This is my fourth book of epic poems. This books characters, historical events, and geographical locations are fictitious. They may be parallel to reality, or they are not of reality itself.

Invisible Scars: Deep Poverty Challenges delves into the multifaceted and often hidden dimensions of poverty, exploring its profound impact on individuals, families, and communities. This book is a comprehensive examination of poverty, drawing on extensive research and real-life experiences to shed light on the emotional, cognitive, and social toll it takes on those affected. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including the emotional toll of poverty on children and parents, the correlation between poverty and educational attainment, the multidimensional nature of poverty beyond income, and the complex and interconnected causes of poverty. The book also examines global trends in poverty reduction, the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations, and the debate over the minimum wage and its impact on poverty. Through a combination of research, real-life stories, and policy analysis, Invisible Scars: Deep Poverty Challenges offers a nuanced understanding of poverty’s causes, effects, and potential solutions. The book highlights the importance of social support networks, early intervention, and targeted interventions to address the unique needs of those in deep poverty. It also emphasizes the role of data collection and analysis in poverty reduction efforts and the need for evidence-based approaches to poverty alleviation. By shedding light on the invisible scars left by poverty, this book aims to inspire action towards a more equitable and just society.

The Korean War (1950-53) was a ferocious and brutal conflict that produced over four million casualties in the span of three short years. Despite this, it remains relatively absent from most accounts of mental health and war trauma. Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and examines the psychiatric-care systems in place for the thousands of soldiers who fought in that conflict. Fitzpatrick demonstrates that although Commonwealth forces were generally successful in returning psychologically traumatized servicemen to duty and fostering good morale, they failed to compensate or support in a meaningful way veterans returning to civilian life. This book offers an intimate look into the history of psychological trauma. In addition, it engages with current disability, pensions, and compensation issues that remain hotly contested and reflects on the power of commemoration in the healing process.

Like the best of memoir writing, My Invisible Scars is alternately brutally honest, sad, triumphant, tense, motivating, uncomfortable, and unforgettable. Relying on journals that she has kept since childhood, Canadian author Willa-Mae E. Scot articulately recounts in (mostly) chronological order the highs and lows of her long life, beginning with her early childhood in a small Saskatchewan town. Willa-Mae writes candidly about terrible disappointments, life-threatening ordeals, and her incredible and unwavering determination to put aside countless negative experiences, and live, embrace, and enjoy life to the fullest. This memoir is a must-read book for anyone whose life has been derailed by the unexpected loss of a loved one, violence, family break-up, infidelity, addictions, abandonment, or by poor, sometimes non-existent, choices. Those who have suffered through trauma and struggled to put that trauma behind them will see their journey reflected in these pages and be reassured that, even when down at rock bottom, they can find a way to be happy again. My Invisible Scars is instructive and inspiring, enlightening and engaging, and a great testament to its author’s tremendous courage and forthrightness. Most of all it is a testament to her enviable ability to offer forgiveness to the many people who have hurt her, and then gracefully move forward in life.

Get Untied from Your Past Sex is like glue. Super human glue. Inside marriage, God designed it to be a bond that is powerful and unifying. Outside of marriage, the bonds of sex can be devastating. Long after the lover is gone, the bond we’ve created stays with us, negatively impacting our lives and future relationships. Now, through an impressive combination of Scripture and scientific research, Barbara Wilson shows how God designed us to be uniquely bonded through sex. But even more so, she concentrates on the tangible hope that is yours. This book will equip you not only to break those bonds, but to embrace a new, abandoned, wise, and thankful heart. You’ve had sex. But now sex has you. It’s a past that haunts the present. Sabotaged relationships, low self-esteem, sexual dysfunction, an empty spiritual life. Sex will bind you up and tie you down. Why? It’s just sex. But “just sex” means your body, soul, mind, and spirit have become one with another. Released from a past of her own, Barbara Wilson now combines scientific research with Scripture to offer striking new insights about what sexual bonding is, why it is harmful, and how to move freely into your future. Complete with a study guide for group or personal use, The Invisible Bond is your hands-on tool for changing not your past…but your life. “Barb’s honesty and vulnerability will inspire you to let God do in your life what He has done in hers, mine, and millions of other lives. He has set us free from self-defeating guilt and shame, helped us embrace our sexuality rather than fear it, and taught us how to enjoy genuinely healthy, intimate relationships. If that sounds appealing to you, then you hold the right book in your hands.” Shannon Ethridge Bestselling author of the Every Woman’s Battle series Story Behind the Book As abstinence director and educator for a Sacramento pregnancy center, Barbara Wilson talks to wounded and bleeding hearts every day. They’ve lost the war on sexual purity and the daily consequences are their reality. All they want is hope—hope that they can be free from the pain and shame that their past drags into their present and future. This book reveals the negative impact of sexual bonding and offers steps to freedom from past sexual and emotional bonds. But even more, it offers new direction for the free heart, and how to embrace an abandoned, overflowing life!

Author AnB Love is as enigmatic and compelling a character as is her break-out novel. It’s a knotted tale about big game poaching, crooked politicians, international crime and (somewhat unexpectedly) an intimate look into the underbelly of the skin trade. But don’t expect an “all guns blazing” kind of spectacle here. This “circle with three corners” is a much more nuanced, an almost personal feeling, story. Whether that is through fictionalised autobiography or just darn good writing we can only guess. David Bristow, author and environmentalist AnB Love, the mysterious author, finds her true expression in the realm of creativity, and in the domain of suspense, thriller and romance, she aims to evoke emotions and readers to “Feel the Words,” while blurring the boundaries between reality and vivid fiction. Her narrative transcends mere fictional storytelling, she endeavours to shed light on real-life issues, exploring emotional and moral dilemmas while reflecting the multifaceted nature of the human experience. Amid crafting novels and contributing to publications, AnB embarks on wild African adventures with her husband, indulging in the thrill of 4x4 off-roading. Armed with their camera equipment, they capture the raw essence of untamed landscapes, immortalizing fleeting moments in time.

"Building a Better Race powerfully demonstrates the centrality of eugenics during the first half of the twentieth century. Kline persuasively uncovers eugenics' unexpected centrality to modern assumptions about marriage, the family, and morality, even as late as the 1950s. The book is full of surprising connections and stories, and provides crucial new perspectives illuminating the history of eugenics, gender and normative twentieth-century sexuality."—Gail Bederman, author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the US, 1880-1917 "A strikingly fresh approach to eugenics.... Kline's work places eugenicists squarely at the center of modern reevaluations of females sexuality, sexual morality in general, changing gender roles, and modernizing family ideology. She insists that eugenic ideas had more power and were less marginal in public discourse than other historians have indicated."—Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

YouTube personality Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation

Suggests that the cultural turn toward the realm of the emotions coincides with a redefinition of personhood, presenting vulnerability as the defining feature of our psychology. Furedi questions the thesis that this represents an enlightened shift.

Life's Invisible Battles is an introspective memoir portraying a man's inner world.Life is too vast, often appearing meaningless, yet these stories bring out meaning even from seemingly insignificant events. Tohon interprets life from different perspectives, mulls over its smallest details and reflects on love, pain and suffering.Tohon asks himself: Why do I think the way I think; why do I reason the way I reason; why do I react the way I react? To find answers, he digs deep into the unplumbed depths of his mind. This inward journey leads him to uncover himself - all his tendencies - the good and the bad, the inner battles, the instincts, and the deepest secrets of life.