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GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS UNITE with a team of elite scientists to create a manifestation of their vision of perfection, which comes in the form of a life-changing gas called Noxin. Once breathed, subjects will no longer have need for food, water, or reproduction. Additionally, the hosts will become stronger, faster, and more intelligent. These beings would come to be known as Phoenix for their ability to periodically resurrect themselves by self-combusting within an aura of flame. Noxin, Phoenix, the greatest creations known to humanity. Until one day, they become an omen of extinction for all.

Awesome by AccidentAwesome by Accident is about a precocious 17 year old boy, Gene R. Rodgers, whose future is all mapped out for him. He has grown to appreciate the values of self-reliance, stoicism, determination, and tenaciousness as taught to him by his parents. Rodgers's plans for the future reflect all of those values as he declares his decision to homestead in Alaska. His decision is emblematic of earlier plans to row solo across Lake Erie. Undeterred by lack of experience, he proceeds with confidence to make his dreams and plans a reality.Paralyzed in a hiking accident, he must rethink his future. Rodgers' spirit is tested to its core as he struggles to make sense of his new life. He languishes in uncertainty while the gravity of his situation slowly becomes clear to him. Unable to accept his probable future he attempts suicide only to have his plans thwarted by a quick thinking no nonsense doctor. Rodgers decides to work relentlessly to successfully become rehabilitated.Now thrown into a world not of his making, Rodgers must find a way to once again embrace his family's value of self-reliance. To become self-reliant, he must leave the security of home, the support system that protects him. Can he survive on his own? Is that even possible? He struggles to identify an acceptable career path. He relies on a post-secondary education to give him an edge in employment somewhere in the science field. While away at school, he decides not to let school get in the way of his education. Dorm life suits him well and he makes friends that change his life. One of Rodgers' friends, Bruce, enlightens him to the possibilities the world has to offer. He meets Jane who is instrumental to his emotional healing and well-being. Rodgers contemplates a life with Jane permanently a part of it. Making a life long emotional commitment will mean sacrificing a more solitary life he still seeks. Bruce, Rodgers and other school friends travel throughout North America enjoying many adventures along the way. These experiences mold Rodgers into an undefeatable force as he embraces his mantra, fortune favors the brave.Rodgers becomes confident he can live independently, becoming self-reliant, as his family would expect. Though given a poor hand, he has played it well. Armed with a strong foundation of academics and endowed with social capital to support a life worth living, Rodgers builds an impressive resume. He earns a B.S. Ed to teach science in secondary education. He also earns an MBA and a Switzer Fellowship. His experiences become more varied and demanding as he worked in three states, traveled in 44 countries on six continents. He has enjoyed adventure sports including snow skiing, ski diving, paragliding, sailing on tall-ships, scuba diving, and trekking to name a few. He becomes an entrepreneur and subsequently a self-made millionaire. The more he learned and experienced, the more humble he became. Wherever he traveled, it was the people, not the place, that fulfilled him. Rodgers learned how to bounce back, to recover, to accomplish more than most people, able bodied or not. In Awesome by Accident, Rodgers repeatedly affirms that fortune does indeed favor the brave.

The Tuatha de Danaan, or fairies as most know them had existed with humans since the beginning of time. They shared their magic freely with humans and animals. As men began to war and pillage, the fairies could stay no longer, as their homes were torn apart. They departed through the portal in Newgrange, Ireland to another dimension where they could live in a different reality than the humans.So enters young Faelan O'Broin, a young Irish lad who prophecy had written would come and open the portal that the fairies had gone through so long ago. He would bring them back to add their magic to the Earth once again.His family has long been known for their Raven Magic. His mother taught him all she knew about plants and trees for medicine and healing. He learns that he can talk to trees and animals. He is given by Merlin, a magic grid and crystal with which he can open and travel through portals. As he sets off on his journey from the Southwest of Ireland towards the Northeastern magical region surrounding Newgrange, he meets magical beings to help him ignite his own magic.Leary, the leprechaun, who carries the bag of gold for the journey, starts the journey with Faelan. They pick up an old witch named Gana, who turns out to be a fairy named Morgana. She teaches Faelan about plant magic and leads him deeper into believing in himself.Later, he meets Aengus the Irish God of Love, who faced an evil in the portal that stole his magic. Faelan restores some of Aengus' magic as they travel together.Along the way, he finds some animals that have come to protect him and teach him their magic. Sefu, the cat, is really Heka the Egyptian God of Magic. He took on the form of a cat to join Faelan's journey. Athol the raven, latches onto his shoulder as a strong protector.He encounters animals and plants that teach him their magic. From astral traveling with the mug wort to remembering his life as a Mintakan with dolphins, his experiences are breath-taking. As he traverses many sacred sites on his journey, he meets many gods, goddesses, and magical beings. Some supply him with elements that he needs to power the portal. Others give him healing magic. One teaches him about death and rebirth into a new body.He is joined by Scotia, Goddess Brigid, Lugh, Circe, Hecate, Cernunnos, and Morrighan as they lead him deeper and deeper into magic. Magical Beings journey to see this lad who is so full of magic that even the trees are speaking of him. Undines, Unicorns, Pegasus, Elves, and Dragons join him, teaching the old ways.Will he be able to open the Fairy Portal and brings the Fairies back to us?

