The stunning fragmented poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey and an alternative model of evocative, artistic autoethnography.

'I closed my eyes and turned the other cheek against the tarmac...the heat against the asphalt sweltered...the awareness of death, spit, and stench of urine was driven through my nostrils with every breath. I would still carry out my plan to end it all.' In this harrowing tale of abuse, addiction, and ultimate redemption, Aletha Smithson chronicles the life of Donnie Foster. Donnie lived his entire life Facedown. His abusive childhood taught him to keep his head down to avoid the wrath of his violent stepfather. He found solace in the prescription drugs he stole from his mother and the very same alcohol that made his stepfather belligerent. As Donnie got older, he turned to more powerful drugs: cocaine and meth. He was soon wrapped up in the dangerous world of vicious drug lords, acting as their minion. There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for them or his next hit. It was not long before Donnie found himself at Corcoran State Penitentiary, lying facedown on the asphalt and reexamining his life. God spoke to him then, and after years of running from the law and God, Donnie turned his life around to become a totally new creation through Christ, realizing that truly all things are possible with God. If you have somehow forgotten that God is in the business of changing lives, making beauty from ashes, this story will make you a believer again and cause you to fall facedown before the almighty God and glorify his Son forever. E. Scott Feather Dean of Chapel and Global Ministries Grace College Aletha Smithson is the author of From the Potter's Wheel and As He Was Known. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her husband.

The core of the book is Emerson's personal take on writing and selling historical mysteries, but it also includes contributions from over forty other historical mystery writers practical advice, anecdotes, and suggestions for research and input from assorted editors, booksellers, and reviewers. For both historical mystery writers and readers.This book embodies its subtitle: The Art & Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past. Veteran author Emerson published her first mystery twenty-three years ago, and this is her thirty-sixth published book. It draws on her experience in researching, writing, selling, and sustaining both her Lady Appleton series (Elizabethan England) and her Diana Spaulding series (1880s U.S.). This unique reference book also includes the contributions of more than forty other historical mystery writers. Their books backgrounds and settings are as diverse as Ancient Egypt and Rome, antebellum New Orleans, early Constantinople, Jazz Age England and Australia, Depression-era California, turn-of-the-century New York, Victorian England, and eighteenth-century Venice.

The first volume of Maurice Gee's acclaimed trilogy wherein Susan and Nick are transported to the terrifying land of O... 'Nick had seen the birthmark on Susan's wrist. It had two parts. Each was shaped like a tear drop, curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown.' Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrist draws them together in a frightening adventure. They are summoned to the beautiful land of O in a last-ditch attempt to save the planet from cruel Otis Claw and his followers, the evil Halfmen, who have lost every trace of human goodness and kindness. Also available as an eBook

The Project is really a continuance of Harold Alvin"s first novel "We have come to kill you" Greco was borne in the trouble East but his parents and the family moved to the USA and he attended grade school, high school and into a well known college. One day a stranger who had watch him from day one of college to graduation. It was in his third year that a man approached him and offered to buy him a cup of something hot. He chose hot tea and as they sat down the man told him his name, Peter Cushing tho that was not his real name and after that meeting, Peter said, You are from the East Yessir Greco said. "I would like to talk some more. Okay, see you here tomorrow same time, same place. Okay, Peter! All night Greco tossed and turn in bed unable to sleep, wonder what this man was really after? they visit in the same on the College Campus. A small coffee shop in some area of the coffee shop they found a corner of the shop where they could talk semi-private. Peter asked, "Greco, where were you born? Iraq. How many languages do you speak? Fluently in 10 of course English and Spanish as well. The questioning went on and on. Greco missed his classes. Finally, Peter said, "how would you like to work for the U.S. C.I.A. ? Yes, I would like that. After great extensive training. HE was given his first assignment. Finally, they said what is your code name. Looking out the window he saw a Greckle on the Lawn. Turning to Peter he said, "call me Greco or Bird of Prey." His first assignment was to search for OBM. He did so well the department assigned him to the terrorist department. He was sent to South America and was shot in Mompox, Columbia and left for dead in the street. At least they thought he was dead. Secretly, he was flown to the great hospital in Washington. Did he survive? What happen to him when his parents were told he was lost somewhere in the Columbian Jungles?

Lesson #1: You come for me, I come back even harder for you. Fair exchange. No robberies. Isis Carter got schooled early on in surviving the streets. When some girls put a beatdown on her, she took back what was hers. When her brother was killed and her mom, Queenie, bailed, Isis fought to stay strong. And when her dad abandoned her for his new family, sixteen-year-old Isis buried the hurt by looking out for herself—and hookin’ up with bad boy Fresh...until a run-in with the law shatters Isis’s world and threatens to destroy her future. Now the only person Isis can rely on is herself...until her secret crush K-Rock steps in. But when Isis lets her guard down, will she be given a second chance to get her life straight or will it cost her everything?