New Releases by Eric Wilson

"Whispers of What We Were" invites readers on an evocative journey through the delicate layers of memory and longing. This collection of poems captures the essence of fleeting moments and the echoes of loves lost and found, where the past dances with the present in a tender embrace. Each verse serves as a gentle reminder of the beauty nestled in nostalgia, as the poet weaves rich imagery with heartfelt emotion. From the quiet corners of reminiscence to the vibrant sparks of hope, these poems resonate with anyone who has ever felt the bittersweet pang of what once was. Immerse yourself in the lyrical whispers of the past and discover the enduring power of reflection, vulnerability, and the timeless threads that connect us all. In "Whispers of What We Were," poetry becomes a sanctuary, inviting us to explore the depths of our own histories and the stories that shape who we are.

Once an Assistant Attorney General in Tennessee, Preston Shipp found his convictions challenged after teaching criminal justice courses to inmates from the Tennessee Prison for Women. He resigned from prosecuting and continued teaching. Soon after leaving, an exceptional individual, Cyntoia Brown, joined his class. Shipp believed she deserved a chance at redemption—only to receive an opinion on a years-old murder and robbery case in which he himself had argued for a life sentence for 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown. Out of guilt and empathy, Shipp embarked on a decade-long journey to free Ms. Brown and while traveling his own path to redemption. Today, he dedicates his efforts to the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, which has led to more than 1,000 people receiving a new chance at life after being sentenced to life imprisonment even though they were under the age of 18. Shipp shares his views on how the American justice system is in desperate need of reform, especially for juveniles.

What Are You Going to Do? tells an inspiring true story. In the early 1950s, war scattered hundreds of thousands of orphans across South Korea. Many Koreans sacrificed everything to help. When Everett Swanson arrived to preach to troops on the front lines, he stumbled upon starving orphans. The plight of these children broke his heart. He faced the question: “What are you going to do?” Authors Matt Bronleewe and Eric Wilson tell how Swanson’s answer to those six little words led to the organization known today as Compassion International. Seventy years later, Compassion International sponsors over two million children all over the world, providing meals, education, vocational training, Bibles, letters of support, and more. We are often faced with the same question, “What am I going to do?” And, like Swanson, we feel inadequate, afraid, or ill-equipped. Readers will see how small faithful choices can lead to larger ones—and in so doing, change the world for generations to come. Everyone—young and old—should be acquainted with this amazing story of faith, courage, and compassion.

"Learn about Appalachia''s past by following in the footsteps of the culture through the dance of unions and coal companies, the effects of environmental activism, and the long-standing traditions of arts and crafts, hunting, and telling stories... ''Appalachia Through the Years'' breaks down stereotypes by showing a rich and varied side of a place that is often misunderstood." -- back cover.

American Leftovers is the story of Heidi, Eric, and Shaun, three children who follow their parents through eastern Europe on Bible-smuggling adventures in the early 1970s. When they return to the States, they face third-culture questions of home and identity. They also deal with sexual situations and abuse, while settling into an evangelical bubble with their parents who pastor a fast-growing church. Everything collapses when their father runs off with an eighteen-year-old girl, leaving behind his family and church. This forces Heidi, Eric, and Shaun to reconcile their own spiritual fervor with the lies and dysfunction so close to home.

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O livro Prova de Fogo – Nunca Deixe seu Amor para Trás é o romance baseado no longa-metragem Prova de Fogo, e conta a história do filme (com alguns detalhes a mais). Porém, não confunda com o livro Desafio de Amar, que é o desafio de 40 dias apresentado como enredo do Prova de Fogo. Dentro de prédios em chamas, o capitão Caleb Hott vive pelo lema dos bombeiros: “Nunca deixe seu parceiro para trás”. No entanto, em casa, nas frias brasas de seu casamento, ele vive por suas próprias leis. Desde criança, sua esposa Catherine sempre sonhou em se casar com um amoroso e valente bombeiro, assim como seu pai. Agora, após sete anos de casamento, ela se pergunta quando deixou de ser “boa suficiente para Caleb”. Inúmeras discussões e brigas os fizeram querer trocar o casamento por algo mais ardente. Para evitar o divórcio, o pai de Caleb sugere um experimento de quarenta dias: O Desafio de Amar. Perguntando-se se o esforço é válido, Caleb aceita, mais pelo seu pai do que por seu próprio casamento. Surpreso pelo que descobriu, Caleb percebe que sua esposa e casamento são dignos de luta. Seu trabalho é resgatar outras pessoas. Agora o Capitão Holt está pronto para entrentar seu trabalho mais difícil: resgatar o coração de sua esposa. Repleto de ação, humor e romance, esta envolvente história de Eric Wilson fará você rir, se inspirar e, também, o desafiará. Baseado no filme de Alex e Stephen Kendrick, Prova de Fogo inclui mais detalhes inéditos no filme.

