C. D. “Tony” Hylton III, author of the four-book series of a southern West Virginia newspaper publisher in the early 1960s. “I have known Bill Dyer since we both pledged Delta Tau Delta fraternity at West Virginia University as freshmen in the fall of 1960. We survived Hell Week, hitchhiked to Atlantic City with an overnight stay along the side of the road, ROTC summer camp, attended a great many WVU football and basketball games, tailgated in Morgantown, Pittsburgh, and before many footba...

My life is defined by many expressions and experiences designed to facilitate a trajectory of hopeful destiny. This process entails continuance in faithful endurance, anchored to prayer and confidence in the promises of God. One is called to recognize a purpose-filled journey through perseverance of intentional prayers that can change things altogether, with profound expectation of that promise. This posture leads to what is hopeful, healing, and sustaining.Abandoning this discipli...

Pa Pa Says, is a non-fiction story chronicling the world (circa 1945-1960) as seen through the eyes of a developing mind. A romance with the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights reflecting societys acknowledge and sometime un acknowledge threads that weave its fabric, including a strong male presence, family cohesiveness, patriotism, discrimination and plotting in the spirit of Catherine de Medici.From the age of four years the narrator grows grammatically, intelligently, indep...

PAPER QUILT/RED-WHITE-BLUE IS A COLLECTION OF MEMORIES OF MANY FRIENDS WHO HAVE DIED OF AIDS, BUT NOT ALL. PEOPLE I NOT ONLY KNEW BUT KNEW PRETTY WELL WHO (ONE HOPES) HAVE GONE ON TO A GREATER EXISTENCE. MANY OF (PERHAPS ALL) THESE PEOPLE HAD UNIQUE WAYS THAT WERE AS I SEE IT, VIBRANT. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY THEIR BEING, PROCLIVERTY, AND THE EXTENT IMPACT OF AIDS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.CONVERSELY, THIS WORK PAPER QUILT/RED-WHITE-BLUE GIVES TRIBUTE, SHARES SADNESS ...

At first sight it may appear strange that a volume of Progress in Pediatric Surgery should be devoted to the history of our specialty. One assumes that progress is concerned primarily with recent developments whilst history deals with matters of the past. However, in the past there has also been considerable progress in the development of our understand ing of paediatric surgical problems, otherwise we would not have pro gressed to our present achievements. The editors, therefore, do not a...

Essays exploring Transformative Theological EducationSECTION ONE: SETTING OUTIntroduction Les BallWhere Are We Going? Les BallSECTION TWO: A BIBLICAL ROAD MAP: PAUL AS A THEOLOGICAL TEACHER1 Higher Education in the Pauline Churches. E.A. Judge2 Paul and the Ancient Gymnasiums. James R. Harrison3 Paul as Theological Educator. Robert BanksSECTION THREE: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL BEARINGS4 An Analysis of "Soul" as the Central Co...

At first glance, it appears to be an accident . . .A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage suggests the tragedy may have been a double suicide—but an autopsy later suggests something different. A deadly fire and a fatal home invasion may or may not have some connection to the terrible crash. And miles away in the desert, a savage rai...

A secret government unit is formed under Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members he's gathered have a psychic talent of their own.Jackson Crow heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost, and the murders of two teammates, Jackson can't tell if he's been demoted or given an extraordinary opportunity. He's aware that the living commit the most heinous crimes, while spiritualist charlatans fool the unwary. To balance Jackson's skepticism, A...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author who is “among the very small group of top-notch true crime writers” (Booklist) comes the eleventh installment of Ann Rule’s Crime Files, exploring heart-stopping true tales of those who commit murder with no conscience, no remorse, and no regrets.A ship’s pilot legendary for guiding giant freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies’ man, ...

It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 God’s mercies are sure; His promises are fulfilled; but a dawn of a new morning is God’ grace. If you need a testimony about God’s grace, then If I Should Die Before I Wake will encourage your soul. Nothing happens in our lives by chance. If you need a miracle, God’s got that too. Trust Him. Has ...

The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett, the star of Jenkins's ribald saga, is a more important figure in the history of golf than Bobby Jones himself.

I had been dreading this day for more than a year.Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is very close to wearing out her welcome in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. Just a year ago, she was eighty-sixed from the local satellite post office for buying too many two-cent stamps (“The post office lady looked at me like I had just asked her if she wanted to buy my sex tape”).Now Notaro, needing to send an important care package to her nephew, returns to the scen...