The House on Boyd Street

Some houses shelter you. Others raise you. At Boyd Street, the walls did more than protect-they remembered. They held laughter, grief, discipline, love, and the quiet lessons that shape a boy into a man.Cobby M. Williams invites you inside a home where generations lived, struggled, and grew together-where survival and strength were built day by day and where leaving was never as simple as walking out the door. Through vivid storytelling and emotional honesty, he captures the beauty and weight of family, the realities of growing up, and the moments that slowly pull you away from where you began.But leaving is never simple. No matter how far you go, some houses never let you go. The House on Boyd Street is a powerful story of memory, identity, and belonging-of what shapes us, what stays with us, and what calls us home long after we've tried to move on.

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A Country of Ash

The mountains caught fire in August. He had already seen the end of the world.

Chicago, 1903. On the coldest afternoon of the year, fireman Silas Dunne climbs the marble stairs of the Iroquois Theater and finds a wall of the dead. He carries out one small girl who is still breathing. His own daughter is not among the living.

Idaho, 1910. Seven years later, Dunne is a drifter with thirty-one cents in his pocket and a brass badge he can't bring himself to throw away. In the mining town of Wallace he signs on to a Forest Service crew for twenty-five cents an hour, cutting fire line in the Bitterroot Mountains under a hard, quiet ranger named Ed Pulaski.

It is the driest summer anyone can remember. The sun rises red and gives no warmth. Ash falls on the town like snow. On the mountain, Dunne takes a red-haired Irish boy from Butte under his wing, and he stands between the crew and a lynch rope when they turn on the immigrant they blame for the fires. Someone is setting them. Dunne begins to suspect who, and he doesn't want to know.

Then, on August 20th, hurricane winds drive three thousand fires together into a single wall of flame. In two days it will burn three million acres and destroy a third of Wallace. Cut off on both sides, forty-five men follow Pulaski into an abandoned mine tunnel, hang wet blankets across the entrance, and wait for the fire to arrive.

What happens in the Nicholson tunnel that night is history. What it costs Silas Dunne, and what he carries out, is the story.

Based on the true events of the Big Burn and the heroism of ranger Ed Pulaski, A Country of Ash is a novel of fire and faith, guilt and mercy, and the terrible arithmetic of survival. It asks what a man owes the dead, and what he still owes the living.

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Struggles of Surreal Experiences

 

Struggles of Surreal Experiences

Neena " is an inspiring, courageous hispanic woman, who's life endured a lifetime of struggles. She had to hit rock bottom to finally learn her life needed to change. She had to learn how to accept love by learning of herself first. When you are raised in a hispanic culture there are certain beliefs. One of them is NOT recognizing or accepting molestation, depression. & mental disorders. The world we live in today is not the same we lived decades ago. Today the acknowledgment and understanding of these illnesses have a great impact on survivors. "Neena" many will relate, while others will hate. It is a story of an individual's ups and downs. Neena has a way of capturing your heart with ways you want to fight for her and with her. She is a fighter, a hidden spiritual warrior who just needed to find this of herself in order to stand where she does today.

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50 YEARS IN A SECT:

My Life with a Radical 'Sex Cult'!

50 Years in a Sect: My Life with a Sex Cult! tells the story of life within one of recent history’s most controversial religious sects: The Children of God! Later changing its name to the Family of Love, or simply ‘The Family’ -- the fast-growing and highly unorthodox Christian movement gained notoriety as a ‘sex cult’ due to its practice of using sex to win converts! It also believed in sexual ‘sharing’ with other adults within one’s communal group.

Following a firebrand maverick preacher, members left their old lives behind and dropped out of society to begin new lives in idealistic communes, made up mostly of ex-hippies and society rejects who now lived together and shared everything. Members quickly learned that the end of the world was not far away, with Jesus expected to come back in 1993!

David Berg, nicknamed Moses David, the founder and self-styled prophet of this ‘spiritual revolution’, had warning dreams of God’s impending judgments falling on the wicked nations of the western world. In his messages, known as Mo letters, Berg strongly encouraged his followers to leave the West and go to poorer, undeveloped countries to be missionaries.

With no financial support whatsoever, members dutifully obeyed, travelling to far-flung parts of the globe. Thus it was that this author spent the next 50 years in India, Nepal, southern Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific islands! All through this incredible life journey, the Family’s numerous ‘revolutions’ brought tremendous social upheaval and 180 degree changes in direction, making life exciting and eventful, but also bringing some personal heartbreak as families sometimes found themselves separated due to being on different status levels. In the case of the author’s second family, the children were ‘kidnapped’ and taken away by the Social Services.

