L B Young: 13 books

"I will lend you my power, at a cost."   Year 2212. Merrix, a young man living in an isolated junkyard on the outskirts of the city of Tempest, finds himself questioning his life purpose. With hardly any recollection of his past, Merrix's sudden eagerness to seek his meaning causes...

"I will lend you my power, at a cost." Year 2212. Merrix, a young man living in an isolated junkyard on the outskirts of the city of Tempest, finds himself questioning his life purpose. With hardly any recollection of his past, Merrix's sudden eagerness to seek his meaning causes him to wander...

“You are never alone.” The chaos continues.  Merrix and the Bold Fizers must make moves, fast!  Now that the Bone-Eyes gang is after them with a thirst for vengeance there is nowhere to hide.  Merrix continues to host internal quarrels with the shadow while dealing with...

“Alone in the darkness, you will drown.” Merrix, and now others, are becoming aware of this thing inside of him.  Despite Tixi’s attempt to aid him there is an impending world event that will forever change their lives.  Escape, capture, recovery and a confrontation with another are mere samples of what is to come in this third installation of the Void series.

“You are a vessel…to them a weapon.” Merrix finds himself escaping death yet again as fire blaze where they once stood.  Merrix discovers he is not alone and mere decisions nearly cost him his family.  Not everything is as it seems as he will soon find out.  A majestic...

This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...

Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because...

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?     During the Pleistocene era, the people now...

Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis. There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help...

Quo vadis?-Where are you going?-is an appropriate question to ask of the current evangelical movement. To get a bearing on evangelical thought and assess future directions, the editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas J. Köstenberger, has gathered selected addresses from...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...