After 12 agonizing years of being dragged across the globe, chasing legendary monsters and unbelievable myths by his peculiar parents, A.J. Montana has finally decided: enough is enough. He no longer believes in the boogie monster and longs for an ordinary life. His parents decide to send him to his father's slightly odd and extremely remote childhood boarding school, Rothshield Academy. At his father's repeated insistence A.J. reluctantly journeys to his new home with his dad's most prized possession, a mysterious red trinket of unknowable power. A.J. loves his new life. He attends REAL classes, sleeps in a REAL bed, and has even made some REAL, though somewhat strange, friends. But when his father's charmed little token causes one of his new friends to be mercilessly captured by shadowy beings that should not and could not exist, A.J. must lead his reluctant friends into the dark woods of Rothshield and return her to the apparent safety of their school. During their amazing, awe-inspiring adventure, A.J. discovers everything his parents are desperately chasing and everything he tries so hard not to believe in are REAL and currently dwelling in the dark woods that surround his average normal everyday school, Rothshield Academy.

Subject: Image of a man and woman dressed in Roman-style clothing, the woman holding a mirror and snake in her proper right hand, and touching a crown that is above the pedestal with the advertising information. The man leans against the pedestal, holding a spear, with his shield at his side.

It is the mid 1930s deep Depression. The Vernal Morin family is trying to get by on rented farmsteads outside Terre Haute, Indiana. They plant acres of tomatoes in the hope of gaining stability; the Terre Haute canning factory doesn't take their produce and they are forced to move again. The story of this family during dark days, told by one of Indiana s best known Methodist ministers, Jim Morin, the father s son. This book is part biography and part personal search to understand the father he lost when he was a boy of fourteen. Vernal Morin died in 1937, worn down by failures at hard-scrabble farming and being laid off from the Terre Haute power-generating plant, where he was an engineer. Reverend Jim Morin has told his family saga tale through a series of vignettes which reflect the life the family lived in the series of farms and homes in which they live.

Dr. James F. Morin is a lifelong Hoosier Methodist. Has served churches as a minister for more than sixty years. This is a book of sermons, prayers, poems and aphorisms that has dominated his thoughts throughout his ministrial life. James has attempted to promote thinking of Jesus' leadership not as the orthodox world of the past but the post-modern age of the moment. He thinks that while Jesus is the same today, yesterday and forever, we are the products of our age. This series of sermons, prayers, poems and aphorisms are meant to enlighten and inspire thinking that the Christian faith should be ameliorative and reconciling rather than combative and adversarial.