2021 Midwest Book Awards - Poetry Debut Gold Medal Winner 2020 Forewords Reviews INDIES Awards - Poetry Gold Medal Winner “Prophetic in bleak times” —DR. CORNEL WEST The Willies, Adam Falkner's first full-length poetry collection, offers a sharp and vulnerable portrait of the journey into queerhood in America. In a voice that Dr. Cornel West heralds as “prophetic in bleak times,” Falkner departs from a more familiar coming out narrative to center the stories of dueling selves. Masquerading white boy. Child of an addict. Closeted varsity athlete. Drifting seamlessly between the scholarly and conversational, Falkner's poems showcase a versatility of language and a courageous hunger, unafraid of depicting the costumes we use to hide legacies of toxic masculinity. Through snapshots both tragic and humorous, merciless and humane, Falkner offers powerful new ways of understanding the intersectional linkage that binds queer shame to cultural appropriation. At its core, The Willies asks us to consider who we will become if we do not grapple with what scares us most. Advance praise for The Willies Adam Falkner has heard what hums at the marrow of men who deceive themselves in order to survive America. — SAEED JONES This is truth that changes the air it reaches. This is poetry that, damn it, you can't shake. — PATRICIA SMITH In these urgent and sometimes mysterious poems, Falkner traces questions of identity, family, love and the self. His language is angular and surprising, his content intimate and profound. — ANDREW SOLOMON Adam Falkner is a poet with a heart of gold and a spine of steel. We need his prophetic voice in these bleak times. —DR. CORNEL WEST I am thankful for the incisive mind and eye of Adam Falkner. In the poems, the work of balancing several selves at once is done gently, deftly, and with the brilliance of someone curious about how limitless they can become. ― HANIF ABDURRAQIB

Just as Adam is wondering if he will ever be healthy again, he is cheered by a visit from one of his best friends who brings cards from his classmates. Includes ten hints for parents to help children cope with being sick.

Adam’s Revenge Part VIII in the series is about PI Simon Finch. When Simon Fintch's son, Adam learns that new clues have been given in the murder case of his parents, he immediately goes over to New York to help the police solve the case. Adam finally wants to know who murdered his parents over 20 years ago. He discovers that it is not at all easy to investigate the case because most of the people who appeared in the case are long dead. Or no one knows where they are today. He lives at the home of the now-retired Police Chief Pete Norton in Hoboken. He tries to help Adam as best he can. They both get along very well. Adam meets new friends and his great love. Unfortunately, there is an accident that puts everything at the forefront of his future. Adam could never have imagined that the cold case would be solved so quickly, having been unresolved for so many years. New York has several good news in store for Adam and his life takes a turn that he has never been able to imagine before.

Falling into the nursing profession, Kristy Chambers spent almost a decade working with a wide range of people, ranging from drug addicts to cancer patients. Dark, humorous, honest, and compassionate, this memoir illustrates the incredible work nurses do and the many challenges they face. A tribute to the wonderfully brave people Chambers met during her career, this book portrays both joyous and difficult experiences.

Many feelings and one love. Love is that feeling that is not changed by time or place. Love is a feeling that we experience when we feel connected to someone or something. We often use the word love to describe our feelings towards people, places, things, and even abstract concepts. When we talk about love, we mean a deep connection between two individuals. In this case, the individual who feels love is called the lover. The person being loved upon is known as the beloved. Feelings are the thoughts and emotions that we have inside of us. Emotions are the way that we express those feelings. When we say that we have feelings, we mean that we have thoughts and emotions inside of us. Love does not know racism, religions, sectarianism, color, money, and nationality. Love is the most beautiful and hardest experience in life.

Brian was left to his grandmother by his parents. She raised him, and he had bad friends. He started using intravenous drugs. He used his freind's needle. He started to worry about getting HIV. He was asking himself " am i positive? " Brian and his friend Alex found a way to get free HIV test. Let's see what happens...

She has returned. She brought terror and horror. Please, help us to face her again!!

Written by a pastor and father who has walked a painful road, Hope When Life Unravels explores the encouraging, upside-down truths of the book of Job, and other key Bible passages, to remind us of the ways God is present in our pain. Why does God allow suffering? And why does God seem to go silent when we're in pain? In Hope When Life Unravels, Dr. Adam Dooley, pastor and host of the daily radio broadcast A Better Way, searches for answers to our biggest questions about suffering as he shares his son Carson's story of battling leukemia. Adam speaks openly about the gut-wrenching struggle his family endured for three years of life-threatening illness and how God met them in their hours of need--even when it wasn't in the ways they wanted. And, along with his own story, Adam takes readers through the story of Job, unpacking insights about God's character, his love, and how we can stay connected to him even during seasons of pain. Both inspiring and comforting, Hope When Life Unravels invites us to draw closer to a God who is often active in our lives in times when we have trouble seeing him the most.

Mallory comes down with mono and her parents make her quit the Baby-Sitters Club.