Although this book has some mild sexual content, it is not intended to be a scandal-filled, lurid account of sexual excesses. It is meant to be a real account of what life was really like within the groups’ closed communities -- both good and bad. And how, 50 years later, after changing its form and reinventing itself several times, the group is still going strong…

The fireworks & the prophet have long gone, along with sexually permissive communal living; however a small band of aging but dedicated believers still remains...

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The Call of Carina: A Starfish Galaxy Book (A Starfish Galaxy Series)

   

The Call of Carina: A Starfish Galaxy Book

(A Starfish Galaxy Series)

The Candal cruiser Meran was last seen weeks ago near the remote outpost of Ryt and is missing. Ships sent to investigate are attacked and return to base with casualties. Desperate, Senior Captain Clay summons an old friend, Captain Luke Bret, to lead the next, possibly last, attempt.

Bret's last mission was considered a success despite heavy losses. He left ship command to become a college professor shortly after. Clay uses Bret's friendship with the missing captain to persuade him to accept a 30-day deployment.

An unknown intruder attacks unmanned outposts and removes their contents. Unlike mercenaries and raiders, these adversaries have advanced ships. After defending a Mekal ship, their main competitor, Bret, forges a temporary truce with a long-term adversary. 

The intruder, the Carina cruiser Cailin, has been stranded in their star system for two years. A stellar event sent them there during their subnet exit. The Carina portal is currently unavailable, and they cannot determine their planet's fate. Desperate, they have resorted to attacking remote outposts to seize military supplies. To make amends for the harm and unintended casualties, they offer Candal and Mekal a revelation.

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When It Happens: A Modern Murder Mystery

Paul and Louise, “Lou”, have been homicide detective partners for ten years. He is the analytic thinker and she is an ex-military, take-charge badass. He figures who did the crime, she cuffs them.

Paul is murdered at his home and returns as an apparition to help his partner find the killer. The Devil will give Paul’s spirit the powers needed, if he can take a soul for the Devil. Or, Paul can go to heaven if he saves a soul. His choices are clear, take a soul or save a soul. The consequences will last for eternity.

Lou’s investigation leads her to take on a biker gang, a paid assassin, and a crime boss……she uses her sharp tongue and loaded Glock without hesitation.

Paul’s best friend is accused of the murder and his attorney gets help from a mysterious witness.

The story is filled with surprise twists, sub-plots and plenty of action – from shootings to court room drama – to chases and explosions. It’s an easy read you won’t put down.

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ELARA: Based on True Events How Losing Herself Became the Road Back Home

 “A haunting story of rescue, survival, and the moment a woman begins to remember who she was before the world renamed her.” Based on true events, Elara is the story of a woman rescued in Miami Beach after years of losing herself to survival, duty, and the belief that sacrifice was the only way to love her family. Told through the voice of Michael Evans, Elara follows one unforgettable night of rescue and the long road that follows, from Dr. Chen’s office in Florida to a safe house in Washington, D.C. Along the way, Elara begins to tell the truth about North Korea, China, America, and the quiet ways a person can disappear long before anyone notices. Created as part of a mother-daughter healing project for women and girls, Elara is accompanied by a 90-minute cinematic story experience featuring narration by Michael Evans, voices and music from Asian performing artists, and the emotional figure skating of Polina Korobova. Featuring voices and music by: Dia (Performing Artist, South Korea); Seunghee (Performing Artist, South Korea); Kim’s Note Family (Performing Artist, South Korea); Ruby (Performing Artist, Vietnam); and the emotional figure skating of Polina Korobova (Figure Skater, Ukraine). With contributions by Brian Fitzgibbons, a nationally renowned missing person investigator who has dedicated his life to finding and rescuing missing girls alongside Michael Evans through Kingsman, their charitable private security and intelligence contracting organization. With real-world guidance from Eunhee Park, North Korean defector and author of The Courage to Die, and Zhang Miaomiao, Voice Artist, China, this project grows from the mission that built a community of more than 3 million female subscribers through The REAL Matrix Reloaded: A Map for Escaping the Prison You Can’t See. FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO BECAME WHAT OTHERS NEEDED AND FORGOT WHO SHE WAS, ELARA IS THE ROAD BACK HOME.

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