Red Velvet Seat

A compendious anthology of women's writing on film.

Elton Mac McCoy, a rookie US Marshal, must protect a small child from the Chicago Mob in a decade when the Mafia ruled the streets, the police, and City Hall. Six-year-old Cianna, the sole witness to her familys murders, carries the burden of testifying against the powerful and charismatic Mob boss, Ray Lombardo. Lombardo, censured by an aging but shrewd godfather, finds himself under pressure to wipe out the incriminating witness or lose face with the administration he has set his sights on ruling. A psychologists decision, a judges ruling, a corrupt police officer, and a sharp-shooting sniper work to stop Cianna from ever entering the courtroom. But as Cianna walks the white marbled halls of the Chicago Federal Building, Mac senses a rush of victory. Has he failed to remember the pervasive influence of his underworld adversary?

Ghost stories were very popular with college students at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth. They still are today. As a college president, I sometimes told ghost stories to students on Halloween. One student wrote, The next time that the darkness closes in, the wind blows through the trees, rustling the crisp dry leaves, and the owls come out, screeching into the clear and starry night and soaring through the darkness to grab its prey from under the leaves, think twice about the spirited haunting that seems to frequent our stately campus. As the tales of campus hauntings grew, we concluded that our campus surely was Americas most haunted campus. I assured the students that these were only stories. It was not the ghosts that aroused their fears; it was their fears that aroused the ghosts.

Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture

This magnificent final novel from Anne Hbert completes an internationally acclaimed literary oeuvre that was fearless in it's explorations of the dark and violent side of human passion.

A Reservoir of Solace and Inspiration ...in a world increasingly overshadowed by conflict and division. Touch of Inner Power, is the sixth volume compiled from the authors’ popular blog series A Touch of Light has illuminated the paths of spiritual seekers across the globe. This pivotal collection of essays offers a blueprint to navigate the rocky terrains of modern life with grace, dignity, and joy. Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi share personal stories, practical advice, and uplifting messages based on their more than half a century of building, serving, and living in a worldwide spiritual community steeped in the eternal wisdom and teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. Touch of Inner Power is a call to arms to rally our inner warriors not to conquer an external world but to harness the resilience and strength required to persevere and triumph in the provinces of our internal battlefields.