The Days The Sky Turns Black, the average story you here of two boys and there companions. As the world around them soon changes with rumors and tales of war and greed. With there journey from town to town to city to city they will learn new things of people, culture, class, propaganda, and what life will turn out for them? The Days The Sky Turns Black is a folk term that some use to describe as "rough days" or "rough travels" or even to describe the sky as crying. Maybe things will be fine, maybe things won´t? Nothing can really be said till the story is over.

This book explores the human soul with crude honesty and emotionalism, putting the fragile, and often terrifying, human mind under the magnifying glass. Vivien Kis carefully scrutinizes love with vivid imagery and dark metaphors like a modern Sylvia Plath. The author centers her poems around the emotion most confining to human nature – fear. Fear and love are deeply intertwined and most of the time cannot peacefully coexist. The author’s main goal is to encourage people through her writing to not be afraid of feeling their feelings. You are always stronger than you think. Vivien Kis was born in Hungary and grew up in Germany. Later on, she received a scholarship to pursue her degree in Economics at the University of the South in the US. After graduation, she has lived in Prague, Rome, Dubai and Bali. She wrote her first poem when she was fifteen years old and has won numerous awards and prizes for her poetry such as the Daniil Pashkoff Prize and the Dream Quest One Competition. This collection of poems was written in 2015 in the city of Rome where she became inspired by the sudden disappearance of a loved one and by the timeless beauty of the Eternal City. Her work takes a very honest view on love, loss, trauma and most importantly – pain. With this poetry collection, the author invites the readers to set out on a journey of healing. Using the power of candid words, she wanted to present the raw and yet beautiful side of pain and how it is necessary to accept it in order to process our emotional wounds. In addition to writing poetry, the author also owns a headhunting agency and an e-commerce beauty business.

Since he was a little boy, every time there is a full moon, Jack Duggan has dreamt of the future. He has been cautious with his gift, using it to provide a comfortable life for himself and his family. His life seems perfect, until he dreams of the death of his beloved wife – a death he cannot prevent. As his world falls apart around him, the mysterious Stella Kaine enters his life, for reasons that aren’t entirely what they seem. Jack’s relationship with Stella deepens when he discovers she too can foresee the future. But Stella, who seeks to profit from Jack’s gift, is in for more than she bargained for. There are people who love Jack and will do anything to protect him, at great cost to themselves. White Sky Dreamer is a captivating and fast-paced story of deception, murder and fulfilment that introduces intriguing characters – some of whom you will love, admire or pity and others whom you will despise, praying for vengeance upon them.

"Critical stories are narratives that recount the writer's experiences, situating those experiences in broader cultural contexts. In this volume of Critical Storytelling, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed peoples share insights from their liminality to help readers learn from their perspectives on living from behind invisible bars. Female inmates at Decatur's Correctional Center and the undergraduate Millikin University students who worked with them come together to give voice to their specific histories of living from behind invisibile bars and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Specifically, the voices in this volume seek to expose, analyze, and challenge deeply-entrenched narratives and characterizations of incarcerated women, whose histories are often marked by sexual abuse, domestic violence, poverty, PTSD, a lack of education, housing insecurity, mental illness, and substance addiction. These silenced female inmate voices need to be heard and contextualized within the larger metanarrative of prison literature. Through telling critical stories, these writers attempt to: sustain recovery from trauma, make positive changes and informed decisions, create a real sense of empowerment, strengthen their capacity to exercise personal agency, and inspire audiences to create change far outside the reaches of physical and metaphorical bars. Contributors are: Anonymous, Soren Belle, Megan Batty, Dwight G. Brown, Jr., Sandra Brown, Kathryn Coffey, Kelly Cunningham, Paiten Hamilton, Kathlyn J. Housh, Rebekah Icenesse, Kala Keller, Jelisa Lovette, Bric Martin, Amanda Minetti, Laura Nearing, Angie Oaks, Claire Prendergast, Cara Quiett, J. M. Spence, Noah Villarreal and Alisha Walker"--

