Books published by For Our Sun Publishing

23 tales of crime collected in the 4th volume of the Shotgun Honey Presents anthology series. Featuring Brom Stoker nominated short story "The Thing I found Along a Dirt Patch Road" by Cindy O'Quinn. Including stories from Rusty Barnes, Susan Benson, Sarah M. Chen, Kristie Claxton, Jen Conley, Brandon Daily, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Hector Duarte Jr., Danny Gardner, Carmen Jaramillo, Nick Kolakowski, JJ Landry, Bethany Maines, Tess Makavesky, Alexander Nachej, Brandon Sears, Johnny Shaw, Kieran Shea, Gigi Vernon, and Patrick Whitehurst.Originally published in 2020, re-issued with cover by Ray Dillon. Edited by series editor Ron Earl Phillips.

Sue the ladybug loved watching the clouds, smelling flowers, reading books, and watching TV... but didn't like to exercise. Follow along as Sue learns the value of exercise and how it lets her continue to do the things she loves.

Slaughterhouse Blues catches up with Bill and Fiona, the chattery and gun-happy anti-heroes of A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps, soon after they've escaped the Rockaway Mob, the criminal enterprise from which Bill "borrowed" several million dollars.Holed up in Havana, Bill and Fiona know the Mob is coming for them-it's just a question of time. But they're not prepared for who the Mob sends: a pair of assassins so utterly amoral and demented, their behavior pushes the boundaries of sanity. Seriously, what kind of killers pause in mid-hunt to discuss the finer points of thread count and luxury automobiles?Forced on the run (again), Bill and Fiona will venture from the crumbling streets of Cuba to the steaming jungles of Nicaragua, and finally back to the mean streets of New York City. If they want to survive, our fine young criminals can't retreat anymore: they'll need to pull off a massive (and massively weird) heist-and the loot has some very dark history...

The Raven and the Wolf, emerge into the open light; who will win when the secrets and blood clear? Caught. The Raven lies crushed beneath the FFs headquarters. Out of time, out of schemes, out of gadgets... Alone and helpless in the midst of his worst enemies. But Joe has friends now, family bound to him by Christ's blood. Nehi holds a trump card, waiting out in the wastelands watching the FFs. But does he understand what he holds? With the Bible returned, the Raven crushed and helpless, conspiracies and secrets thickening, and the Wolf still rampaging amongst the flock, can the Hillsons finally resurrect the Sojourner kingdom? Will all be lost at the end?

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En abril de 1980, una familia es despertada abruptamente por fuertes golpes y gritos en su puerta. Los militares han venido por ellos. Es la época del éxodo del Mariel en La Habana, Cuba. No toda la familia podrá emprender este viaje rumbo a la tierra de la libertad. Dos hermanas, que han sido inseparables y compartido la misma casa en la calle Zapote, son separadas repentinamente. Una de ellas, Laura, se irá junto con sus tres hijos para reunirse con su esposo tras doce años de separación forzosa. La otra, Berta, se ha quedado junto a Antonio, su esposo, y sus hijas, puesto que no se les ha permitido partir. Como por arte de magia, tras el éxodo de Laura, Berta y su núcleo familiar se convierten en enemigos del estado. Muchos de sus vecinos, y hasta miembros de la familia, les dan la espalda. Enfrentan el terror constante de que turbas violentas, alentadas por el gobierno de Castro, los saquen de su casa para golpearlos, injuriarlos y hasta ajusticiarlos por su "traición". La familia teme por sus vidas. La familia ha enfrentado una constante y cruel lucha por mantenerse unida y por sobrevivir. Esta lucha, además de quitarles el sueño, la salud y las energías, les amenaza con destruir lo poco que les queda. Deben hacer todo lo posible para salir de la isla, juntos, y salvar sus vidas.

The Beatitudes Revisited is a thought-provoking dive into a very familiar section of scripture called the Sermon on theMount. Readers will find themselves both challenged and inspired by a deeper understanding and a new appreciationof Jesus' message to His disciples in every generation.

