John Chapman: 59 books

George Middlebrooks is a young man who inherited from his deceased parents an old house and ten acres in the country. He decides to live in it even though it has no running water or electricity. But there is a spring on the property. And he has interesting neighbors: a Black couple, Benny and Miranda,...

Harland Deville is an unfortunate person in many ways: unfortunate childhood circumstances, an unfortunate accident, a bewildering love life, and unfortunately he suffers from an uncommon type of psychosis. Because of that he struggles with himself in uncommon ways. Like many people, young or old,...

Nayhoom and Naomi, in East Tennessee, struggle against dastardly mounting consequences caused by global warming. They struggle with the suppression of a humanity lost to the aberrant circumstance of insane heat and foul weather. They are managing to stay one step ahead, but she is pregnant. They deal...

We all come from seed, sperm and egg. And then there are seedy people of which no one admits to being, scattering their seeds to the four winds with impunity. Procreation seems to be a human imperative, as if spreading your seed secures a measure of immortality. Only people are so arrogant, and any...

My name is Frank Baker. My story takes place in that part of the South, where you have the hindlick maneuver and say doodie instead of duty. You have light doodie, heavy doodie, and super doodie; with the use of each you make a joke; where intellectualizing may employ a complicated term such as Topsy...

The prolonged and event filled Christmas school break in 1957, spent at home interacting with local neighbors and friends, is a time of change and great danger for an exceptional twelve year old Darvin Gamble. Possessing a unique dower of wisdom beyond his years he suffers with strange dream behavior and ensuing troubled notions about himself and his place in the world.

Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern...

What lies buried in the murky waters of the Louisiana Bayou?  What does a message and an old photo album have to do with Donna's mother? Is she still alive? Who is Constance Manning, and what is her connection with Donna's mother? Where and what is Spirit Canyon, and what important secret...

We fear pandemics but what if a pandemic made you immortal? Dr Donna Rigden is fed up with her job. When she loses the most important person in her life, she makes plans to start over. When this falls through, she resigns - big mistake. Donna is now on Forrest's hit list. Convinced to make...

285 military "leadership situations" and the actions leaders have taken--and some real surprises. Emphasis on practical applications of leadership, coupled with real-life vignettes add the real spark to the leadership lessons learned and relearned by each generation of America's warriors. Applicable to business, corporate, and organizational leadership.

The Lean Machines are genuine experts in health and happiness and have helped thousands of people get lean and strong through their work as personal trainers and on their hugely popular YouTube channel. Champions of balance, moderation and individuality, their advice is sensible, accessible, and not...

Pope Honorius, who served as pope during the 7th century, is infamous for being considered by some a heretic, thereby calling into question the infallibility of the papacy.

This book is designed to help administrators and developers better automate Azure management tasks. No prior knowledge of PowerShell is required.

The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European...