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Farrah Durante is a middle-aged actress hunting for her next gig in an industry where youth trumps experience. Her frustrations become an emotional lure for something horrifying out beyond the water... something ready to exact revenge on the shallow celebrity-obsessed culture that's lead her astray.

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I decided to write this book for my family, friends and for future generations because I don't believe that many people including my wife knew exactly what I did during my career. My military life, and my professional life. This book gives some specific and technical details of my experiences.It will explain where I started and the challenges I experienced to get to my goal in life.

THE TERM "REDNECK" ORIGINATED FROM THE RED SUNBURNED NECKS OF FARMERS THAT WORKED IN THE FIELDS. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY IT WAS CHANGED TO DESIGNATE SCUMMY LOW-LIFE POOR WHITE TRASH. THEN ALONG ABOUT THE MID-SIXTIES IT MIRACULOUSLY TOOK ON A DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGY. THAT OF A CULTURED INTELLECTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ERUDITE. TO BE REFERRED TO AS A "REDNECK" WAS THEN TRULY A COMPLIMENT. 1967-MAMA'S PLACE, A SLEAZY BEER JOINT NEAR SMACKOVER, ARKANS...

From the dawn of the 20th Century came a new chapter in mankind's history, unleashed during a time of great war and destruction. It was the beginning of the Age of the Superpowers, yet with the closing of the Second World War, this new spark seemingly flickered and died. Now the story can be told of the great lost superheroes - men and women with incredible abilities who changed the course of mankind forever, and who had been thought lost...un...

In this sequel to "COME THE SWINE" Chuck Abbott, three years after he and Bubba destroyed the Demon from hell, returned to help Bubba quell another bedeviled shroud of evil that had enveloped Heaven. Since the school burned ninety some-odd years ago, wickedness had again reinstated it's presence with yet another plague, plotted by the Devil to agitate and vex the wanton townspeople and keep them under his control. There will always be some sor...

A General Tektronics Labs book"--Colophon.

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Who are the Super-Patriots? Who are the "Inheritors"? And how does Captain Future fit in to all of this? Spinning out of Alex Ross' Project Superpowers is the Black Terror - opening with this four-part story arc by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and Mike Lilly! This new story arc will lead directly in to Project Superpowers Chapter Two!

Jim and Peg Rule were living active lives when without warning, back pain signaled the onset of cancer and in less than nine months, Jim's life partner of thirty-seven years was gone. Like many others who have lost a loved one to premature death, Jim faced the difficult challenge of going on with his life. As folded socks, toothbrushes, and shampoo became near-sacred objects, Jim wondered why God had not prevented Peg's death. In this collecti...

Jim and Peg Rule were living active lives when without warning, back pain signaled the onset of cancer and in less than nine months, Jim's life partner of thirty-seven years was gone. Like many others who have lost a loved one to premature death, Jim faced the difficult challenge of going on with his life. As folded socks, toothbrushes, and shampoo became near-sacred objects, Jim wondered why God had not prevented Peg's death. In this collecti...

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After the death of their beloved wife and mother, attorney Ed Housman and his teenage son Doug move to Eden Springs, West Virginia to start a new life in a small town, home to an old mineral springs spa and a Civil War battlefield. When the pristine region is threatened by the discovery of coal in 1951, Ed finds himself drawn into a modern day battle with a powerful coal magnate determined to exploit this peaceful valley. Against this backdrop...

Charlie Akers has spent his entire life following others, making few decisions, and generally having little input into his future. He wakes up one day in prison and, as usual, has no inkling how he got there. Since he has been charged with suspected robbery and murder, it appears that parole is a long shot, if it is an option at all. The facts surrounding his capture have left him totally puzzled. He was knocked unconscious at the scene of the...

Charlie Akers has spent his entire life following others, making few decisions, and generally having little input into his future. He wakes up one day in prison and, as usual, has no inkling how he got there. Since he has been charged with suspected robbery and murder, it appears that parole is a long shot, if it is an option at all. The facts surrounding his capture have left him totally puzzled. He was knocked unconscious at the scene of the...

As a young child of twelve, Lou Ann Soontiens saw school as a place of refuge. When the school's resident priest, Father Charles Sylvestre, took an interest in her, she felt honoured and privileged. She put her complete faith and trust in this charismatic man of God and it resulted in years of sexual abuse, humiliation, and an unwanted pregnancy.This misplaced devotion would lead her to forty years of confusion, guilt, and pain and, ultimately...

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40oz Comics, for the first time in one handsome collection! Hot indy artist Jim Mahfood (Clerks, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Grrl Scouts: Work Sucks) brings you this collection of his underground 40oz mini-comics. Featuring short stories starring Mahfood's most popular characters: the Grrl Scouts, Zombie Kid, Rocket Boy, and that lovable minister of funk, Smoke Dog! All the mini-comics are printed here in their entirety, and we've thrown in 20 pa...

So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included), Fallout will bring you up to speed on the science and politics of the first nuclear gadgets. Like its companion volumes, the focus of Fallout is on t...