The Call of the South explores the complexities of life in the Southern United States during the early 20th century. The novel delves into themes of identity, tradition, and the changing social landscape of the South. It typically follows the life and experiences of its protagonist, who grapples with the region's cultural heritage and the evolving social dynamics.The story is set against the backdrop of the South's history and traditions, examining how these factors influence the character...

In a vast, echoing house designed for many but inhabited by one, a solitary figure navigates the oppressive geometry of empty rooms, unused hallways, and forgotten volumes of air.This is a haunting, meditative exploration of solitude, scale, and silence. Through precise, ritualistic observations—tracing dust along door frames, averting eyes from mirrors, listening to the creaks of settling wood—the unnamed inhabitant measures the emotional weight of unoccupied space. Each ...

In his fifth collection with Peepal Tree Press, After Poems, Psalms, John Robert Lee achieves a sense of spirit, insight and empathy with these celebratory and contemplative poems."In the way that we might look to the psalms for strength and solace, After Poems, Psalms should be received as a gift, a balm and a cause for celebration. Here is a companion to assist spirit wrestlers and lovers of poetry in their quest to identify the numinous in both the human and th...

About the BookThere is a pending disruption to our nation’s democratic republic, and Robert Lee Davis has seen this firsthand. Davis, in this eye-opening work, explores the corruption plaguing our national and local government through his time in court after being falsely accused of an unspeakable act while working as a teacher.No other book has come before to show authentically and clearly the threats against our democratic institution. With personal anecdotes mixed with rea...

A sweeping Western saga of honor, courage, and cultural clash in the Sioux Lands.In 1840, Jacob Chase's son, Chasing Hawk, is born amidst the tensions between white settlers and the Sioux Nation. As Chasing Hawk, also known as Will Chase, navigates two worlds, he embodies the strength and wisdom of both Lakota and white cultures. Sent east for education, he returns to the Sioux Lands, rich from gold found with the help of the Sioux, only to face betrayal and the en...

International giants, regional stars, local heroes and self-published unknowns all have their place in this masterful author index from the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. It also includes those who have written about Saint Lucia and Caribbean writers whose work has influenced the development of Saint Lucian life and literature. It's a bibliography which, in its all-embracing reach (It includes funeral programmes and recipe books), reflects the creative, cultural, political and ec...

The contribution of Black men and women throughout the history of California is often overlooked because it doesn't easily fit into the established narrative. In Los Angeles, over half of the original settlers were of African descent. These settlers left New Spain for the northern frontier to escape the oppression of the Spanish caste system, just as the racially oppressive Jim Crow laws propelled a similar migration from the American South 150 years later. Pioneers and politicians, as wel...

This is a true American tale, the story of the Hamady Clan of Flint, Michigan, whose patriarch came to America from Lebanon in 1908 and built a family business that grew to over $100,000,000 in sales. Over three generations, this large Druze family--54 members at its peak in 1945--lived with its own code of ethics, its deep cultural divides, its dark secret. It is also the story of a prophecy made by that patriarch many years ago: "First generation founds the business, second generation bu...

'Americas: Selected Verse and Vignette' seeks to give expression in poem and metaphor to the United States as a personally lived and engaged with culture. The span, accordingly, involves both site and journey, a roster of art, people, different authorships, film, music, photography, cities, society. Prose sketches both serious and antic as well as verse. American Studies with a difference.

Adventures in the Land of Canaan is a classic religious essay that comes out of our heart. It is intended to go to the hearts of others. Some of the things written here were learned by long and bitter experiences. Our "Adventures" were very real, and it is our hope that some of them our readers will never have. The real battles are fought within, and the struggle for mastery goes on in the soul, hidden in the mysterious depths of the spirit.

Victor Robert Lee’s provocative debut spy thriller Performance Anomalies introduces a protagonist to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono is a startling young man of mixed and haunting heritage who has been gifted – or cursed – with a genetic mutation that gives him a hyper-fast neurological system. An orphan and a loner, he acts as a freelance spy, happy to use his strange talents in the service of dubious organizations and governments – until, in Kazakhstan, on a personal miss...

This small volume was first published in the year of 1925, but it has been out of print for many years. The present reprint edition is in response to requests for it to be in print again. The main characters in this true-to-life narrative are led to Bible salvation, and then step by step into the various Bible doctrines, and finally to establish a congregation of the Church of God after the New Testament pattern. In the meantime, the snares of false doctrines which surrounded them were exp...