You are Cassidy Mercer. Cass to everyone who matters.Eighteen years old. Five foot six. Irish on both sides. Twenty-three days into your new life in San Francisco, and you have never felt more like yourself.You left Dayton, Ohio with a twin bed, a paper airplane tattoo, a poster of Sade, and exactly one plan: want everything. The city has fog that presses against your windows like a drunk friend who wants in. Your roommates are asleep. The week str...

Ecumenical examination of immigration issues drawn from engaging, first-person narratives.A group of bishops (Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, and United Methodist), all based along the US-Mexico border, found common ground to jointly address some key immigration issues, especially those being played out in the state of Arizona. The bishops worked together on behalf of local immigrant populations to address theological and pastoral concerns—and prayed for those whose...

"A remarkable story. . . . It is to Mark Adams's great credit that, in Mr. America, he has rescued from obscurity a man whose influence is still felt in this country more than a century after he muscled his way onto the national scene." — Wall Street Journal"Hilarious. . . . Delightful. . . . If Macfadden hadn't existed, we would have had to invent him." —Was hington PostMr. America is the fascinating true story of Bernarr Macfadden, a se...

The world does not end with fire and prophecy.It ends with paperwork, bad decisions, and the lights going out one district at a time.Greybarrow is the kind of town the Ministry forgets until something goes wrong. It has leaning roofs, damp stone, stubborn people—and a graveyard held together by chalk, wards, and one exhausted man who refuses to let things stay broken.Norman Reed is not a hero. He is a gravekeeper.When the Respawn Network begins to fail and pe...

In a decadent city of twisted sorcery driven by sexual energies and brute force, one man, a reaver and magician, makes a desperate, brutal gamble to steal power from the most corrupt of cabals. But everything comes at a price…

Norman Reed (Not Reedus) is just a gravedigger. A simple man with a shovel, a crossbow, and absolutely no desire to deal with anyone else's problems—especially not the ones that crawl out of their graves without asking.But in a world where people don't stay dead for long—thanks to a corrupted, bureaucratically bloated respawn system—being a gravedigger is not just pointless… it's practically suspicious. Corpses return. Dungeons overflow. And somewhere deep beneath ...

Grognar the Glorious (Sort Of) is the dungeon-crawling, crayon-wielding, chaos-infused comedy fantasy you never knew you needed.Meet Grognar: a Goregoblin with the leadership skills of a confused potato and the subtlety of a flaming battering ram. When High Warlord Skazgak orders him to stop a team of noble adventurers from seizing the dungeon core, Grognar does what any ambitious, barely-qualified middle manager would do — assembles a misfit squad of goblins, hobg...

The gods broke the world.Norman Reed has been left to bury it.The Anti-Respawn League has been beaten back, but victory has come at a brutal cost. Ralk's proto-core has been stolen by Caelith—a corrupted former Celestial Blade—and carried towards the Shattered Coast, where the forgotten powers of the world are beginning to stir.Thalya has returned from death, but she did not return unchanged. With vengeance in her heart and impossible power gathering around her, she...

The explosive first issue of Kord and Harley takes our heroes into a massive battle against the malevolent forces of Hell itself... In this gut wrenching tale of Good vs. Evil, prepare to be bombarded by bucket loads of puke, mega tons of ammo and a healthy helping of Divine inspiration. Join Kord and Harley as they embark upon their quest to purge the world of the massively flatulent demon known as... GLUTTONY.

Twenty years ago, the silence I enjoy now in Thailand was nothing more than a distant dream. Back then, the only sound was the heavy machinery of the San Francisco "Justice" system grinding against my life. The "Authors" of that system had a different ending written for me—one where I was just another number in a filing cabinet. They had the paperwork ready. They had the cell waiting. Boom. I was facing life without the possibility of parole.They thought they had me in a pincer mov...

"This book,Crook Without A Crime 2: A Lie Cannot Live Forever, serves as the high-level architectural breakdown of a life lived in total defiance of the 'Matrix.' While my first book documented the tactical combat—the arrests and the traps—this second installment reveals the 'why' and the 'how.' It is a road map for sovereignty in a world of simulations. We will move from the granite hallways of the San Francisco Hall of Justice to the freedom of Jomtien, Thailand. This is an evidence log ...

Norman Reed (Not Reedus) Book 2: Ashes and OathsThe world is breaking.The Respawn Network, once the miracle that made death temporary, is failing. Heroes vanish into corrupted loops. Dungeons spill nightmares into the open air. The Ministry buries panic beneath paperwork while the Anti-Respawn League scrawls their creed in ash and blood.Into this storm stumbles Norman Reed.He is no hero—only a gravekeeper with a shovel, a crossbow, and a stu...