Bücher veröffentlicht von Austin Macauley

Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing in this compelling exploration of resilience and forgiveness.Have you endured unimaginable hardships, surviving what feels like hell on earth, only to realize that the path to salvation lies not in entering heaven, but in healing your own wounded heart? In this poignant tale, you will discover that the true meaning of home extends far beyond physical walls - it resides within the depths of your own being.As you navigate the challenging terrain of self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others, you will uncover a profound truth: the battle lies not in the external world, but within yourself. It is through this internal struggle that you find the strength to grow and transcend the limitations imposed upon you.

At a time when governors have been sent to jail, presidents have been impeached, and legislatures seem dedicated to gridlock, and adherence to blind partisanship trumps all else, it's not hard to fathom why American people have become skeptical about politicians and cynical about the entire political process and downright disgusted at what is seen to be governmental shenanigans. It may come, then, as comfort to some and dubious to others to read about a politician who has been dubbed "the genuine article," a man who personified the adage "what you see is what you get," a person who believed that life was about giving and not about getting. That's the kind of man I grew up knowing, the kind of politician, who would no longer fit the current mold, the person I am honored to call "my father."

Hazel is an eight-year-old who likes to wear tutus and pearls while hunting.Hazel has gone on many hunting trips with her mommy and daddy ever since she was a baby.After reaching the proper age, and learning about gun safety, and hunting safety, along with appreciating the land and the gifts it provides, Hazel is ready to try for herself.How will Hazel's hunt turn out?

Poetry can be viewed as a reflection, a song, if you will, of society in the time it is written, but at the same time, it is timeless in the continuum of past, present, and future. In the dance of words, the reader will follow the Rorschach Ink Blots in the dance of words to find meaning in the visual imagery presented here.

What possible good can come from a 16-inch square of dry dirt in a big grey city? It's just concrete dust and city dirt surrounded by sidewalk.What happened next when Grampa gave a rumpled bag with a wilted spiky plant to Omar took the five year old's life in a new direction, sparking a new interest, a daily conversation. That 16-inch square garden became the center of his and his grampa's life.That summer they spent watching over the grey-green spiked artichoke plant in its impossibly improbable garden surrounded by sidewalk.Who knew that almost magical changes could happen to that scrap of dirt and stringy plant with just a bit of help from a little boy and an elderly man.

Prepare yourself for a spine-chilling journey through the pages of this gripping anthology, Six Tales of Terror. Within its compelling narratives lie stories of profound literary merit that will both captivate and haunt you.With masterful precision, the author skillfully weaves together a tapestry of horrors, each tale crafted to elicit suspense and dread, leaving you breathless and eagerly turning the pages.Delving fearlessly into the darkest recesses of the human psyche, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat, ensnaring your imagination with unexpected twists and turns.But be forewarned, dear reader, for once you have experienced these macabre tales, you may never emerge from their grasp unscathed.

Ah! Welcome! I have been waiting for you! You have found a path that leads to a secret place I know deep in the great Northwoods, where magical trees whisper tales of fairies and gnomes. Open the story and begin your journey. In this first tale, come meet the Grandfather Tree, who always has a story to tell, and Joshua, a special gnome who learns the importance of teamwork and cooperation.

Take a moment to reflect on relationships past and present and what they may have taught you. What you thought you wanted and wished for, to the moment when you realized you should have been more specific in your requests. This is a journey of reflection, release, and re-directing focus, from what is wanted to what is needed. That need and want from not only someone else but also yourself. Follow the story of five relationships - The Good, The Bad, and The Fling. Told through short stories and poems, these stories and poems, will not only help you discover some things about yourself but also help you discover what you may have lost searching for your comfort in someone else. Sometimes what you really need has been there all along, just waiting on you to be ready, waiting on you to finally release that baggage of your past and deal with some things you were scared to look at within yourself.

Timmy takes pride in being different and represents that we should love and always treat others equally. The author speaks to the children in their language, asking them to trust their teachers and counsellors, to never be afraid to speak up about abuse if it is happening in the home. The book is a part of the rescue mission of restoring the lives of children.

Two families on Edisto Island, SC are convulsed by the mixed-race child of a white woman and her black lover. Set between 1959 and 1994, this explosive novel poses crucial questions about the extent to which two families can escape the legacy of slavery. Why do even well-meaning modern men and women become bearers of the south's sadistic practices?