"A former Environmental Protection Agency attorney delivers an impassioned plea to fight pollution and climate change. Timely and engaging; a heroic environmental story well told." - Kirkus Book Review, April 22, 2020 (50th Anniversary of Earth Day)"Written both as a historic record and 'how to' guide aimed at inspiring change makers, this unvarnished and timely depiction from 1980 to today has something to offer readers of any age or ilk. Emory pulls back the curtain to expose the inner workings of the federal government and the EPA. He dives into the data-historic indicators, scientific and economic data, and policy choices-as well as humorously illustrating his forays abroad and his courtroom adventures. He tells the story of rampant pollution and how the US has fallen so far behind in its response to climate change and transition to clean energy. Emory has faith in forthcoming environmentalists, and his solutions-oriented presentation of the facts makes complex, cross-sector challenges feel within our grasp." - Fiona Gordon, published in Maine Environment newsletter of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (Augusta, Maine, spring & summer 2020)"This hybrid that is a must-read memoir and climate change book is NOT another dry treatise or one-sided, unbalanced diatribe. Richard Emory has written a very thoroughly knowledgeable and realistic account of the truth about EPA and how to fight pollution. He weaves in wonderful personal climate change stories and anecdotes about successes and failures of environmental policies enacted in the U.S. and other countries and how national attitudes have affected climate change & EPA's mission. Young people will be inspired to learn how to protect our environment." - David Katz, retired Assistant United States Attorney* * * * *With the election of President Biden and a new Congress, America is rejoining the Western world that sees the need for the U.S. to revive its EPA, formulate a "Green New Deal," and restore U.S. global leadership within the Paris Climate Accord.Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is a must-read memoir by Richard W. Emory, Jr., our nation's former top legal advisor to all EPA federal special agents. Emory witnessed how the U.S Department of Justice failed to effectively prosecute crimes of pollution. He became a whistleblower when interviewed by Congress that was investigating reports of mishandled pollution cases. In the second half of his career, working within EPA's foreign assistance mission, to the waiting world he helped spread effective measures for pollution control and for the implementation of global environmental treaties.Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is a "page-turner" - you will laugh, you will cry, but you won't be bored. You will learn the truth about U.S. and international successes and failures in the fight against air, water, pesticides and toxic-waste pollution. You'll be encouraged by his insider perspective as he tells how to protect the climate using today's technologies and EPA's proven policies.Who will benefit from this important environmental book?¿ Aspiring environmental activists - both young and old - who want to learn how to fight pollution and take action on climate change¿ Lovers of memoirs and nature, who will be touched by one individual's adventures in the exciting work of pollution control that can and must be expanded to climate protection¿ Global leaders and movements prepared to face the next chapter of unifying our world under a much stronger agenda to heal the Earth and protect our planet

