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WHAT MAKES A HERO STRONG? THE VILLAIN. Aaron Annwyn is determined to destroy the Secret Society that has ruled his life for the past few years. The demands placed upon him have harmed his relationships and strained his psyche. Can Diana, his co-conspirator until now, be trusted? Or should he depend on Sasha, a beautiful computer guru, with whom he begins a relationship? Regardless, his resolve is now greater than ever to defeat the powerful ad...

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Even Heroes Have Their FlawsHe sold his soul to save her life.For Aaron Annwyn to rescue Diana, he must continue time-shifting with the Secret Society. His mission takes him to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci to undertake the most infamous fraud of all time, a copy of the Holy Shroud.Hell-bent on destroying the SSJ, he uncovers their dark web, copying information that will devastate the group. Unexpectedly, his heart is torn by a beguiling 15t...

Every Myth Has A Hero Aaron Annwyn is a student in his final year at a Welsh Grammar School, when he accidentally trips through a portal to King Arthur's Britain. In order to continue his time shifting, he must solve complex problems and overcome adversity. He leads a double life, split between the medieval world of knights and battles and his present-day family and friends. He falls in love with the beautiful but doomed Dindraney, and becomes...

Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir, recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers. Through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in...

In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall's long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet's signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language, surprising metaphor, humour, irony, idiomatic speech, and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom.

In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall's long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet's signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language, surprising metaphor, humour, irony, idiomatic speech, and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom.

In just five lines, Jo McDougall can make you shudder. Her poems are often as stark and open as their settings - the Kansas plains and Southern bottomlands. But in these wide fields and hot kitchens, on these front porches where ordinary people tell their stories, the everyday becomes fabled, truth becomes hallowed. To C. D. Wright, McDougall writes "a lean, stoic line, each poem makes its mark, like spit". In those lines, McDougall brings to ...

." . . a first-rate book of poems full of sad knowledge but richer with wisdom and the earned refinement of art." -George Garrett

In her second book of poetry, Jo McDougall takes her readers to the dusty prairie towns of the central states, places where the flat terrain belies a complex human landscape. In short, dceptively simple lines, McDougall can so keenly trace the lineaments of place and era that her subject stands before us, its essence displayed and made timeless. Quietly, with an almost aphoristic bit, McDougall writes about ordinary lives and small towns in a ...

C.D. Wright has said that Jo McDougall writes a lean stoic line, each poem makes its mark, like spit. With precise clarity McDougall brings to life farmers, dressmakers, widows, and waitresses so that we take part in the strange delights and tangled mysteries of their faltering lives.