Books with author Patrick Gleason

Collecting the first six issues of the series re-establishing the legendary Green Lantern Corps! From the Guardians' citadel on the newly fortified planet Oa, Green Lantern Guy Gardner is assigned - against his will - to a feudal world of shadows and sudden death. And across the galaxy, new Lanterns discover what it truly means to wear the Corps insignia, as their courage and comradeship is tested to the limit.

Bossy gets a new bike! With this joyous occasion he also discovers one of life's most difficult challenges of overcoming fear. With the help of his father and a beautiful "girl next door", he realizes that joy comes after fear subsides and a goal is reached. In this hand drawn illustration of farm animals in street clothes Bossy also learns about about safety, family and trust. This childrens book is fun for all ages to read and be read to. "... fantastic! It actually has a message, not just entertainment...""Cute little book and a nice message. Looking forward to the ones to follow!""...loved the story... cute illustrations...""My 6 year olds favorite... What a super cute little story!"These were quotes from reviews of the last book. If you happen to have missed it here is the title: Bossy's Birthday: Book 1 in the Bossy Britches series.

Malik Ashcroft is an eighteen-year-old Black teenager who is made into a soul vampire the night he finishes studying for final exams. Xavier, the vampire who creates him, tells him that vampires must bury their human bodies deep underground to protect the soul still within. Xavier calls him a “rarity” and that he is “beautiful”, but Malik cringes at the thought of joining Xavier’s family of vampires.Xavier, created by a wayward, traveling soul vampire who only kills the workers of iniquity, was born in 1820s America. Birthed on a small slave plantation in antebellum Alabama, Xavier suffers mentally and physically because he is Sam Carroll’s son, the white master of the plantation. Although his mother, Sarah, initially tells him to be proud of his heritage as the son of slave-owner, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Carroll’s wife, succeeds at getting him sent to the fields to toil as a field slave. Depressed at the loss of her children, Sarah becomes unattached from her son and Xavier has to find solace within a slave girl his age, Alexandria. With no other recourse, Xavier wishes to die and his wish is granted, but not in the ways in which he expected.With Malik turned into a soul vampire, he must deal with burying his human body, protecting his best friend, Jeremiah, from his own memories of death and bloodshed, Xavier’s coven of vampires, and holding on to a shred of his humanity. As a soul vampire, he experiences his own memories and the memories of others in ways that he never expected. In attempting to resist Xavier’s overtures to join his family, Malik decides to leave his hometown with Jeremiah in search of Xavier’s past. In his search, he stumbles across the soulless, or vampires who have desecrated their human bodies in order to fully obtain and control their vampire abilities at the expense of their humanity. Malik must decide if he is willing to destroy Xavier, continue to fall in love with Jeremiah, or grant Jeremiah’s wish to become a soul vampire.

Malik Ashcroft is an eighteen-year-old Black teenager who is made into a soul vampire the night he finishes studying for final exams. Xavier, the vampire who creates him, tells him that vampires must bury their human bodies deep underground to protect the soul still within. Xavier calls him a “rarity” and that he is “beautiful”, but Malik cringes at the thought of joining Xavier’s family of vampires. Xavier, created by a wayward, traveling soul vampire who only kills the workers of iniquity, was born in 1820s America. Birthed on a small slave plantation in antebellum Alabama, Xavier suffers mentally and physically because he is Sam Carroll’s son, the white master of the plantation. Although his mother, Sarah, initially tells him to be proud of his heritage as the son of slave-owner, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Carroll’s wife, succeeds at getting him sent to the fields to toil as a field slave. Depressed at the loss of her children, Sarah becomes unattached from her son and Xavier has to find solace within a slave girl his age, Alexandria. With no other recourse, Xavier wishes to die and his wish is granted, but not in the ways in which he expected. With Malik turned into a soul vampire, he must deal with burying his human body, protecting his best friend, Jeremiah, from his own memories of death and bloodshed, Xavier’s coven of vampires, and holding on to a shred of his humanity. As a soul vampire, he experiences his own memories and the memories of others in ways that he never expected. In attempting to resist Xavier’s overtures to join his family, Malik decides to leave his hometown with Jeremiah in search of Xavier’s past. In his search, he stumbles across the soulless, or vampires who have desecrated their human bodies in order to fully obtain and control their vampire abilities at the expense of their humanity. Malik must decide if he is willing to destroy Xavier, continue to fall in love with Jeremiah, or grant Jeremiah’s wish to become a soul vampire.

Malik Ashcroft is an eighteen-year-old Black teenager who is made into a soul vampire the night he finishes studying for final exams. Xavier, the vampire who creates him, tells him that vampires must bury their human bodies deep underground to protect the soul still within. Xavier calls him a “rarity” and that he is “beautiful”, but Malik cringes at the thought of joining Xavier’s family of vampires. Xavier, created by a wayward, traveling soul vampire who only kills the workers of iniquity, was born in 1820s America. Birthed on a small slave plantation in antebellum Alabama, Xavier suffers mentally and physically because he is Sam Carroll’s son, the white master of the plantation. Although his mother, Sarah, initially tells him to be proud of his heritage as the son of slave-owner, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Carroll’s wife, succeeds at getting him sent to the fields to toil as a field slave. Depressed at the loss of her children, Sarah becomes unattached from her son and Xavier has to find solace within a slave girl his age, Alexandria. With no other recourse, Xavier wishes to die and his wish is granted, but not in the ways in which he expected. With Malik turned into a soul vampire, he must deal with burying his human body, protecting his best friend, Jeremiah, from his own memories of death and bloodshed, Xavier’s coven of vampires, and holding on to a shred of his humanity. As a soul vampire, he experiences his own memories and the memories of others in ways that he never expected. In attempting to resist Xavier’s overtures to join his family, Malik decides to leave his hometown with Jeremiah in search of Xavier’s past. In his search, he stumbles across the soulless, or vampires who have desecrated their human bodies in order to fully obtain and control their vampire abilities at the expense of their humanity. Malik must decide if he is willing to destroy Xavier, continue to fall in love with Jeremiah, or grant Jeremiah’s wish to become a soul vampire.