Impact Identity

Vince Walker is looking forward to the beginning of the summer and a visit from his son Cy. But while picking up his son at the Indianapolis airport, the country is thrust into nuclear warfare with the detonation of multiple EMPs.

A powerful and redemptive story of how the dazzling world of roller derby helped one young woman transform her fear and self-doubt into gutsy, big-hearted, adventurous living “A universal story of healing and triumph, made all the more beautiful, wild, and free by Gabe’s fierce love for...

A historical non-fiction book set in California during its transformation from indigenous tribes to American statehood. Discover the rich tapestry of California's past in "Tribes and Priests Early California." This captivating exploration takes you from the ancient traditions of indigenous tribes through the tumultuous changes brought by Spanish colonization and the American gold rush. Experience the vibrant history that shaped California's unique identity, filled with ambition, cultural clashes, and the relentless pursuit of economic prosperity. The narrative intricately weaves together ...

In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. We are...

After the Breaking — Book II: Identity Collapse A Companion for the Life That Comes After Everything Changes What happens when the emergency ends… but you don’t go back to who you were? After the hospital. After the diagnosis. After the loss. After the collapse. This is the part most stories skip. Identity Collapse is not about inspiration. It is about aftermath. It is about living inside a body you no longer fully trust, about exhaustion that is not fixed by rest, about public panic with no visible cause, and about the quiet grief of losing your old stamina, your old personality, ...

You planned for the finances. But did you plan for the silence? For forty years, you have been a machine of production. You mastered the deadline, conquered the boardroom, and built a career defined by relevance, status, and speed. You have saved enough money to never work again. But on the first Monday morning of your retirement, when the alarm doesn't ring and the inbox is empty, you will face a challenge your financial advisor never warned you about: The Void . The Unscheduled Life is not a book about asset allocation, 401(k)s, or tax strategies. It is a psychological operating manual ...

The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historical hallmarks on healthy Black identity development. It is an easy-to-read, yet scientifically validated account of the remarkable accomplishments of ancient Africa and her people. This new edition emphasizes the inextricable linkage between Black self-concept and what Black people are taught through the Eurocentric curricula’s expression of African Americans’ historical roots. It debunks the flawed and psychically devastating view that Black ...

SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN THE DIGITAL ERA --- This book offers a comprehensive breakdown of the dynamic relationship between language and digital technology, examining how digital communication platforms catalyze linguistic evolution and identity formation. Anchoring its analysis in sociolinguistics, the book gets into the phenomenon of online code-switching, revealing its implications for language fluidity and cultural hybridity. This book carefully examines the impact of social media on language norms, unpacking how these platforms both reflect and shape linguistic trends. A significant focus ...

In Echo of Eden, licensed marriage counselor Tyler Olsen explores how identity shapes every aspect of marriage. Drawing from years of counseling experience, biblical insight, and honest personal stories, Olsen guides listeners into the garden themes of Genesis and shows how God’s original design still speaks powerfully into modern relationships. He unpacks how false beliefs distort intimacy, how conflict can become a tool for healing rather than division, and how couples can build emotional safety by speaking truth into one another’s identity.

It really is the four horsemen of the apocalypse, Death, Famine, War, and Conquest. Things a seventeen-year-old boy shouldn’t have to deal with. In those most infamous words, mistakes were made. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The asteroid was supposed to miss. Running for their lives, Ryan Conrad and Kelsey Morgan, race to escape the impact of a super asteroid and the apocalyptic world it left behind. Fighting to survive the aftershocks. The earthquake to end all earthquakes, the largest tsunami in human history, and worst of all, the EMP and loss of civilization.

Four airplanes crashed; thousands of people died; and millions more wept. The impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sent shock waves around the world.

Two Pioneers of Science and Spirit Expand the Frontiers of Understanding For centuries, science and philosophy have drawn clear borders: scientists focused on the physical world, and philosophers studied the spiritual. Today that wall is coming down, thanks to innovative teachers like A. H...

Bailey is 28 years old. She's single, she's bisexual, and after stumbling into the wrong club on the right Friday night, she thinks she might be kinky too. Immediately entranced by the sights around her—including the gorgeous and commanding Domme, Isabelle—Bailey wonders if there's a side of life she's been missing.

Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine. But nothing’s ever that simple. The package gets stolen; things get complicated. Linda Cartwright’s a happily married woman, and then someone tried to kill her on her own front lawn. Why would they do that? Good question. Keeler’s interested, but Cartwright won’t talk about it. When Cartwright’s attacked a second time, Keeler begins to suspect that she’s in over her head. She’s a tough lady, but even tough nuts crack.

Unpacks and pulls the curtain back on what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we addictively engage social media and the influencers we encounter there. Individuals seeking to widen their tribes of friends, fans, and followers have an abundance of resources for building their...

A tale of one family’s trajectory through America and a changing modern world through a charming story. From relatives who fought in the Civil War to societal struggles of overcoming the Southern legacy and moving past the “lost cause,” this page-turner story bounces between nations, philosophies, and different sides of the political aisle. Though a second installment is planned for the more recent past, this first volume is a fully-realized portrait of a proud American bloodline.

In “Impact,” Ell’s been taken off the “Most Wanted” list and is resuming somewhat of a normal life. Her old friend Phil Zabrisk is on his way to Mars. One of her exploration rockets is about to land on an earthlike world. Then an enormous comet crashes into Tau Ceti three, threatening the lives of the teecees there. Aliens that Ell and others have come to think of as friends. Phil falls on Mars, breaking his hip in a fashion that needs surgery soon if he’s not to be crippled.

A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting.

A man on the run, a woman on the line, and a train coming fast... The most wanted man in Britain jumps from a train in Northern France. Still fresh to a life on the run, James Stone can't risk being caught. Not until his name is clear. A young woman wakes on the tracks, unable to move, with no idea why she is there. The train is fast approaching, and the impact will be devastating. Impact is the fifth book in the James Stone thriller series, and sees journalist-turned-fugitive, James Stone on the run in Northern France. A suspected suicide might just be the thing to bring him back from the ...

The Danish-Mormon migration to Utah in the 19th century was, relative to population size, one of the largest European religious out-migrations in history. Hundreds of thousands of Americans can trace their ancestry to Danish Mormons, but few know about the social and cultural ramifications of their ancestors’ conversion to Mormonism. This book tells that exciting and complex story for the first time.