Badgley Publishing Company: 10 books

Whether we know it or not all of us are on stage and we are all living in our own stories. Some of them are sad; some of them are funny and some of them make us think about why we are here. Some of them linger with us long after they are read. We go back to them time and again trying to figure out why they’ve lingered so. Those are the very best ones.

"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Kurt Vonnegut ---------------------------------- In an armless, legless world of my own, lit only by a desk lamp, a drug addict prays to God for love, a woman loses love in the tragic throes of dementia, brutal...

Diana Hannon Forrester takes a humorous look at the aging process in The Old Lady Book. Forrester includes short stories, poems, essays, quotes from the famous and lists that chronicle the experience of growing older. It is a poke in the ribs joke to all of us starting at the very beginning: birth....

Dark Days for White Knights is the story of one Veteran’s loss of innocence and his sojourn down a lonely corridor...a chronicle of his quest to recover something of what he lost in Vietnam. Combat veterans of every war and from every nation have been scarred by the atrocities of war. However, because...

The story of “Bad” Bill Tutt is based on actual events in the life of a young doctor, my Grandfather, from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the early 1900’s. Some say he was a truly caring physician who saved many lives in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Others claim he was a dashing...

A collection of short stories set in the small, fictional town of Edencrest, Ohio where what happened to past generations colored the lives of later generations. Small town living...there is an intimacy in knowing the history of people we see every day, in the grocery store, on the street and in church....

A story of mystery and suspense set in the dark and foreboding forest of Brazil. Pamela’s entire existence was plain brown, from her eyes and hair to her solitary life in Iowa as a sixth-grade school teacher, that is until the devious textbook salesman Charles offers her the trip of a lifetime to...

Finding a husband in mid-eighteenth century Maryland was simple, but finding true love tested the resolve and resilience of young women. Women like Mary Ann and Sarah faced vindictive and cruel attacks from unexpected sources that challenged their will to survive and to find happiness. These are their stories…this is their legacy.

A powerful and moving memoir of a bereaved family and what they endured during the first year after their loved one's death in Afghanistan. A tribute to a real American hero who gave everything for his family and his country. This story tells of the emotion, the trials and tribulations of the family...

I Corps – Viet Nam, the year 1968 Mick Holtzman is a Corporal of Marines leading a squad through the jungles and highlands of I Corps. He, like his men have one major focus, survival. Survival and the plane ride home. A home that becomes less recognizable with each day endured in Vietnam. Holtzman...