life of young David, an autistic boy of considerable power who possesses a gift of insight those around him are oblivious to.(Other layers of David's story are interwoven in the novel The Dampness of Mourning.)

In a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming, Finding Rest for Our Souls offers a balm for the weary soul.Through a collection of personal stories and reflections, this book invites you to explore the depths of your own experiences and discover a sense of peace and safety within. Drawing inspiration from the Psalms, Amber Mattingly and her colleagues share their own journeys of healing and offer practical practices for cultivating inner peace. With vulnerab...

Where Is the Evidence is an honest and deeply personal collection of poetry by Marine Corps Infantry veteran David Thompson that explores service, identity, trauma, healing, family, and hope. Written during a season of reflection, counseling, and personal growth, these poems invite readers into the quiet places of life where many of our most important questions are asked but seldom spoken.For many people, the hardest experiences are not the ones we endure but the o...

While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the course of US history. The case studies begin with the Sons of Liberty in the era of the Americ...

In THE DEVIL GAVE THEM BLACK WINGS a cursed angel battling a paternal complex shadows an abducted child with a vengeful father who will do anything to get her back… He mourns the loss of innocence in the young neighbor girl who is determined to find the kidnapped child… And he seeks to offer peace to a despondent husband returning to his wife's childhood home after her death on 9/11…Through triumphs and setbacks, unlikely friends forge an unbreakable bond, and find a way to always ...

In the first Division Mythos book, Before Leonora Wakes, Red Piccirilli is a runt, a dreamer, a naive boy with an imaginary friend and little else. But right before summer vacation starts he finds an albino girl trapped in a shed behind a local house. After Red frees her, the world he knew quickly unravels into something more mysterious—an unsteady reality where a man with silver teeth and buzz saw voice points him toward the true meaning of sacrifice. With his friendship tested, he fights...

Fright, Blood, Love, and Carnage…After her mother is murdered, young Dorothy Good travels west with her aunt to escape persecution. She experiences magic in the desert; an ancient and powerful gift that her maturing body and fragile mind cannot control until her aunt teaches her the secret arts.After they construct a mystical town named Gossamer—a secret, hidden place where everyone can live forever—she finds love. But it is fleeting, replaced first by betrayal and then a t...

Life seems to be getting better for sensitive fourteen-year-old Dexter Bestwick until his older brother Adam has an automobile accident and drowns. While struggling with loss, he discovers his dad has stolen Adam's journal and his girlfriend. Dexter lashes out and steals the journal from his father's locked room. He believes it to be one of the reasons his father strangles him while he and his girlfriend Jamie are at the park one night.Still around after his death to witness the en...

On a snowy Detroit night Elijah Irons, now an old man, tells a black nurse a haunting story from the darkest summer of his childhood in Forksville, Mississippi. He shares his experience with the rising racial tensions in their community and the discord within their own home since Eli, like his father Hank, think of Negroes as ordinary people, while the rest of their community think of them as The Lesser People.He shares how his father arrests Uncle Tommy for stealing Army rifles an...

She's a little crazy. He's about to join her. Together they'll create new music by drawing notes from an old score.

In an age where modern temptations erode the essence of true manhood, Iron Soul: Novenas for Christian Men's Transformation stands as your indispensable guide to spiritual victory. Authored by Perry Lee Thompson, a lifelong Catholic drawing from over two decades of novena devotion and the timeless wisdom of Ephesians' Armor of God, this prayer book equips men to conquer the seven deadly sins and contemporary vices through eight powerful novenas. Each nine-day devotion invokes saintly inter...

New Foreword by Irvine Welsh.In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's basement to the Top of the Pops studio.In their own words they each look back on shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another's footsteps by day...