At four years old, Anthony David LoDolce learned how quickly life could change. What followed was a journey through childhood trauma, loss, homelessness, addiction, fatherhood, recovery, and rebuilding.Shattered and Whole is the story of a man who became an expert at surviving before discovering that survival was never meant to be the destination. Through gratitude, meditation, Reiki, hypnotherapy, detachment, forgiveness, and strong boundaries, Anthony found a path toward self-lov...

An inside look at the quiet work behind a generational talent: film, breath, footwork, and the small repetitions that turned length into control. This book traces how deliberate practice and disciplined choices reshape a player, a team, and the way the game is played.

Hope and Help for Those in NeedA practical and personal guide to the social security disability processDisability can be devastating.Sickness, accident, or injury can change anyone's life unexpectedly. And when it does you face not only physical but financial and emotional challenges too.Help is available, but finding it can demand strength, hope, and perseverance just when they seem to be in shortest supply.Inspired by his moth...

A Look Back confronts the enduring tensions between Black communities and law enforcement through intimate portraits, eyewitness accounts, and hard‑earned reflection. With urgency and compassion, it asks whether progress has been made, names the costs of silence, and insists on accountability and hope as the only path forward.

This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others. But this figure also plays an important role in the sometimes sensational work of canonical writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. Whatever the medium, this character, always overdetermined, ...

This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and modern practices in travelling and tourism. Unprecedented levels of mobility and international exchange over the last 100 years have raised questions about the stability of national and personal identities and new and creative patterns of behaviour and self-realisation are now emerging due to the enormous commercial interests that lie behind the modern travel and tourism industries. The volume will consider the...

Ruling from the island of Acacia, the emperor of the Known World has inherited an apparent peace and prosperity won by his ancestors generations ago. He's an intelligent man, a widower who dotes on his four children and it is this devotion that obliges him to hide a terrible secret from them: that their prosperity rests on the dark realities of trafficking in drugs and human lives. A man of integrity, he hopes that he might bring an end to this vile trade, but powerful forces stand in his ...

Collects Marauders (2019) #7-12. A life on the ocean waves! As Verendi’s plans against Krakoa grow, Captain Kate Pryde and her seafaring Marauders find themselves missing something vital — and it’s about to cause Storm and Emma Frost to come to blows! Meanwhile, a very small attack on the new mutant nation is quickly growing into something much bigger thanks to the size-changing Yellowjacket! Can the crew swat him before his sting succeeds? To prevail, the Marauders must set their sights o...

Pigeon Lewd, mad scientist and inventor of robots, never cared for small talk. He only cared for his precious time creating monsters of metal.His latest creation should take care of all the thieves and solicitors. Permanently.The Ballad of Pigeon Lewd & Other Short Stories contains 25 tales ranging from dark humor to horror, collected from earlier editions into one volume.

A caring family finds themselves in the middle of a major flooding event over parts of their community from a far-reaching storm system. Creativity, episodes of curiosity, and a unique surprise from nature follow in series, as the children's patience is challenged and parents are tasked to remain hopeful in making a long-planned trip to grandma's house.

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears...

One-hundred years too late. Not bad for a creature who lives thousands of years. At least, Wayne Reese keeps telling himself that while driving through a blizzard to wake up a vampire.On the spring equinox, Wayne gets more than he bargained for.If you enjoy non-traditional female vampires, be sure to read Kate Madison, Late Sleeper—the first short story in the Kate Madison series.