Alistair Collins never wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, something that greatly disappointed the elder Major Collins. A talented musician like his mother, Alistair looked forward to a successful career in music. But when tragedy struck at home, grief mixed with guilt and despair changed the course of the musicians life and propelled him into the army and to a war that gave rise to a man he no longer knew. His struggle to regain his career and sanity in the aftermath of an unfortunate accident in the Gulf War and his constant battle with post-traumatic stress disorder added to the agony of his life. Forced to live in silence, his life had no meaning until his accidental encounter with the young talented musician Yvee Benton. Poignant and powerful, The Mutes Masquerade is an amazing insight into the results of PTSD and the unique effect of music and what it means to find tranquility in the midst of despair, contentment through a game of charade, and an everlasting hunger for lifes unending song.

Anthony Button's family has always been pretty chaotic. It just got a bit crazier when Dad's new-son-that-he-never-knew-existed-until-like-two-days-ago appears on the scene. Now Anthony has to put up with ANOTHER brother taking up all of his mum and dad's time. Anthony feels like he might as well not exist, so he decides to just stop speaking for a bit and see what happens. Suddenly everyone is paying attention to Anthony, but with all this attention, will Anthony ever want to speak again?

The Mute Voices by Samiah Fatima There are many voices which are meant to be answered but remains unheard. People are suppressed and oppressed. Since we have the power of words at the tips of our pen therefore the responsibility lies with us to be the voice and words of the oppressed. On that account, with help of some overwhelming talent of 30 co authors , who have come together for this cause, we present to you, an Anthology , *THE MUTE VOICES*, which aims at throwing light on the conditions of the oppressed and try to evoke their voices.

Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie's fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain, don't fit, won't work. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow . . . even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest, and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.

A new dark romance from the author that wrote Reapers and Roses. Cara When I saw those two lines on the stick, I thought my life was over. Pregnant. Not just by anyone, but by the man I loathe. Jackson. The Mute. I loved the baby more than my next breath, but I couldn't keep it. My life has always been vicious tilt-a-whirl of hardship, and I had nothing to offer. Then disaster strikes, and clarity hits. I want this baby. Only it might be too late. Jackson My life turned on its axis when I knocked a girl up. Not just any girl, but my best friend's girl. The best friend who bled out in front of me and whispered his love for her with his last breath. I didn't want it. I didn't want any of it. Until I did. My life hasn't been easy. It's always been a struggle to survive. But I'll fight until my last breath if it means getting what I want. I'm just not sure if that's enough. The Mute and the Menace is a new series connected to the Grove High series. It is highly recommended that you start with Reapers and Roses. Trigger Warning: This book contains mature themes and triggers that might make some readers uncomfortable. Foul language, criminal activity, drug use, and physical abuse are included in this book.

The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...

"Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Ranciere's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Ranciere argues that our current notion of "literature" is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "literature" is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarme, and Proust, Ranciere demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention."--Publisher description.

Most of this material was written by the author during the sixties to roaring nineties. Some of the attitudes presented may have been influenced by John Gray’s Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus. The material was collected, rewritten, and collated during the period 2011–2020. The enterprise of collecting the material was prolonged by a stint on the Saskatchewan School Boards Association board of directors, including several years as the Urban Public representative and three years as president of the association. The major stumbling block was a series of life-threatening health conditions. Most of them were complications from a long battle with an early onset of type 2 diabetes. The collection is a miscellany of contradictions from gentle family material to adult situations galore. Adultery, stalking, and men who can’t keep their johnson in their pants meet women who welcome their advances and many who don’t. It’s all meant to be good fun. Life is more worth living if we don’t take ourselves or anybody else too seriously. Some of us have too many Neanderthal genes and others don’t have enough. Classifying ourselves is so last century. Welcome to the world of Homo sapiens. The human race, better than a marathon, and everyone is a winner.

Mute is the first book in the Dragon Runners series, introducing the world to the sexy alpha males of the Dragon Runners motorcycle club and the strong, feisty women who bring them to their knees.