Bette Nunn: 7 books

I have been working on this book, Wash Our Mouths Out with Soap, and collecting material for it for 20 years. It covers expressions from the first settlers to the present. It is dedicated to my mother, grandparents, aunts, uncles and brothers, who sometimes used the expressions in the book. My father,...

Includes many of the “Mama and Me” and “Bette’s Barbs” columns written for The Reporter (now The Reporter-Times) in Martinsville, Indiana, for the last half century. The columns talk about things that happened — births, deaths, schools, store openings, fires, crimes, store closings, historical...

This story is about Abby Walls Huff’s life and the funny things she said and did. The book is compiled from things her mother, the author, collected over the years, adding that Abby was the funniest of her three children. This is a story about an extended family and things that happened as they were growing up.

Graphic and Violent content - The morning started out like a morning of any other day for Terry Chasteen and her 3 small children, but it would be their last. Their murderer was a young man who was considered a dangerous boy at age 10, and a criminal sexual psychopath by age 13. Why had Indiana Central State Hospital released him? Was God taking a nap on April 28,1979?

This story concerns the tragedies that befall young Annie when her parents separate and her father remarries a witchy wife. Annie runs with a rough crowd, takes drugs, smokes pot and gets pregnant. She marries the father, divorces him. Spiraling down in self-pity she eventually lands in jail. Hitting...

Ages 4-8Students in Miss Smith’s class learn a little about government and how it works by imagining what it would be like to be president of the United States and what it would be like to get to make laws. They learn what a law is, some of the things the president does and a little about Congress.

Children learn that many people see the same thing in different ways after their classmate, Belhamie, asks the teacher the question, "What Does the Devil Look Like?" because her brother has said she looks like the devil. The children use their imaginations and come up with some colorful and interesting answers.