Bøker av Chris Morris

"Embrace the Fear: Dive into 'The Monsters of Paradise' for the thrill-ride of your life!" "A vacation in the Caribbean turns into a nightmare for the Powers' family as they battle aliens on the verge of world domination..." 2016 Kirkus Book Review Synopsis: Tom Powers inherits his grandfather's secluded Yucatan fishing camp, seeking solace with his family. Unbeknownst to them, sinister alien creatures, the Sore - lurk in the jungle. Mutilated animals and chilling howls hint at their presence. Driven by a hunger for human energy, the Sore targets Tom's family. Cut off by an approaching hurricane, they must survive the onslaught. In a race against time, Tom and his loved ones confront terror. Bonds are tested, sacrifices made, and humanity's resilience challenged. Experience The Monsters of Paradise," a gripping tale of survival. Adrenaline-fueled suspense keeps you on the edge, craving more. As the dust settles, echoes of terror linger, drawing you deeper into the unknown. Can you survive? Saga-length novel - 143k words

Heroic Fantasy Novel #5 in the Sacred Band series"An exciting and brilliantly colored sortie . . ." - David DrakeJoin Tempus and Niko on the triple shores of land, sea, and eternity . . .Where a young girl trembles between love and sorcerous obsession . . .Where a prince's refusal to admit his flaws makes him a pawn of hell . . .Where a city of immortals learn that Death has not forgotten it . . .Beneath a warlock's citadel, swords and courage face the jaws of demons -- with a girl's life and a god's vengeance resting on the outcome.

You Are Not AloneGod cares deeply about you and your mental health. Author and mental health advocate Chris Morris has battled depression and suicidality his entire adult life. Even coming to Christ didn't change this, which is something many fellow Christians don't seem to understand. He still had to face the grief of unrelenting illness, the shame of struggling, and the pain of poor guidance. In this compassionate and engaging book, Chris shares how he overcame these challenges and invites you to do the same--no matter your diagnosis. Weaving biblical truth and personal stories with thoughtful strategies and hard-earned wisdom, he helps you move past fear and shame to combat the specters of depression and suicidality. God is still there, even in the darkest of places. May this book be a step in the process of healing and help you find hope in your battle.Includes reflection questions, Scripture meditations, and a bonus video course.

After the Battle of Meridian . . . New blood and old warriors face unforeseen challenges as one war ends in triumph and another conflict looms. Stories you'll love to hear again and stories you've been hoping to hear for the first time in a brand-new Sacred Band anthology that takes the Stepsons where they've never been before... Tales of risk and glory, past, present and future, among the Sacred Band of Stepsons cavalry in The Fish the Fighter and the Song-girl, the latest Sacred Band novelized anthology, including the new title novella, 'The Fish the Fighters and the Song-girl.' Tempus and his Sacred Band won the battle of their dreams, but now the time has come to count the cost and face the consequences in fifteen tales, old and new, of the iconic Sacred Band of Stepsons, including the last six classic Sacred Band stories from the million-copy bestselling shared universe of Thieves' World® and nine new adventures available nowhere else.

¿It's the mid-summer fayre in the Drift, the biggest event of the year for the animals who live there.There's a surprise visitor for the friends which causes great excitement. However, the thrill of the fayre is gone the following morning with the discovery of numerous dead fish in the river, was this an accident or has someone done this?Rollie and Toby seek out Monty, Toby's uncle, for help, this leads them to the mysterious Selma for answers. To add to their worries, a strange Boatman has been seen in the Drift, who is he, and is he responsible for the poisoning?Once again, the animals of the Drift have to come together and face their greatest challenge and the very existence of the Drift will depend on them and the shadowy Selma to save their home.Follow Rollie, Toby, Rowan, Donie and their friends as they prepare to face the Boatman in an epic showdown that they cannot lose.

The Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic epic of love in war in ancient times. In 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that results in the massacre of the Sacred Band of Thebes, Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of Theban Sacred Banders, paired brothers and lovers, to fight on other days. These forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie in the mass grave that holds their two hundred and fifty-four brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters, to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the battle of their dreams where gods walk the earth, ghosts take the field, and the angry Fates demand their due.

This book is aimed at new mechanical design engineers - to improve your employability and to help you 'hit the ground running'.It also contains useful information and checklists for more experienced designers.It's a quick read, listing real-world, non-academic, practical experiences which you won't find in an engineer's technical reference book.It includes design and drafting guides, good advice for everyday design and general office life, advice on job interviews, how to handle meetings, insights into other departments, looking after yourself in a work environment and more.

Is God still in the miracle business? Did miracles only occur for the early church? Can God really do the impossible? Is the Bible trustworthy, and was Jesus telling the truth? Can we physically experience or even see miracles?Like most people, when I was young, I had faith in Jesus but scoffed at people who said they had witnessed miracles. Then I witnessed one little miracle. I was dumbfounded. I then witnessed another, and then another, and before long I witnessed miracle after miracle . . . incredible miracles that I had been told only the early church could experience.I wrote this book for my children, because I wanted them to have a record of the acts of the Holy Spirit we had witnessed on our journey through life. Everything Jesus said proved to be true.Our family is not special. We are not saints. We are not unusual. We have our problems and shortcomings. I suspect our family is not much different than yours, except perhaps for one thing. We pray for the Lord's help and believe His help is on the way!Jesus said in Mark 11:23-24, "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."

The Snare Drum Challenge is an annual event held by Dundee Drum Academy in which the participants perform original snare drum solos and take on the additional challenge of sight reading short exercises in front of an audience. This book contains all the material used across three difficulty levels of the 2018 event, alongside some brand new pieces written exclusively for the book, and lots of never before seen exercises. The 2018 main pieces are:Level 1Wolf ShamanDynamoLevel 2Con VigoreDon't DragLevel 3Strumenti DifettosiCaixa CrasherThis year's book also contains the full score and individual parts for Primi Tre - a trio for percussion using snare drum, floor tom and bass drum.

Veteran journalist and critic Chris Morris looks back at his intense half-century-long relationship with the music of Bob Dylan, viewing the role the singer-songwriter’s work has played in his own life. A candid album-by-album exploration of Dylan’s catalog through 2016’s “Fallen Angels” examines the powerful personal impact of the musician’s art.In 2013, Morris – the former music editor of The Hollywood Reporter and a longtime senior writer at Billboard – hit a psychological roadblock as he worked on his book Los Lobos: Dream in Blue (ultimately published in 2015 by the University of Texas Press). Hoping to get his writing flowing again, he turned to the music of Bob Dylan, whose album catalog had recently been collected in a boxed-set edition, and published his thoughts as posts on the blog site Tumblr.It quickly became apparent to the writer and to his readers that the posts were something more than a critical reconsideration of Dylan’s music.Morris writes. “The pieces were not about Dylan and they were not about me; they were about Dylan and me. I found myself reconsidering my past through these records. Where was I when this came out? How old was I? Where was I living? Who was I with? Was I in love? Was I happy? Miserable? Crazy? Was I high? Where was I working? What was my state of mind? How did the music affect me? In some cases the pieces were coolly measured (though never impersonal); in others I found myself plunging into places within me that I hadn’t visited for years. I was retrieving a portion of my life, which I had spent almost all of in the company of Bob Dylan’s music.”Here, Dylan’s music is explored album by album, from his 1962 debut as a folksinger to his 2015-16 explorations of the Classic American songbook; the creative highs and lows of his entire 37-title discography are examined.But Morris’ take on Dylan’s music doesn’t merely weigh the quality of the work – it reveals how a gifted artist’s creations have the power to engage, incite, alter, and even rescue a listener over the course of a lifetime. Together Through Life occupies a unique space in the vast bibliography of Bob Dylan books.

From the East Los Angeles barrio to international stardom, Los Lobos traces the musical evolution of a platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning band that has ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from traditional Mexican