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GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS UNITE with a team of elite scientists to create a manifestation of their vision of perfection, which comes in the form of a life-changing gas called Noxin. Once breathed, subjects will no longer have need for food, water, or reproduction. Additionally, the hosts will become stronger, faster, and more intelligent. These beings would come to be known as Phoenix for their ability to periodically resurrect themselves by self-combusting within an aura of flame. Noxin, Phoenix, the greatest creations known to humanity. Until one day, they become an omen of extinction for all.

Awesome by AccidentAwesome by Accident is about a precocious 17 year old boy, Gene R. Rodgers, whose future is all mapped out for him. He has grown to appreciate the values of self-reliance, stoicism, determination, and tenaciousness as taught to him by his parents. Rodgers's plans for the future reflect all of those values as he declares his decision to homestead in Alaska. His decision is emblematic of earlier plans to row solo across Lake Erie. Undeterred by lack of experience, he proceeds with confidence to make his dreams and plans a reality.Paralyzed in a hiking accident, he must rethink his future. Rodgers' spirit is tested to its core as he struggles to make sense of his new life. He languishes in uncertainty while the gravity of his situation slowly becomes clear to him. Unable to accept his probable future he attempts suicide only to have his plans thwarted by a quick thinking no nonsense doctor. Rodgers decides to work relentlessly to successfully become rehabilitated.Now thrown into a world not of his making, Rodgers must find a way to once again embrace his family's value of self-reliance. To become self-reliant, he must leave the security of home, the support system that protects him. Can he survive on his own? Is that even possible? He struggles to identify an acceptable career path. He relies on a post-secondary education to give him an edge in employment somewhere in the science field. While away at school, he decides not to let school get in the way of his education. Dorm life suits him well and he makes friends that change his life. One of Rodgers' friends, Bruce, enlightens him to the possibilities the world has to offer. He meets Jane who is instrumental to his emotional healing and well-being. Rodgers contemplates a life with Jane permanently a part of it. Making a life long emotional commitment will mean sacrificing a more solitary life he still seeks. Bruce, Rodgers and other school friends travel throughout North America enjoying many adventures along the way. These experiences mold Rodgers into an undefeatable force as he embraces his mantra, fortune favors the brave.Rodgers becomes confident he can live independently, becoming self-reliant, as his family would expect. Though given a poor hand, he has played it well. Armed with a strong foundation of academics and endowed with social capital to support a life worth living, Rodgers builds an impressive resume. He earns a B.S. Ed to teach science in secondary education. He also earns an MBA and a Switzer Fellowship. His experiences become more varied and demanding as he worked in three states, traveled in 44 countries on six continents. He has enjoyed adventure sports including snow skiing, ski diving, paragliding, sailing on tall-ships, scuba diving, and trekking to name a few. He becomes an entrepreneur and subsequently a self-made millionaire. The more he learned and experienced, the more humble he became. Wherever he traveled, it was the people, not the place, that fulfilled him. Rodgers learned how to bounce back, to recover, to accomplish more than most people, able bodied or not. In Awesome by Accident, Rodgers repeatedly affirms that fortune does indeed favor the brave.

