A selection of essays revealing the singular brilliance of Ferguson’s critical writing over four decades.Ranging across literature, philosophy, and social thought, Frances Ferguson asks how forms—whether aesthetic, legal, or bureaucratic—help to assign value and thereby organize our relations as well as our personal identities. Ferguson is a literary critic who takes her lead, unexpectedly, from Jeremy Bentham, showing how modernity tracks and makes perceptible the...

Nick Stolter had found peace, comfort with a good woman and put down roots into the lush, green land where his quarter horses grazed. His son and daughters were quick-witted and handsome like their mother but had gained an instinctual cunning from him. Deep inside him was the knowledge that his family was the best thing he had ever done.The guns hung dusty and quiet in a cabinet in the barn behind a padlock. The younger times of chasing payroll lockboxes and gold carrying stagecoac...

Nick Stolter harvested the glory from his championship rodeo years and began a successful cutting horse ranch in Southern California. He married his sweetheart and their family began with joy and tragedy.Fifteen years Nick and family have struggled and an ugly secret begins to rear its head inside the horseman. Only when a long-lost friend appeared at the doorstep is any hope ignited.A horse roundup in the wilds of Arizona means days in the saddle, a chance at gold, and new b...

Wanting to maintain her independence and get her renovation business off the ground, 29-year old Kate O'Malley discovers that working for a peeping pervert and a verbose hostess can bring adventure, mystery, love and major trouble to her life. For Kate and her reno partner Pearl, the action takes place in sublime Tofino, B.C. where harvesting god's little joke called geoduck clams can cost you your life. The characters in Clamming Up are people whose entertaining quirks make you want these...

Wanting to maintain her independence and get her renovation business off the ground, 29-year old Kate O'Malley discovers that working for a peeping pervert and a verbose hostess can bring adventure, mystery, love and major trouble to her life. For Kate and her reno partner Pearl, the action takes place in sublime Tofino, B.C. where harvesting god's little joke called geoduck clams can cost you your life. The characters in Clamming Up are people whose entertaining quirks make you want these...

An important book that explores the extent of bullying in the Church, the damage caused to victims, and the need for the Church to up its game on this aspect of safeguardingRaises awareness of the extent of bullying, the damage caused to victims of bullying and to the health of the ChurchIncludes heart-breaking true stories of people being bullied in Church situations, exploring how and why these experiences...

From the streets – undernourished - skinny - possibly bordering on death, she made me look at the world differently, at least the one that I was in.This book is a dedication to those who has opened my eyes on how to love Gods animals, and how "Lucky" we are to be embraced and loved by them.Their loyalty to you and to me comes without expectations and it comes without judgement.How in our moment of darkness, how in our moment of weakness, ho...

A close friend locked up behind bars. Another friend had gone missing with her interstellar freighter torn to pieces.Thirty-one-year-old Chasse Domuzu is thrown into the horrific world of human/alien trafficking, weaponized DNA viruses, and child abduction.When Ameera Vintebras was caught smuggling contraband, Domuzu had to take over her cargo hauling business, ships, and crews. When best-friend Shakka Thuras came missing, Domuzu stored the remaining pieces of the fastest s...

The story starts off with the developing long-distance relationship between a young woman and the alien male. A diplomatic exchange of greetings suddenly reveals foresight and clairvoyance awakening possibilities. He extends an invitation to meet. She accepts.She begins a journey across nine sectors and seven light years, drawn towards what might be her future. Passenger shuttles, cargo haulers, a prison barge, and a freighter owned by the competition to her employer.Lessle...

Space is dark and deep and has a bull-eye painted on Jake Lattrell's forehead.His freighter exploded when the wrong asteroids kissed. Depressed, almost bankrupt, and on the verge of losing it all at the bottom ofa bourbon bottleA trouble-magnet since birth, Lattrell had nothing left to lose when he sat down at that pokertable. A once-in-a-lifetime royal flush hand of cards won him title to Tarragon, one of the most technologically advancedships out there...

In her fifth novel, Lee Anne Wonnacott Weltsch dips into how a single touch can change lives beyond imagination. The Man from Marvessa is a simmering exhibition of love unexpected, and love deserved and a palpable story about the lengths some will go for that bond.It was supposed to be a diplomatic moment, a solemn event aboard the freighter Tarragon. He was not even supposed to be there, but the official envoy was pulled away, so the commander put on his black gloves and came aboa...

Space is dark and deep and has a bull-eye painted on Jake Lattrell's forehead.His freighter exploded when the wrong asteroids kissed. Depressed, almost bankrupt, and on the verge of losing it all at the bottom ofa bourbon bottleA trouble-magnet since birth, Lattrell had nothing left to lose when he sat down at that pokertable. A once-in-a-lifetime royal flush hand of cards won him title to Tarragon, one of the most technologically advancedships out there...