Imagine growing up in the Bellows family where an eternal curse has been placed on them throughout the generations by a witch doctor. With each succeeding generation, only one male could be born within their family unit. The wives of these men could not give birth to any females because the witch doctor caught her husband in bed with his mistress. These men have been watched throughout the ages by Satan who has in fact designed this curse for his eventual return to walk upon the earth. Known as Lokanetra, he is disguised at first as a great miracle healer. Then, as his fame grows, he brings together the leaders of the Middle East, ending the raging conflicts that have ravaged the region. Through Satan’s final act of deceit, his main objective is to have a son born by way of his spirit-filled seed with a virgin wife.

Three Days of Darkness is based on a true prophecy circulating worldwide. The prophecy is real, but what happens in the story-line is fiction, implying that it could happen.when the prophecy manifests itself. Hold onto your seats with both hands, as you are in for a thriller of a story, beginning with Father McGraths sermon explaining the prophecy up until the very last cliff hanger page! Ms. Magner teases her audience changing gears moving from one family to the next and taking her readers through what all of them had to endure during three long horrific days of darkness. Three Days of darkness will make you prepare for these darkest days ahead! It will bring you through all the steps you must take, teaching in a subtle way what is most necessary for survival, as well as teach its readers how to pray! All of hell will be emptied out! Ms. Magner gives credence to the images of demons she so carefully describes, having researched actual exorcisms and the behaviors of devils. One reader remarked, You scared the crap out of me! Much of the prophecy described is to be taken very seriouslythere is a stern warning that those who scoff at it will die instantly when the dark days are at hand! There is a fine line between what is real and what is fiction.excellently executed. The characters in Three Days of Darkness are ordinary people living ordinary lives until the great chastisement suddenly changes their lives forever. The leisurely summer days, in a carefree neighborhood, suddenly turn into the darkest of nights filled with terror! Readers have remarked this is a quick read! You cannot put the book down! Once you beginyou have to read it to the very last pagea cliff hanger ending!!! Everyone who has read this book wants a sequel! This is one of the summers greatest thrillers! It would make an excellent door buster movie! Three Days of Darkness is available in print through Xlibris.com, Borders.com, Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and various websites.

Authoritative, bold and different. The final word on prophecy. Written in everyday language. It's not often that a book comes along that causes you to reexamine everything that you have ever learned on a particular subject. In a manner reminiscent of The Prayer of Jabez and The Purpose Driven Live, The Kingdom of the Beast takes you on a journey of enlightenment that will leave you satisfied that you finally understood what the end time prophecies are all about. There are no magic formulas for interpreting the prophecies other than accepting what is written. This book convincingly, and scripturally, moves the reader beyond some of the traditional man made ideas that have confused the Church and kept it from coming to a unified understanding of the prophecies, and then opens things up witha down to earth simplicity.

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors—white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more—a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid–twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America—and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward. YALSA Honor Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

On rebel planet Elysium, a man is executed on live video streamed by religious extremists. Nothing terribly original so far for Elysium. Only this time, the man doesn't die. When security expert Asher Perez is sent to find him, dark secrets about the rebel colony are exposed. Something dark is stirring in the shadows. Something that has been watching humanity since the dawn of history.

Bestselling author Jaclyn Moriarty returns to Ashbury High for a story of romance, mysterious new classmates, and the terrors of making it through your final year of high school. This is the story of Amelia and Riley, bad kids from bad Brookfield High who have transferred to Ashbury High for their final year. They've been in love since they were fourteen, they go out dancing every night, and sleep through school all day. And Ashbury can't get enough of them.Everyone's trying to get their attention; even teachers are dressing differently, trying to make their classes more interesting. Everyone wants to be cooler, tougher, funnier, hoping to be invited into their cool, self-contained world.