Multiple Bram Stoker Award nominee Wayne Allen Sallee has been wooing audiences with his tight prose and distinctly Chicago wit for over thirty years. This collection of poems and prose harken back to the tough streets of Chicago in the mid-to-late 1980's with an immediacy that is timeless and gut-wrenching. Featuring the first appearance of the classic, "Desmond's Inferno," in nearly twenty years.

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Imagine waking up in the midst of a catastrophe. You don't know who you are or why someone tried to kill you. That is the exact situation that Ted finds himself in. He doesn't know what to trust or even why he is rescued by a space cruiser. The cruiser just happens to be on its way towards the biggest calamity in recent star history. Is he a good guy or a bad guy and is he in any involved in the terrorist act on a planetary scale. All the answers to his life and the people around him lie in future time.

This is not just another story of a drug addict. This is a life story that deals with the reality of abandonment, guilt, shame, sexual abuse, and drug addiction. This is the truth about playing the man and learning that forgiveness and love can change any person, no matter the struggle. This is an honest account of the details that happened, and accomplishments that anyone can do and more. This is a journey about how the lack of forgiveness in anyone's life can put a ceiling on spiritual growth. More importantly this is a true testament to the power of God.

2022 Top Five Reference Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God's role in such matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to the present. Starting with the Bible and Apocrypha, Rabbi Wayne Allen takes us through the Talmud; medieval Jewish philosophers and Jewish mystical sources; the Ba'al Shem Tov and his disciples; early modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Luzzatto; and, finally, modern thinkers such as Cohen, Buber, Kaplan, and Plaskow. Each chapter analyzes individual thinkers' arguments and synthesizes their collective ideas on the nature of good and evil and questions of justice. Allen also exposes vastly divergent Jewish thinking about the Holocaust: traditionalist (e.g., Ehrenreich), revisionist (e.g., Rubenstein, Jonas), and deflective (e.g., Soloveitchik, Wiesel). Rabbi Allen's engaging, accessible volume illuminates well-known, obscure, and novel Jewish solutions to the problem of good and evil.