The Types of Water for Purification from the Purification and Prayer series by Green Fig is an educational tool to teach children the seven types of pure and purifying water that one can use for wudu' in accordance with authentic fiqh texts such as The Text of Abu Shuja'. Children will enjoy the bright and lively description of rain, snow, hail, spring, the well, river, and the sea. It also teaches children, in its fun and engaging format, facts about water, a ubiquitous element in their everyday life in addition to many other religious benefits.

This little girl knows she's much more than a peasant. She's excited to prove her royal status to the world, and to herself. But the path to the castle is filled with distracting side roads and it's not quite as glamorous as she'd thought. Does she have what it takes to be a True Princess? This adorable and touching story is told in rhyme with gorgeous, flowing meter. It's a joy to read aloud to your strong, independent girls. Bonus Paper Doll cutout section in the back of the book! Kids can even color their own paper doll to match their hair and features. This story has a religious undertone in its suggestion that the girl is a princess because she's the daughter of the King.

Spacefaring explorer Rod Gallowglass discovers a lost colony planet with a bizarre pseudo-medieval culture, witches and warlocks, and monsters out of myth and legend. How can a place like this even exist?

Raphael Roberts is back in this final installment of the Good Cop, Bad Cop series.Raphael dodges yet another bullet when he's recruited by the feds. He's unleashed on the city of Atlanta's booming drug market.He's so deep undercover the lines begin to blur. He soon loses track and can't recall if he's an undercover cop pretending to be a dope boy or dope boy pretending to be a cop.His old comrade from the police force joins him but officer Johnson has secrets of her own.Not even Superman can does all bullets and unlike Superman Raphael isn't bulletproof. Turn the page and see if he'll be remembered as a Good Cop or Bad Cop...

Penelope Standing walks dogs, delivers mail, and never lets her age keep her from getting into trouble. There's always something interesting happening nearby.Then their small town's artist-in-residence turns up dead. Though nobody had a motive to poison the French painter, Penelope can't help but wonder if it really was an accident.Turns out Jean-Philippe had secrets. And the killer isn't finished yet.

Danger comes from many anglesAnd hits you when you least expect itOn the galactic fringe, there are no second chances.With the investigation into the corruption on Las Brazzas expanding, Fugitive Recovery Specialist Travis Hurts is called into action. He'll have to use all his resources to get past a team of security experts and captured one of the main culprits from Las Brazzas. And while his focus is on one fugitive, others are conspiring against him. If he isn't careful, everything he's worked so hard for will be swept away in the blink of an eye.Travis Hurts isn't the only person on the hunt. Sanada Soto is the silent assassin, an unstoppable avenger who deals out justice on his own terms. But he has someone in his sights that is just as dangerous as Soto is, and the stakes are life and death.Evolving Threat is the third book in the Travis Hurts series. From master storyteller Toby Neighbors comes a novel of high adventure across the galaxy. Evolving Threat is a fast paced, high stakes, novel you won't be able to put down. If you love Star Wars, and The Mandalorian, you'll love Evolving Threat and the entire Travis Hurts series.

Kit Morgan has always hated change-he's as steady as they come.At least, that's what his friends think. Feeling trapped by a routine he never wanted but everyone expects, Kit is almost glad when his life suddenly falls apart-especially when it leads to him running into his middle school girlfriend, Skyler, who happens to need a fake fiancé for a family reunion.The two pick up where they left off seventeen years prior, and Kit reverts back to the friendly and fun-loving person she knew for the semester they were together-someone completely different from the role he's been playing his entire life. Desperate to cling to his chance to change his life for the better and finally live the life he's always wanted, Kit is ready to tell Skyler he's in it for real. The problem? She has no intention of settling down anytime soon. Or ever.Torn between the reliable life he's always known and a sweeter one without guarantees, Kit has to convince Skyler-and himself-that past patterns can be broken and relationships are worth fighting for.Otherwise, he might lose the only person who's ever known the real him.

