Jace had the prince in his hand and was seconds away from slaughtering the last member of the royal bloodline who had for so long oppressed or killed people like Jace. Now he had the power to stop it. Jace wanted to see the eyes of the prince as his soul was drained, but thats when he saw somethingsomething different. In this boys eyes he saw something that he used to see in himself. Jace dropped the prince, turned on his heel, and started to walk away. As he walked, the remaining blood of...

About the BookBefore Christopher Columbus's arrival, the New World was populated by people who likely originated in Asia. Each physiographic area's predominant culture was defined by the foods and other resources available in that region. Fish and sea mammals provided the majority of food for coastal peoples; the acorn was a staple for California Indians. Plant life and wild game (especially the American bison, or buffalo) were sources for Plains Indians.Click the Buy butto...

From the big city beat to a blue jean retreat with a true best friend. An echo through a canyon of truth. Circles of lies. Which way can one go when reality is so close to to the razorz edge. Promises are for people who can not keep their word? Grand naivity? To laugh like a child is great for the soul until the heart is broken and one is left crying like a baby. Dreams will not die as long as the desire within burns. Stop for a moment and check this out. Why ask why? Kick your feet up. Do...

The essence of an addict is as unique and personal as one’s fingerprints. After years of hopping on and off the train of destruction, Luke’s life comes to a screeching halt. Thrust into sobriety by a ten-year jail sentence for running guns across a state line, reality and illusionary realms become blurred. Luke, once known as the boy who shot his brother, delves into his past through a series of dreams. Travel the twisted road of addiction as Luke navigates his way through fixatio...

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio executive, he contributed substantially to the success of the industry during the ch...

Things are heating up for the archaeologists digging at Hamblin's Fort, an ancient Native American settlement in Arkansas.The local sheriff tries to involve them in his drug dealing. A mysterious black dog is shadowing their excavations. The marriage of "Boss Man," the crew chief, is unraveling, and Cecelia, one of the crew, claims she can see a menacing dark red energy vortex flowing up from the temple mound.As if that's not enough, disagreements over exca...

Memory: the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.The crazy thing about memories, though, is that they can be good or bad. In Ezio's case, they're the fucking nightmares that have him popping pills to suppress them. His memories hang on to him like a loose thread, and no matter how hard his people try to snag it off, it's no use.In this sequel, Jisei finds herself knocking on death's door. Just when she and Ezio choose to stop toying wi...

Exhilarated (iɡˈziləˌrādəd): very happy, animated, or elated.Aphrodite Greer is finally starting to see better days. She's slowly accepting that she can have a beautiful life despite her daughter being dead without feeling guilty. That beautiful life has a name and it's Goal Navarro—the persistent head of the Navarro Cartel.Goal Navarro sees what he wants and goes after it. Being a man who's always on the move, he's finally found the lady that keeps him gro...

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.“[A] harrowing [portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesNAMED ...

With Dostoyevsky's Idiot and Aquinas' Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical ...

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, Here I Am, Laughing with Boers;...

With the Cuppacio family now settled into Jagoda Bay, the past of Chicago can no longer haunt them from the graves holding the men who made their childhoods hell.Now, it's all about moving forward, elevating, and marriage . Choosing to unite with the Rinaldi Mafia brought fortune and requirements. In order for the men to have permanent seats at the Rinaldi table, they must marry, and their future brides must meet the standards set by the Rinaldi f...