An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."--New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London''s markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city''s literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His friends valued in his conversation what distinguished his writing style: a highly original blend of irony, whimsy, and melancholy. Eric G. Wilson captures Lamb''s strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography. He demonstrates how Lamb''s humor helped him cope with a life-defining tragedy: in a fit of madness, his sister Mary murdered their mother. Arranging to care for her himself, Lamb saved her from the gallows. Delightful when sane, Mary became Charles''s muse, and she collaborated with him on children''s books. In exploring Mary''s presence in Charles''s darkly comical essays, Wilson also shows how Lamb reverberates in today''s experimental literature.

"The memoirs of a man living with partial brain death and hearing loss. This autobiography covers life growing up in North Adams and Williamstown, Massachusetts, and a lifetime spent advocating for people with disabilities. Eric shares anecdotes from his time as the Steeplecats mascot, and meditates on dreams and his connection to God."--Amazon.

At twelve years old, his hatred of God took root. Weighed by chains of guilt and shame, Steven Young grew to live for the moment. He partied, slept around, gambled, and manipulated people for his own desires. His choices led to four failed marriages and eight years in prison. Broke and alone, he lived five years homeless on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2013 decided to end it all. At his lowest point, the very God he despised stepped in. It would still be a long healing journey From Chains to Change. This painfully honest and powerfully redemptive story is an example of God''s ability to transform the past, restore hearts, and offer hope for the future.

In Dino: Tall Tales from a Simpler Times Up on The Hill, the storytellers and brother and sister, LeAnna and Eric Wilson, transport you to a time and place while making you laugh and look forward to the next adventure. This book recalls an earlier time, perfectly capturing the life and all the vitality of the men and women who grew up in American''s coal camps during the mid-Twentieth- Century through the eyes of a young carefree boy looking for fun and finding mischief. The tall tales introduce readers to the wacky adventures of a child named Dino in a series of slightly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Often joined by his friends Jimmy, Pete, and Patty you will be laughing as they chase lightning bugs, frogs, skunks, and a chicken on steroids. You will fall in love with the characters and their mamas with tales of Sunday night baths, trips to the company store, and Mrs. Myrtle get''n the vapors after something Dino had certainly done. Dino: Tall Tales from a Simpler Times Up on The Hill, is a story of family, food, and fun from the porches and gravel roads of a small coal camp that will capture your heart and your funny bone.

El protagonista de esta emocionante novela policiaca es Tom Austen, un muchacho canadiense, quien al terminar el curso escolar viaja en el Canadian Express. Este ferrocarril, el de mayor recorrido del mundo, sale diariamente de Montreal y emplea tres días en llegar a su destino, Vancúver.¿Quién será el asesino? ¿Habrá estado Tom tras las pistas correctas?

Il existe un débat sur les capacités réelles du Cameroun à assumer le rôle de pôle locomoteur de la sous-région Afrique centrale. Dans la sous-région, le Cameroun est donc au service des autres États et semble se satisfaire de cette situation, sans pour autant exclure l''aspiration à un rôle de leader sous-régional. Cette posture n''est pas sans conséquence : certaines structures ou institutions communautaires sous-régionales peinent à fonctionner de façon optimale du fait notamment de ce manque de leadership efficace du Cameroun. Le pays ne devrait-il pas endosser ce rôle, voire pleinement l''assumer au regard de ses multiples potentialités ?

A CALLING ALWAYS COMES AT A COST

Time may be linear, but history is circular. We see patterns throughout history-periods of prosperity and growth followed inevitably by disastrous upheaval that changes everything. Through an intriguing mixture of historical acumen and big-data analytics, these events can be studied and predicted. In Cultural Cycles, business forecaster J. Eric Wilson applies his knowledge of predictive analytics to the history of human cultures, to help illuminate the past, explain the present, and provide a bold picture of tomorrow. Wilson demonstrates a predictable cycle of historic extremes from periods of abundance and growth to cultural crises, or "resets," marked by disastrous social and political upheaval. At its worst, a reset can destroy a culture-and any nations strong enough to survive such events are forever changed. Closely examining the historical cycles of the United States from the seventeenth century to the present, Wilson argues that the nation is poised for its next cataclysmic reset. The nation''s future lies in the balance-and Wilson''s recommendations can help us prepare. A fascinating, easily understood exploration of history and analytics, Cultural Cycles uses practical reasoning and intuitive insight to reveal what many sense-the next great turn of the wheel of history.

