Father Marcellinus warns the young monk, saying, 'The air that we breathe, that is the creature that we become' explaining how every influence, both good and evil ultimately shape us into the person that we are. Based on real events, this novel unfolds in a nineteenth century abbey and is about a young man who struggles to face the truth of who he really is, something that all of us must ultimately do in our own lives. The reader is invited into that cloister, so full of passions and confl...

For twenty-two years, Carolyn learned every silence her husband owned. Now she's done waiting for the one word he never learned to say.Vincent Pritchard rules the club table with a stillness grown men lean in to hear. At home, that same silence has starved his marriage down to a locked door and a wife standing outside it, ear pressed to the wood, listening for a sound that never comes. Carolyn has loved him since he proposed in a Sonic parking lot with a speech wri...

He didn't have an affair. That was the thing Renee couldn't explain to anyone — that her husband never touched the other woman, and it was somehow worse.Because Renee found out the way no wife should: standing at a swim meet she wasn't supposed to attend, watching a little boy she'd never seen surface from the water and shout "Daddy, did you see?" — and watching her husband's hand go up before he could stop it. A practiced motion. A father's reflex. For a c...

He never raised his voice. That was the genius of it. A man who snaps at you leaves fingerprints — gives you something to point to. Roland left nothing.For twenty-four years, Carolyn ran a surgical schedule of forty operations a day and never once dropped one. So she could not explain, even to herself, how she'd become a woman who stood in her own kitchen and went searching through her own memory for the error her husband had gently suggested was there. He'...

For eleven years, Renee brought the casserole, learned her mother-in-law's preferences like scripture, and folded the towel the way no one ever noticed she liked it. Then her husband's mother told her to "bring nothing" to the family dinner — and Renee understood, too late, that she was the thing being removed.The catered table. The playpen in the guest room. The framed photograph, turned face-down before she arrived: her husband's son, fourteen months old,...

What is Jewish History? In the first place, what does it offer as to quantity and as to quality? What are its range and content, and what distinguishes it in these two respects from the history of other nations? Furthermore, what is the essential meaning, what the spirit, of Jewish History? Or, to put the question in another way, to what general results are we led by the aggregate of its facts, considered, not as a whole, but genetically, as a succession of evolutionary stages in the consc...

A paranormal experience in Theodora Costas' childhood awakened her clairvoyant abilities. Rather than embracing her gifts, Teddy has managed to keep them well hidden over the years, until the infant daughter of her best friend is kidnapped. Now, Teddy can no longer deny her abilities and offers to use her gifts to aid in the investigation. FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Nick Jeffries does not believe in the supernatural world and scoffs at the clairvoyant's abilities. But when Teddy's visions...

The "As If" Principle (motivational poetry) by Jerald M. Simon features 222 original motivational poems written by Jerald to inspire and motivate men and women, businesses and organizations, leaders/mentors/advisers and teachers and students. The poems were written to teach values, bring out the best in people, and encourage everyone everywhere to be and do their best. The poems were written over a 20 year period (1993 - 2012) and contain motivational advice about never giving up, doing wh...

A Geography of the Hutterites in North America explores the geographical diffusion of the Hutterite colonies from the “bridgehead” of Dakota Territory in 1874 to the present distribution across North America. Looking further than just maps of location, this book analyzes the relationship between parent and daughter colonies as the Hutterite population continues to grow and examines the role of cultural and demographic forces in determining the diffusion process. Throughout this ge...

He was raised to hunt witches. She's the one he was never meant to find. Ravenna has lived with blood on her hands and fire beneath her skin. In a kingdom where witches are executed and magic is a curse, survival means silence. But when she's forced into a political betrothal and her power begins to slip, she knows it's only a matter of time before the flames consume her. Then comes Finn. A ghost in the Order's ranks. Their deadliest weapon. He was never meant to feel, never meant to falte...

This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity. This decentres print as the means for understanding publication; instead, publication is seen as an heuristic term which identifies activities these traditions share, but which also differ in ways not reducible to comparisons with printing. The Element engages with texts written on papyrus, chiselle...

The story of the Consolidated B-36 is unique in American aviation history. The aircraft was an interesting blend of concepts proven during the Second World War combined with budding 1950s high-tech systems. The program survived near-cancellation on six separate occasions during an extremely protracted development process. It was also the symbol of a bitter inter-service rivalry between the newly-formed US Air Force and the well-established US Navy over which of which of the two organizatio...