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Set against the backdrop of the early 1990's Boston music scene, "The Suicide Flowers Book Two: Roots" delves into the profound impact of music, family, and personal aspirations on teens Raeburn and Gabriel. Though their relationships with music differ, both share a common yearning for emotional understanding and validation. Raeburn finds unwavering support and guidance from his mother, who serves as his primary role model, whereas Gabriel grapples with a frequently absent father and a stepmother battling early onset dementia. With a laser focus, Raeburn relentlessly pursues his dream of rock 'n' roll stardom with his band, Aluminum Jesus, while Gabriel seeks solace in music as a devoted fan, following the fledgling band's ascent to fame. Their divergent paths eventually intersect, revealing shared struggles and long-hidden secrets that threaten to disrupt their journeys. In this compelling coming-of-age tale, "The Suicide Flowers Book Two: Roots" intricately weaves themes of identity, familydysfunction, and the pursuit of dreams against the odds, offering a gripping exploration of youth and music.

As a teen, Jennifer LeBlanc flees her rural hometown of Modock, Maine after the deaths of her parents and vows never to return. While attending Harvard Business School on a full scholarship, Jennifer meets and falls in love with Bradley Maderon, a financial genius who runs Boston's largest hedge fund. Jennifer becomes the CFO of Bradley's empire, but when he is arrested and the government seizes all of their assets, Jennifer is forced to return to Maine and confront the trauma that she has repressed all of these years. With the help of her sister's Great Danes, Angel and Mercy, Jennifer searches for a way to overcome her grief, learn to appreciate the gifts that life gives, and, perhaps, to find love.

You see them every day, the suicide flowers. They bloom from the cracks and crevices of concrete sidewalks. From between asphalt creases and gaps. Yet these flowers blossom and prosper until the careless foot tramples. Others wither and fade, having survived, despite their strained and dubious foundations. Raeburn Messiah, the Messiah of Metal, sings for a living. Currently, he's on the downward spiral that unfaithful fame loves so dearly. He feels that he's got it bad, his life is over. That is, until he meets one of his most adoring fans, Gabriel, who has but months to live due to the complications of leukemia. They are men, both dying slow, painful deaths. But, each carries a secret that could save the other. For Raeburn and Gabriel are the suicide flowers, doomed to be trampled, destined to flourish.

This book from Pete Conrad marks his entry into the literate arts. Songs written while at work when he should have been working, poetry about the Middle-Class American Disaster, short stories that explore the literary process of creating novels, and essays written while an adult student at the University of South Florida. 104070 (tenfortyseventy) documents the life of a budding author and thinker.

Marcus, an enforcer in Los Angeles' largest drug cartel, is gravely wounded while on cartel business in Colombia. While recuperating back in LA, Marcus falls in love with Sabrina, the adopted daughter of ex-cartel member, Max Brutus. When Sabrina doesn't reciprocate Marcus' overbearing exultations of love, he enlists the guidance of his seemingly shrewd Uncle Sein, the cartel's second-in-command, to assist him in navigating his feelings. Sein, who also suffers from his own emotional deficiencies, is eager to help his nephew, and concocts a plan to bring Marcus and Sabrina together. With one hasty decision, Sein ignites a series of events that results in colossal misunderstandings, unimaginable jealousy, and deadly consequences. As Marcus and Sein are forced to confront the brutal aftermath, each man embarks upon a personal, spiritual journey. Along the way, they both discover the love that exists in their hearts, and perhaps, how to make peace with their inner demons.

In the near future, an army of a half million Russian, North Korean, and Middle-Eastern soldiers launches a coordinated offensive, invading the United States with unparalleled precision. They call themselves the People's Liberating Army - the PLA. May and Winston Sparrow live directly on the PLA's route to sack Atlanta and gain control of the airport. The Sparrows, married fifty years, don't intend to flee the looming invasion. Like many others in the tiny town of Johnsonville, Georgia, they dig in and make preparations. Winston, a retired structural engineer, devises a simple strategy - build a false wall inside their small barn and wait out the offensive, hidden inside. They have enough supplies to last a while, but to the Sparrows' horror, instead of just passing through, the PLA converts their property into a headquarters, and their secret sanctuary becomes an unwelcome front row seat to the atrocities of war. What will you do when the United States is invaded?