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Amber's Place is an historical fiction that takes place following the American Civil War. Amber is an orphan who survives in New Orleans as a seamstress and prostitute. Her life changes when she meets Antoine Acadia, a boxer with a cloudy past. They become business partners, each with their own goals in mind. Amber's story is a story of redemption in a world where the plight of a single woman was precarious. Their path ultimately leads to Kans...

In The Broken Spur, author Gary Harmon weaves a fictional tale with the same drawl that taints his speech to this day, and why not? These are and voices he grew up in the stockyards of southern Indiana. He handled horses and cattle daily and rode those skills right onto the pages of The Broken Spur.

Not since The Little Prince have adult readers been so strongly invited to set aside reason to take a journey of the heart. A nearly fatal car collision on a country road lands Jeff in a surgical suite clinging to life. His wife, Samantha, is there when he recovers consciousness, but he has another story to tell. The accident has apparently opened a portal to another world, a place where his physical injuries are simply a vague recollection o...

McGowan's Call is a collection of short stories and a novella that chronicles Davis' path from the river town of Hatteras, Ohio to the suburbs of Dayton. This work of fiction provides a rare insight to pastoral ministry outside the scandals that regularly make headlines. It is an honest exposé of the real crisis that afflicts those who live in the public eye. Here is what was said of McGowan's Call in Heartlands Magazine: "The stories take us ...

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This is the long-awaited paperback edition of Neil D. Isaacs' novel about the rise and fall of Jack Molinas. Molinas was a brilliant basketball player whose skills on the court were subverted by a pathological addiction to gambling. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Sam Jones says this about the author and his writing: "Isaacs is not only an outstanding student of sports but a skillful and knowledgeable storyteller as well. ...you will not be able to p...

McGowan's Return is a suspense novel which derives its energy from the convergence of three sets of characters and events. The pace of the story quickens when a Lakewood Detective realizes a connection between the murders of three women, a fact that had remained elusive because the killings were separated by years. The result, however, is always the same. In each case, a woman has been strangled, and left in Cleveland's Edgewater Park. Detect...

Before being known as Ohio's Vacationland, north central Ohio was the Firelands, a title that predated statehood. In 1662 King Charles II granted territory extending west of Pennsylvania to the Pacific Ocean to be Connecticut's Western Reserve. The claim survived the Revolution, but the area was reduced considerably as settlement of war debts. Even so, the Western Reserve still covered more than three million acres which were later transferred...

-Beneath the guise of imaginative fiction, Shrader Marks: Keelhouse explores the interrelationships of technology and culture, authority and rule, storytelling and survival. Shrader Marks: Keelhouse contains the complete two-volume saga which began with Rob Smith's debut novel, Night Voices. After its release in 2006, readers who had followed Cathy Pearson, Shrader Marks, and the flotilla of Great Lakes refugees wanted more. Here is the conti...

Behind the Curtain:A Career in Equal Employment & Education Opportunity "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" ¿ L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chuck Duffy began some of his EEO presentations with, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." The line was usually met with laughter, guffaws, and sometimes a note of dread. The early years in the quest for equal employment and education opportunities were marked by...

Rob Smith's poetry has been described as "accessible" and "poignant." The relationship between people and their natural surroundings permeates his work, as does his curiosity for the uniquely human aspiration of finding meaning through love, work, and imagination. His poetry has received national recognition. In 2006, he received the Robert Frost Poetry Award from the Frost Foundation of Lawrence, MA for the best poem written "in the spirit...

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Wilma Daugherty has the voice of a storyteller. The short memoirs contained in "Fragments: Stories of Another Time" chronicle nine decades of experiences as a child, a young woman, a mother, and finally, the last of her siblings. Sometimes nostalgic, sometimes tragic, these vignettes are reminders of a time before the rise of consumerism, a time when children made their own play and faced the harsh reality of epidemics without antibiotics and ...

Three Breaths" is poet Nancy Brady's latest foray into the intriguing world of haiku. In this volume she experiments with a form she calls "haiku reduction". A short poem is restated several times, each repetition being a shorter breath of a central idea which forms the heart of the verse.

My Life in the Cleveland Zoo is a ground-level report of a time when society was changing rapidly. In 1968, Adam Smith took a summer job at the zoo as a tour train driver. In this position, he lived in the margin between the public's experience and what seemed to him to be an alien world of full-time keepers and staff. In that gap, a lot of adolescent hijinks crept into the routine of the part-time summer employees who were out-of-control and ...

Hatshepsut, the Pharaoh's Daughter, has intrigued scholars for centuries. She acted as Pharaoh for over twenty years during the period known as the New Kingdom. Her people loved her. This fictional account explores the possibility that she is the Pharaoh's daughter who rescued Moses from the Nile. She was a strong, determined, imaginative and lovable girl and woman.

For years students have been taught that haiku follow a specific pattern of lines and syllables. Five-seven-five was considered the correct formula. Today poets are aware that this Japanese pattern doesn't always translate very well into English rhythms. More and more, the haiku style is thought of as short-long-short with the idea that the thought should flow in one breath. Ohayo Haiku are first written in five-seven-five and then edited fo...

This little book is a think-piece for adult readers who grew up with (or have been captured by) the fantasy worlds of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling. Rob Smith points out general themes in the work of these three authors and matches them to the ancient motifs of the biblical writings. The result is a discussion about the way in which we look at time, place, and the meaning of being human. The focus is less an explanation of the ...

Davis McGowan could not have anticipated how his career would isolate him in his private life. After ordination, he finds himself an alien in a world of human need. This fictional account of a young pastor's rise and fall is based on the secret reality faced by the ordinary people who have sensed a "call" to one of the helping professions. Never quite accepted as a local, he navigates the path of conscience through the pitfalls of personal lon...

Orfin and Borthid have just completed their long journey from earth to Galcon, a planet balanced between two suns. They are met by the ambassador who has been assigned to the planetary outpost. The two are "Discontinueds" which means that they belong to a class of people rendered sterile by a virus which has ravaged earth. Through a lottery set up by the Planetary Council, they have been chosen "Citizen Explorers, " and begin a new life on Gal...