Remembering Harper Lee: One of the literary world's most enigmatic stars. To Kill a Mockingbird, has eclipsed Huckleberry Finn in more ways than one as the book of American experience and paradox that almost every school kid reads. By all accounts, she was happy and lively, yet it’s hard to consider these the best years of her life. She arrived early in her wisdom. And we caught on slowly. Harper Lee was the rare writer who may have lived too long.

Patrick Roy was born in Waterville, Maine, in 1947. This book, Memoirs, My Army Days During The Cold War 1965 Through 1968, tells readers about the day-to-day life of a soldier stationed in West Germany, on duty and off duty.This is where my book takes you: back in time, through my Army experience as an 18-year-old, I entered the Army directly after graduating from high school...much to my mother's frustrations. I started with training in New Jersey, went to Louisiana, and then acr...

Gabby was what you would call your average 7-year-old girl. Or at least, she was average when you first met her. She had a big brother, she loved her mommy and daddy, she hated going to bed, and she definitely hated brushing her hair.It was always the same every morning. She would put her clothes on and eat breakfast, but she just refused to brush her hair. No matter how much her mommy told her to do it, she didn't want to. She liked her hair being extra bushy and curly in the morn...

Short inspirational story about a single mother and one very special Christmas.

Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her “Decades” poetry series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the comedic insight from I’m Too Young to be Seventy, these verses of memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren are sure to bring laughs.What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular marvels—a...

This book is about people suffering with the death of a loved one, or a relationship that has ended. It also offers comfort to know that grief does'nt have to last forever, the pain will still be there, but we can all move forward and get through with the help of family and friends. And owners who have lost a pet.

For better or worse, teachers talk all day long. Part of teaching is helping students to recognize and manage their behavior. Where would a teacher be without a well behaved class?

When Janet passed away on November 22, 2010, at 48 years young, she left behind a small collection of poetry she had written in 1997, during incarceration at Toronto West Detention Center. It was a window into her struggle as a woman who knew the streets too well, who longed for cocaine, missed her children and her mother, and wanted nothing more than to be loved. Her words ring true for a lot of struggling women, but moral of it is that with determination she won, and finally found peace ...

A Mother's love was originally Published inRhonny Reaper's Creature Features Anthology. It's right here on Smashwords!

"Tell me a story.""I'll tell you a moral."A bedtime story based on the classic theme of the Seven Deadly Sins.Do you know the wages of sin?

Wedding Poems that celebrate the Bride and Grooms new life together.

Excerpt from Lost Angel“I really have no idea what is going on in this enigmatic man's mind. All I know is that I'm falling for him more and more every day, despite his unpredictable behavior.But I also feel him gradually pulling me deeper and deeper into a dark abyss that there is no escape from...”Literature student, July Vermont, is swept off her feet when she meets attractive English professor, David Kennedy, for the first time...