The Mexican mafia, the Bloods and the Crips, O.J. Simpson, the Menendez brothers, and the many hardened criminals a deputy sheriff had to deal with from day to day in the LA County jails and streets.This book details a young man who came from migrant parents with a calling to serve from a Christ-centered perspective. The calling to lay oneself down and to sacrifice life and limb despite the evil in this current society. From the honor and wisdom taught by a father, to loving compas...

A high school senior, Jack Duncan, dreams of playing college baseball and escaping the political turmoil of the agricultural town of Delano. Ever since his father, a grape grower, died ten years earlier, he's suspected that his mother has been hiding the truth from him about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.With his family's property on the verge of a tax sale, Jack drives an old combine into town to sell it. On the road, an old friend of his father shows up with ...

Sexual harassment is in the news almost every day. Countless women have been intimidated into silence or their careers and lives have been ruined because they refused to submit to unwanted sexual advances. Yet, sexual harassment coupled with corruption is not singularly an American affliction. It’s an ancient disease, a truly universal tale. Dr. Raana Mahmood's story, Courage to Stay No, is a narrative of standing up against sexual corruption in her home country of Pakistan. It ep...

Deep corruption threatened to ruin jobs and harm lives. Intimidation, distrust, and secrecy becamethe norm among the executive management group of Chelan County Public Utility District.Even in a small and semirural American government, corrupt leaders aren’t simply dishonest and immoral.They’re dangerous.A board of directors should hold wrongdoers accountable, but sometimes that responsibility falls torighteous employees. A riveting and relevant memoir, T...

Jack Duncan is a high school senior whose dream is to play baseball in college and beyond—as far away from Delano as possible. He longs to escape the political turmoil surrounding the labor struggles of the striking fieldworkers that infests his small ag town. Ever since his father, a grape grower, died under suspicious circumstances ten years earlier, he's had to be the sole emotional support of his mother.With their property on the verge of a tax sale, Jack drives an old combine ...