This is the vivid portrait of a young girl's deeply moving initiation into womanhood: the discovery of sex without hope of love, and grief without the release of tears. The setting is rural Texas in the 1930s, a rough and tumble environment in which the thirteen-year-old Sally Halm questions but tries to appease her authoritarian mother's religiosity, appeasement that leads to misguided attempts to seek a salvation that her environment rupturesFollowing the tradition of realistic se...

*Human rights repression in Oaxaca, Mexico reached a bloody climax in 2006.*An attack by heavily armed Mexican federal police on unarmed civilians supporting striking teachers culminated nearly eighty years of repressive political rule that impoverished the state of Oaxaca and made virtual kings of its governors.*Politics and crime went hand in hand in this agonizing period of contemporary Mexican history, much of it told in the exact words of the participants. It began wit...

As he jogs along a beach in the coastal city of San Arturo Cipriano Gómez notices a young vagabond leap across a jetty and he senses, immediately, "Now there's a real athlete." The young man, Alejandro López, denies that he plays baseball but accepts the temporary work that Cipriano offers him.The young man's athletic ability doesn't stay hidden long. Cipriano introduces him to the Zancudos, San Arturo's basement dwelling baseball team, and Alejandro becomes an instant catalyst, le...

What if an ancient Cherokee secret could shape the destiny of a single family for generations?Beginning in the rugged mountains of east Tennessee in the early 1800s, The Quartz Stone of Yona's Landing follows the remarkable journey of the Richards family as their lives become forever intertwined with the Cherokee people and the mysterious Nunnehi-legendary spirit guardians said to watch over the worthy.After receiving a mysterious quartz stone known as the Ulunsuti...

The CAR of Nursing is a powerful and inspiring guide that redefines what it truly means to care in modern healthcare. Drawing on more than fifteen years of clinical nursing experience, Joe Robert Saye Komandan introduces a practical and deeply human framework that places compassion, accountability and reflection at the heart of nursing practice.This book presents the CAR of Nursing as both a professional model and a personal philosophy. Through real world experiences, reflective st...

This book is about a prominent white family in Mt. Juliet that adopts an African American baby at the beginning of the 1900’s. The child’s mother is a young field hand that under duress got into trouble with a white man that lived on Central Pike. She was afraid of her family finding about this unfortunate incident. She gave birth to the child alone, during a rainstorm, and took the baby to her friend Albert, a worker employed by Perry Quartermain, who lived on Central Pike. The Quartermai...

My Father Harry is a nostalgic view of a time and place that few have experienced. It is seasoned with proverbial lessons of a righteous father.

Tales from the Autumn Bard is the first book in an ongoing series, in which a poet tells stories. These stories do not typicaly connect and may be of any genre. This book contains stories of love, distress, horror, mystery, adventure, and even a few inspirational and character building poems. Complete with hand drawn, artistic, illustrations form the author.

Uncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessonsEver wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink.Find out how aging can affect the fi...

Take a journey to that place of the memory, of recalling good times, times that were not so good, a place you would like to return to if only for a little while. That place is OSullivans Place. Once there, you can explore, not only past memories, but current encounters with real people who face the daily grind of their jobs yet still perform out of dedication. Also explore some of the wonders and questions of nature and some of our most personable critters. And delve into the human experie...

This is a collection of twenty-seven sermons on the Old Testament kings, from Saul to Zedekiah, and the prophets who spoke to them, from Samuel to Ezekiel. Moving in chronological order of the biblical events, this book could be a useful aid to studying this portion of the Bible.

SHADES OF GRAY-INTO THE LIGHT is a journey. A collection of stories told in poetic verse and prose of the layers of the human spirit. Stories of life and love and joys and sorrows chronicled by dates in random order taken from events in life.Stories of fact and fiction beginning in DARKSHADES before migrating through the MEDIUMSHADES of life into the eventuality of LIGHTSHADES where hope alwayssprings eternalwhen willing souls refuse to give into anything less than they deserve. SH...