New Orleans native Mademoiselle Francesca Dumas is a kept woman. At age eighteen in the second year of the American Civil War, she is the concubine of a rich New Orleans banker, Joachim Buisson. Born a quadroon, Francesca leads a sheltered life of elegant jewels, gowns, lace, and lavish balls-until a bullet shatters her dream world.An assassin murders "her man" as Francesca stood beside him among a throng gathered atop a Mississippi River levee on April 25, 1862. Bowed by Joachim's body, rain-soaked and blood-spattered, she vows revenge. Francesca's passionate desire for retribution drives her into a new life as a sleuth. Becoming a detective to solve a murder mystery is far from the role of women in 1862 New Orleans-especially a woman who perceives herself to be African American but appears to be white.As Francesca's investigation begins, the assassin kills two more people and kidnaps Francesca's best friend, Emily. Driven to recover Emily and avenge Joachim, Francesca's arduous mental and physical journey takes a circuitous route-far from a concubine's life of extravagant balls, lace, and leisure. Amid the flowering of spring and early summer in New Orleans, she finds herself mired deep in the perilous abyss between Union, French, and Confederate spies.Aboard mule-drawn streetcars, Francesca's gumshoe work takes her through Vieux Carré, Tremé, and many famous city streets in search of the assassin's motive, means, and opportunity to commit mayhem. In her undercover role, she frequents Café du Monde, Antoine's Restaurant, and the famous ballroom at the present-day Bourbon Orleans Hotel. Francesca gets help from three historic people of New Orleans; humanitarian Mother Henriette Delille, actress Sarah Butler, and Union spy John Mahan.Can rookie detective Francesca's passion, determination, and wit overcome a kidnapper and three-time murderer?Author's CommentIn America, race matters. The artificial constructs of race, caste, and class have mattered for centuries and still matter today. Sex between white men and African, Native American, and mixed-race women produced off-springs known as mulattos, quadroons, and octoroons. Mulattos are likely to have as few as one or two white grandparents and an African or Native American parent. Quadroons have three white grandparents, while octoroons have seven white great-grandparents.Mademoiselle Francesca Dumas was a quadroon. According to young and vivacious Francesca, "There are many rules in New Orleans about sex-written and unwritten. The rules apply to everyone-except white men."While miscegenation existed all over the South, arranged unions between white men and women of color existed in antebellum New Orleans society by contract in a recognized extralegal system called plaçage. Race, caste, and class are significant matters in Francesca's life.The rigid caste system into which Francesca Dumas was born in 1843 was an American institution more than a century before the "founding fathers" wrote United States Constitution. European Americans used skin color in the establishment of their caste system. For centuries, dominant cultures decided the segregation of people into subordinate groups-whether by skin-color or some other basis such as religion or linage or whatever. A few examples are societies in China, Rwanda, South Africa, India, and Pakistan.The caste system that had such a profound impact on Francesca's American life is alive and well in twenty-first-century America.

Darcy was heartbroken when it didn't work out with Jared and herself. She knew she couldn't share the house they lived in together anymore. It was time to move on and out to the city next door. It's much bigger and where her best friends Rose and Ben live. She'd be further from her brother, but she knew they could travel to see each other. Darcy tries to get a job at a few books stores and a library. The library hires her as a custodian. She works there with three newly made friends: Arianna, Jessica and Greg. Jessica and Greg end up becoming more than just friends as their relationship blooms Darcy finds herself making a friend as well. His name is Michael.Michael is an advertising agent climbing his way up the ladder hoping to get promoted as a partner. He is in need of a dog for his television commercial for a bistro which is located in a tidy alley. He goes to the dog park and that's where he meets Darcy and her bloodhound, Sarge. Michael likes the look of Sarge and decides he'll make a great dog for the commercial. He gets Darcy's phone number and permission to use Sarge.During Michael and Darcy's acquaintance he asks Darcy out on a date. Where she gladly accepts. They end up having many adventures together. Right when they start to get a little too close Darcy explains to Michael she doesn't want to have sex until after marriage. Michael is frustrated and not sure how to respond, so he ends up ghosting her.Carla Truman found Michael attractive since college. She'd been busting out the moves on him for a couple of months. Michael finally calls Carla after things with Darcy went awry. He and his sister, Katielynn, make plans to meet for lunch with Carla. After all, Carla wanted to catch up on old times with his sister that she also went to college with.Darcy and Rose end up at the same restaurant as Michael, Katielynn, and Carla are at. She notices that Michael and Carla are seated together and touching hands. After ghosting her so long she figures Michael has moved on.Will their relationship end, because Michael doesn't want to get married so soon or wait to be with Darcy? Will he move on with Carla? Or will he comes to his senses and end up back with Darcy?

Grounded Golf is the easy-to-understand and use guide that offers a basic but powerful grounding technique which energy healers and spiritual gurus have used for centuries. Inside, Tara Fox shares the technique with the female golfer to help with performance under pressure on the golf course, helping to lower scores, exercise your connections, and increase your overall enjoyment of the game.

