Manbug

The first novel by George K. Ilsley, whose first story collection, Random Acts of Hatred, was published to acclaim in 2004. Told in dream-like fragments, ManBug unfolds as a love story between Sebastian, an entomologist with Asperger’s Syndrome, and Tom, a spiritual bisexual who may or may not be recruiting Sebastian for a cult. They navigate their relationship as damaged goods, seeking meaning and value in themselves through the other; they also try to avoid the inevitable toxins around them, both real and imagined—like bugs avoiding insecticide—while asking the question, Just how much poison can any of us absorb? ManBug is a beguiling, tragicomic novel about beauty, horror, desire, and what lurks just beneath the skin.

This fresh, juicy collection of unique poems and drawings is sure to tickle your fancy, tickle your feet, and tickle your fancy feet! Jump into a world of pure imagination. Positive and inspirational, clever and whimsical, silly and nonsensical, "A Single Spark" is a fun book that will brighten your day, put a smile on your face, and take you on a brand new journey. Lil' kids and kids at heart will certainly enjoy this treasure. Read, share, and remember, "Sometimes just a single spark, within a dark, cold room, will help the others see the light and take away the gloom."

In order to present the Aramean history during some six hundred years, down to the seventh century B.C., it was necessary to analyze a wide range of sources, mainly cuneiform, epigraphic, and biblical. Chapter I deals with Aramean pre-history and proto-history, while chapter II examines the question of the alleged relationship between the Hebrew forefathers and the ancient Arameans. Chapters III to XIV give a relatively accurate description of the territory of each historically attested Aramean group or state and present a detailed narrative of political events. Chapter XIV, the most extensive, considers the situation of the Arameans in Babylonia, also in relation to the Chaldeans and to the North-Arabian tribes. Chapters XV to XVIII deal with Aramean institutions, economy, legal practices, and religion. Special attention is paid to linguistic features of the available evidence, when they can help resolving historical questions. The book concludes with an extensive general index and with an index of biblical sources.

From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next installment in her thrilling new Through The Canvas series you won't be able to put down. To save the missing children, Bailey Donahue must first untangle the web of secrets... A boy disappears from an elementary school playground in the sleepy town of Shadow Rock, West Virginia. As the local sheriff hunts for the missing child, two more children disappear and Bailey Donahue knows she must step in to help. She turns to her "gift", the ability to paint scenes of mysterious crimes and events that haven't happened ... yet. But the picture she paints is of the wrong child, a girl, who doesn't match the description of anyone in town. Bailey teams up again with T.J. and Dobbs to find the girl in the painting and discover the connection to the kidnapped children. But the tangled web of secrets surrounding the little girl leads to an incredible discovery that’s darker and more deadly than any of them could have imagined. Will they be able to save the children in time? Or will they become victims themselves? Discover what thousands of Ninie’s readers already know about her unforgettable five-star work: ★★★★★ "I really liked the first book in this series and loved the characters but this one really blew me away! The Red Web is much creepier and more disturbing in its own way than Black Water which was creepy enough. I loved it." -- Peanuts ★★★★★ "I really dislike spiders... had to work on encouraging myself to remember it is words on paper painting a mental picture, that they weren’t real. I do like the repeat characters in this series. And this second book in the series is a real twister... just could not quit reading, it hooked me!" -- Silverdragonfly ★★★★★ "I'm NOT afraid of spiders, but this book definitely gave me the creepy crawlies!! Ninie Hammon you just keep sliding in next to Stephen King on my best author list!!! Simply thrilling, do many twists and turns! Loving it, please keep going!!!!" -- fgdpps ★★★★★"While I don't consider myself to have arachnophobia, Red Web definitely will make your skin crawl. Ninie did a great job on book 2 of Through the Canvas, with plenty of twists and turns to keep you reading. Great job, can't wait for the next book!" -- TWalker ★★★★★"It was kind of “where in the brain of that sweet lady did this dark dark story come from ??!!” and kind of I want to stop reading this but I CAN’T, and days later I’m still thinking about it. Which makes it one of the most unexpected horror stories I’ve ever read, and I want MORE." -- Denise Stewart Holterman Red Web is the second book of Ninie Hammon's new series, Through The Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life, and drawn into dark and thrilling tales by mysterious forces she can't explain. Get the whole Through The Canvas series today and start a reading journey you won't want to end!

