Daily Archives: June 6, 2017

Justifiable Herocideby A. Evan Whitwell

A typical Tuesday morning begins with an embittered, mentally ill man making his way to do his weekly shopping. Everything seems normal, even his gross abuse of everyone around him especially including the store manager, when the day crashes down with the entrance of organized criminals intent on the heist. As the robbery begins to spin out of control and violence ensues, our nameless hero rises to the occasion to do what must be done to save himself and incidentally, others. Although he saves the day the actions leave him mentally crushed, incapacitated, and unconscious.
Tony Kincaid is a skilled detective who puts the good of the many above the needs of the few including his own family. He is driven to discover this hero’s identity and bring the men to justice who would victimize a young woman.
Richard is a struggling reporter whose own bouts with depression, indulgence, and self-medication fuel a desire to report stories that will be uplifting. When Tony tells him of the nameless hero, Richard decides this could be the story to impress his boss, drive his readership and save his job.
Tony’s wife, Trudy, has grown increasingly sick of Tony’s loyalty to his drunkard, slovenly friend. She loves Tony deeply, but knows that Tony is loyal to a fault, struggling to be the man of true virtue whose concerns of loyalty, love and true friendship are central to his self-identity. Trudy knows that it is time for Tony to put his family first and cut out the cancerous leech, named Richard.
In spite of Trudy’s objections and pleading, Tony simply cannot abandon his friend as he struggles, although admittedly, the struggle never seems to end with Richard. Together, Richard and Tony seek to identify this unknown hero but as the investigation moves forward it quickly snowballs into a debacle of circumstance and poor judgement. In the end, it will be this that will put Tony and everyone he loves to an unrelenting test.

Justifiable Herocide is an exercise in perspective within a classic crime novel while critically analyzing the classical Hero Archetype. The traits of heroism are explored while questioning the need for the hero to be all of the characteristics most often deemed necessary to be called, Hero. Each character represents aspects of the Hero archetype but intentionally incomplete. Tony is the virtuous, loving, dutiful man whose idea of a good person, inside the societal construct, clouds his judgment and threatens to collapse his own place within it. The character of Richard challenges the idea that people with emotional or substance issues are incapable of heroic acts or that one must be wholesome in order to be a good person. Trudy is the wise benevolent mother, who attempts to temper Tony’s overt idealism and challenge his philosophies of the socially construct, including good friendship, fatherhood, manliness, and finally heroism. By contrast the unknown hero of the grocery store robbery, forces the reader to ask themselves the question of whether a vitriolic person who saves others while motivated only to save themselves constitutes an actual heroic action. Is intention a necessary component of heroism?

Buxton Hall Barbecue’s Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and Moreby Elliott Moss

Smoke savory meats and vegetables at home and cook signature recipes from the chef-driven kitchen of Buxton Hall Barbecue in Asheville, North Carolina.

In an age of bulk-bought brisket and set-it-and-forget-it electric smokers, Buxton Hall Barbecue stands apart from the average restaurant. With three pits at the heart of an open kitchen and hogs sourced from local farmers that raise them right, chef Elliott Moss is smoking meat in accordance with time-honored traditions. In Buxton Hall Barbecue’s Book of Smoke, believers in slow-smoked, old-fashioned barbecue will learn how to build and master their own pit, right at home. Start small with chicken or pit beef and work your way up to a whole hog. If you’re not yet ready for the pit or limited on space, Moss also teaches easy, economical ways to infuse wood-smoke into your food.

The recipes include all of the Buxton Hall favorites. Learn how to make their deep-fried smoked catfish, smoky pimento cheese, turnip soup with charred onions, or slow-cooked collards. Other recipes give the inside scoop on how a barbecue restaurant makes use of a whole hog with a waste-nothing approach: Brussels sprouts with crispy cracklin’, classic South-Carolina style hash, chicken bog, and much more. Finish the meal with Buxton’s take on classic southern desserts like banana pudding pie, grape hull pie, or s’mores with homemade marshmallows.

Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetablesby Phil Vischer

This is a story of dreaming big and working hard, of spectacular success and breathtaking failure, of shouted questions, and, at long last, whispered answers. With trademark wit and heart, Phil Vischer shares how God can use the death of a dream to point us toward true success.