TRAPPIST-1 is a planetary system, located 12 parsecs away from the Solar system (39 light years), near the ecliptic, within the constellation of Aquarius. Around a star which is 12 times less massive than the Sun and only slightly larger than Jupiter, there are at least seven planets in orbit. The initial discovery was made by TRAPPIST, the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope. Additional planets were subsequently identified using TRAPPIST and the Spitzer space telescope, the Very Large Telescope, UKIRT, the Liverpool Telescope and the William Herschel Telescope. All the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system transit their star, meaning that they pass in front of it. The planets were discovered from the regular and repeated shadows that are cast during transit. Thanks to the transit signals we could measure the orbital periods of the planets and could calculate the sizes of the planets. The exact time at which the planets transit also provide us with a means to measure their masses, which leads to knowing their densities and therefore their bulk properties. The planets are consistent with a rocky composition. We found that the planets have sizes and masses comparable to the Earth and Venus. Because we know the distance of the planets to their star, and the temperature of the star, we can deduce that they receive an amount of light that is similar to many of the planets in the Solar system, from Mercury to beyond Mars. During transit, some of the starlight goes through the atmosphere of the planets, getting transformed by the chemical composition of the atmosphere and by its vertical structure. This means that we can remotely study the climates of terrestrial worlds beyond our Solar system! The TRAPPIST-1 worlds are the most optimal currently at our disposal. They are providing humanity with it first opportunities at discovering evidence of biology beyond the Solar system.

Mike Tyson admits that he still struggles with alcohol and sexual addiction, and said he''ll die soon if he doesn''t get help. All athletes rely on a support network, and Mike found his in Team Tyson. Formed by the unique vision of Rory Holloway, the team was a ragtag group that thrived upon private camaraderie and public mystique. The team defied and often angered the critics, guiding Mike from a rape conviction and prison term to a second world championship and earnings in excess of $300 million. Taming The Beast specifically focuses on the relationship between Mike and Rory. After Mike''s infamous bite out of Evander Holyfield''s ear, Mike fired his managers, pointed fingers at his team, and filed hefty lawsuits. Standing in the Shadows delves into the minds of these two childhood friends, peeling back the startling realities that haunted Team Tyson. It also takes a look at boxing history, racism in sports and media, athletes'' struggles with money and success, and the public''s tendency to anoint and then assassinate its celebrities.

If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification. Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature-in this case, cosmic horror and the weird tale-to the parapolitical criminologist. Cosmic horror is a form of writing that relies heavily upon the epistemological assumption of a radical and irreconcilable disjunction between appearance and reality, perception and truth. In many ways, the well-constructed weird tale strongly resembles the hard-boiled detective story or the noir thriller in that the resolution of the narrative hinges upon a dramatically shattering confrontation with an unspeakable reality. Apart from its obvious utilization of conspiracy theory, the primary attraction of the Lovecraftian text lies with its remarkably sophisticated utilization of two central tropes of classical aesthetic theory-the sublime and the grotesque. Not only does Lovecraft''s oeuvre represent a remarkable use of both of these motifs, but the raw literary power of the Lovecraftian weird tale serves as an outstanding exemplar for the parapolitical scholar to emulate in formulating an alternative mode of discourse, or poetics.

De knappe eerstejaarsstudente Hannah lijdt aan astma en epilepsie en heeft altijd het gevoel gehad dat ze geen recht heeft om te bestaan. Tijdens haar zoektocht naar een verklaring komt ze erachter dat ze geadopteerd is. Maar dat is niet het meest pijnlijke: ze is het resultaat van een mislukte abortus. Verward en boos zoekt Hannah steun bij haar vriend Jason. Samen met hem en zijn vrienden onderneemt ze een road trip en gaat op zoek naar haar biologische moeder.

