"Dazed and Raving in the Undercurrents" is more than a collection of award-winning work by columnist and news editor Tony Simmons. It is also the story of a life -- the journey of a writer, a husband, a father, a human being -- filled with the quiet moments, slapstick comedy, and devastating catastrophes that make up such a journey.
For the better part of ten years, Simmons has commented upon life in the unique environs of the Florida Panhandle while delving into universal themes of love, loss, discovery, and hope. This selection of his columns from "The News Herald" is a career-spanning...
"Dazed and Raving in the Undercurrents" is more than a collection of award-winning work by columnist and news editor Tony Simmons. It is also the stor...
The compilation reaffirms our fascination with cemeteries and their status as tourist attractions. People visit cemeteries in large numbers. Evidence of crowd control abounds from signs directing traffic to the grave marker of President Clinton's mother in Hope, Arkansas, and the large steel cage protecting the tombstone of Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, to the monument in New Orleans made famous by the movie "Easy Rider" and Bonnie Parker's coveted headstone in Dallas, relocated to prevent theft. The stories also demonstrate that the reasons people flock to cemeteries are as...
The compilation reaffirms our fascination with cemeteries and their status as tourist attractions. People visit cemeteries in large numbers. Evidence ...
First published in 1994, Reading Organization Theory has established itself as a pre-eminent text in its field. This new edition brings current research in mainstream and critical approaches to the discipline fully up to date, with new case studies plus web-based resources. Previous editions have been widely used in colleges and universities in Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and elsewhere, and this third edition of Reading Organization Theory will find an ongoing and enthusiastic readership amongst all who are concerned with the challenging and essential task of...
First published in 1994, Reading Organization Theory has established itself as a pre-eminent text in its field. This new edition brings curr...
Whatever the need is of a moment, the answer is in God. Whatever we are feeling or desiring, all hope lies in God. If there was ever a time in our lives to get closer to God, that time is NOW. Forty days of prayer will give you a hunger for God. Forty days of prayer will make you thirst for God. Forty days of prayer will empower you with the presence of God. God delights in those who worship Him in their prayer life. Allow Him to soak you with His presence during this "consecrated" time.
Whatever the need is of a moment, the answer is in God. Whatever we are feeling or desiring, all hope lies in God. If there was ever a time in our liv...
The dead are always hungry when they awaken, but there the stories diverge. This collection of eight frightening tales explores zombie survival in all its gory forms. From the boy waiting for a school bus after the holocaust, to the office worker haunted by the question on every dead man's lips. There's the physics student experimenting on his girlfriend, a neglected girl baiting the hungry man to be her weapon of vengeance, and one surreal night at a drive-in theater. What follows when the literary father of the Beat Generation faces the end of the world, or a stranger puts the bite on a...
The dead are always hungry when they awaken, but there the stories diverge. This collection of eight frightening tales explores zombie survival in all...
When the rim world Elysia is invaded by a merciless army bearing the insignia of a Dragon, young farmboy Kit Tanner is thrust into a desperate rescue mission, piloting the antique Corsair fighter 'Persephone' into space to find help from the legendary Shadow Warriors. Crash-landing on the unexplored world of Lyrehs-2, Kit discovers a secret civilization with ancient ties to the Dragon army, and begins to uncover the buried history of his grandfather, who stayed behind on Elysia so Kit could escape. With time running out and the Dragon forces threatening to advance into Federal space, Kit and...
When the rim world Elysia is invaded by a merciless army bearing the insignia of a Dragon, young farmboy Kit Tanner is thrust into a desperate rescue ...
The world has died. Maybe you noticed the fires, the crashes, and screams. The zombies. I was one of them, just another mindless goon - then I woke up. Looked around. Noticed the scarcity of prey, the abundance of predators. Even a dead man can do that math. I made a plan. Gathered weapons and gear. I put down crowds of goons, walking among them, bullets to their heads. Made hot meals of survivors who mistook me for salvation. When I found a group of humans hiding in a junkyard, my plans coalesced. I began leaving them piles of food and supplies. Fattened them up. Built their trust. Promised...
The world has died. Maybe you noticed the fires, the crashes, and screams. The zombies. I was one of them, just another mindless goon - then I woke up...
Ritualistic child slayings draw an FBI profiler and British mystic to the town of Junction, Alabama, just as a young woman seeks shelter on her father's farm. Rebecca Caliban is pregnant, tormented by the belief her dead husband came to her in the night, leaving her with child. She descends into madness as the investigators battle the killer, an ageless shapeshifter preying upon the innocent in service to a forgotten god. Becca's child reaches his 18th birthday as a new church rises on the site of the Changeling's pyre - and a girl goes missing in Junction. The souleater awakens, its...
Ritualistic child slayings draw an FBI profiler and British mystic to the town of Junction, Alabama, just as a young woman seeks shelter on her fat...
