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This is a true story about a magical day in the author's neighborhood in 1946, when, as one of the little boys this story is about, he learned something that changed his life forever. Billy Bob, TC, Double M and others were the best friends of his childhood, and those decades were a different time, when children could run loose, and did. When they played with pocket knives and shot each other with rubber-guns and BB-guns and used inappropriate...

This has been the hardest story I've ever written. My memories are filled with many choices. Who should I chose? What events should I select? I've been lucky. Most of my life has surrounded me with good people who've given me: laughter, happiness, stories to tell, forgiveness for my failures, love, and then gave me Jackie who filled it all with life. No one I've known has had more fun living than I've had.Heaven can't beat it.Could it be that ...

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Twenty-one wonderful short stories from the author of My People: Stories of the South, Lost Cove, Come Sit with Me, and Dreaming the Fire Away, Sundancing with Crazy Horse tells stories of a little boy lost in the mountains, wild children, a memorable summer shared by five young friends, prejudice and friendship, life and death, and more.

At this point, I need to pause and explain about a game we played at the Cussin' Tree. We'd be lying on the ground around it, leaning back on our elbows, smoking and telling dirty jokes when all of a sudden one of us would say, "Hey ya'll would you give an eye to see a..." and he'd say something so gross or obscene it can't be repeated here: if it was really awful we'd hold our noses and make gagging sounds. But if it was something so sexually...

From a Halloween story about five little boys to tales of revenge, werewolves, ghosts, and even children who kill to the tune of nursery rhymes, George Spain's most recent anthology contains thirteen stories sure to give you a shiver.

Questions and answers are at the heart of this wonderful new book by author George Edward Spain, as he recounts his fifty years work as a psychiatric social worker, mental health therapist, administrator and advocate for the mentally ill in Tennessee, and recounts colorful facts and fictions of mental hearth needs and services throughout the years.

JoJo's Christmas" is the long-awaited sequel to George Spain's "The Last Giant." Together with illustrator Peg Richie Fredi, George has once again given us a linguistic and visual treat about the magical land of Kituhwa and the legacy of the Great Giant who lived there, this time describing the return of Cecil the panther for one final Christmas with his stepfather, "JoJo" the buzzard, and his stepsiblings, the family of animals known as "The ...

JoJo's Christmas" is the long-awaited sequel to George Spain's "The Last Giant." Together with illustrator Peg Richie Fredi, George has once again given us a linguistic and visual treat about the magical land of Kituhwa and the legacy of the Great Giant who lived there, this time describing the return of Cecil the panther for one final Christmas with his stepfather, "JoJo" the buzzard, and his stepsiblings, the family of animals known as "The ...

George Spain began writing poetry int he early nineteen sixties. First to be published was Leningrad 1941-42 in "Soviet Life" in Russia. He was so pleased he wanted to defect, but his wife, Jackie, wouldn't go. While most of his writings are historical fiction, poetry has given him a special freedom to express beliefs, experiences, and emotions with their hurts and joys.

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Four weeks after my mother's death in 1992, I discovered a charred sea chest in her attic. In it was a dove-gray logbook that contained the journal of Jeremiah Vann. "Lost Cove" is his story of five generations of two families: the Vanns and Pearsons. From the days of the Cherokee, through slavery and the Civil War, to the 1950s, they lived and died in a Tennessee valley - Lost Cove - completely surrounded by mountains. The following is an exc...

Come sit with me and let me share some tales about: Five boys who find a lost pony and learn a lesson from an artist who paints naked women, A sheriff who tries to save a boy's soul before he hangs him, A southern aristocrat whose pet owl flew freely through his antebellum mansion, A turkey buzzard named "Damnit" who makes a great contribution to science, The earth's last giant in whose hair and beard live orphaned and homeless animals, A ment...

Once upon a time in Kituhwa, in a land of mountains and valleys, there lived an ancient giant and a turkey buzzard named "JoJo." This story of the lasting reward that comes from loving and helping one another is brought alive by exquisite full-color illustrations on every page, as together the giant and JoJo protect all the animals and little people who live in the land.

Once upon a time in Kituhwa, in a land of mountains and valleys, there lived an ancient giant and a turkey buzzard named "JoJo." This story of the lasting reward that comes from loving and helping one another is brought alive by exquisite full-color illustrations on every page, as together the giant and JoJo protect all the animals and little people who live in the land.

These stories are filled with glories and failures of my homeland, the South. They tell about five young boys who help win World War II, Lulu and her ladies of ill fame, Sister Bertha, a kind and gentle nun, Ya-nu, the Cherokee Bear Man, J.R., ranger and tracker in our search for a little boy lost in the Smokies, a mountain woman who exacts a terrible revenge, a folie a deux murder, the Ku Klux Klan's Hall of Fame Guidebook, the love of a form...