A History of Winston, Oregon and the Greater Winston Area. It is a history of events between 1820 and 2012 in the South Umpqua River Basin

Microchips in Humans ... Life-saving Option? Or Dangerous Ploy? Natalie Flynn has faced fears of her own. Now, as she dates Reuben King, a powerful young politician, she is in position to influence his vote on a groundbreaking new bill that makes room for the microchipping of humans. She doesn''t know, though, that others are also pulling strings, shaping a deadly conspiracy. In a modern spin on the biblical story of Esther, Natalie''s been raised up for "such a time as this." But in the race against time, is she already too late?

An analysis of the human attraction to darker areas of life draws on findings in a wide range of disciplines and cites diverse examples to conclude that people experience renewal when they confront pain and death.

A college student''s life changes after she discovers that she is an adopted child and the survivor of an attempted abortion.

What You Can’t See Can Hurt You. Returning to the hometown of her birth parents, rebellious 23-year-old Josee Walker seeks answers to long-held questions about her childhood. Her biological father, wealthy vintner Marsh Addison, wants nothing to do with her. But a determined Kara Addison sets out to meet the child she gave up years before, despite Marsh’s passionate opposition. Five Days of Hell for a Glimpse of Heaven When Kara disappears and her car is discovered at the bottom of a ravine, however, Marsh becomes the prime suspect. Suddenly, Marsh and Josee are forced to unite in their search for Kara–and for the truth. But there’s more to their family’s past than meets the eye. What could the mysterious canister that Josee found in the woods contain? What does it have to do with her mother’s disappearance? When an ancient evil rouses, each member of the Addison family becomes enmeshed in a terrifying supernatural battle–one with global consequences.

Your Days Are Numbered…And Clay Ryker Knows It. Clay Ryker is a man with a dark past and an uncertain future. A failure in both business and marriage, he has come home after a decade away, hoping for a fresh start in the small Pacific Northwest town where he grew up. But Clay harbors a terrible secret, one that even those closest to him don’t know. When increasingly sinister notes appear in the folds of his morning paper, Clay realizes that the truth is not so secret after all. Then people around him start dying and, with a serial killer on the loose, he discovers a terrible gift: he can foresee the timing of a person’s death–his or her expiration date. As his newfound ability proves both a blessing and a curse, Clay’s foreknowledge could cost more than he can bear to lose. Working with ex-cop and investigator Vince Turney, Clay has no choice but to face up to the truth of his past. Will he find the courage to overcome an unspeakable evil, one that he himself may have empowered?

Wanneer Kaptein Caleb Holt binne-in ‘n brandende gebou is, leef hy volgens die leuse van ‘n brandweerman: Bly altyd by jou maat se sy. By die huis is dit egter ‘n ander storie. Daar leef hy volgens sy eie reels. Caleb se vrou, Catherine, het as dogtertjie daarvan gedroom om met ‘n liefdevolle, dapper brandweerman te trou – net soos haar pa. Nou, na ‘n huwelik van sewe jaar, wonder sy wanneer sy opgehou het om ‘goed genoeg’ te wees. Male sonder tal se argumente en woede het die vonk in hul huwelik geblus. Terwyl hulle die egskeidingsproses aan die gang sit, daag Caleb se pa hom uit om aan ‘n 40—dag eksperiment deel te neem: Die ‘Liefdesuitdaging’. Caleb wonder of it die moeite werd sal wees, maar stem in, meer om sy pa se onthalwe as om sy huwelik te red. Caleb is egter totaal verras deur dit wat hy leer oor die betekenis van liefde. Skielik besef hy dis wekrlik die moeite werd om vir sy vrou en sy huwelik te baklei. Maar is dit te laat vir Caleb en Catherine om ‘n vuurvaste huwelik te verkry?

From the makers of Overcomer and Fireproof comes a novel that asks: what’s the most important thing in your life? Jay Austin did what it took to get ahead and make the quick sell at work. Problem was—the more successful he was, the more he traded what really mattered. His integrity. His relationship with his wife. His time with his son. He was chasing things that had no eternal significance. It wasn’t until God slowly unraveled everything that he saw how empty his life had become. Now it will take a courageous heart and a saving grace for Jay to finally turn his drive into a desire for a more authentic life with God as well as with his wife and son. In a world filled with cheap imitations that distract us from God’s higher plans, Flywheel is a powerful parable for all who hunger to live an authentic life. Full-length inspirational contemporary read Novelization of the Kendrick brothers’ film Flywheel Includes bonus materials and discussion questions for book clubs