Allie has sworn off dating.Which is unfortunate, because the cute guy at the grocery store has finally struck up a conversation, and shy and sweet Ben is even more adorable than he looks. When an ex shows up trying to rekindle the flame at the same time her mother tries to set her up with a neighbor, Allie ropes Ben into being her fake boyfriend to get everyone off her back.Ben has been in love with the stranger at the grocery store for months despite never speaking to her. When he finally works up the courage to say hi, he's suddenly thrown into a fake relationship with no chance of things becoming real. Not unless he helps Allie on her journey of self-discovery.A weekend of pretending to be a couple turns into weeks of hanging out and discovering together the people they want to be. But despite Allie's growing feelings for practically perfect Ben, she isn't sure she can risk the best friendship she's ever had when all of her past relationships have failed.Or maybe a little risk is worth a chance at real love.

They're sworn enemies. They also happen to be incredibly attracted to one another.After bonding at a half-marathon, rival gym owners Cam and Kailani discover the person they thought could be their soulmate turns out to be the reason their respective businesses are failing. When a heat-of-the-moment kiss leads to the pair becoming viral sensations, they pretend to be a couple to keep up interest despite the hatred they feel toward each other.But new clients are not the only thing drawn in by the star-crossed lovers' fake relationship. They also grab the attention of a famous fitness mogul who tells them he wants to sponsor one of their gyms. The catch? One of them has to beat the other in a televised competition.With undeniable attraction pulling the two together for real, Cam and Kailani agree to set their differences aside and enjoy the time they get to spend together while competing. Each new challenge becomes a chance for the two of them to get to know each other better, but their pasts keep getting in the way.Unless they can learn to truly trust each other, not even a miracle can save a relationship that was doomed from the start.

John Martin Finlay was born on January 24, 1941 in Ozark, Alabama. He died on February 17, 1991, in Dothan, Alabama. Finlay received his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1980, the same year he converted to Roman Catholicism. This Wiseblood Books edition of Finlay's poetry and related writings is the most comprehensive edition to date, including many previously uncollected and unpublished materials.John Finlay's poems are almost all in traditional literary forms. He mainly wrote plain-style lyrics of direct statement, short narratives, and post-symbolist poems whose sensuous details exhibit controlled associationism in which definite ideas and feelings are indirectly yet logically presented. Whether plain-style, narrative, or post-symbolist, Finlay's poems are serious, simple, deep, direct, and often traumatically revealing of the human condition. The best of them are truly unforgettable.Finlay addresses such subjects as the origin of the mind, the relation of mind and matter, the mind and the irrational, the mind and God, the nature of evil, Thomistic theology, philosophical subjectivism, the inscrutability and beauty of the natural world, primitive religious rituals, and, especially in the later poems, family life in the South since the early nineteenth century, Indian life in the South, the nature of modern war, and the isolation of the serious thinker and the artist in the contemporary world.Particularly impressive are poems in which these themes are confronted by one or another of Finlay's heroes of the mind, including Odysseus, Oedipus, Solon, the exiled Ovid, a Benedictine monk, Samuel Johnson, Audubon, Henry James, or Sherlock Holmes and poems in which characters such as Narcissus, Spanish gold-hunters, Descartes, and Rimbaud suffer various forms of self-delusion which warp or destroy their moral nature. Among Finlay's most poignant and tragic figures are those who, through madness or disease, allow us to see beyond their suffering and unawareness the divinely ordained, objective moral grounding of the world. Examples of such characters are the mad women in "The Locked Wards," the shattered Confederate veteran in "The Blood of Shiloh," and the hate-filled, natural-law-denying novelist in "A Portrait of a Modern Artist."Readers who want serious poems that vividly present sensuous experience as understood by a mature mind steeped in classical and Christian tradition, yet fully aware of the problems of the contemporary world and of the perpetual threat of the primitive and the irrational, should find much here to contemplate. In their severe and uncompromising grandeur John Finlay's best poems are surely permanent additions to American literature.

