This is a near future story of a young man who is out of sync with contemporary life. He believes he would prefer a simpler life, less high tech, as was described to him by his parents. But can he escape the technology of the day? Does he really want to escape?

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if God is real, genuinely interesting, and absolutely nothing like you've been told?Inside, you'll find a way to believe that survives honest skepticism—a purposeful universe that holds together, a spirit that's been quietly on your side this whole time, and a case for God you can actually make without lobotomizing your good sense.And what you get on the other side isn't just a tidy argument—it's a ...

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses — OvidShe was pure with a quick tongue—a rose with the sharpest of thorns.Rose Fields fought through years of therapy to learn how to get her voice back—yet, the one thing she couldn’t get out was that she was in love with her best friend, August Coleman. It’s not until a mysterious man from her past, Briggs Andrews, steps in that she begins to question the friendship and love she held so clos...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories: More Than 27 Hours of Classic Science Fiction is an extraordinary collection of timeless adventures from the Golden Age of science fiction. Featuring fifty unforgettable stories by many of the genre’s greatest authors, this epic audiobook delivers more than 27 hours of imagination, exploration, mystery, and wonder.Inside you’ll discover classic tales by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Winston Marks, Mack Reynolds...

What is happiness? And how can we choose it, even in the face of great challenge or conflict? In this wide-ranging and insightful collection of essays, 25 experts in the happiness field explore what it is to find, to create, to see, to be… happiness! Starting with the science of happiness itself, readers are taken on a journey of exploration and insight. Along the way you will delve into exploring: What is happiness? How to increase positive emotions The art of living with intention The pr...

LTUE Benefit Anthologies, Volume 2.Everyone knows dragon tales make for the best adventure stories. Throw in women who actively seek what they want—a little intrigue, exciting battles, and hard decisions—to get these twenty excellent adventures by some of today's best fantasy writers!This collection celebrates Linda Hunter Adams, a truly amazing mentor and role model for many in our Life, the Universe, & Everything writing community. Proceeds from this volume suppo...

Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literatureAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching.While some of the essays pair up ...

The 1950s were an extraordinary decade for science fiction, when writers filled the pages of magazines with strange planets, dangerous inventions, alien encounters, journeys through space, and unsettling visions of humanity’s future. 1950s Science Fiction 2 brings together 23 memorable stories from that remarkable era, featuring legendary authors alongside writers waiting to be rediscovered.Philip K. Dick leads the collection with five stories, including Beyond...

Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities.In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal arts curricula and powerfully a...

Vintage Sci-Fi 2 - 26 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Alan E. Nourse and many more. More than 12 hours of Vintage Sci-Fi!Defense Mech by Rad BradburyFoster You're Dead by Philip K. DickExport Commodity by Irving Cox Jr.Pariah by Milton LesserBeyond The Door by Philip K. DickThe Water Eater by Winston MarksTask of Kayin by William MorrisonWanderlust by Alan E. Nourse

In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept “sacred text” and analyze ways oral and written religious “texts” intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, this project interrupts that conception by drawing attention to speech and other embodied practices that have sacral authority within the social imaginary. As a volume focused on religion and violence, essays in...

Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone contributions.”In The Buried Cause, historians, curators, p...