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Given that her adoptive parents plucked an abandoned three-week-old child out of a local Christmas diorama, it is no surprise that, after her mother died and her father was murdered, Alicia Cruz McCall did not grow to be a normal teenage girl.When her uncle Harper, retired U.S. Special Forces, noticed her steely nerve and split-second reflexes, he encouraged his niece to join him and complete her training. While her former classmates were sipping caffe macchiatos and trading gossip at the mall, Cruz McCall was stalking-and matter-of-factly eliminating her enemies.Determined to conceal her vocation from those around her, McCall developed an alternative identity as an oil painter.When her landscapes and portraits turned out to be as sharp as her trigger finger, she became a highly successful artist who had to work harder to separate the two worlds.Eventually, the stress of repeatedly trading a paintbrush for a handgun caused Cruz to make a rare misstep, becoming the hostage of a dangerous adversary. With the help of her street-smart partner, Juan Mendoza, she clawed her way to freedom. But her quest for retribution had just begun. She must exact vengeance on the responsible party... before he strikes again.

This is a book that could provide academia and anyone in the areas of Sociology, Business, Political Science, Public Administration, Policy and Law an example of how a government agency is created, functions and evolves.I wanted to give a sociological, public administrative and business view into the details of how a government idea is born of necessity.I also wanted to give an example of how stresses and powers contribute to the character of an agency.I also wanted to illustrate how an agency evolves, succeeds and sustains through changing times, to remain relevant.This social science book is written from the perspective of an author that is a Bachelor's in Sociology and a Master's in Public Administration Management graduate.The author has also had experience working in both the private sector and government sector combined for over twenty-five years plus at the time of this publication.The author has completed research projects and admires the theory and related research of functionalism, in terms of how society has structure and order that can be researched using social science.

Richard Bryan of Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana was the consummate idealist. He had a forward-looking outlook. Slavery was an anachronism. In 1856, five years before the war, he offered emancipation to all 97 on his plantation, hired a teacher, deeded land, shared profits, and encouraged entrepreneurs. The Civil War devastated the South, but the war never reached his home. When Union occupiers arrived in Mt. Lebanon a decade later, they were astounded to find Bryan's experiment fully implemented. Former slaves could not only "read, write, and cipher," they were landowners engaged in a trade, and some were even bilingual.Bryan's objective was to facilitate the "conveyance" of his peaceful society from pre-war to post-war America. He saw no reason why he could not achieve this goal. Union occupiers envisioned a plethora of beneficial propaganda, but Bryan declined to be used by aggressive new politicians who demanded his cooperation to further their agenda.After the Confederate surrender, Richard Bryan, his family, their hired hands, the people, and a wounded Yankee deserter his young sons had stumbled upon in the woods and brought home with them, found themselves at the mercy of a corrupt Governor, political hacks, petty tyrants, and remorseless convicts in military uniform. Not just rustlers but occupying troops would frequently raid farms. Often, they'd steal entire harvests. If you resisted the men in uniform, they might hang you and burn your place down out of spite.There was no legal recourse against the government. Food became scarce, hard money even more so. "Injun Grass" as it was known to those who smoked it, grew wild on their land. It was good quality, so they'd periodically harvest it and offer little poke bags of cannabis sativa for sale to visitors who were passing through on the stagecoach. Occasionally they'd even sell some to soldiers. Every penny counted. They tightened their belts, quietly bartered for weapons, secretly manufactured ammunition, and killed in self-defense when they were faced with no other choice.Their joint goal was survival. Some of them would make it.What transpired across the South might today be equated to legal, as well as militarized police brutality by occupying forces. The experience of all, regardless of color, who lived through this traumatic and tumultuous time in history, burned itself deeply into America's collective psyche.

What trouble will a slightly nerdy dog with a big heart get himself into on a farm with land and animals waiting around every corner? Will Winston's life-long dream of making a friend ever become a reality? Will he ever realize he is a dog, cannot jump like a frog, nor bound from tree to tree like a squirrel? Will his desire to fly become a reality, or is he destined to be limited by the laws of physics?These wholesome short stories and author drawn illustrations introduce parents and their children to the wonderful world of Winston. The simplicity, wit and child-like innocence of Winston's personality invite children to use their imaginations while discovering his world.

The futuristic space adventurer, Red Roxy, reveals exciting exploits and daunting dodges through vast volumes of time and space. Abandoned as a child wandering the deep tunnels of the distant mining planet, Miseria, the extraordinary youngster matures to jealously follow her sister, Veronika Futura, to Earth's past. Searching for fulfillment in a new life, her dormant humanity emerges to fall in love-then is forced to fight villainous space pirates threatening her passionate existence. Doomed to die, or sure to succeed, the cosmos confuses, offering a most remarkable remedy.A daring feat, the journey is fantastic. The audacious firebrand applies her unique lifestyle to hustle Earth's reality, breaking the rules to enact her own. She stacks the odds in her favor like many young neophytes facing challenges to create fruitful futures.