The Tuatha de Danaan, or fairies as most know them had existed with humans since the beginning of time. They shared their magic freely with humans and animals. As men began to war and pillage, the fairies could stay no longer, as their homes were torn apart. They departed through the portal in Newgrange, Ireland to another dimension where they could live in a different reality than the humans.So enters young Faelan O'Broin, a young Irish lad who prophecy had written would come and open the portal that the fairies had gone through so long ago. He would bring them back to add their magic to the Earth once again.His family has long been known for their Raven Magic. His mother taught him all she knew about plants and trees for medicine and healing. He learns that he can talk to trees and animals. He is given by Merlin, a magic grid and crystal with which he can open and travel through portals. As he sets off on his journey from the Southwest of Ireland towards the Northeastern magical region surrounding Newgrange, he meets magical beings to help him ignite his own magic.Leary, the leprechaun, who carries the bag of gold for the journey, starts the journey with Faelan. They pick up an old witch named Gana, who turns out to be a fairy named Morgana. She teaches Faelan about plant magic and leads him deeper into believing in himself.Later, he meets Aengus the Irish God of Love, who faced an evil in the portal that stole his magic. Faelan restores some of Aengus' magic as they travel together.Along the way, he finds some animals that have come to protect him and teach him their magic. Sefu, the cat, is really Heka the Egyptian God of Magic. He took on the form of a cat to join Faelan's journey. Athol the raven, latches onto his shoulder as a strong protector.He encounters animals and plants that teach him their magic. From astral traveling with the mug wort to remembering his life as a Mintakan with dolphins, his experiences are breath-taking. As he traverses many sacred sites on his journey, he meets many gods, goddesses, and magical beings. Some supply him with elements that he needs to power the portal. Others give him healing magic. One teaches him about death and rebirth into a new body.He is joined by Scotia, Goddess Brigid, Lugh, Circe, Hecate, Cernunnos, and Morrighan as they lead him deeper and deeper into magic. Magical Beings journey to see this lad who is so full of magic that even the trees are speaking of him. Undines, Unicorns, Pegasus, Elves, and Dragons join him, teaching the old ways.Will he be able to open the Fairy Portal and brings the Fairies back to us?

"A former Environmental Protection Agency attorney delivers an impassioned plea to fight pollution and climate change. Timely and engaging; a heroic environmental story well told." - Kirkus Book Review, April 22, 2020 (50th Anniversary of Earth Day)"Written both as a historic record and 'how to' guide aimed at inspiring change makers, this unvarnished and timely depiction from 1980 to today has something to offer readers of any age or ilk. Emory pulls back the curtain to expose the inner workings of the federal government and the EPA. He dives into the data-historic indicators, scientific and economic data, and policy choices-as well as humorously illustrating his forays abroad and his courtroom adventures. He tells the story of rampant pollution and how the US has fallen so far behind in its response to climate change and transition to clean energy. Emory has faith in forthcoming environmentalists, and his solutions-oriented presentation of the facts makes complex, cross-sector challenges feel within our grasp." - Fiona Gordon, published in Maine Environment newsletter of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (Augusta, Maine, spring & summer 2020)"This hybrid that is a must-read memoir and climate change book is NOT another dry treatise or one-sided, unbalanced diatribe. Richard Emory has written a very thoroughly knowledgeable and realistic account of the truth about EPA and how to fight pollution. He weaves in wonderful personal climate change stories and anecdotes about successes and failures of environmental policies enacted in the U.S. and other countries and how national attitudes have affected climate change & EPA's mission. Young people will be inspired to learn how to protect our environment." - David Katz, retired Assistant United States Attorney* * * * *With the election of President Biden and a new Congress, America is rejoining the Western world that sees the need for the U.S. to revive its EPA, formulate a "Green New Deal," and restore U.S. global leadership within the Paris Climate Accord.Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is a must-read memoir by Richard W. Emory, Jr., our nation's former top legal advisor to all EPA federal special agents. Emory witnessed how the U.S Department of Justice failed to effectively prosecute crimes of pollution. He became a whistleblower when interviewed by Congress that was investigating reports of mishandled pollution cases. In the second half of his career, working within EPA's foreign assistance mission, to the waiting world he helped spread effective measures for pollution control and for the implementation of global environmental treaties.Fighting Pollution and Climate Change is a "page-turner" - you will laugh, you will cry, but you won't be bored. You will learn the truth about U.S. and international successes and failures in the fight against air, water, pesticides and toxic-waste pollution. You'll be encouraged by his insider perspective as he tells how to protect the climate using today's technologies and EPA's proven policies.Who will benefit from this important environmental book?¿ Aspiring environmental activists - both young and old - who want to learn how to fight pollution and take action on climate change¿ Lovers of memoirs and nature, who will be touched by one individual's adventures in the exciting work of pollution control that can and must be expanded to climate protection¿ Global leaders and movements prepared to face the next chapter of unifying our world under a much stronger agenda to heal the Earth and protect our planet