"Daniel and Job, Book II: The Nograv" is a true sequel to "Daniel and Job." It is a science-fiction romantic comedy which continues the adventures of Daniel Johnstone, his amazing dog Job, Daniel's new bride Jessie, Captain Kandar of Ionus and General Jerome Bascombe. The story slightly overlaps the end of the first book by beginning with Mr. Benjamin's attempt to assassinate Daniel at the Vatican so that Mr. Jacobs and his team could commandeer the spaceship Dorius, but it does so this ti...

"Daniel and Job, Book III: The Vessel" completes the science-fiction, action-adventure, romantic-comedy trilogy begun with "Daniel and Job." This story picks up where "Daniel and Job, Book II: The Nograv" left off and carries Daniel Johnstone, his amazing dog Job, Daniel's wife Jessie, Captain Kandar of Ionus and General Jerome Bascombe well into the future. Daniel's leather-bound booklets continue to add humor, spice and an interesting backdrop for the developing tale while new characters...

When the Light Breaks Through - Jordan Matthews had it all, a loving family, a promising football career, and the admiration of everyone at St. Grace Baptist Church. But behind the golden-boy image was a secret he couldn't pray away.As he leaves home to chase his dreams, Jordan's faith and identity collide in ways that shatter everything he thought he knew about love, truth, and God. From the pressure of living a double life to the heartbreak of loss and the slow j...

Twelve-year-old Dewite Richie has never been to a Major League Baseball game, but baseball has become the heartbeat of his world. Growing up in a small, struggling city with a hardworking single mother and the loss of his father, Dewite knows that life rarely gives second chances. But when his best friend hands him an old glove and pushes him to try out for the Kingston Tigers, everything changes.On the field, Dewite discovers something he didn't know he had, heart...

A heartfelt and empowering story that helps children understand their emotions, build resilience, and feel seen.Through the lives of two children who often feel overlooked and unsure of themselves, this story gently explores what it means to experience sadness, struggle with connection, and still hold on to hope. With relatable situations and compassionate guidance, young readers will see that it’s okay to feel big emotions and that opening up can be the first step toward healing an...

A heartfelt and empowering story that helps children understand their emotions, build resilience, and feel seen.Through the lives of two children who often feel overlooked and unsure of themselves, this story gently explores what it means to experience sadness, struggle with connection, and still hold on to hope. With relatable situations and compassionate guidance, young readers will see that it’s okay to feel big emotions and that opening up can be the first step toward healing an...

A heartfelt and empowering story that helps children understand their emotions, build resilience, and feel seen.Through the lives of two children who often feel overlooked and unsure of themselves, this story gently explores what it means to experience sadness, struggle with connection, and still hold on to hope. With relatable situations and compassionate guidance, young readers will see that it’s okay to feel big emotions and that opening up can be the first step toward healing an...

A heartfelt and empowering story that helps children understand their emotions, build resilience, and feel seen.Through the lives of two children who often feel overlooked and unsure of themselves, this story gently explores what it means to experience sadness, struggle with connection, and still hold on to hope. With relatable situations and compassionate guidance, young readers will see that it’s okay to feel big emotions and that opening up can be the first step toward healing an...

A heartfelt and empowering story that helps children understand their emotions, build resilience, and feel seen.Through the lives of two children who often feel overlooked and unsure of themselves, this story gently explores what it means to experience sadness, struggle with connection, and still hold on to hope. With relatable situations and compassionate guidance, young readers will see that it’s okay to feel big emotions and that opening up can be the first step toward healing an...

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can be found to describe and understand that brutality, and perhaps to change it. Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid allow us, two and a half millennia later, to experience the complexity and contrad...

Jessica Drake is a fledgling reporter assigned to investigate suspicious activity at the Rev-Tech Bionics Corporation. She blindly takes one photo on her way out of the complex which results in her being pursued by four armed guards. She is knocked unconscious, but mysteriously rescued by an apparently-sightless young man named Daniel - and Job, his very large dog. Jessie finds 4 old leather booklets in the room where she is recuperating and reads them over the course of the next few days....

This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? In political environments, solutions are typically pre-conceived, which means that the nature...