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Words matter . . . they live in our hearts and in our minds until we give them the strength to speak for us. Give them the power they were created to have. They deserve to be heard, and so do you. - Ted A RichardThe 16th Second is the autobiography of a small-town gay boy from Deep South Louisiana who survived homophobia, alcohol and drug addiction, sexual abuse, rape, and HIV/AIDS to become somebody that no one, not even he, expected.The story winds through his childhood, where Ted had become accustomed to coming in second. Weaving a tale of drama, heartache, and failure to the path led him to figure out what it takes to come in first and why it mattered.His childhood recollection of "never being good enough" morphs into a world of delusions of grandeur as his search for fame seems never to materialize, which causes him to create his own definition of fame.It is a story of redemption and success after years of searching helped him realize that he had to let go of the fame of the past (which never existed) and begin living in the present in order to secure his future.

Excerpt from Prologue:"Wake up," she said, slapping my cheek a little. "Who is here with you?""No one is here with me right now," I said.I don't remember if I asked why they wanted to know, but the nurse said, "We are prepping the O.R. right now for surgery. Your abdomen is full of blood.""I'm tired and I want to go to sleep."The nurse looked at me intently. "You're not tired. You're dying."She was right. I died that night. Not once, but three times. However, those deaths are not the end of my story. Little did I know then, death can be just the beginning.

Former Field Coordinator for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, Alicia Bonner Ness saw there was a disconnect between passion and action. Whether you're itching to start a movement, in the midst of building a mission-driven brand, or rebranding an organization, Purpose Power will inspire you to imagine new possibilities.

Comic books transcend space and time.Regardless of one's grasp of language, comic books allow the reader to insert themselves into the action by way of simple, exciting four colour graphics.Centered around Canadian war stories within American comic books, the comics featured in this book have a unique spirit to them and play a colourful role in popular culture and history storytelling.

2021 Silver Medal IPPY Awards Winner for Best Regional Fiction!∩╗┐Rusty barbed wire and distant AM radio-Montana hid my secrets for almost fifty years.Then a young reporter arrived in a beat-up Impala. Her assignment, WWII Homecoming Memories, had uncovered a puzzling lead about several dead men last seen riding a train with a red-headed nurse. I could have lied, but she reminded me of myself at that age so I rolled a cigarette and told her all of it. She spilled coffee on my table.Her research started in New York. In choosing soldiers to profile, she included her hometown and discovered her great uncle, reported MIA in 1944, bought a train ticket to Browning, Montana, three months after they buried his empty casket. Impossible, yet on two consecutive pages, she counted 14 tickets to Browning-a village on the Blackfeet Reservation. The National Archives showed that 13 of those men shared the same distinct status: Missing in Action.I know where those passengers are.Southwest of Browning, where the plains run into the Rockies, stands a church. Once it represented everything good in our country, a tiny church built in 1913 by a young man for his wedding. Only four people attended the bride''s funeral in 1918. Her twin babies slept through the service. Eight months earlier her husband marched into World War I and he never returned.My story starts and ends at that little church, but in between, the darkest hours of mankind churned through Europe. Some of that darkness found its way to Montana. As bad as it ended, I wondered if the Lord forgives murder. As it turns out, sometimes yes, sometimes definitely no.