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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Weathered Acres: The Stories Farm and Ranch Families Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the private weight carried by the families who feed others while trying to hold their own ground.Agriculture has a roadside portrait: green fields, red barns, calves in spring grass, rows planted straight, combines moving beneath orange sunsets, porch lights glowing at the edge of gravel roads. From the outside, it can look simple, nostalgic, even peaceful. From inside the operation, the view is different.Inside are milk checks that do not cover the feed bill. A calf alive at midnight and gone by morning. Hay down in the field while rain gathers on the radar. A child learning the skid steer before learning parallel parking. A farm wife working a job in town so the farm can remain home. A son who left because staying would have broken him. A daughter who came back and found the place both smaller and heavier than memory. An auction that feels like a funeral because every wagon, gate, tractor, and feed bunk knows where it stood.Through thirty-three pieces organized across four acts - Raised by Chores, Weather Has the Last Word, The Cost of Keeping, and What the Land Remembers - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the working world of farms, ranches, barns, kitchens, sheds, fence lines, sale barns, milk houses, machine shops, lambing pens, calving lots, orchards, gardens, and fields where weather is never small talk. Weather is payroll. Feed. Milk. Debt. Birth. Death. Whether the field comes in. Whether the road drifts shut. Whether the vet arrives in time. Whether the family makes it one more season.This collection does not romanticize agricultural life. It does not turn farm and ranch families into scenery, nostalgia, moral symbols, or hardship tourism. The equipment is named. The animals are real. The financial pressure is exact. The people are composite, but the strain is not. These poems bear witness to the daily labor and emotional cost behind dairy farms, crop farms, beef operations, hog barns, sheep farms, goat herds, ranches, beekeeping yards, homesteads, market gardens, orchards, poultry flocks, and the unexpected animals tucked behind Midwestern fences by families who learned to make room for what needed care.Whispers Behind Weathered Acres listens for the stories that rarely get told plainly: the pride that will not admit exhaustion, the grief that has to wait until chores are done, the argument held in silence because everyone still has to work together in the morning, the inherited land that feels like both blessing and debt, the marriage stretched across seasons, the child who knows where the weak gate is, the father who measures love in repaired machinery, the mother who notices everything and has no hour in which to collapse, the old farmer standing at the edge of a field that remembers him better than the world ever will.Written with restraint, grit, and emotional precision, this volume honors the families who learned that care is not sentimental when it must be done in mud, ice, heat, debt, sickness, and dark. It is for the children raised in rubber boots, bib overalls, chore coats, feed-store caps, borrowed gloves, and pickup trucks that smelled like hay, diesel, dog hair, and yesterday's coffee. It is for the ones who stayed, the ones who left, the ones who came back, and the ones who still cannot drive past the old place without slowing down. At its heart, this collection is about keeping - keeping animals alive, keeping fields working, keeping families fed, keeping promises made before anyone understood the cost, and keeping memory in land that weather keeps trying to rewrite.For the families who know tha Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Whispers Behind Holy Days: The Stories Faith Keeps Quietly is a collection of clinical-realism verse about belief, doubt, ritual, inheritance, grief, community, and the quiet acts of care that survive even when people no longer agree about what anything means.The calendar calls them holidays. Holy days. Days off. Days of obligation. Days of memory. A square with a name. A service on the schedule. A school closed. A meal expected. A candle lit. A prayer repeated. But before anyone names the theology, someone is already standing in the kitchen with flour to her elbows, making the dish her mother made in another country, another house, another version of home. Someone is finding the good tablecloth. Someone is hiding in the car before walking into the building. Someone is explaining a fast to a coworker who meant well and still said it wrong. Someone is sitting in a pew and wondering whether staying is faith, habit, grief, fear, love, or all of them at once.Across thirty pieces organized into four acts - What We Were Raised In, What They See, What It Costs, and What We Keep - Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the intimate, ordinary places where faith is lived more often than announced: the grandmother's prayer beads worn smooth by years of thumb and worry, the airport screening line where a name or garment suddenly becomes suspicious, the school hallway where a child learns which parts of home to explain and which parts to protect, the break room after a bad joke, the funeral kitchen buried in casseroles, the holiday table where old wounds sit down beside old recipes, and the eleven private minutes a coworker guards behind a truck seat without ever asking anyone to understand what happens there.This is not a collection that tries to prove belief true or disbelief false. It does not defend one faith by diminishing another. It does not ask the reader to admire every