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|  | | Counteract: Book One of the Resistance Series Who can you trust when your world unravels and everything you believed is a lie?
The Office of Civilian Safety and Defense has guarded the public against the rampant threat of terrorism for the last fifteen years with the full backing of the US government. Their carefully crafted list of Civilian Restrictions means no concerts or sporting events, no travel, no social media, no cash transactions, and no driver's licenses for eighteen-year-olds Tommy and Careen. The OCSD has even outlawed grocery stores, all in the name of safety.
Now there's a new threat: airborne chemical weapons that could be activated at any time. But the OCSD has an antidote: three drops a da | |  | | Fips, Bots, Doggeries, and More Based on the travel journal of Henry Rogers, an Ohio businessman and miller, who traveled by horse and wagon from Cincinnati to New York City in the summer and fall of 1838. 165 years later, I made my own journey along the same path as Henry, my great-great-great grandfather.
Henry Rogers was a miller who lived and worked in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio during most of the 19th Century. In 1838, Henry, his wife, and her parents traveled from their home in southwestern Ohio to New York City via horse-drawn wagon. Henry, a literate businessman with diverse interests, kept a daily journal to "mention all interesting subjects and things that come under my observation."
Henry recorded observations of and thoughts about landforms and waterways, soil and crops, buildings other architectural features, mills and other forms of industry, places and inst | |  | | Given Moments Life Can Be Everything You Never Expected. The stories in this book, collected from people of different ages and backgrounds, are entertaining and inspiring. It is a book by 63 people, written for everyone.
A pastor and a tap dancer, both aspiring writers, met through their teenagers and began a long-distance friendship. Given Moments, their first collaboration, is about finding grace, hope, and humor in life's unplanned moments.
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