How did the movement founded by Jesus transform more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since? This book tells the story of how the Christian movement, which began as relatively informal, rural, Hebrew and Aramaic speaking, and closely anchored to the Jewish synagogue, became primarily urban, Greek speaking, and gentile by the early second century, spreading through the Greco-Roman world with a mission agenda and church organization distin...

Inspired by Vietnam War classics like Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn, First with Guns is a thought-provoking exploration of personal identity set amidst a war and an era that forever altered American identity. The novel follows William Dougherty’s journey into manhood from a disturbing childhood in rural Nebraska to aerial combat in Vietnam. Early in his deployment, Dougherty commits a notorious blunder that destroys his Com...

The main character, 11-year-old TOM TREADWELL, is obsessed with a wildly successful adult TV quiz show, the PUZZLE TRAIN, where teams of 6 contestants move from carriage to carriage solving difficult puzzles using clues, while racing against the clock.Tom watches every show, cheering the contestants on and getting frustrated when they take too long to solve clues. He and his best friend ISABELLE message each other constantly to discuss the clues and the contestants’ progress – or l...

It is the ninth of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. The morning breaks lowering and stormy, a fitting prelude to the great and tragic drama that is about to startle the world. It is not yet four o’clock, and the sun is hardly above the horizon, but in the fair Indian city of Meerut there is an unusual stir. The slanting rays of the rising sun, as they fall through the rifts of hurrying storm-clouds, gild the minarets and domes of the numerous mosques for which t...

What are we looking for when we buy a book to read? A sigh of time when the body relaxes and the brain still works, an escape to another place and time. Entertainment in any venue, whether it be action, inspirational, educational, dark, light, comedy, "how to," and on and on, "different strokes for different folks."This book is different in that it is made up of thirty writings, each piece was written in my own personal style. I have a mailing list of thirty people that have read e...

Holeo's Quest in the Land of HaddBy: James Edward SchubertHoleo is on a quest of his life. He has been asked to quest for nine globes, each full of valuable knowledge. Holeo's journey requires him to soul search and evaluate all of the globe's different and significant meanings, challenging his morals, virtues, and ethics. An adventurous story full of wizards, dragons, and fairies, join Holeo as he discovers his strength from within.About the AuthorJames Edw...

Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, MSA First Book PrizeIn Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate a materialist theory of trauma. Ford highlights the dark proletariat’s emergence from the multitude apposite to white supr...

What I see happening in America and Virginia is much like a dam on a river, maybe even the James River, which I have come to love even after many official trips along the river chasing juvenile escapees. I cut my teeth while hunting on small streams and rivers, such as the Bush, Briery, and Buffalo Rivers in Prince Edward County, and the Tongue Quarter and Willis Rivers in Buckingham County. All of these are secondary or primary tributaries to the James River, so the way I see it my destin...

Painful Birth is the astounding story of how Chile narrowly escaped becoming a Leninist/Stalinist slave state in the early 1970s and over a relatively short historic period was transformed into the near paragon of freedom and prosperity that it is today. The book not only narrates the events but also explains the economic policies, institutional transformation, and ideological change involved. Painful Birth provides an invaluable case study in economic growth, international relations, poli...

Growing up in the home of my grandmother, Mable Carter, I can remember that she had a cookie jar in the shape and image of a strawberry sitting on the kitchen table. Often as a youngster, she would allow me to get a cookie from the jar; however, I would try to take out more than one cookie at a time and my hand would get stuck inside of the cookie jar. As I would struggle to remove my hand she would turn and say "If you let go of the cookies, your hand will come out of the jar"! That state...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Comeback Code: Rise Stronger and Rebuild Your LifeWhen life knocks you down, the real question isn't why it happened — it's how you rise.If you've faced failure, burnout, betrayal, loss, or a season that broke your confidence, you already know this truth: coming back is harder than starting. Your identity takes a hit. Your self-belief fades. You second-guess every de...

They were thirteen. They were identical. And on August 17, 1974, they vanished.Sarah and Rebecca Martinez rode their bikes to the library one sunny Saturday morning in Millbrook, Alabama. They never came home.When their bodies were discovered seventeen days later, the evidence was clear. Witnesses had seen things. Forensics pointed in obvious directions. But somehow, the investigation stalled. Evidence disappeared. Witnesses went silent. Powerful people loo...