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Barefooted: Spontaneous Reflections of a Southern Woman showcases bits and pieces of Golding’s life in poetry and prose. Returning to her roots, the author moves from tobacco farm life in Rockingham County into marriage, parenting and a cosmopolitan career, then glides into active retirement. The...

A compilation of columns drawn from author Stan Levco’s personal experiences, The Second Best of Stan Levco offers a social commentary on the realities of everyday life. With humor and sarcasm, he shares a plethora of essays, some based on his career as an attorney and special prosecutor. Among...

Brooks Eason and his best friend, Bobby Ariatti, live in the flatlands but love the mountains. They have explored the outdoors together for two decades, taking annual hiking trips to the mountains of the American West. This is the story of their first six trips. Their travels begin in Yosemite National...

“I would never presume to know God’s will or speak God’s words.”—Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s Story: The wayfarer sets out to answer many questions surrounding Abraham Lincoln and history. *Who is the Great Emancipator? * Did Lincoln believe in God? *Did he look for a sign when he was desperate?...

The odyssey begins, “James Polk Woodard, whose absence in the family graveyard in northwest Alabama led me on a search and the cause of his death in the Civil War.” Merle recalls visiting the cemetery with her family, in the heat of an Alabama summer day, when only four years old. There were six...

In Bingaman’s stellar memoir, his boyish obsession with flight blossoms into a grueling but rewarding career in the U.S. military, leading him into the uncertainties of war. Bingaman returns to his Iowa roots in this collection of anecdotes, reminiscences and close calls among fighter pilots and...

Ronald G. Goddard grew up seeing Hollywood movies that showed American troops boarding ships and going off to World War II with bands playing and well-wishers swarming docks to give soldiers rousing sendoffs. But when his troop transport ship left San Diego Harbor for Vietnam in March 1967, there...

Thousands of German migrants came to the New World during the 1700s. The Grindstaff’s sailed aboard the Thistle in the year 1738. They came when plundering wars and religious persecutions had reduced the Lower Palatinate to a wasteland, when people ate grass and leaves, when graves were guarded,...

David Carr heard the stories of what his father endured as a boy: Fists appearing like unexpected rain, kicks in the side, and nails in his skin. But Carr’s father never set a hand on him. The cycle of abuse, however, was not broken: Carr suffered mental and physical abuse from the people that were...

This is the second book of poetry by the author and covers such subjects as the nature of love - for humans and animals, family relations, ageing and the nature of poetry itself. All in free verse, these poems are short and transparent with form and rhythms very much in the grand poetic tradition....

Human beings thrive on being involved in relationships, and they typically are looking to stay in a solid, healthy relationship or find one. In Stay Marriageable, author Debbie White offers a guide to help you in your personal growth journey. She discusses embracing and bettering yourself for preparing...

A lifelong academic and teacher, Charles Levenstein has written poetry since the age of fifteen but was rarely published until the year 2000. Toward the end of his career, he watched one of his peers find comfort in projects outside the university environment. His peer built a sailboat as a form of...

These are poems that tell a story. Sometimes our relationships are not quite going the way we want them to, but don’t know how to express ourselves exactly. Sometimes we love the wrong people, but are so in love it’s difficult to let go. What we want is for them to understand us and how we feel....

… Deep emotions in my mind— they need to be expressed, or else they grow unkind. Similar to a prisoner locked up and isolated are my feelings. Acceptance can free my uncertainties, create expression for my repressions. My spirit is strong; my roots deep. So please let me be me, feel what I feel,...