John Martin Finlay (1941-1991) was born in Ozark, Alabama. Finlay received his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1980, the same year he converted to Roman Catholicism.Following the line of argument in the essay "Mere Literature and the Lost Traveller" by Allen Tate (1899-1979)-fellow southerner, poet-critic, and convert to Roman Catholicism-Finlay searched for, detected, and then subjected to an analysis both passionate and dispassionate certain Gnostic beliefs concerning the relationship between God (as the detached and absent Deus absconditus), the human mind, and the natural world. Finlay discovered this sometimes-hidden presence of Gnosticism not only in self-consciously modern writers such as Flaubert, Valéry, Nietzsche, Freud, and Kafka but even in some of the theological writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman and in the poetry of the poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. At the same time, Finlay, as he well knew, was confronting such Gnostic demons in his own life and mind. Finlay described his analysis of the Gnostic spirit in modern writers as a "journey through hell."This Wiseblood Books edition of Finlay's prose writings is the most comprehensive edition to date, bringing together for the first time all of Finlay's essays and book reviews, his one known short story, statements about poetics, and other prose writings including selections from Finlay's letters and diaries. Two of the four appendices-one by Lewis P. Simpson and one by David Middleton-put into historical context, and the context of Finlay's own life, the essays that make up his posthumously published book on Gnosticism and Modernity. For this Wiseblood Books edition, these essays have been re-edited and the original title of the book has been restored: Flaubert in Egypt and Other Essays. An updated bibliography of works by and about Finlay is included at the end of the volume.

Air Force Combat Controller Derek Bollinger knows what it is to feel that every breath might be his last. Enduring hell in an enemy prison for five weeks taught him that. The only thing that got him through it was the thought of his family, his hometown of Oak Creek, Wyoming, and especially of Becky Mackay. He survived, but with blood on his hands. His own. His friends' who died beside him. His enemies'. And then...Becky's. A night that should've been perfect for them both turned into a nightmare Derek can never wake up from, leaving him with only one option: staying the hell away. But Becky has almost lost the man she loves too many times-first to that prison camp, then to his own demons. She's not going to lose him again. Yes, that night between them changed everything. Changed her. But change isn't always a bad thing. And it's time for them to stand together to face his PTSD and their future. Especially when an unexpected danger comes after them both. Together will be the only way to survive.

It's been a year since he returned from the mystical land of Dragon Village, and he's had no word from his dragon father, Zmey. Was the promise to teach Theo about his powers a lie? Has his father abandoned him?

Theo is not only in a race against time to save his father, but the Golden Apple has ripened. The fruit holds the key to immortality. When the apple disappears, accusations fly.

Twelve-year-old Theo discovers that dragons are real when Lamia, a three-headed monster, kidnaps his sister. Now he has to find a way to get her back.

An Elite Journey II: The First Task of Leadership is a sequel continuing the main character, CJ Harding's journey of becoming his best self. While continuing to read from his late father's leadership manual, CJ expands his leadership through new teammates, coaches, and mentors. CJ also finds himself in the middle of a tragedy, which has caught the nation's attention. Ultimately, this is a story of a young man who, while striving to become an elite athlete, discovers just what is - the first task of leadership.

The final battle with Lamia is looming. Detailed plans have to be made. But Theo can't let Diva die. Two things can cure her: the Golden Apple, which Lamia has, or his mother's magical robe, which his other aunt, Magda, has stolen.

Demon attacks on Theo's thirteenth birthday hinder his search for his father. Then, an unexpected present provides a clue to the whereabouts of the king of Dragon Village.

This is no ordinary devotional. It's not warm fuzzy reading that makes you feel good but gritty, sometimes raw, stories that expose the core of shame. Shame is that pervasive feeling that I am deeply flawed that doesn't go away, or if it does, it is only for a fleeting moment. The goal of this devotional is to paint a picture of what shame looks like and what the Holy Spirit's transformational work looks like as He crafts us into who we were always meant to be. At the end of each day in this 30-Day devotional is a prayer to engage with and a daily declaration for you declare. Many days are encounter-based as you walk hand-in-hand with Holy Spirit in your journey to transformation. As you engage with the stories which are both personal and biblical, the truth of God's word will break you free from the chains of shame. You will encounter the God of the Universe who is ravenously jealous to meet with you and to own your heart.

