American Violence

Deliver Me From Me is the 2nd book in a fiction trilogy that started with Deliver Me From Daddy. These novels are based on author Tia Monique's real life story. As Angie continues to journey through many obstacles in her young adult life, she is struggling to find her true identity. She continues to harbor anger, pain, and unforgiveness towards her dad and others that have rejected, abandoned, hurt and abused her. She thinks that she's found true love with Vick but once she finds out the secret life he's been living, she's confused all the more. She is in the fight of her life, trying to ...

This fourteen short story collection earned Finalist status in the 2012 Grace Notes Publishing: Discovering the Undiscovered, fiction book Contest. Four of the stories, Challenger, The Curb, The Freight Train, and Los Malandros, were published in anthologies and won awards. Stare into a world of despair and urgency. Mexican immigrant characters in the U.S. struggle to find work, dignity, and purpose. Meanwhile, Mexicans living in the Juarez, Sinaloa, and Gulf cartel occupied areas, struggle to stay alive or find meaning from violence and death. From Jesus, the rookie day laborer who learns ...

The bizarre snowstorm of August 27, 1967, changed the world forever. The burning snowflakes (spores) delivered death for some and transformation to others. Every surviving human touched by the spores received an unpredictable blessing or curse. Some became gods while others became monsters. It was the first wave of an alien invasion that heralded the coming of the reptile/rodent species known as the Breedite. The carnivorous creatures were known throughout the universe as horrific beings with an insatiable appetite for flesh. The Castaways, who were marked by all the world's governments as ...

Hundreds of thousands of people cross the southern border of the United States illegally. Most come in search of the American Dream, while others come for more nefarious reasons. For those coming to better their lives, getting by the thin, green line of Border Patrol Agents is only a part of the challenge. The real challenge is to survive. Follow Bob Heath, a South Texas Border Patrol Agent, with only a couple of years of service, and Juan Geronimo, a family man and native of Mexico, who is forced to make the journey north to provide for his family. Their worlds, as different as night and ...

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injustice. Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A Peculiar Indifference describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explains its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it.

1919, the Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow Black citizens. In city after city, Black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed Blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage.

A Western novel set in the mountain desert of Carmichael during the early 20th century. In the rugged landscape of Carmichael, a fictional town scarred by violence and honor, Michael Marshall’s battle for identity is just beginning. Trapped between his uncle Quentin’s rigid expectations and the bloodied legacy of masculinity, Michael's world descends into chaos when an encounter with local roughneck Cliff Simon leads to a deadly act of self-defense. As he grapples with his own nature and the consequences of his actions, Michael embarks on a flight for survival and self-discovery that ...

Bobbi has survived an abusive marriage with the son of a Senator. This as well as an attempt on her life when she decided that enough was enough. Now, she's happily married with a son of her own. Life should be blissful. Except for the memories, flashbacks and emotional trauma left by not just him, but others who were supposed to care for her. Follow Bobbi on her journey of healing from abuse. Kelvin, Bobbi's husband knows that something is not right. His wife isn't sleeping, eating or being herself. She has changed since the shooting that nearly took both of their lives and ended in the ...

Brown Enough, Christopher Rivas's first book, is a literary memoir about what it truly means to be Brown in America. Holding the weight of being a Latino man, Christopher wonders where he falls on the color line, widened through his experience as an ethnically am­biguous actor of color in Holly­wood and the many dangers and pitfalls that come from owning one's Brownness. Told through the lens of his personal stories and in a unique and literal voice, Christopher examines the deep history of his Dominican and Colombian heritage.

In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by right-wing ideologies. The need to understand the nature of far-right violence is greater than ever. In American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of right-wing domestic terrorism.

Rebecca- is wealthy and lives between two worlds. The one that she has been raised in and the one that draws her. Her link to that world is her best friend Lateef. She is in a relationship that has been chosen for her by her family. She wants to be the good girl and make her family proud, but will she be able to satisfy them and still be herself. Cruise- is the last hope for his family's failing business. He wants to be his own man, but he also doesn't want to see all his family worked for lost. He is torn between the woman and life he wants and the one that will save his family name. ...

Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence—Redemption is a true story about a young man in California lost and thrown into a world of drugs, sex, and violence. This is a look back at how he got there. It's a rough ride with rays of light and a chance for self-redemption. Everyone has a story. This is mine. It's an adventure I didn't sign up for, a mental struggle to avoid self-destruction. But it is the path I traveled on the ride of my life.

A thrilling Western novel set in the lawless American West during the late 19th century. In "Love and Gunfire," the windswept plains hide dark secrets, and every shadow tells a story of betrayal and vengeance. Cleo Matthew, a haunted drifter, finds himself face-to-face with his past when he discovers that Seamus, the man responsible for the downfall of his crew, is on board the same freight train. As tensions rise and old wounds are reopened, the stage is set for a brutal confrontation that will echo through the annals of their tragic histories. Cleo’s memories of glory and loss are ...

At least three-quarters of a million lives were lost during the American Civil War. Given its seemingly indiscriminate mass destruction, this conflict is often thought of as the first "total war." But Aaron Sheehan-Dean argues for another interpretation. The Calculus of Violence demonstrates that this notoriously bloody war could have been much worse. Military forces on both sides sought to contain casualties inflicted on soldiers and civilians.

Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. The reasons behind this escalating violence and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation is the subject of this important new book. The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and antidepressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games.

What starts in bed ends in the graveyard College student Aiden unravels during a summer break with his submissive girlfriend and their mutual "friend". A summer trip to a bizarre mansion in the woods, strange visions, lust and death. You will be horrified by the trail of depravity and destruction. WARNING: This bizarre tale of a disturbed teen with a secret past and a horrifying future contains graphic violence. For those who love Stephen King or Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) this novel takes you to the next level.

#SayHerName provides an analytical framework for understanding Black women's susceptibility to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, and it explains how—through black feminist storytelling and ritual—we can effectively mobilize various communities and empower them to advocate for racial justice.

Black Wall Street: its prosperity, power and wealth had been a bright beacon to the African American community during the race riots of the Red Summer - but its light never burned brighter than the night it was systematically burned and bombed to the ground. This is the story of the Black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, and the war it was fated to fight when, outnumbered 200 to 1, even against aerial bombardment, they stood with their allies in Tulsa to bravely fight back - buying necessary time for a daring evacuation of their community’s most vulnerable members. An Old West Sheriff ...

Book #11 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series A dying ex-GI, known as The Doorman, is killing American Indian brujos and shaman. He’s holed up deep under the Owyhee Mountains, and he has booby-trapped every entrance with explosives. Jab’s team discovers his hide-out— only to become The Doorman’s prisoners themselves!

Everything about Kalvin King’s life is finally “hella” good. The seventeen-year-old high school Junior from Oakland has seemingly overcome the trauma of losing his mother at an early age. An unfortunate accident, plus his father’s need to relocate to South Central Los Angeles completely destabilizes Kalvin emotionally, bringing out pain he’d kept bottled up. Perhaps a fresh start in the City of Angels is exactly what Kalvin needs? Kalvin gets a rude awakening at his new school, Lincoln. Mexican American/Chicano males (homies and gangsters) mean-mug him, and call him, “m...te,”...