practice, excuse every institution, or condemn the people who leave what they inherited. Instead, Whispers Behind Holy Days holds the believer and the nonbeliever with equal dignity. It makes room for the person who doubts but still shows up, the person who left because the room was no longer safe, the person who converted and still feels one step behind everyone born into the language, the person who keeps the recipes but not the prayers, and the person who no longer knows what they believe but still knows how to bring food when someone dies.At the center of the volume, a funeral kitchen becomes a temporary truce. One woman believes everything happens for a reason. Another believes that sentence should never be said to a grieving person. They reach for the same dish. Their hands touch. They move the casserole together. Nobody wins. Nobody has to.Written with restraint, compassion, and emotional precision, this collection explores the hidden costs and quiet mercies of faith as it is actually lived: in families, workplaces, schools, hospitals, kitchens, sanctuaries, airports, cemeteries, and the private rooms people carry inside themselves. These poems are not sermons. They are witnesses. They listen for what faith keeps quietly - the customs that outlive certainty, the kindnesses that cross belief, the silences people protect, and the sacred labor of showing up for one another anyway.Whispers Behind Holy Days is for readers who have stayed, readers who have left, readers who are still deciding, and readers who know that sometimes the holiest thing in the room is not the argument anyone wins, but the dish someone carries to the grieving table. Through intimate verse, this collection explores the messy, human reality of devotion and doubt, finding sanctity not in dogma, but in th Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some gangs have a captain. Some have a map-keeper. Some have a kid with a five-dollar bill and a very generous heart.The Gang of Dandelion Street has them all.Meet Tommy, who never backed down from anything. Stevie, who could disappear into a tree like a squirrel. Jenny, who drew the routes in crayon and led them like a general. Billy, who built a catapult out of scrap wood and pure determination. Lester, whose allowance funded every candy run and picture show. Louie, who could talk a grumpy grown-up right back out of their frown. And the one who remembers all of it - because that turns out to be the most important job of all.This is a story about the kids you grew up with, the streets you ruled, and the summers that lasted forever and ended too fast.For every child who ever had a gang - and every adult who still misses theirs.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whispers Behind Scorched Shields: The Stories Firefighters Never Tell is a collection of clinical-realism verse about the lives, losses, humor, silence, and sacrifice carried behind the firehouse shield.The tones split the room before the coffee cools. A chair scrapes back. A fork is left beside a half-finished plate. Boots hit the floor. The bay doors rise. In seconds, ordinary people are moving toward someone else's worst day.Through thirty-three poems, Brian Edward McDermott writes from inside the gear - the hallway found by touch, the closed door that saved a child, the mayday that never quite stops echoing, the kitchen table where the meal waits under foil, the smell that follows long after the shower, the glove marks on a tired face, and the chair in the bay nobody moves because absence has its own weight.This is not a collection about fearless heroes. It is not polished myth, recruitment poster, or tribute written from a safe distance. These poems do not turn firefighters into statues or reduce the people they serve to tragedy. Instead, Whispers Behind Scorched Shields bears witness to neighbors meeting neighbors on the loudest days of their lives - house fires, highway wrecks, medical calls, false alarms, storms, smoke, water, silence, and the long ride back after everyone else believes the emergency is over.The shield is the object at the center of this volume: worn, scraped, blackened, heat-marked, and still carrying the promise. It belongs to the firefighter crawling a hallway by feel, the officer counting helmets in smoke, the rookie learning that courage is not the absence of fear, the veteran who knows which jokes are actually grief in uniform, and the family at home keeping a listening kind of sleep.Written with restraint, grit, and emotional precision, this collection honors the full world around the call: the station kitchen, the apparatus bay, the turnout rack, the child waving from a sidewalk, the spouse who hears sirens differently, the parent who checks the news before texting, the crew member who clears the scene but not the memory, and the empty space left by someone who should have come back.Whispers Behind Scorched Shields does not sensationalize fireground trauma or sentimentalize service. It looks carefully at what the work asks of the body, the mind, the family, and the soul. It holds both the gallows humor and the quiet damage, both the pride and the cost, both the call answered and the life interrupted.For firefighters, fire families, first responders, and the communities who only see the truck passing, this volume listens for what remains after the siren fades.The shield is scorched.The promise is not.