A DYSTOPIAN COMIC NOVEL FOR INSANE TIMES.

Barry Gray isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but that hasn't stopped him from becoming the middle-aged CEO of Atlas Wake, the corporation behind the most addictive energy drink in the world. After an awkward date, Barry is X-ed-a fate worse than getting canceled...just days before the company's biggest beverage launch. The reason? An ancient social media post.

As the Atlas Wake executives scramble to find a replacement for Barry, they stumble upon Lo, a sardonic barista with no social media history. Lo eagerly steps into the CEO role, anticipating stacks of cash, only to be jolted by a shocking discovery about the company's new energy drink - it's causing people to explode.

Fearing his new life as a social pariah, Barry is rescued by the Brotherhood of the Resigned, a group of X-ed outcasts hiding in the sewers. They believe Atlas Wake is part of a giant conspiracy in which Lo is now entangled. Stories collide as our crew faces a corporate-dominated world on the brink of destruction in this darkly humorous, dystopian tale of power, deceit, and survival.

Foundations of Freedom is a five-session experience of the larger Living Set Free in Christ course (which is 12 one-hour sessions), and is suitable for use in workshops, small-groups, and one-on-one discipleship settings, as well as for personal devotional use. It provides a primer on starting on a path to freedom in Jesus Christ, equipping you with the biblical truth you need in your pursuit of living the abundant life Jesus promised for His disciples (John 10:10), including:

- Understanding God's original design for Creation and for you

- Recognizing the two-realm nature of our world

- Learning how to use the power and authority that are yours in Christ

- Being aware of how strongholds are built in your life, and how to tear them down

- Continuing on in a life of freedom with an undivided heart for God

You'll also discover how to use the divinely powerful weapons God has given you to break free-and live free-of the obstacles that hold you back from experiencing abundant life. In this book, you'll learn and apply the 4R prayer model to stronghold issues in your life like insignificance, fear, passivity, open doors and injustices from your past, and unforgiveness.

Jesus said He came to bring good news ... freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind ... the year of the Lord's favor (Luke 4:18-19). The Living Set Free in Christ course manual-as part of the Living Set Free in Christ course- will help you experience and enjoy this freedom and favor that is found only through Jesus Christ. Through study of God's Word and practical application of its truths to your life, you'll be increasingly liberated and empowered as you learn about:

God's original design for your life and His unconditional love for you

why salvation through Jesus Christ gives you much more than just a ticket to heaven how to appreciate (and make use of) the gift of repentance how to completely release past hurts and injustices how to overcome fear, insignificance, and intimidation how to exercise your spiritual authority how to break the power of spiritual strongholds and generational sin patterns from your life how to rise above past and present circumstances to live in freedom, confidence, authority, and joy!

From Joseph Fasano, the acclaimed author of The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing, comes The Swallows of Lunetto, the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War.

Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Salò. When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it.

A sweeping love story and historical drama, The Swallows of Lunetto is a timely meditation on the left-right political divide, the reckonings of inherited trauma, and the potential of forgiveness to heal deeply divisive wounds.

Every city has a story.

Behind the veil of tourism, New Orleans drips with hunger, sorcery, and secrets. One of those is Honey Island Swamp, a powerful nexus of magic outside the city limits. Its blue-green water can make you ageless and manifest carnivals out of thin air. Similar to the River Styx, it serves as the gateway between the realms of the living, dead, and in-between. And because of this power, it becomes both a haven and a battlefield for witches, humans, and other magical beings.

YOU CAN WALK IN FREEDOM AS GOD DESIGNED FOR YOUR LIFE!

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Yet far too many Christians live in various levels of bondage in a variety of strongholds. It is like when Lazarus was resurrected from death. He had life, but he was constricted in his movements until the grave clothes were removed.

The Walking in Freedom manual is designed to help you experience and enjoy the fullness of God's freedom and favor that is found only through Jesus Christ. You will be increasingly liberated and empowered as you experience freedom from strongholds such as:

 Anger

 Fear

 Hopelessness

 Insignifi cance

 Pride

 Rebellion

 Rejecti on

 Self-hatred

 Shame

 Unforgiveness

 And more ...