Ephraim Fox was born in March 1822, in Knoxville, Kentucky near the end of the Cumberland Gap. His father, Nicholas, came to the Blue Grass state when he was seven years old, with his father Benjamin, the supposed son of William and Mary Fox, of the Virginia Fox's.In The Secrets of Benjamin Fox, much of the truth about the life of little-known colonial era pioneer Benjamin Fox is laid bare. Fallout from differences and alienation Benjamin's son Nicholas felt from his sister and step siblings, seem to have led him to leave Kentucky after Benjamin died, to settle in Missouri.The move toward the western edge of civilization made in 1843 was likely in preparation to strike out to Oregon. Nicholas, however, disappears from documents after 1844; assumed dead. His widow, Sara, had three half-grown sons and daughter still in their home, as well as two very young married daughters and her eldest son, Ephraim, who all lived on adjoining farms.Oregon fever spread through the established United States like a flash fire, a promise of land and a new beginning. It was likely a dream Nicholas Fox shared with his son Ephraim, who was unwilling to give it up when his father passed away. The Donation Land Act, passed and signed in December 1850 was the last push the eager young man needed to send he and his family walking out into an epic, unknown wilderness.Statistics indicate those who moved across the Oregon Trail were a great minority of the population of the Unites States, that ended abruptly at the Missouri River. Collectively the promise of land and a new beginning is seen as the greatest motivation for these people. While this may be true, there were so many more personal reasons people felt the risks were worth it, they cannot even be calculated. Ephraim Fox's motivation to move west had as much to do with what he was running toward, as it did with what he was running from.The Oregon Trail had been in use for a decade in 1852. While thousands had used it, few had improved its course. There were very few bridges or ferries across hundreds of streams spread across 2000 miles of trail whose way was marked mainly by the ruts of those who had come before them. The emigration of 1852 on the Oregon Trail dwarfed all previous and future years of migrations. In fact, it was due to the great number of pioneers of 1852 that the trail began to become tamed.Brother-in-law's, George and James Bunch were Ephraim's traveling partners. Whether intentional or not, the family soon found themselves at the leading edge of a string of wagons that stretched without end back to Missouri. When cholera began to kill those in the mass of humanity behind them, the way West became a death race.If ever there was an option to turn back, it was gone. Horseback riders confirmed rumors that wagons behind them were afflicted. It was clear as they traveled that cholera was being passed forward, getting closer.Ephraim Fox's experience coming West was anything but normal. It was not haphazardly planned, placing them in front of most pioneers that year. But when people began to die behind them, they had no choice but to push forward harder and faster.A compilation of pioneer journals, documents and relationships reconstruct the experiences Ephraim and his family shared along the isolated and dangerous trail of 1852.Ten thousand people walked across the continent in the summer of 1852. Ephraim Fox was among the first few hundred to make it there alive. This is his story.

Is there anything more fun than a family of playful kangaroos? On a sunny summer afternoon, brother and sister Max and Millie discover a family of kangaroos and their friends playing out in the yard. As they watch, the 'roos hop, skip and jump, they are amazed by their actions and antics. It's fun to watch, a wonder to see, mother and father and baby make three. All making memories to last forever.

Deconstruction does not mean 'Demolition' It means 'breaking down' or to analyse something to discover its true meaning. In Deconstructing Prayer, it looks at why believer's prayers seem to go unanswered. It addresses and answers difficult questions we wrestle with about Faith, sin, and unbelief. Are these the only reasons why we don't see answers or is there another reason why.It seeks to separate the wheat from the tears by exposing dangerous doctrines of men that are killing the body of Christ. It explains the Dark Knight of the Soul that believers don't realise their going through. Causing some to fall away from the Faith, confused and broken with no help from the church.You will learn how to discern what type of spirits like to manifest as the Holy Spirit. What you are really fighting with and how to overcome it. Learn how to spiritually cleanse yourself, family, home, and sacred space. Understand how Faith really works. How to do spiritual warfare using the book of Psalms and the whole armour of God.Learn how sickness manifests and why you can't find healing. Understand why, you are doing all they tell you to do but it's not working. So much more is within this book, you will finally come to know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.

Raven Man and Other Tales of Terror and Suspense is a collection of six disturbing stories, ranging from classic gothic horror to contemporary crime with a wicked twist.In Raven Man, learn the true story of Poe's mysterious death.All-Weather Phantom is a toxic brew of racism, violence and revenge from beyond the grave.Sweet Soul Music explores the finer (and more terrifying) points of selling your soul to the devil for rock and roll fame.Violated brings a child predator his just desserts.Eight Five Forty One takes you inside a very special retirement community...for snipers.Preferred Customer introduces you to an accountant whose white collar crime plunges him into a very dark place he may never escape.