Two powerful personalities are on a collision course in this rocket-fast novel about money and power. Tokus Stone is a man caught between what he knows and what he knows is right, between the fortune of crime on the one hand and the conviction of law on the other. Way Jalon, on the other side of the spectrum, rules the city with an iron fist, presiding over an empire of wealth and influence. Armed with a dangerous new secret, he vows to remake the fabric of society by his own standards—and Tokus Stone will be his perfect gamble. This edge-of-your seat novel traces the lives of a street hustler and an affluent businessman from their sharply contrasting paths to their final confrontation—a confrontation only one of them will survive.

Two powerful personalities are on a collision course in this rocket-fast novel about money, power, and survival. Coming from a painful childhood that left him on the streets, Tokus Stone is a self-made man—to survive the streets, Tokus became a street hustler, selling drugs to make ends meet while envisioning a future without crime. This vision seems to become a reality—until his past catches up with him. Now he is a man caught between what he knows and what he knows is right, between the fortune of crime and the conviction of law. Way Jalon, on the other side of the spectrum, rules the city with an iron fist, presiding over an empire of wealth and influence. Armed with a dangerous new secret, he vows to remake the fabric of society by his own standards—and Tokus Stone will be his perfect gamble. This edge-of-your-seat novel traces the lives of a street hustler and an affluent businessman from their sharply contrasting paths to their final confrontation—a confrontation only one of them will survive.

Panthée presents a collective reflection relating to the changes that affected the Graeco-Roman Empire and over the long term altered its religious landscapes. Fifty years after the foundation of the series EPRO, the volume aims to avoid the division between the supposedly "Roman" or "Graeco-Roman" and the "Oriental" by linking the available information relating the different major areas, such as the relation between local and global, the place of emotions in relation to soteriological and initiatory aspects, strategies of integration and negotiation of identities. For the first time the leading specialists in every field bring their approaches into contact with one another, and jointly construct a picture of practices and conceptual frames, which, in their diversity and inter-action, model a religious universe whose complexity will help to understand our modern globalising world. Panthée propose une réflexion collective sur les mutations qui ont affecté l'Empire gréco-romain et ont progressivement remodelé ses paysages religieux. Cinquante ans après la création de la collection des EPRO, ce livre ambitionne de dépasser le clivage entre ce qui serait "romain", ou "gréco-romain", et ce qui serait "oriental" en articulant les données disponibles autour de quelques thèmes majeurs, comme les jeux d'échelle entre local et universel, la place du registre des émotions en relation avec les dimensions sotériologiques et mystériques, les stratégies d'intégration et de négociation des identités. Pour la première fois, les meilleurs spécialistes venus de tous les horizons croisent leurs approches et construisent ensemble un tableau des pratiques et des cadres de pensée qui, dans leur diversité et dans leur interaction, dessinent les contours d'un univers religieux dont la complexité aide à penser le monde moderne de la globalisation.

I firmly believe that all people are poets; also I think that most poets never write for anyone but themselves. Writing poetry will save a bright mind a fortune, for you will never need a therapist when you write from your heart. The work is highly personal, emotional, and sinks deep into the very essence of the soul of the writer. That being said, I hope that you read and enjoy Fireflies From Orion, this being a selection composed of over fifty years of my writing prose. There are sad poems, happy poems, spiritual writings, emotion-evoking words...as all poetry should be. Fireflies is poetry truly from the heart, not written to appease the strictest school of composition, not please those with whom iambic pentameter is a requirement along with every line to rhyme....you will not find that in Fireflies. You will find raw poetry, prose of both regular and irregular rhythm, words that hopefully will paint pictures and evoke memories in your mind from times long ago, now gone