It is a slow morning. You are moseying about on an apple slice and ginger tea stomach, picking up books and setting them down, opening the shades to reveal wasps nests, but rarely opening the door. Slow mornings are the perfect time to sit, inside or out, enjoying Tara Sparbel's, Stomp Your Boots With Some Vigor. These poems offer solace in a world chaotic, and cling to you and sing to you when you've no energy to do much more than watch hot water turn peppermint. It is a journey through the seasons: immersed in the landscapes of Wisconsin and Colorado, exploring the restlessness of self care, relationships, and reflection. An adventure in finding strength in sunsets, the moon, flowers, and each other. It explores grief, loneliness, health, and letting go with empathy, wit, courage, and heart. Stomp Your Boots With Some Vigor is a book that invites you to feel cozy in scary and exciting life transitions and that uncertain bridge in between: each of us pausing momentarily to feed our sadness to the setting sun, eyes met with hope on the horizon. "Reading Tara's work in sequence is such a gift. So much of this feels familiar and so much of it feels like a brand new way to describe feelings I've always felt, but have never been able to articulate. She plays with sound. It demands to be read OUT LOUD, but it won't be mad if you read it in your head, and giggle a time or two."- Sarah Mayhak, Poet/ Communication Instructor at James Madison University. For more information, Contact: [email protected]

This book is the result of many years of teaching self defense specifically to women. The book takes the lessons learned from the students in teaching the subject and presents them in a total approach. This book gives several fundamental concepts in martial arts in language and approach that is natural for women taking into account their need to be nurturers. Methods are presented to identify the potential behavior of an attacker in every day terms for the nurturer. Techniques are given to deal with an attack arising out of this behavior. The capabilities, fears and feelings of the woman nurturer with limited training are considered in how the self defense techniques are presented and done. All of these concepts are coalesced in a simple simple recipe that is useful and adaptable for women's self defense.

William Black may be the first racketeer to ever hit Las Vegas. He isn’t content “puddling mud,” or pouring Hoover Dam's concrete. He’s more concerned with running “the Black Bank,” an underground lottery complete with runners, middle men—the works. The only thing standing in his way is Simeon Eliason, the boomtown's dictatorial mayor. But does Black fall in line? No, instead he doubles down, and the reason is simple. If Black succeeds, he may never again have to perform hard labor. But if he fails, Eliason will have the proof he needs to send Black to the very back of the bread line, or worse. He could cement Black's legacy as a warning to every gangster intent on creating Sin City.

Intercepted e-mails alert Homeland Security to the possibility of a terrorist attack on South Florida staged from a Bahamian island. Rhonda and Morgan Early are again recruited by the Drug Enforcement Administration to monitor suspicious activity on Bimini, located just fifty miles from Miami. Ahmed Atta needs money to implement his plan to kill sixty-five thousand Americans. He busts convicted cartel leader Victor Torres from jail for one million dollars. When Rhonda and Morgan learn of suspicious activity on Bimini, they rush to the island to thwart any potential danger. Torres inadvertently assists the terrorists by attempting to avenge his earlier capture by Morgan and Rhonda. He snatches their son and lures them to his trafficking headquarters on Plana Cay with the intent to brutally murder them. Meanwhile, Ahmed Atta's brilliant plan to kill an unfathomable number of Americans proceeds unabated.