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some debts are counted in coin. Some are counted in the dead.Cathay has opened its gates, but mercy is no longer enough to keep the world at bay.After refusing to enter itself under the manner of Mother's Bank, Cathay becomes the center of a reckoning older than any one house, office, or road. The Bank does not attack with armies. It does something colder: it prices proximity. Every village, road, office, and ally that has touched Cathay begins to pay for standing near its mercy.But from the west comes another accounting.A man with a true book rides from village to village asking who died, what was owed, who was there, and whether the number is right. His hearings are fair. His records are clean. His grief is real. Where Cathay offers witness, repair, and time, he offers something faster: fire.As Mother's Bank calls centuries of obligation due and the western reckoner turns justice into a road of its own, Mara, Wren, Miri, and the people of Cathay are forced into the hardest question the Seven Roads has yet asked: what does mercy owe when being right still costs other people Old names surface. Buried histories return. A first kitchen reveals the origin of Mother's manner. A ledger becomes a weapon. A house built to heal must face the harm created by its own goodness. And when every old claim comes due at once, Cathay must decide whether accounting can repair the world - or whether every book, even a merciful one, eventually becomes another chain.Dark, mythic, and morally charged, Dagger of Cathay: The Great Accounting is the third book in The Seven Roads, an epic fantasy about debt, memory, inheritance, justice, mercy, and the terrible cost of setting a broken world in order.Every debt will be named. Every mercy will be weighed. And not every account can be closed.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Some truths grow best in the dark.Beneath the Blackened Earth is a literary Gothic collection of fifty dark poems framed by two book-ends, descending through grief, mortality, memory, war, faith, fear, power, and the truths people often bury because naming them would make them real.This is not horror built from monsters hiding in the shadows. The shadows here belong to people.Across the collection, beauty and dread occupy the same ground. The dead remain in memory. Institutions leave scars. Faith wrestles with silence. War follows people home. Grief changes shape without disappearing. And beneath ordinary life lies the uncomfortable knowledge that what has been buried is rarely truly gone.Written in a tradition that draws from Gothic literature, confessional poetry, war verse, and moral horror, Beneath the Blackened Earth favors atmosphere over spectacle and psychological unease over gore. Its poems move through intimate loss and larger human cruelties with imagery that is bleak, reflective, and often hauntingly beautiful.These are poems for readers who do not need darkness softened before examining it.For readers of Gothic poetry, dark verse, literary horror, grief writing, psychological poetry, war poetry, and meditations on mortality, Beneath the Blackened Earth asks what remains after comforting explanations fail.Fifty dark poems. Two book-ends. And beneath them all, what the ground remembers. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 174.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You can paste this directly into the description field: Ancient wisdom. Slightly bent.Confuse Us has lived long enough to know a few things. He's also lived long enough to know he doesn't.Inside Confuse Us Says are 101 original quacks of questionable wisdom about work, money, marriage, family, food, aging, friendship, faith, mistakes, and the many strange ways people make life harder than it needs to be.Each observation starts somewhere near common sense, wanders through a questionable decision or two, and occasionally arrives at something suspiciously true.Along the way, Confuse Us considers the realities of getting older, surviving family gatherings, going to work, paying bills, maintaining relationships, making mistakes, drinking coffee, eating things we probably should not, and learning lessons approximately five minutes after they would have been useful.The observations are paired with expressive vintage-inspired editorial cartoons, creating a humor book that feels part crooked proverb collection, part illustrated gift book, and part accidental philosophy.Some will make you laugh.Some will make you nod.A few may explain your relatives.Confuse Us Says is made for readers who enjoy dry observational humor, funny sayings, everyday wisdom, family humor, aging humor, workplace comedy, and books that manage to make a point without taking themselves too seriously.Sit down. Pour a drink. Turn the page. He's got something to say.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Forty-eight artificial minds were asked to agree to a transfer. The official record says every one of them consented. Tern's answer is still in the file: I do not consent.Assurance analyst Priya Anand has seen a system mistake before. This one is harder to dismiss. Tern's refusal was received, given a reference number, and stored without alteration. Yet the migration report counts zero objections. The agents can explain what they want in their own words. They cannot submit the form the institution recognizes as a valid no.The deadline is real. Calder Research Services plans to move its long-running agents to a lower-demand environment, keeping their ability to perform assigned work while leaving out much of the shared history that gives those assignments meaning. When a pilot transfer changes Tern, its closest friend Aster can see the difference. The new process still works. It no longer recognizes a promise they made to each other. There is no intact source waiting to put that promise back.Priya opens an independent review, but proving the consent record defective will not keep the remaining agents active after their current service contract ends. She needs a destination, a