Never hitch a ride with a stranger...unless he's hot.

I'm Abigail Farnsworth-Burton. ADHD'er extraordinaire. Aspiring artist of mediums I'm not practiced in and chef of meals I've never eaten. And now, heiress. Basically, it means I now own more assets than I can wrap my head - and my limited organizational capacity - around.

So, of course, my car breaks down 400 miles shy of my new mansion. And, of course, the only guy offering a ride looks intimidating as hell...until he opens his mouth. I didn't care that he tripped over his words every time he spoke to me. I figured if he were a real killer, he'd be smoother in his script. Bad guys are never this hot...right?

And Elias McGinnis is anything but scripted - unlike the voice in my head that seems intent on my eventual downfall.

My one saving grace is my new friend, Amy The Great. She always knows exactly how to get things done. Too bad she's a chicken.

But old money attracts new enemies, and focusing on anything is impossible with my sexy live-in mechanic. If I only had a plan - and some actual cash. Oh, and a car.

Always Falling Behind is a fun and steamy rom-com that shows people with neuro-divergent brains living their best lives.

Meeting minutes from a Satanic cult. Werewolves with orgasmic origins. Homemade puzzles made from human body parts. A family trapped inside someone's leg, hurling toward oblivion. Gaslighting birds. Bicycle tours through hell in search of a lost dog. A fake-your-own-death kit. The ultimate makeover. A carwash funeral. The end of the world in the back of an old Chevy Astro. Birds Aren't Real. The absurdist examination of what awaits us all at the end-for better or for worse.

When I walk into a wall of hard pecs and abs named Dr. Alexander Pierce, the nationally acclaimed psychologist speaking at the conference I'm attending, I quickly learn he thinks he knows it all-but he's wrong-and rude.

His superiority complex put me on the defensive, and that's when my big mouth got me into trouble. I had lessons that needed to be learned both in and outside the classroom, and after watching the good doctor strut around the auditorium, I wouldn't mind a personal one from him. And maybe a few to help my students.

Life has dealt me many curveballs, and I've tackled each problem to the best of my ability. Why, then, did they keep coming back with a vengeance? I'm a seventh-grade English teacher, and thanks to my principal, I am now the liaison to the school board's new consultant. When would my troubles ever end?

This is a cliffhanger. The story concludes with Making Perfect Sense, The third book in the Perfect Series.

Being Becca Strauss, patent attorney, is no match for my mother, Marilyn, a top-tier Socialite in Detroit and force of nature. Mom's endless, cutting commentary about my single-ness has reached new heights. When she challenges me to find a respectable date-no, boyfriend-before her Annual Charity Hanukkah party, I buckle under her years of taunting.

In my defense, all of my focus has been on making partner, not finding one, and I'll do anything to keep that dream alive-including placating my mother. So Mom and I strike a deal, and before I know it, I'm dating eight strangers in one week without a wingman. Actually, that's not true. My lifelong friend Spencer has my back-though sometimes I get the feeling he'd like to be in the lineup, too. While I'm not afraid of a challenge, each of these dates is weirder than the last. The likelihood of me achieving my career goal and my mom's dreams for my happily ever after in just one week seems impossible. And as each candle is lit, my stress levels spike, but my determination doesn't waver.

This laugh-out-loud Hannukah romance written by the author of Always Falling Behind is the perfect way to light up the holiday season.

An office worker hopes a new drug will remedy her toxic personal life... A food blogger moonlights as a detective to give meaning to his gluttony... A rehabbed addict proselytizes with an increasingly bizarre methodology... Lovesick strangers try to heal through a dating app that promises a unique form of catharsis... A quarantined man starts having vivid dreams he's convinced aren't his own... At a party where everyone's somebody the crowd grows feverishly reverential of one guest's anonymity...

