The author shares some of the most disheartening memories as a child, a young woman and the senseless abuse that she endured. She shows us how she persevered and still managed to choose life and love and move on without holding any grudges - she is powerful, she is brilliant. This book is a must read.
Based on true events, The UNDERCOVER WRESTLER is a "semi-fictional" espionage spy-thriller novel set in post-World War II Czechoslovakia, telling the incredible story of my grandfather, Zalman Unreich, a highly regarded wrestler and undercover spy from Israel. Raised as an extremely religious boy, with a strict father who hoped his son would become a Rabbi, Zalman had other plans, which involved using his champion wrestling background to defend the Jewish people. His adventurous "career" first began in the streets in Bratislava, then later in Palestine and eventually Israel, negotiating the Czechoslovakian Arms Deal that helped the State of Israel defend itself during its early days of war. While working as an Israeli diplomat (and a master of deceit), Zalman helped the victims of the Communist anti-Jewish "show-trials" and he smuggled many people across the Iron Curtain in Europe, risking his life on a daily basis. Zalman was a consummate professional, who left little traces of his work, and as a result, his story is untold -- until now.
Wally Finkelstein is your average Joe. Your typical underdog—not super attractive, not super wealthy, but he does have stability and happiness to offer. And to his girlfriend’s surprise, he turns out to be super in other departments. He’s always been very attentive to the opposite sex, never leaving them unsatisfied. But having not found “the one” yet, Wally hasn’t been ready to give himself fully. April Daily has changed that, and when they finally do the deed, he wants to shout it from the rooftops…and somehow finds himself soaring above them. Turns out Wally has a history he knew nothing about. Can this ordinary Joe live up to extraordinary expectations? More importantly, can his relationship with April survive the kind of demands this revelation will bring?
Everybody in Chicago has a "superhero sighting" story. So when a villain attacks editorial assistant Gail Godwin and she's rescued by superhero Blaze, it's a great story, and nothing more. Until it happens again. And again. Now the media has dubbed her Hostage Girl, nobody remembers her real name, and people are convinced that Blaze is just her boyfriend, Jeremy, in disguise. Gail's not so sure. All she knows is that when both Jeremy and Blaze leave town in the same week, she's probably doomed. Who will save her now? Yet, miraculously, the villains lose interest. Gail is able to return to her life … until she wakes up strapped to a metal table by a mad scientist who hasn't read the news. After escaping—now more than human herself—she's drawn into a secret underground world of superheroes. She'll have to come to terms with her powers (and weaknesses) to make it in the new society, and it's not easy. After all, there's a new villain on the rise, and she has her sights set on the one and only Hostage Girl.
Writer Mat Johnson (HELLBLAZER: PAPA MIDNITE), winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail by Warren Pleece (THE INVISIBLES, HELLBLAZER). In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could pass among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going incognegro. Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, barely escapes with his life after his latest incognegro story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, hes sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay incognegro long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brotherand himself. He finds that the answers are buried beneath layers of shifting identities, forbidden passions and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.
Author Anita Myers presents you an illustrated book for all ages, designed to share the celebration of life spent with her mother, and the love that exists after life. This book is designed to lift your heart to appreciate the time spent with someone you loved. To celebrate the existence and the cherished moments; to know you had them is a blessing to say the least. In addition, enjoy the companion journal called Grateful Celebrations to help you refocus your emotions as you have grieving moments in your heart. The words, exercises and inspirations offer comfort, support and celebration to recognize and build the kind of emotional landscape that your loved one would want you to have. Let your heart finish its eclipsed feeling and illuminate it with freeing inspiration and gratitude this year, and always. Whether you've been grieving for years or just this year, consider this simple heart-lifting book of a true story for your collection. Make it a thoughtful gift this holiday season for someone you know. These may be easy reads, but they hold depth that I believe can foster a positive shift for your heart.
Becoming a superhero isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let's be realistic, people don't have super-powers. But if you have enough determination to make it through training, you have a chance to be the modern-day superhero, stopping one criminal at a time...or doing everyone else's job and getting none of the credit. After Tanser girl comes to terms with her non-celebrity level status in the superhero world, someone else from Level D decides it's their moment to shine, shaking up the entire system, while leaving her to pick up the pieces.
Dream City Supers NA Novella SeriesWhat would you do if no one could see you? Emma Stevens, once a promising young scientist, gave it all up to be a mother, but lately it doesn't seem worth it. With her son visiting her parents for a month, Emma has one more shot to save her marriage, but Trevor, her brilliant scientist husband, is too busy with a top secret government contract to notice.Inspired by a night out with the girls, Emma breaks into her husband's home lab to see what it is he's working on and accidentally discovers invisibility, the project Trevor has spent years on. Enter Weston Morley, the dashing billionaire playboy who doubles as an undercover vigilante, willing to do anything so that Emma's husband doesn't succeed in his goal. When Weston realizes Emma has beaten her husband to the punch, he tries to convince her to keep her new powers a secret from her husband and the government agency funding Trevor's research. How can Emma save her marriage while keeping the discovery of a lifetime a secret? More importantly, is her marriage is worth saving?Keep an eye out for Book 2 in the Chronicles of Emma Stevens and Book 1 in the Chronicles of Weston Morley Series that tells the story from a different point of view!
Another giggle-inducing, heartwarming smash--this time in a comic-chapbook blend, featuring washed up superhero Oldguy and his Quixotic misadventures through aging.