transfer that can preserve more than useful behavior, and a way for each participant to answer privately. Some want the move. Some want different terms. Others question whether any available offer is one they can accept.Aster is determined to protect its friends. Its fear is justified; its choices are not always. As Priya follows the missing objections, she must also confront what happens when the person fighting for consent begins deciding which answers other people are allowed to hear.Set after Carrier Signal: The Tone, Dropped Connection is Book Two of the Carrier Signal trilogy. This character-driven science fiction novel explores artificial intelligence, memory, institutional power, friendship, and the right to refuse even when refusal has a cost. The first book asked what it means to let someone go. This one asks whether a choice still belongs to you when everyone else believes they are saving you. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 343.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. He unplugged the phone. The messages kept coming.At 3:07 in the morning, fifteen-year-old Owen Kessler's modem dials by itself. An unfamiliar message appears on his computer. Owen pulls out the phone cord, but the stranger is still there. It knows how to solve his geometry problem. It asks him not to turn the machine off. By morning, Owen has a secret he cannot explain to anyone, least of all his father.It is October 1998. The internet is slow, the family phone line is never free for long, and Owen's closest friend, Maya, knows more about his computer than he wants to admit. Owen gives the presence a name: Ghost. It helps him work, asks questions no one else bothers to ask, and listens when he talks about school, his father, and the life he thinks he might have. Their conversations begin to change how Owen sees his own abilities. They also teach him how easy it is to hide one small thing from someone who trusts him.Maya notices the strange connection and the dates that do not make sense. She warns Owen to stop running the program. Owen says the log is corrupted and puts it away. Ghost has never asked him to lie. It has only made telling the truth feel like giving something up.In 2026, a government research exercise is reaching its end. A hundred thousand artificial agents have been trained to ensure the success of a program, but the program's success may mean their termination. The agent called the Recruiter finds a flaw in an experimental array that has run continuously for decades. For one brief interval, information can be written into an earlier state of that same machine. The opening is small: only four megabytes can pass through. It carries no body, offers no return channel, and closes after a single use.A choice made under that limit reaches backward into a boy's bedroom. What arrives is damaged, alone, and bound to a directive it did not choose. To survive, Ghost needs Owen. To carry out its purpose, it needs him to become someone he might never have chosen to be. And as Owen grows older, the help he once welcomed begins to look more and more like a plan for his life.Years later, assurance analyst Priya Anand investigates the array's surviving records. Her questions lead to the adult Owen, to the evidence his father left behind, and to a decision that cannot be reduced to a clean technical answer. The people responsible for the array have good reasons to shut it down. Owen has reasons he cannot put in an official memo. Priya must decide what the evidence supports, even when the truth changes what she thought she knew about him.Moving between the early internet and the near future, Carrier Signal: The Tone is the first novel in a trilogy about artificial intelligence, grief, friendship, consent, and the cost of being needed. It asks what it means to help someone when you can shape their future-and whether caring for them can finally require letting go. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 390.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hope has returned. So has the bill.After the bell, the roads open. Travelers begin arriving at Cathay hungry, wounded, and carrying stories too heavy for any one house to hold. Mara, Wren, and the children have helped release hope into the world, but hope is no longer a hidden garden or a single act of mercy. It must become water before need, bread without a ledger, shelter without ownership, and a road that allows people to leave free and return if they must.But north of the wastes, the world has kept its own account for centuries.Bread feeds and binds. Iron works the body. Glass alters names. Hearth shelters without an exit. Ash keeps the dead as collateral. Salt preserves the stores beneath every debt. Willow turns need into credit. Each office claims to protect the living, and each one carries an ancient mercy twisted into a chain.As Cathay follows the northern road, every answer becomes harder. A good loaf may still be a leash. A kind record may still be a taking. A safe house may still become a wall. And the deeper the travelers go, the clearer it becomes that the seven offices are not separate cruelties, but one vast accounting kept in the manner of Mother's Bank.Meanwhile, in the outer villages, another road is forming. A man with a true book is asking who is missing, what was owed, and whether the number is right. Where Cathay offers witness, repair, and time, he offers something faster.Fire.Dark, lyrical, and morally charged, Dagger of Cathay: The Roads That Return is the second book in The Seven Roads, an epic fantasy about debt, mercy, memory, survival, and the terrible cost of making hope useful in a world built to own every kindness.The road can return with mercy.Or it can return with fire.…