A girl from a small town with no family, no real home, not even a last name. Seventeen-year-old Arith thinks she's about as ordinary as you can get. The only things she has to worry about are having enough money to pay her rent, and not getting fired from her job that's quickly sliding sideways. But with a gypsy's warning and the appearance of a mysterious stranger, Arith's life is suddenly anything but ordinary. Everything she thought she knew about herself is turned upside down, when she is forced to flee her hometown in the dead of night and embark on a dangerous journey through the unknown, all while being hunted by creatures that want her dead.An evil is rising that threatens to destroy her world, and Arith is a bigger part of it than she could ever have imagined. Gripping and expertly paced, with a cast of lovable characters, Enderchild is a book that will have readers turning pages in anticipation until the very end.

Dr. Allana Wilson, a world-renowned nuclear physicist, enjoys a quiet and structured existence until she receives a letter from a brother who was reported lost in the mysterious sinking of a U.S. nuclear submarine years earlier. Before she can even regain her senses from the revelation that he is alive, party or parties unknown ransack her home, apparently after the letter. The only person she finds herself able to turn to is Remy Davenport, a government agent assigned to perform the final review of the key nuclear project she is spearheading.All of this happens in a matter of days, and Allana believes she's hit rock bottom when she shocks herself by sleeping with the visiting agent.Then things get worse.Thrown together, Allana and Remy find themselves caught up in an imponderable military and government conspiracy with terrifying implications and are forced to flee for their lives from hit squads that will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep that conspiracy from being discovered. Their flight leads them from Washington, D.C. through the eastern U.S. to Ontario, Nova Scotia, and eventually Newfoundland. There they face the greatest challenge of their lives, fighting to avert a nuclear disaster as part of an ad hoc team consisting of a D.C. federal agent, a squad of former Special Forces soldiers from Montana, and three Canadian civilians.Despite their differences and the mayhem stalking them, love begins to grow.But will it ever get a chance to blossom?

This book is based on a true story. In August 2008, two men from Nantucket went fishing for the day on the twenty-six-foot boat the Queen Bee. As they made their way back to shore, a wave tossed both men into the water. They were rescued by the Coast Guard, but the boat was believed to be lost at sea. In January 2012, the boat was discovered floating off the coast of Spain.

His Place at the Table is about my son Emilio, his cancer diagnosis at three years old, and the rollercoaster ride my husband Richard and I traveled in the attempt to save Emilio's life. In an instant, upon hearing the profoundly painful words, "your child has cancer," we took a rapid plunge into the depths of Dante's inferno, with absolutely no idea how we would ever get through this nightmare.My book recounts the highs and lows with uncommon honesty. Although my unrelenting optimism and fortitude were challenged beyond limits, I show the reader that love can be a lifeline. I go back in time and speak to my later-in-life opportunity to find meaningful love, marriage, and motherhood. Richard and I were unwavering in our commitment to one another, as grief took us into unchartered territories. Ultimately, through our spiritual strength and the expansion of our "family" by establishing the Emilio Nares Foundation, we found ways to heal and transform our lives. Emilio's Legacy continues, as the little boy who inspired a movement.

Young women around the country are going missing and the only one who seems to care is unlucky FBI agent Nora Hammond. Not even her partner, ladies' man Jason Carter, thinks it's worth looking into.Meanwhile, the TruLove Corporation has a new line of luxury sex dolls that will truly love you back - for a price. When the dolls start attacking their owners, the FBI is called in to investigate and things with Nora and Jason get a little sticky...

Lucy can hardly believe the end of middle school has finally arrived. But faced with end of the year deadlines, a crush, and the ultimate manipulator, Lucy learns the hard way that silencing the signals from her body leads to missing the one event she's looking forward to the most. Will Lucy figure things out before she ruins things for everyone?

In the mid-2010s, Detroit experienced an urban flight the likes of which the United States had never seen before. At its worst, in some neighborhoods, over eighty percent of the buildings lay vacant, the only inhabitants being thousands upon thousands of stray dogs. Without humans, these abandoned house pets were left to fight and scrape and hunt and fend for themselves in the apocalyptic urban hellscape that is post-blight Detroit.Scout, a loyal and loving pet dog, is abandoned when his family flees foreclosure. For the first time in his life finding himself unable to rely on humans, Scout is forced to venture into the wilds. He quickly learns that self-reliance is far more challenging, freeing, terrifying, and dangerous than he ever could have imagined. Exposure, uninviting humans, rival dog packs, and wild animals make every day a battle to shed his domesticity and find the will to survive.