His secret could destroy them both...Ever since aliens secretly colonized her small hometown of Harbor, Kansas, Olivia Hall knew that her life would be full of adventure. She never dreamed that adventure would include sharing a soulmate bond with a towering, glowering Cygnian warrior. She knows Bron feels their connection, but doesn't understand why he's fighting it. She's determined to break through the walls her huge, blue soulmate has erected around himself.Bron has always held himself apart from other Cygnians. He is the only Cygnian cyborg. Few know his secret, and he is honor-bound to keep it that way, even as his mechanical systems begin to malfunction with no hope for repair. When he meets a human woman whose gentle nature and soft touch brings his biological systems to the forefront, he must decide whether to try to build a life with her or let his own be forfeit.When the pair make their way to the homeworld of the incredibly secretive aliens who saved Bron's life by turning him into a cyborg, they uncover more danger than they imagined. The enemy behind Bron's cybernetic malfunctions isn't done with him yet. Can Bron and Olivia's love see them through the challenges of an icy ocean-planet, or are they destined to sink into darkness? Main Content: Approximately 45,866 words, 214 (5.5 x 8.5) pages. Intended for mature readers.

His mission is too dangerous for anyone else, so why did he bring her? Having neutralized the nuclear threat, Commander Scott awaited further orders from Washington. Always being a risk taker, he was prepared to do whatever was necessary to neutralize the Iranian submarine threat against the Carl Vinson Battle Group.

England, late April, 1926 When Henry Astley, Duke of Sutherland, turns up dead in bed at the end of an afternoon spent calling his family on the carpet, everyone assumes that the excitement finished the old boy off. He was quite old and also quite vociferous in his opinions, so it isn't an unreasonable assumption. It isn't until the next morning, when the duke's valet and confidant is found shot to death in the hedge maze, that the whole thing takes on a more sinister cast. Bright Young Thing Philippa Darling, her best friend Christopher and his brother Francis, as well as their parents, Lord and Lady Herbert, have all been summoned to Sutherland Hall for a dressing down. So has cousin Crispin, the future duke, along with his parents, the Viscount and Viscountess St George. Everyone has a string of small peccadillos they're trying to hide, along with a few guilty secrets they don't want anyone to know about. The only question is, which secret was worth killing for? Pippa isn't worried on her own behalf. She had no reason to want the duke dead. But when it looks like suspicion might fall on Christopher, she has no choice but to step up. She'll sacrifice Francis if she has to, and would throw Crispin to the wolves without a second thought, but Scotland Yard will arrest Christopher over her dead body. And it might just come to that.

England, early May, 1926After the funerals of the late Duke of Sutherland and his daughter-in-law, Charlotte, (and of course Grimsby, the blackmailing valet), the younger members of the family-Philippa Darling, her cousins Christopher and Francis, and Crispin, Viscount St George-are invited to a weekend party at the Dower House in Dorset by Dowager Lady Peckham's children, Constance and Gilbert. Once in Dorset, things go sideways very quickly. Lady Peckham's ward, the lovely Dutch emigree Johanna de Vos, has been making a dead set at Crispin, and has had him all to herself for the past few days. Constance's time has been monopolized by Francis, while Pippa wouldn't throw Crispin a rope if he were going down for the third time. However, the house party also includes the beautiful Lady Laetitia Marsden, a former dalliance of Crispin's, and she doesn't take the competition for his affections-or his title and fortune-lying down. As a result, when the lovely Johanna is found murdered, the suspects are plentiful. Did Lady Laetitia decide to remove her rival? Did Lord Geoffrey, her brother, the handsy one, lose control and strangle the woman he was trying to seduce? Or perhaps Crispin was tired of the relentless pursuit, and took matters into his own hands? When Lady Peckham also dies, miles away in Wiltshire, the case develops yet one more wrinkle. Now Pippa, with some help from Christopher, must figure out who wanted the two women dead, hopefully before the murderer can consign them to the same fate.