J J Allen: 221 books

Life isn’t always pretty. Things happen. We dream. People leave. Hope dies. We fight. We cry. We walk away. But we survive. Our victories on the mountain are determined by how we walk through the valleys of the night. The worst thing you can ever do is sleep through the night, wake up, and still cry...

PI Jim Bean should walk out that door and let the Vegas bouncer do his worst. That's what an ordinary man would do. But nobody ever accused Jim Bean of being ordinary. Private investigator Jim Bean has worked hard to create his new identity in Vegas. He doesn't have a great life, but it's his....

Winged by J.C. Allen   Winged is a fantastical novel about redemption. Follow Jules, a Black Wing, as he tries to bring his people back into the light of day and away from the oppression of the supposedly superior, and deadly, race: the White Wings. Jules must put everything...

Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed...

Once there was a Quechua folktale. It begins with a trickster fox's penis with a will of its own and ends with a daughter returning to parents who cannot recognize her until she recounts the uncanny adventures that have befallen her since she ran away from home. Following the strange twists and turnings...

9 Tales Powered By Steampunk Table of Contents 1. "Blazing Bodices" by Robert Jeschonek 2. "From the Files of Her Majesty's Clandestine Service" by James Palmer 3. "Aetherium, Book 1: Assassins of the Steam Age" by Joseph Robert Lewis 4. "Heart" by Leslie Claire Walker 5. "Riding the Mainspring"...

Four years of Penny Dread Tales have revealed some fantastic talent. In this edition we’ve collected the cream of the crop. Herein lies the very Best of Penny Dread Tales: fourteen stories of boiler-splitting steampunk with a blend of sci-fi, paranormal, western, and horror. These stories will take...

This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses...

Time for an old-school thriller. Time for My Bridge Over the River Kwai.   Fast-paced and edgy, My Bridge Over the River Kwai centers on a little-known and very real nuclear explosion that took place on September 22, 1979 in the vast emptiness of the Southern Atlantic. Despite being recorded...

A venerable resource for more than a century, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar is still regarded by students and teachers as the finest Latin reference grammar available. Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, it is unrivaled in depth and clarity, placing a wealth of advice on usage, vocabulary,...

A New Model for Post-Apologetic Preaching in a Pluralistic World. The relationship between preaching and the public sphere has long been debated. Three different theological approaches tend to dominate the discussion. In different ways, these approaches take into account the movement from the...

Authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy redefine what we think of as traditional leadership in this tangible book that ascribes flexible yet concrete and proven actions to what can be a very abstract term. Rather than delving into lengthy exposition and analysis to help you understand what leadership...

This book, originally published in 1939, comprises a series of letters written by American author J. Allen Boone to the late Strongheart, née Etzel von Oringer, the hugely popular German Shepherd film star of the 1920’s. A true actor, Strongheart was the hero of six movies, has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—and even beat a murder charge! A must for all animal-lovers.

Penny Reed’s hopes for the future came to a crashing halt when her father died, making her a ward of the state. Knowing her grandfather was still alive and recognizing she’d never survive in the “system,” she stole her father’s boat and sailed away. Forrest Reed was a man who danced...