The Stable Boy is historical fiction. It is a love story, a rags-to-riches story, an anti-racist story and a triumph over injustice story. Taking place in the antebellum South, it tells the tale of how a lowly slave... a hidden genius... defies all odds and becomes one of the richest men in America. In Pygmalion* style, the young slave is taught proper elocution and English grammar, a gift that takes him from picking cotton to dealing with some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in America. It's also a touching, tender... if unlikely... love story between two young men... one a slave, the other his owner. It takes the reader from the rural South to New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and London. It makes the incredible, credible.*Pygmalion is the George Bernard Shaw play on which the movie "MY Fair Lady" was based. It shows how the gift of language can change a guttersnipe into a princess.

As the years go by and each step I take brings me closer to the end of my journey, coupled with the advent of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, I started reconnecting with many childhood friends via social media. The past two years of isolation brought the realization that this unique era we shared in a remote village during the 50s and 60s will never be available again to future generations, and that generations born after the 50s and 60s lose the likelihood of ever having an opportunity to experience this phenomenon with each passing generation.With the encouragement of friends and acquaintances, I penned my Memories of Being a Kid from the Heights, how these experiences of ethics and morals molded our characters, and how these often comical encounters and responsibilities would benefit us while navigating life with our children. These two decades provided a lifestyle that evaporated and elapsed with each sun rotation.

Jump into this zoo adventure with a curious otter trying to find his purpose at the zoo. This story allows children the ability to see that everyone has to find their way and see what big paths are waiting for them to explore. Imagination can carry you to some of the best moments in life without limitations on where you can go on your journey.We all have a purpose, and it is up to ourselves to find that purpose and what actions we are meant to take to get us where we need to be.This book allows children to see those positive consequences of being successful and doing a great job.Enjoy the journey and of this otter while he finds out just what his expectations are of his job at the zoo.

All refugees flee the looming threat of extinction. This is a powerful story of one Polish family's escape from war-torn Europe after the Second World War, and the life they built as newcomers in a small community in western Canada. They brought with them the hope for a better life, but their war time experiences were a constant burden interfering with their inner peace and desire for security. The story of their lives, struggles and successes, aims to create a legacy of hope for their descendants and anyone with a similar cultural history or experience. It is a must read for those wanting an understanding of that era, as well as seeing how the experiences of this family were reflective in many ways to today's ongoing refugee crisis.

It was 1966 in a small town in the heart of the Canadian Rockies when Reggie Delamere, age eleven, learns that washing dishes at the local restaurant means that he has some supper, with enough left over to take to school for lunch the next day.At the age of sixteen, dressed in his new Canadian Armed Forces fatigues, Reggie is a few steps further along with his goal of becoming a somebody. And then, we find him at age 40, in a middle-aged crisis. He sets out for Toronto to find his foster mother and the only real home he has ever known. Little did he know this journey would include fathering two sons.Frankie Delamere, Reggie's son, is a wanna-be engineer just like his dad. He figured out early on that ladies-of-all-ages like a boy in a cowboy hat and he knows how to work it.Calvin, the baby, is born to be an artist. He was drawing women's fashions from the get-go. He comes on to the dating scene leaning toward having as many boyfriends as he has girlfriends. He decides early on that there is no need to choose one gender over the other.In spite of all their differences, the three Delamere boys patch up each other's misadventures as best they can. Reggie watches his son Frankie take on fork in the road while Calvin chooses a different path altogether.

After the exhausting and personally costly aftermath of solving the Darwin Killer case, beautiful and brilliant FBI Supervisory Special Agent Emmie Blanchet was looking forward to a little down time. However, her tranquility is abruptly erased when she is assigned the lead position on an emergency task force created to stop a group of domestic terrorists. With her lover, Joel, the local police captain, and her father at her side, Emmie and her team work feverishly to stop these killers before more innocent lives are lost. When their investigations lead them to the Pavlovian Research Institute, founded by an ex-colleague of Emmie's father, the team discovers that the perpetrators may, in reality, be victims of mind control themselves. As the plot thickens and becomes more complicated, Emmie and Joel's relationship and passion grow to new levels, and the pair realize that they want to spend the rest of their lives together. Will Emmie be able to find the source of these crimes and bring the killers to justice? Or will more lives be lost? Will she be able to survive an unimaginable personal loss and still effectively do her job? Will her training and experience help her survive? Or will it be, as Pavlov theorized, that her conditioned responses will guide her?