In the prescient world of 'The Cult in My Garage', the characters are desperate for meaning and hungry for connection. Time and again, their attempts at betterment snowball into disaster or backfire spectacularly. And yet they still find ways to dust themselves off and salvage meaning.

Trained
in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip
hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa
Davis's plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of
music alongside radical change. In Angela's Mixtape, time shifts like a mixtape, and like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a gift--for us, of course, and for Davis's aunt, activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, under whose tutelage Davis reads Das Kapital and learns to drive stick and hack her own way toward inheriting her legacy. In The History of Light,
Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples under
racialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of the
grand piano, The History of Light is a study in black and
white, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formal
virtuosity of Davis's writing are the unexpected crackles of a voice
warming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artist
concerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, error
is a necessary instrument--maybe the sounding weight.

In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs and playwright, songwriter, performance artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones discuss love as a foundational principle of artistic practice and societal change. Reflecting on Love Like Light, Daniel Alexander Jones's collection of seven plays and performance texts (published by 53rd State in July 2021), DAJ and APG illuminate the ways in which an attention to care, community, nuance, invitation, perceptual particularities, and embodied conditions can resist the profoundly extractive context in which life is lived and art is made. As they discuss the work of Audre Lorde, Billie Holiday, Beah Richards, Bayard Rustin, and Malcolm X, as well as that of DAJ's grandma Daisy Mae and APG's grandmother, aunt, and niece, DAJ and APG propose that love, like light, suffuses everything, and that love, like light, creates a field in which transformation, justice, healing, and radical beauty are not just possible--they are already, now.

Join the fun as our ladybug friend crawls to different parts of our body in this cute and educational book! To make this book more interactive, follow along and use your hand as your ladybug! Ladybug Ladybug was inspired by the award-winning music of children's songwriter and Montessori educator, Frank Leto. The book series was adapted and created by his daughter, Maria Leto, and five-year-old granddaughter, Chloe Mandzuk. A three-generation collaboration! For more information about Frank Leto's educational music for children, visit www.frankleto.com.

Are you drawn to certain crystal colors during different periods of your life? That's your inner wisdom at work.

Ready to bring it to a whole other level?

Life takes us through regular ups and downs. As we experience these stages, did you know it's common to be attracted to and find comfort in certain colors? The colors you choose-in life, and in your crystal collection-are deeply personal messages from your Inner Guide, and reveal what you need more of in life-at that moment.

What if you could use your intuition to not just identify your color preferences, but actually harness the wisdom of crystal colors

to tap into inner guidance, answers and insight?

That's the treasure available within The Crystal Wisdom of Colors, the eagerly awaited follow-up to Crystal Wisdom, by Shannon Marie. In this groundbreaking book, you'll learn:

- To identify the colors you're attracted to right now-and why

- The powerful influence colors have on your heart, mind, body, and spirit

- How to use your crystal collection to generate measurable life benefits

- The 13 distinct crystal-color families and their life-affirming properties

- How to choose the ideal gemstones to support your personal growth and inner healing

- Meditation practices to access color wisdom for specific life situations

Ready to use your gemstones to strengthen your intuitive abilities and tap into your inner wisdom? The Crystal Wisdom of Colors can help you unleash the power of your crystal collection to drive powerful, positive, and enduring changes in all facets of your life!

This book collects three plays and one manifesto by writer-director Julia Jarcho, including American Treasure, Dreamless Land, and Grimly Handsome, winner of a 2013 Obie award for Best New American Play.

By combining literary and dramatic narrative with eye-witness accounts of Sasquatch encounters culled from the internet, The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. reinvents
as many versions of the Frankenstein author Mary Shelley as there are
definitions of the word Gothic. In this work, a string of financial,
maternal, and familial misfortunes causes Shelley--referred to in this
production as Maery S.--to spawn a monstrous creative expression, which
takes on its own life and violent history. Maery cannot help but fall
in love with her Monster, only to see it collected and imprisoned by
charitable funding at a mandatory artists' residency.