Larry. Bob. Archibald. These VeggieTales stars are the most famous vegetables you’ll ever eat. Oops, meet. Their antics are known around the world. But so much of the VeggieTales story hasn’t been told. In Me, Myself, and Bob, Phil Vischer, founder of Big Idea and creator of VeggieTales, gives a behind-the-scenes look at his not-so-funny journey with the loveable veggies. From famed creator to bankrupt dreamer, Vischer shares his story of trial and ultimate triumph as God inspired him with one big idea after another.

Blackbird Fly (Umbrella Man Trilogy Book 2)by Willow Rose

“It was just a dream.”

We all say that to our children when they have a nightmare and wake up crying, don’t we?
“Sh, baby, it was just a dream.”
But what if there is no such thing as just a dream?

What if dreams are portals to other worlds where evil lurks?

When Andrew and Julia have their baby, they quickly realize their daughter is very different from other children. The girl’s grandmother tries to warn them. Their daughter, Anna, has a gift. She travels the worlds at night as one of the shadowpeople. But she is also in grave danger.
When Andrew and Julia finally realize her old grandmother is right, it is too late. The man with the umbrella has already set his eyes on Anna.

Blackbird Fly is a masterful, intensely suspenseful novel from the Queen of Scream. It is the second book in Willow Rose’s Umbrella Man trilogy.

Fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, Paula Hawkins, Kendra Elliot and Robert Dugoni will be gripped by this page-turning supernatural thriller, guaranteed to keep you reading till the next morning.

Paradise: In Search of Loveby Sharon Hamilton

Debut Series – Have you ever wanted to just drop out and live the life of your dreams on a fantasy island? Be careful what you wish for…

Investment Broker SEAN Harper’s settled life begins to come unraveled when a new client walks into his Manhattan office bringing tales of a secret island in the Caribbean, ten million dollars in cash and a girl in a thatched hut on a white sandy beach. Even his former SEAL training cannot prepare him for what’s to come. Book 1 of new series

The Assignmentby Jade A. Waters

What would you do if someone offered to fulfill your wildest fantasies? 

Seductive. 

Charming. 

Dominant. 

Dean Sova is everything Maya Clery craves. From the first touch, their connection is intense. After leaving her troubled past behind, Maya thought she was happy—she is happy—but meeting Dean forces her to acknowledge dark needs she longs to explore yet has never had the courage to face.  

Her perfect match, Dean encourages Maya to set loose the submissive urges inside her in a series of assignments intended to open her mind and test the limits of pleasure…but Maya isn’t sure she can fully let go of her inhibitions.  

What would you do if someone offered to fulfill your wildest fantasies? 

The answer seems obvious. You take the offer and hope the price isn’t too high. 

Book one of Lessons in Control 

The New Meaning of Rich: Four Principles of Wealth That Will Change Your Lifeby Evan Tarver

We live in a world where the true meaning of wealth has been lost.

In years past, a dream of riches was synonymous to Charlie Sheen’s character in Wall Street. Today’s world is one that no longer fits that dream. Greasy-haired stock brokers who grind their way to the top is not the idea of rich anyone believes in anymore. There is a problem, however, where we lack any other meaning of wealth.

We need to change how we think about wealth. We need to redefine what it means to be “rich.” Wealth, defined in this modern age, is a true ownership of your emotions, time, location, and ability to give back. When you follow this definition of wealth, and focus on maximizing each area, the monetary riches follow, 100% of the time, every time.

By reading this book, you will:

•Understand the true definition of wealth, broken down into four Principles
•Learn how to maximize each one of the four Principles of Wealth
•Take action in order to reap the benefits of the new rich
•Become happy, and have monetary rewards follow your happiness

By reading this book and taking action on the advice, your happiness will increase, your satisfaction and self worth will sky rocket, and, oh yeah, your bank account will reach levels you never thought possible.

Every second you delay from turning the page delays your pursuit of ultimate happiness and satisfaction with life. Understand the true meaning of wealth and how it will make you truly rich, in every sense of the word.