My wife and I have been married for fifty-three years. We have two grown children and six grandchildren, all girls. I recently retired from Hospital and First Responder Chaplaincy with Fire and Police. This volume is about my experiences as a crisis chaplain.Over the years, I have written simple poetry for family and friends. While preaching in ten countries, I have sent email logs of the day's events. During the COVID-19 crisis, I was encouraged to write a page or two on subjects unrelated to COVID-19 and email it to select hospital staff.Combining these elements, we present Casting Shadows at Midnight: Poetry, Musings, and Writings of a Crisis Chaplain.Many of the poems are written to my Bride of fifty-three years. Some were written while riding with the police and fire departments, and others were generic.In the Musing section, we share thoughts and impressions from multiple crisis scenarios. A sampling of these Musings includes impressions from overseas travels teaching Chaplaincy.Writings are items that came out of the COVID-19 crisis.The reader will find a little humor, light drama, and theology, along with personal notes and tidbits that mean something to me. I must admit that I'm neither a skilled comedian nor detailed enough to produce a classic mystery novel. I'm also not an expert theologian who can write a heavy volume to settle the inerrancy question that has plagued people for years.However, I am knowledgeable enough to write about topics that interest many readers. Some of the writing is deeply emotional and personal. The poetry will not win many awards but will be heartfelt.Born in Collin County, Texas, Rickey grew up in a tiny town of 254 residents. There were sixteen in his high school graduating class. He attended East Texas Baptist College for two years and then transferred to Dallas Baptist College, where he met his bride, Julie. Their marriage is almost fifty-three years long and growing.He and Julie pastored churches in Missouri and Texas. He became a chaplain with the Plano Police Department, continued with the McKinney, Texas Police Department, and finally retired from the Department of Public Safety as a Chaplain and the Dallas Police Department as a chaplain trainer.Undeterred by the demands of his career, Rickey pursued further education, earning a master's degree from Luther Rice Seminary and a doctorate from Master's International School of Divinity. These academic achievements have equipped him to focus on his current role, providing chaplaincy services to patients and their families.Since retiring from Hospital Chaplaincy, Rickey has enjoyed grandchildren. His son Stephen has two marvelous stepdaughters, and his daughter Christy has two beautiful sets of twin girls. The bigs are identical, and the littles are fraternal.

A Montana Feud brings back all the rugged and passionate characters of the Rodeo in the Blood series for another drama-filled adventure. Fans of thrilling rodeo rides and the complexities of human relationships will find this story absorbing.During the pandemic shortened 2020 rodeo season, former rivals, Rusty Blackstone and Warren Weston, join forces to pursue their rodeo dreams. At a rodeo in Chinook, Montana, Rusty accidentally reignites a dormant feud between his father and rodeo producer Jake Augustine. Rusty is lucky to survive the ensuing turmoil.Meanwhile, Warren battles his ex-wife, Jenny, for a portion of his rightful inheritance. Throughout, Rusty, Warren, and Jenny struggle with the new arrangement to share their son, Todd. Warren battles to care for his invalid mother. Unexpected violence mars Rusty and Amanda's horseback wedding.Harlan, the only man they all trust, does his best to help them through everything.

Georgie Holbrook created this evaluation to prove her findings with over 2000 people. Living one's passion is measured by the 'inherent story of your health' being in alignment with your 'external lifestyle.' She has unearthed her discovery for you to have this opportunity to prove to yourself now to live in harmony with your authentic self.Imagine your health and lifestyle evaluation as a pair of bicycle wheels. You will have the visual opportunity in 3 simple steps to see quickly what types of reality wheels you have created, which for most people, is an eye-opening experience. Are your wheels slowly being deflated from lack of importance or vital understanding? Have your wheels been spinning in a robotic daily routine showing up in mild to extreme health issues? Or when asked if your life most days are joy-filled, you rethink the question, and say 'yes' when you mean 'no?'SCORE YOURSELF is a rare opportunity to explore your greater health and happiness. Learn 7 ways your body speaks in a language inviting change. Over 2000 people had these 7 health issues in common. Georgie says this is not normal, these can actually be prevented and healed.A major surprising fact, over 2000 people had 10-20 health issues out of 27 giving them personalized feedback to consider taking their health seriously. No one had none! Learn the underlying cause, and do not ignore these significant messengers. Consider these signs as the love language of your soul getting your attention to embrace natural solutions and take the time to make healthy changes.Learn how trial and error remedies leave you distrusting your body.Explore reasons why one rarely heals if they have an internalized quiver.Understand how emotions manifest in physical health issues as a language.Discover how health challenges can be 80% emotional and be reversed.Ask yourself, what areas of your life work really well? What areas do you feel can still be improved if you could understand what is required to make changes? With detailed understanding, you have the opportunity to change and fall in love with your life.Once the evaluation is completed and scored, you can take small steps and pick areas you want to improve on. First, you will understand why making this improvement is vital. Second, when you experience the benefits - you will start building self-confidence in the way you physically and emotionally feel and want to make healthier choices. This evaluation will prove that nature by design has answers, and the intelligence within you has been doing healing and repair since the day you were born. Believe always that nothing is impossible to improve and heal.Georgie shares from her own experience. She learned that to honor her Inherent Purpose in life, her body as her friend had to redirect her life during a 7-year devastating health challenge, having facial deformity and near blindness. She self-healed, having been given a second chance, has helped hundreds of people learn natural principles which align with the harmony of their soul that transformed their lives. Creating for them endless possibilities for successful living lifestyles that complement their purpose and reason for being alive. Remember the life you save, maybe your own.

