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The One Who Stayed Special Author’s Edition (The Staying work)

From the series: The Staying work

Author’s Special Edition

What if the story you thought you knew was witnessed by someone history never remembered?

During the final days of Christ’s earthly life, while crowds shouted, disciples struggled, and empires collided, one unnamed boy remained close enough to witness it all. Never called. Never chosen. Never named. He simply stayed.

From...

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The Man Who Stayed-Author Special Edition (The Staying work)

From the series: The Staying work

he Man Who Stayed: Endurance Under Fire
Author Special Edition

What happens after the phone call that changes everything?

After the funeral.
After the diagnosis.
After the fire.
After the courtroom empties.
After everyone else has gone home.

The Man Who Stayed is a deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction inspired by lived experience, memory, and...

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The Flame Beyond Time: Author’s Special Edition (The Worlds That Remember Book 1)

Some science fiction asks what machines may become.

The Flame Beyond Time asks what remains of us when memory itself begins to wake.

When a silent barefoot girl named Aelira arrives at an ancient monastery, something buried beneath the stone begins to answer.

Father Iosif, a monk and former physicist, has spent years wrestling with faith, loss,...

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Where The Lost One Went (The world that Remains)

From the series: The world that Remains

Somewhere beyond death, something is learning the voices of the people we love most.

Lyrakles Oran built the Vale of Names to make grief bearable.

In that future city of sleep, the dead are laid beneath name-stones, their memories held in soft light, their absence surrounded by beauty, ritual, and silence. Lyrakles believed the Vale was merciful.

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The Ones Who Looked Away: A Novel of Selian and Tiriel (The Worlds That Remember Book 4)

Before the Garden fell, someone saw what love would cost — and looked away.

In the place before clocks, Selian and Tiriel stood among the first brightness of creation, watching the worlds unfold before sorrow had a name. They were not male or female. They were not human. They were presences of attention, memory, and mercy, called to witness what...

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Where the Flame Walks: Author’s Special Edition (The world that Remains, #3)

From the series: The world that Remains

Where the Flame Walks: Author’s Special Edition is the third book in The Worlds That Remember, a five-book cycle exploring love, grief, memory, freedom, and the dignity of choosing again.

Terenos has spent his life studying mysteries from a distance. A scholar devoted to AXION, the Thread, and the strange forces that seem to remember human...

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The Shepherd Who Did Not Look Away: A Final Novel of The Worlds That Remember

The final book of The Worlds That Remember.

Every world has brought its accusation.

You knew.

You knew love would cost this much.
You knew freedom would wound what You loved.
You knew the Thread would tremble.
You knew the Garden would break.
You knew the lost would be searched for.
You knew.

And still, the lamp burns.

After the Flame, the Garden,...

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THE WORLDS THAT REMEMBER: A spoiler-light guide to the worlds, words, symbols, and questions of the five-book cycle

The Worlds That Remember: Reader’s Compass is a spoiler-light companion guide to William G. Boundroukas’s five-book cycle of memory, grief, freedom, mercy, and love that remains.

This guide is not a key that unlocks every door. It is a lamp for the path.

Inside are brief orientations to all five books: The Flame Beyond Time, Where the Lost One...

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Still Standing (Poems of staying)

From the series: Poems of staying

Still Standing

Poems of Presence, Weight, and Love That Does Not Move

Some people do not get to step away.

There is work to do. People to care for. Responsibilities that remain whether we are ready for them or not.

Still Standing is a collection of poems about what it means to stay present in a life that rarely resolves neatly. These poems explore...

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By What It Does (Poems of Staying)

Most of what defines a life is never seen.

By What It Does is the second book in the Poems of Staying series, a collection of poems about the quiet work people carry without recognition, without relief, and often without being fully understood.

These poems move through a life not by milestones, but by moments:

a boy learning the world through...

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Still Functioning

From the series: Still Functioning

Still Functioning is for people who keep showing up because they have to.

You handle things. You get through the day. You keep what needs to run from falling apart. And you are tired in a way rest does not fully fix.

Nothing is clearly broken, but nothing resets. Responsibility keeps building. Life does not slow down.

This is not a motivational...

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Advocate and Witness Special Author’s Edition (Still Functioning)

From the series: Still Functioning

Advocate and Witness: Special Author’s Edition

What does it mean to follow Christ in a profession where every decision carries consequences?

After more than thirty-six years practicing law, attorney William G. Boundroukas offers a deeply personal reflection on the quiet ethical and spiritual struggles that rarely appear in law books or court...

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Still Functioning : For People Who Carry Responsibility, Feel the Pressure, and Don’t Get to Stop (Still Functioning Series Book 3)

STILL FUNCTIONING, PART II

You don’t get to stop.

There are people depending on you.

Work that does not go away.

Responsibility that does not pause just because you are tired.

So you keep going.

Not because everything is improving.

Because stopping is not an option.

Still Functioning, Part II is for people who already know what that feels like.

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The Flame Beyond Time (The world that Remains)

From the series: The world that Remains

Some science fiction asks what machines may become.

The Flame Beyond Time asks what remains of us when memory itself begins to wake.

When a silent barefoot girl named Aelira arrives at an ancient monastery, something buried beneath the stone begins to answer.

Father Iosif, a monk and former physicist, has spent years wrestling with faith, loss,...

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The Shepherd Who Did Not Look Away (The world that Remains)

From the series: The world that Remains

The final book of The Worlds That Remember.

Every world has brought its accusation.

You knew.

You knew love would cost this much.
You knew freedom would wound what You loved.
You knew the Thread would tremble.
You knew the Garden would break.
You knew the lost would be searched for.
You knew.

And still, the lamp burns.

After the Flame, the Garden, the...

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Where the Flame Walks (The world that Remains)

From the series: The world that Remains

He came looking for Thalia.

He found what love really is.

Where the Flame Walks is the third novel in The Worlds That Remember series, following The Flame Beyond Time and Where the Lost One Went. While each novel deepens the mystery of the worlds that remember, this story stands on its own as a moving meditation on love, grief, memory, and the...

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Advocate and Witness

You don’t get to step away.

The work keeps coming. The decisions don’t wait. And most of the time, the hardest part isn’t knowing what the law allows—it’s knowing what you should do when it allows more than it should.

Advocate and Witness is about that space.

Not theory. Not theology in isolation. But the reality of making decisions when you are...

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The Man Who Stayed: Endurance Under Fire (The Staying Works Book 1)

The Man Who Stayed: Endurance Under Fire

Some lives are not defined by what was achieved, but by what was carried.

In The Man Who Stayed, William G. Boundroukas writes with stark honesty about fatherhood, grief, responsibility, faith, physical pain, and the long discipline of remaining when leaving would have been easier.

Shaped from lived...

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STILL STANDING: Poems of Presence, Weight, and Love That Does Not Move (Poems of Staying)

STILL STANDING

Still Standing is a collection of poems written from the place where responsibility settles—and does not leave.

These poems are not about expression.
They are about what is carried.

They speak from the position of someone standing between harm and those who cannot yet defend themselves—absorbing weight, holding silence, remaining...

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