What if a man with strange eyes asked you to save the future? Maggie Harper’s life is fairly mundane…until a bizarre incident of time loss in Vegas, followed by the creepiest thug she’s ever seen breaking into her home and nearly killing her. Can the two be related? She doesn't recognize the man who saves her. Yet for some reason, Marcus strikes an achingly familiar cord in her chest. He then proceeds to give her an explanation so bizarre, she’s sure he’s insane. That is, until he catapults her forward in time, into the aftermath of a future apocalypse. A dystopian dictator has forced most of the population into collective hives. Individuals have been hunted to the verge of extinction. The few remaining freedom fighters conduct a rebellion while in hiding, fearing assimilation into the collectives, which rob an individual of their uniqueness. Marcus is part of a team of individuals fighting the oppressive collectives. Maggie was part of this group—and Marcus’s heart—once too, but thanks to the collective, her memories of it have been eradicated. Only Maggie holds the key to freeing the humanity from the collective enslavement, but it’s buried somewhere in those vanished memories. If she can't fill in the blanks and help the team bring down the collectives, humanity may become mediocre slaves to a dictator forever. If you enjoy dystopian worlds, epic romance and visceral fights for survival, pick up this award-winning page turner! Winner of the League of Utah Writers’ prestigious Silver Quill Award, 2013. “Helps us see what we might become…” “Simply. Stunning. I couldn’t put it down.”

Watching the gradual enslavement of humanity in fast motion isn't Maggie's idea of an adventure. Five months after events on a Pacific island, Maggie waits for Marcus and the team to return. The people who finally show up to collect her aren't who she expected. Maggie yearns to return to Marcus and help the team bring down the collectives. A snake-woman who can somehow cancel Maggie's powers, an injured Traveler, and the complications of leap-frogging through decades of civil unrest, conspire to stop her. In other times and places, the collectives coalesce, power shifts, and the one called B puts sinister plans into action. Maggie must outsmart him long enough to return to Interchron, or her individuality—perhaps her very identity—will be ripped away. Again. Stand out or fade away... A dystopian saga where the romance, the action, and the stakes are pushed exponentially higher. "The action grabs you right from the beginning and refuses to let you go."--The Cozy Dragon

The Collectives are coming... With the team fractured, Interchron receives news that the collectives may have unearthed the location of their underground compound. Yet, members of the team are missing, captives, or at odds with one another. They have to figure out their strategy and fast. Maggie needs to learn new abilities and bring her team together, or the collectives will finish what they started in the canyon.

Thoroughly updated new edition of this undergraduate textbook examines environmental pollution from our homes to the global environment.

This book tells the story of African Americans' evolving attitudes towards lynching from the 1880s to the present. Unlike most histories of lynching, it explains how African Americans were both purveyors and victims of lynch mob violence and how this dynamic has shaped the meaning of lynching in black culture.

I know that change is difficult but it is possible. I keep thinking that I will do something tomorrow and then tomorrow comes and I cant remember what it was I said that I was going to do, so I end up doing something else. For example, this collection of thoughts is years in the making. There were days that I was just too afraid to write about what I was dealing with, so I would put it off for another day. Then at the end of the day I realize what I was supposed to be doing. So then one day becomes two just like that. It is similar to standing on the sideline waiting for your turn at jump rope. I would make all the movements to jump in but kept waiting for the best time to jump in. Does anyone else know what that feels like? What I have learned about death is that every experience brought with it a new set of emotions in a different way. Sometimes it brought loneliness, other times it brought joy. Sometimes it brought sadness, other times it brought peace. Sometimes nothing came and that is when I hear the voice. The voice reminded me that for everything there is a season. A time to be born and a time to die. It is in this time of nothingness that I am finally able to accept the passing and have the ceremonial burial in my spirit. Reflections What I Know to Be True will take you on a journey that you will want to share with your spouse, sisters and friends. Jema has a unique way of telling a story that will allow you to see yourself in it and to grow from it.

Three days until the lunar eclipse. Three days to save humanity. Three days to the war for freedom. An eclipse should be a wondrous event. Not the end of freedom for humanity. For Maggie, they’re one and the same. In only a few days, the collectives will coalesce, and the forced assimilation of humanity will begin. Maggie and the team need to find a way to stop it, but they don’t know where to start. While Maggie fights for knowledge, the rest of the team faces challenges of their own. Loyalties will be tested, obscure memories will break through, and betrayal may kill the only chance they have to remain free. They must stop the collectives, or stop making free decisions. Forever. Don't miss this pulse-pounding epic third installment in the Interchron saga. "This one was so full of twists and turns that you kept reading as you wanted to know what was happening around the next corner. It was amazing. I loved the book, and did not want to stop - I actually fell asleep while reading I wanted to keep going so much."--Michelle S., Amazon reviewer

What if a dragon looked into your eyes...and saw your soul? Wenlyn is an orphan boy being brought up in the scullery of a small, poor village. He’s practically a slave to Master Foxund, but he dreams of soaring the skies with the dragon-riding protectors of the Six Realms. When one of them visits his village, the dragon “identifies” Wenlyn, and suddenly the world as he knows it falls away. He must take part in a strange ceremony and find a way to embrace a completely new life. Either that, or go back to being an abused scullery boy who never amounts to anything. Soar the skies with Wenlyn in this short prequel to Dragon Magic, an epic fantasy series. Book 1 slated for release in quarter 1 of 2022. "Loved loved loved this short story."--Amazon Reviewer

A comprehensive introduction to local and global pollution issues, for undergraduate students.

On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation’s most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people, mostly African Americans. This richly illustrated volume, featuring more than 175 photographs, along with oral testimonies, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors. Historian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before, during, and after the massacre, mostly by white photographers. Some of the images are published here for the first time. Comparing these photographs to those taken elsewhere in the United States of lynchings, the author makes a powerful case for terming the 1921 outbreak not a riot but a massacre. White civilians, in many cases assisted or condoned by local and state law enforcement, perpetuated a systematic and coordinated attack on Black Tulsans and their property. Despite all the violence and devastation, black Tulsans rebuilt the Greenwood District brick by brick. By the mid-twentieth century, Greenwood had reached a new zenith, with nearly 250 Black-owned and Black-operated businesses. Today the citizens of Greenwood, with support from the broader community, continue to work diligently to revive the neighborhood once known as “Black Wall Street.” As a result, Hill asserts, the most important legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the grit and resilience of the Black survivors of racist violence. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History offers a perspective largely missing from other accounts. At once captivating and disturbing, it will embolden readers to confront the uncomfortable legacy of racial violence in U.S. history.