The dance between words on a page has the ability to move us in many directions. How we react to those words, both as a reader and a writer, tells more about ourselves than we might think.This book is a collection of poems ranging from Space to Earth to Family - from the vastness of the Universe to the intimacies of interpersonal relationships. Life, and the meaning of life, is many things to many people. Examine our existence. Examine ourselves. Can we draw many parallels? Maybe.Whether our lives are touched by poetry or not, words have staying power beyond pen on paper, words spoken aloud.It is not always what we write that carries weight in our lives, but what we don't write - the pauses, the spaces between where we stop - the unwritten words. Truths often live between those lines.

JD is a pirate who wants to see the world and bakes apple pies. He doesn't steal or kill, yet his crew loves him. JD encourages his pirate friends to learn a new way to do things in The Apple Pie Pirate book by Suzanne Pollock.

The reader will experience Libya's oil boom and a brief on exploration techniques, a walk through an Arab Medina, a description of the world's largest desert, a belly dance through the eyes of the young bachelor, flights over the Mediterranean and once in Sicily some complications including a torrid love affair, and the consequences of life changing decisions. This story combines adventure, history, travel, intrigue and romance into a fun 'wonder what will happen next reading experience. A portion of this story is based on the author's personal experiences in Libya in the 1960s.

Join Bobby as he explores Cape Cod with old friends and new in this exciting sequel to Robby the Rolling Rock.From seals to whales, and boats to bridges, Bobby shows us the best way to travel is with a bird's, in this case a swan's, eye view.

"Madstones" is a new collection including six works of fantasy and science fiction, representing several different constructs - short stories, a stage play, a screenplay, and a prose poem."Rama with the Ax," a short story, opens the collection, pitting a sinister stage magician, his undead assistant, and an alien god-beast from beyond time against a black man with a horn and his blues brothers. Who will win this bizarre battle of the bands?"Doom of the Autochthon" is a fantastic short story, set in another world, another time. If you've ever been inclined to be angry at the sun, this one is for you. Corruption and Empire were never like this before!"Retro Beach Party" is a screenplay. Check out what happens to these otherwise perfectly normal college students when a bale of contraband washes ashore during spring break. And when extraterrestrials crash this shindig, things get really wild. Remember, it all comes from the sixties, kids. This one is a trip in time back to those halcyon days of yore, and a reminder of how hard it is to laugh in these times."Hurdy-Gurdy Rondo" is a play in one act for the theater of the absurd. What do we really know about the past? We may know more as science marches onward. But not everybody sees these things the same way. Can't we all just...get along?"The Eidolon of Clay" is a prose poem with a historical setting, passing fleetingly into the realm of fantasy upon the finding of a forgotten piece of statuary. Times change, cherished ideas change, but the human heart?"The Hilbert Hotel," a short story, closes the collection. In it we learn along with our heroine that there are many infinities and that some are bigger than others, and what it actually takes to change the world. The answer may surprise you!"Madstones" will appeal to readers from eighteen to eighty who like imaginative fiction with wit as well as a sense of wonder. "Madstones" is six zircons in the rough, hair of the dog that bit you for the psyche.

After surviving a lifetime of abuse, Anna Madison, and her daughter Meg, are starting a new life filled with promise and hope.Having realized their dreams of building a safe home for abandoned and abused children, they now find themselves facing the eventuality of it being destroyed.But the sudden, unexpected appearance of an arrival from Anna's childhood, provides them with the assurances needed to save their home, as well as the tools needed to destroy the person responsible for the years of violence they endured.To accomplish that though, Anna and Meg must resort to using the same manipulation and abuse tactics wielded by their tormentor. It's a task that questions whether their need for vengeance is stronger than their desire to leave the past behind.

Larry Cashman dreamed of living in the tropics. Having few redeeming qualities, it was unlikely he could escape from New York City. Through uncanny good luck, he lived in Southeast Asia and Hawaii. Read his story in The Cashman Chronicles.

This is the biography of an internationally known business owner, consultant, and writer who began her career as an educator and is one who believes that we should never stop learning.