“He was my best friend...he was my teacher... he was so quiet...” These thoughts raced across Fayt Roxas’s high school friends’ minds when they realize what he really is. For those that barely knew him, they are amazed. Those who thought they were close to him were shocked to their core. With Fayt’s secret out, all his friends have the same questi on in mind: can he sti ll be trusted? But with their lives threatened by an unknown force, he may be their only hope to survive.

I have a deep passion for people development; for I have had no greater reward than being a part of the success and growth in someone’s life! To this end I have written this book... “No One of Us” Is As Good As “ALL OF US” My book is a guide to leaders in “ALL” industries for building and MAINTAINING high performing teams, through fully embracing diversity – and always putting your “PEOPLE FIRST”. The premise of my book is you must first realize the impact there is in fostering the differences in your people – then maximizing that potential for the success of your business. Those of us who continue to win, both in business and life...are those who hire, train and motivate their people – to those of us who continue to struggle, I would challenge you to take a hard look at the people you have on your teams. The success and failure of your organization, begins and ends with your PEOPLE! The best of success to one and all... Michael Sims President PSP Restaurant Group LLC Psp.restgroup@gmail.com

The narrative style of the book will help readers understand resistance to change and the lack of empathy that exists between IT and the business it supports. It illustrates through dialog the discovery of the value of ITIL processes and is an ideal book for newly trained ITIL practitioners, making for a great team discussion tool.

From the award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and the new story collection, Awayland. In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years- across oceans, deserts, and mountains-but now, it seems, there is nowhere else to go. Danger is imminent in every direction, yet the territory of imagination and belief is limitless. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world: deny any relationship with the known and start over from scratch. Destiny is unwritten. Time and history are forgotten. Jobs, husbands, a child, are reassigned. And for years, there is boundless hope. But the real world continues to unfold alongside the imagined one, eventually overtaking it, and soon our narrator-the girl, grown into a young mother-must flee her village, move from one world to the next, to find her husband and save her children, and propel them toward a real and hopeful future. A beguiling, imaginative, inspiring story about the bigness of being alive as an individual, as a member of a tribe, and as a participant in history, No One Is Here Except All Of Us explores how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths. It marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.