Peace was hard-won. Now war has returned without warning.In a distant future, Earth has united under the Guardians, a civilization built on honor, cooperation, and a fragile peace maintained through generations of sacrifice. But that peace is shattered when the ruthless Trigonian Empire launches a devastating surprise attack.Lieutenant Commander Gandle Hoppinzorinski-known to his fellow pilots as "Hops"-finds himself among a small group of ...

You just closed your laptop for the last time, or maybe you still have a few days left, and a thought is already running through your head louder than the paperwork. The thought says your resume is now broken, and that the layoff has stamped a mark on your career that every employer will see. That thought is wrong. The layoff did not change your skills, erase the results you delivered, or make you less capable of the work in front of you. A company made a financial decision, and that decis...

The war between the Guardians and the Tirogian Empire is now in its second year. The surviving Guardians from Outpost Capricorn Seven, aboard the newly designed warship Hope, after a brief period of calm, are now experiencing major navigation difficulties after encountering a ship of unknown design. This new ship, another Guardian survivor, joins the crew under the command of High Commander Gandel Hoppinzorinkski, or Hops. After a crucial decision by the Guardian Counsil of Elders, Hops an...

You have felt it. You decide to change, and for a few days you are someone new. Then, a familiar reflex returns. A known complaint. A Tuesday night that looks exactly like the hundred Tuesdays before it. You try to build a new life while reporting to the old identity for duty, and then you wonder why the new life feels like a costume. The person you used to be is not a habit you forgot to break; it is a story you are still telling and a set of memories you still rehearse.In...

About the BookThe three primary Guardian outposts along the Agreed Zone, which separated the Guardian Republic from the Tirgonia Independent Empire, are suddenly and savagely attacked. The years of peace enjoyed by the Guardians ends with what the Tirgonians believe to be the complete annihilation of the foremost nemesis of the Empire.Initially, the only Guardians known to have survived are on long-range patrol duty, known as Probe. As the five ships of Probe Red return, a Li...

J. Wilkes Booth: An Account of His Sojourn..., first published in 1893, is the straight-forward account of the doomed escape of John Wilkes Booth following his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book was written by Thomas Jones, a Confederate agent who helped Booth evade the authorities for five days by hiding the assassin near his house in Maryland. Illustrated with 18 pen and ink illustrations.

At the time of the Lincoln assassination, Thomas A. Jones was 45 years old and had spent the years of the American Civil War working “with zeal” in the Confederate cause in Southern Maryland. He primarily acted as an aid to Confederate spies moving through Charles County and helping the substantial intelligence network by moving mail.By the time that Jones wrote this account of having helped John Wilkes Booth escape, his assessment of Abraham Lincoln had gone through a transformati...

What can Mary Wollstonecraft teach Christians about sexual ethics? Can John Stuart Mill help the church understand toleration? Are there lessons for the Christian world from writers like Marx, Nehru, Shelley, Popper, and Hume? Atheism for Christians looks at the work of some of the most influential secular thinkers and asks what Christians can learn without giving up their faith or core values. Looking at important modern issues such as gender equality, same-sex marriage, creationism and e...

Brut y Tywysogion or The Chronicle of the Princes was described by Sir J. E. Lloyd as ‘the greatest monument of Welsh historiography in the Middle Ages’. It has long been recognised as a source of prime importance for the history of medieval Wales and as one which supplies details of interest about contemporary events in England and elsewhere. Of the original thirteenth-century Latin text no copy has survived, but three independent Welsh translations are extant. In this volume, Professor T...

Jones offers a combat-filled space opera that should pass muster with fans of military sci-fi à la the original Lorne Greene Battle Star Galactica rather than the new one. Several centuries in the future, a united, space-faring humanity, now known as the Guardians, confronts its deadliest nemesis in the Klingon-like Tirgonians, members of a militaristic and aggressive empire that believes humanity’s penchant for peaceful coexistence, an unbearably distasteful notion. After years of an unea...

With the discovery of the hidden ships, under the command of Commander Victor Freslof, and the defection of one of the foremost Tirgonian tacticians, and prominent battle commanders, Telebisque Serligh Teka, along with the entire crew and fully intact Fighting Star Palup, the now stronger Guardian fleet was once again able to do what was thought impossible. The Tirgonian Fighting Star Hidlok has been destroyed, belaying the myth that the most formidable and feared fighting platform in the ...

The three primary Guardian outposts along the Agreed Zone, which separated the Guardians from the Tirgonia Empire, are suddenly and savagely attacked. The years of peace enjoyed by the Guardians end with what the Tirgonians believe to be the complete annihilation of the foremost nemesis of the Empire. Initially, the only Guardians known to have survived are on long-range patrol duty, known as a Probe. As the seven ships of Probe Red return, Lieutenant Commander Gandle Hoppinzorinski, nickn...