It was a miracle--until a killer turned it into a weapon. When Dr. Chris Collins's estranged father, Wayne, shows up asking her to donate a piece of her liver to save his life, Chris balks. The man walked out on her and her mother twenty-nine years ago, and now he expects her to undergo major surgery and have part of a vital organ removed. She refuses. However, she can't just let him die. So she contacts Dr. Michael Boyer to get Wayne accepted into Boyer's experimental transplant program. The surgery is risky, and the source of the donor liver shocking. However, Wayne has no other choice. It's his only chance to live. The celebration of Wayne's stunning recovery is cut short when two of the nurses on the transplant team suddenly die horrifying, painful deaths. Chris's father has become the unwitting breeding ground for a rogue virus that may be unstoppable. As Chris and Michael Boyer search desperately for answers, a potential epidemic worse than any the world has ever experienced gains momentum. If the virus doesn't kill them first, its creator will.

It starts with a successful liver transplant for a dying alcoholic. It ends with a virus that leaves its victims screaming in pain before they die. And the death toll is rising... In this timely medical thriller, author David Best taps into our deepest fears-and gives readers a nightmare vision of the side effects of experimental surgery.

The cold war just the cold war just got got hot again… The old Soviet Bloc espionage games have resumed on a covert and catastrophic new playing field: the U.S. financial markets. The enemy isn’t the Russian government, but long-dormant sleeper cells in America’s cities, planted by the KGB decades ago. Now a former Kremlin official has found the top-secret files and stolen the blueprint, ready to pocket and manipulate America’s resources. He has hijacked operation Black Judas, enlisted the KGB’s most lethal assassin to terminate operatives, and has begun reshaping a brilliant plot to steal billions of American dollars. But he didn’t plan on a beautiful Russian cop on a vengeance hunt, or an American warrior named Mack Bolan in deadly pursuit, gunning for blood and justice.

"Judas is a dark journey through the murderousness of Christian Anti-Semitism, culminating in the mass slaughter of more than a and their associated European butchers. Lucid, study is close to definitive on the fictive figure of Judas."—Harold Bloom

Ishia and His Teacher is the continuation to Children of Yahweh and the third and final volume of the Judas Trilogy. It was written during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which definitely influenced its final chapter. This third volume is clearly the most inspirational of the trilogy as the reader is transported to Ishia’s conception, birth and childhood. The reader will feel the joy and happiness of Ishia’s development and the anguish and pain of His mother, Miryam, and of His teacher, Judas, for they know His predestined self sacrifice. You, the reader, will experience Ishia’s adventurous travels, which take him to Rome, Athens, Cappadocia, Babylon and Thibet. Finally, by reading this final book of the Judas Trilogy, you will surely be deeply inspired to follow His loving teachings in this most difficult period of our lives on this beautiful living planet.

An ancient virus is turning animals into people and people into monsters. Two romantically inclined mutants lead a pack of transforming pilgrims from Miami across Africa to Rome. Their two-fold purpose: stop the cure for the disease that created them, and get the Pope's OK for non-humans to marry. A virus from billions of years in the past has emerged from ancient salt beds with devastating results. As the virus turns evolution on its head, people are changed into monsters, animals begin to demand their rights, and civilization is brought to its knees. The few remaining humans seek safety in the quarantine of walled cities such as the Vatican. They desperately seek a cure, but the only one they find may have results too horrible to contemplate Judeus and Miranda, recent converts to the phylum Porifera, set out with a were-wolfish priest, a planeload of mutating pilgrims, and a sabre-tooth shape-shifting cat on their own journey from Miami to the Vatican. One wants to teach the Pope how to pray in this strange new world. The other wants to stop the cure being developed by the remaining humans. And they both want to get the Pope's final answer on whether non-humans should marry. With their plane shot down over Africa, they learn that strange events are not limited just to the civilized parts of the world. Is the virus God's punishment on the world? Or is there no god but the virus? Or is the virus going to create a new god? Can three sponge-monsters straighten this mess out?

Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinema's subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerous consequences of mistreating the natural world--monstrous nature on the attack. Horror films such as Godzilla invite an exploration of the complexities of a monstrous nature that humanity both creates and embodies. Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann demonstrate how the horror film and its offshoots can often be understood in relation to a monstrous nature that has evolved either deliberately or by accident and that generates fear in humanity as both character and audience. This connection between fear and the natural world opens up possibilities for ecocritical readings often missing from research on monstrous nature, the environment, and the horror film. Organized in relation to four recurring environmental themes in films that construct nature as a monster--anthropomorphism, human ecology, evolution, and gendered landscapes--the authors apply ecocritical perspectives to reveal the multiple ways nature is constructed as monstrous or in which the natural world itself constructs monsters. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, theological, and scientific critiques to explore when and why nature becomes monstrous.

An unwed (and unwanted) teen pregnancy with two possible fathers. Abusive relationships. Drug and alcohol addiction. Rape and molestation. The struggle to understand grace, forgiveness, and free will versus predestination. "The Judas Ride" hits the road running in the opening pages, where Sonia and Xavier argue explosively about whether Sonia should have their unborn child and about who the father is: Xavier, a struggling Christian, or Vader, an abusive and abused drug dealer. As the pages turn, readers continue to meet a hodgepodge of troubled teens and eclectic characters, including Pastor Manny, a quirky immigrant pastor infatuated with John Wayne. Pastor Manny desires to help the tortured souls in his community but finds that it takes more than unconditional love to reach them. Secrets literally kill in "The Judas Ride," an edgy, in-your-your face Christian novel that boldly explores the struggles of modern-day young people.

Among the dead in the water after hurricane Katrina are three nude bodies, none with water in their lungs. There’s a killer on the loose. Also, the bodies were once frozen, obliterating key forensic clues. Broussard and Franklyn embark on a dangerous journey through New Orleans; leading them to a kind of evil that neither of them could imagine.