Michael Foster

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

"Men were made to rule. They always have and always will. Nothing can change that. Nothing will. It is not a question of whether men will be ruling, but which ones and how." From It's Good to Be a ManOur modern society has called for us to "smash the patriarchy," and the church has not done much better. Instead of telling men how they can hone and refine their aggressive traits, the church has told men that they should aspire to be meek servant-leaders, and when a man shows any signs of independence, he is shown the door. This leaves most young men lost. They don't know what to do or how to improve, so they watch Jordan Peterson videos on YouTube to learn how to grow in their masculinity and sense of mission.In this book, Michael Foster and Bnonn Tennant remind men that their natural aggressive instincts are gifts from God that are meant to be used for the kingdom. Men are supposed to found households, join brotherhoods, and work towards a mission. It's Good to Be A Man offers men a quick guide to where they are and how they can improve. God made men to be strong and aggressive risk-takers. This is a feature, not a bug. Foster and Tennant remind us that it's good to be a man.

The Serpent's Kissby Michael FosterThe Serpent's Kiss is the enthralling power struggle of love and war set during Colonial times, the most crucial and colorful period of the American pageant. The exploration, conflicts, and cultures of the French and Indian War (1754 - 63) invented America, a new country more ethnically diverse and open to opportunity than anything the world had seen. Our birth has shaped our institutions and collective emotions to this day. The Serpent's Kiss, classically written and carefully researched, is brimming with sensuality featuring the roles actually played by women, Indians, blacks, Irish soldiers, German farmers, Jewish merchants, religious sects, and personalities such as George Washington, Ben Franklin, Major General Edward Braddock, Commander of British armies in North America, Shingas, Teedyuscung and Daniel Boone. The love/hate relationship between the British, French, and Indians, bear a striking resemblance to our time. Bloody wilderness warfare, Evangelical revival, savage sexuality, and gracious homes and manners all went hand in hand. Life was often short but thrilling at a time when epidemic disease was rampant and torture and terror acceptable means of conquest.Robin Sayer, the bright, pampered son of a famous actress, is saved from the gallows by Joanna Dove, a darkly beautiful, charismatic preacher of "the end of days" and our story's main woman character. Joanna, part-Indian, with flowing dark hair, a temptress with golden eyes, is based on an actual women preacher of the 18th century. The historic revival that she embodies-- the so-called Great Awakening-- alarmingly anticipates the fundamentalism rising in America today. Like certain of our contemporary preachers, politicians, and media giants, Joanna's apocalyptic vision gets tangled with her simmering sexuality.

What was it that Alicia heard, groggy from sleep? Later that day, she takes a break from school assignments and ventures outside, stunned and confused to find her Mom and Dad frozen inside an amber bubble. No matter how loud she screams or how hard she beats on the bubble, her parents don't respond. The frightened teenager has a gut-wrenching feeling that she is the only one who can free them as she realizes the Wild Side has been calling her. Three years older now, our heroine Alicia is on the annual family visit to their mountain cabin in the wilds of Idaho. This is the last summer before starting high school and she finds herself spending more time in the cabin completing summer assignments made by her teachers than doing her normal mountain cabin activities: exploration, discovery, and games of imagination. On a particularly normal day, Alicia takes a break from her school assignments and ventures outside expecting to see her father Richard chopping or stacking wood, and her mother Katie focused on her latest painting of the beautiful surroundings. She was stunned and confused to find them both seemingly frozen, trapped inside an amber-colored bubble. No matter how loud she screamed or how hard she beat on the bubble, her parents did not move a muscle, nor did they breathe. The frightened teenager has a gut-wrenching feeling that she is the only one who could save them. Alicia had heard unusual sounds during this visit as if someone or something was calling to her. With the discovery of her parents in amber, she had the sudden realization that the Wild Side might be calling her back. This time, she prepared herself by filling a backpack with things she did not have three years ago when she somehow walked through the portal to the other side. With food, supplies, and an extra layer of clothes, she ventures on the most important adventure she has had in her short life. Somehow, Alicia knew she had to get back to the wild side to free her parents from the bubble and she knew that she must be prepared for anything. Once on the other side, Alicia finds herself fearing for her life in the search for answers to the mystery that holds her parents captive. She befriends Tawny, a frighteningly beautiful cougar who becomes her ally and protector when Alicia decides to look for "The Ancients", beings that her friends in the Wild Side had talked about three years ago. She felt in her heart that they could help her free her parents but could they. More importantly - would they?

In the wilds of Idaho, an adventurous young girl stumbles into an alternate dimension that's plagued by a tyrannical creature and faces a life-threatening curse as she struggles to find courage, strength and her way home. The environmental elements of the story are especially relevant now, as is the strong female protagonist. Eleven-year-old Alicia encounters unusual, surprising friends and terrifying enemies as she embarks on an unexpected and magical journey in nature. While enjoying the lake with her father, as they do every year, Alicia gets lost during a rainstorm and ends up transported to a different and unfamiliar place with no idea where she is or how she got there. The story takes the reader to a land not so far from home, yet farther than imagined, perhaps another realm, that looks much like what we see around us on earth today, but nothing is what it seems. Alicia sets out on a difficult journey to try and discover a way home, finding compassion and friendship along the way. She meets a squirrel named Mickey, a jay named Briar, and Fiona the enigmatic deer, who help her fight terrible foes and comes face to face with Bristleback, the fearsome mountain troll. These friends help each other in every way imaginable through both moments of adventure and terror. Though Alicia and her friends help each other overcome crippling fear, can they find a way to stop "The Drying" which threatens them all? "The Passage At Moose Beach is an enchantingly magical tale about finding friends in the unlikeliest of people and working together with them to achieve your wildest dreams."

Return to the expansive world of the Lakota Sioux as that Native American nation tries to maintain its unique identity. This third in a series of four novels follows the lives of a single family in the tumultuous years between 1865 to present day - and beyond.