Terry able is young and has everything ahead of him until terrible things happen to him. And the woman he loves is murdered.

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Y...

You picked up this book because you come home tired and still lose the evening to the phone, the glow of the screen replacing the glow of the room, and the hour after dinner vanishing without you ever deciding to lose it. You have heard the slow evening is a luxury you cannot afford, and you have tried to rest and watched the scroll eat the quiet anyway. You may be the parent whose evenings belong to everyone else until the children sleep, or the couple sitting on the same couch scrolling ...

This is a story about a world that coexists with werewolves, vampires, and humans. A young man named Julius Grace is a normal guy who has lost his parents but remains human and is trying to coexist with the supernatural world around him. There are rules, and there is good. But where there is good, there is also evil!Join Julius on the first adventure of this trilogy as he is led toward his unknown destiny!

The complexities of war are only truly known when you’ve experienced it.From 1992 to 1994, Jonathan Jones, an ex-serviceman of the Gloucestershire Regiment, found himself in the depths of chaos while providing humanitarian aid as a civilian truck driver in the former Yugoslavia.As part of the British Convoy Team, Jones, along with other civilian truck drivers, were able to access areas cut off to the military; allowing much-needed supplies to reach those who were affected b...

This is a great adaptation of the biblical story of Ruth and Boaz, set in the present day, where love cannot be denied even when an evil man tries to disrupt such a loving bond. Can they stay strong, or will their love crumble?

A man makes a terrible mistake at 13 years old and is sentenced to 30 years in prison. When he gets out, the world around him has completely changed. Can he adapt, or will he finally understand that the world has entered its own apocalyptic era?

A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most…sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. The great artists of the 15th and 16th century were not just visionaries, but lovers. Jonathan argues that the famous nudes of Michelangelo and Titian are not abstract...

Education through poetry expresses my thoughts and education on numerous different topics and ideas. I expressed my knowledge and wisdom through lines that rhyme most of the time. You can say that it’s wisdom that rhymes. Among my favorites are the topics that address values including honor and integrity. Most of the values included have shaped me and made me the many have become. The different activities that are included are things I like to do or would like to do on the future. For exam...

In the spring of 1972, the small, Missouri town of Harrisonville found itself with a hippie problem. Hippies had settled into the town square surrounding the county courthouse. The group of young people included men who had recently returned from tours in Vietnam as well as high school teens who idolized these older men. City leaders needed to act. But how?The situation worsened to the point that one of the hippies, Charlie Simpson, would enter the square on April 21st with an M-1 ...

Would you turn your back on your family and friends if the local authorities asked you to do so? Residents were asked to do just that during the Missouri/Kansas Border War prior to and during the Civil War.William Clarke Quantrill and his infamous raid of the city of Lawrence, in 1863, is known to most residents on the Missouri/Kansas Border. What led Quantrill and his men to such a drastic and risky undertaking in the first place?

Fifty miles south of Kansas City lies a rural community whose history makes it different than any other in the United States. The residents of this small Missouri hamlet were once ruled by a king.The Kingdom of Amarugia: The True Story of Missouri's Country Kings, tells the strange story of a monarchy beginning with the early white settlers of western Missouri in the mid-1800s. The book chronicles the origin of the kingdom, the lineage of the kings, and wh...