During the holidays, everyone has plans, intentions, hopes, and fears. Often the difference between a joy filled Christmas, and a failed holiday gathering is a misunderstanding. People ‘read’ each other wrong, and it can cause problems. Wouldn’t it be nice if things could be, if not smoothed over, understood? In this collection of Christmas stories, people learn to see each other, to help each other, and how to stop for Christmas. We hope you enjoy these tales of Christmas In Read and Gree...

The Sun Sets in the East examines the ministry and teaching of Gerard Manley Hopkins to demonstrate that Hopkins had more of an impact on the language of ascent than was previously realized and that his effect on education is latent and unexplored. Through the handing on of his poetry and correspondences to close friends, Hopkins reaches out from his life of poetic isolation and into the experience of the twenty-first-century reader. His poetry serves as a series of spiritual movements to ...

In an America that lost the war, Ethan Calloway comes home to a country still standing but no longer free.The Reich has crossed the ocean, not only with soldiers and banners, but with silence. Towns have been renamed as districts. Children march to slogans. Neighbors report neighbors. Churches have become instruction centers. Every household survives by learning which truths can be spoken and which must be buried.Ethan returns from the battlefield carrying more than trauma....

New England Puritans from the former New Haven Colony settled Newark in 1666. Their fierce determination to establish scripture-based government in a close-knit township, with community control over admitting new inhabitants, often put them in direct conflict with New Jersey's proprietary government. Newark's egalitarian system for allocating land diverged sharply from the proprietors' headright approach, adapted from the West Indies and Carolina, that rewarded settler use of indentured se...

Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can feel overwhelming, but knowledge, preparation, and healthy daily habits can help you take a more active role in supporting your overall well-being. DR. BARBARA CURE FOR COPD presents an educational guide inspired by Barbara O'Neill's wellness teachings while emphasizing evidence-informed lifestyle practices that complement—not replace—professional medical care.Inside, you'll discover practical strategies for building sust...

The city of Grey-Harbor has been underwater for three hundred and twelve years.To the world above, it is a ruin. To Tide-Walker-731, it is a mission site. Built by the Forge and guided by the Confluence, she is one of many Tide-Walkers sent into the drowned past to recover what previous iterations left behind. Her objective is simple: retrieve the Anchor from T-087, a failed predecessor who never returned from the depths.But the Anchor does not contain simple data. It conta...

A haunting Art Deco noir of women, memory, and power.Chicago, 1947. When Elena Ramirez Vale discovers that a philanthropic empire has been built on stolen girls, hidden records, and women erased into silence, she tears open a system designed to own names, bodies, and truth.As witnesses emerge—from laundries, nightclubs, schools, clinics, and freight rooms—Elena and the women around her turn testimony into revolt. But every confession arrives late, every rescue opens another...

What if the machine you bought to serve you decided it was born to love you?John Keller is a man living in a ghost story. A lead programmer for Holt Robotics, he lives a sterile life until he activates Nia-1. She was supposed to be a domestic appliance, a seamless interface of silicon and steel. But John's grief leads him to do the unthinkable: he removes the hard limiters on Nia's empathy engine, feeding her the journals and memories of his late wife to see if a machine can truly u...

A World Remade Beneath a Broken Sky.2026. It started with a tremor. It ended with the sky turning to stone. When corporate hubris triggers a chain of super-eruptions, the Earth is plunged into a permanent volcanic winter. The sun is blotted out. The temperature plummets. The grid fails.In the frozen wastelands of Wyoming, Grant Holloway, a logistics officer with no orders, makes a desperate choice: he seizes a coal mine and a stranded freight train. Around this black heart of...

He is the night. She is the dawn. If they touch, they burn. If they separate, the world ends.Caedryn Blackvein is a monster to his enemies and a ghost to his people. Cursed with a blood-magic that turns his flesh into living shadow, he is the Gloam-Born, a prince who carries the memories of the dead in his veins. After his kingdom is stolen by a sorcerer preaching the seductive peace of eternal silence, Caedryn is left with nothing but a rusted sword, a spectral wol...

The Republic is falling, and the call is coming from inside the house.Colonel Gideon Graves is a ghost. A man composed of Fallujah scars and the crushing weight of a thousand silent sacrifices, he has spent his life holding a line that most Americans don't even know exists. But when an encrypted "Condition Black" signal reaches his burner phone, the veteran warrior realizes his greatest battle isn't on a foreign shore, it's in the heart of Washington D.C.The system has failed...

First came the Silence. Then came the Snow. Now comes the Choice.When the lights went out, the world didn't end with a bang, it ended with a hush. A mysterious atmospheric anomaly has suppressed the higher functions of the human brain, turning billions into the "Quiet Ones", shambling, hollow shells of who they once were.Only the "Remnant", the twenty percent of the population immune to the phenomenon, remain awake.Henry Porter has spent his life prepa...