A new anthology of short stories by David E. Gates.Featuring tales of the macabre such as The Blood, Croc, The Crash, The Ghosts of Gribble and You're Next along with short, flash-fiction stories including The Devil Needs Payin' and The Search.More than 30 original stories, many of which have never been previously published.

Ever wonder if we are alone in this universe?Over the years, researchers and scientists have scoured government documents in search of proof that life exists beyond Earth and has regularly visited us here.One set of documents, known as Project Blue Book, includes retired, declassified records from 1947 to 1969 from the United States Air Force (USAF), currently in the custody of the US National Archives.According to a US Air Force Fact Sheet, a total of 701 out of 12...

David E. Gates brings you a joyful reminiscence of his days of motorcycling. A memoir for bikers, and bike-likers, of all ages, everywhere.Experience the thrills and spills of a young man's foray into motorcycling. From simple scooters to high-powered super-bikes, from commuters to tourers, revel in the highs and lows from the author that brought you Omonolidee.

From the author of Access Denied, The Roots of Evil, The Wretched and Cinema, comes a unique selection of original poems.Featuring historical reference poems such as "The Mary Celeste", "The Mother of Angola", "The Ode of Phineas Gage" and tributes to The Queen and King Charles III along with silly rhymes, David E. Gates expresses his love and frustration with the world today.Let yourself dip into the Realm of Rhyme.With additional material from Karen Moore.

David E. Gates recounts his time at City of Portsmouth Boys School and the adventures, or misadventures perhaps would be a better description, whilst he attended the famed institution.

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolifi...

924 Miles tells the story of a man searching for God while trying to figure out what life is all about. It explores the true purpose of life, the grace of God, and the connection between the two. It will make you cry, laugh, and ultimately examine your purpose in life; many are calling 924 Miles a must-read book!

The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to continure the high-wire act of living meaningful lives in late twentieth-century America.Populated by highly educated men and women in combat with one another, with substance abuse, and above all with th...

A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive lonelinessyes, everyone is struggling right nowso please be graciousbe kind & patient, but subvertevery institution that relies on our sufferingSomething isn’t right. Every generation thinks that, but we have more cause than most. The way...

This book explores the mingling of two rather different perspectives, those of the naval and aeronautical schools of thought, and the impact that they had upon one another in natural, professional and geopolitical settings. To explain the manner in which air power was incorporated into warfare between 1914 and 1945 it studies the deeds of practitioners, the limitations of technology, the realities of combat and the varying institutional dynamics and strategic priorities of the major mariti...

Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval and reform across much of Europe, with aspects of its legacy lingering to this very day.There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are only a handful of scholarl...

Simon Straw smiled. It was a disarming smile, almost apologetic. It wasn't meant to give insult. His stance was relaxed, practically nerveless, none of his muscles tensed, his hands at his sides, the elbows slightly bent, like a man ready to pick up a glass. His gun was worn high on the hip, a .44 Remington single-action. "I'm here for you, old man," he said to Placido Geist.To die in some backwater where there was no law to stop it. They were each off their usual graze, but they w...