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In the heart of the Bible belt, only one thing could drive folks to set aside the good Lord's commandment to love thy neighbor-one of the state's longest and most combative high-school football rivalries. Located about 25 miles west of Chattanooga, hard by the Alabama state line and in an area with more pride than prosperity, the level of football achievement at Marion County and South Pittsburg-separated by just eight miles-has fueled the riv...

Prior to the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Eastern-bloc empire of the U.S.S.R., a humorist and fledgling Kremlinologist was invited to tour the vast Red Landscape. Along the rails and roads traveled, he met a cast of colorful characters and faced a host of bizarre situations that only such a world can produce. These stories and essays portray a few of the fascinating, tragic, and whimsical things he discovered.

Prior to the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Eastern-bloc empire of the U.S.S.R., a humorist and fledgling Kremlinologist was invited to tour the vast Red Landscape. Along the rails and roads traveled, he met a cast of colorful characters and faced a host of bizarre situations that only such a world can produce. These stories and essays portray a few of the fascinating, tragic, and whimsical things he discovered.

Tales from the Riverside tells true and unique stories about one man's struggle with alligators, snakes, killer bees, and hordes of nasty critters on a daily basis in his swamp. Experience the danger without the need for professional medical services. Life in a swamp is not for everyone.

Come, take a peek Behind the Smile, a world you've never known before awaits your pleasures for a while … there's wonderment for you in store. From Free Verse poetry to Sonnets, Ballads, and many more poetic forms and styles, this incomparably amazing collection of 145 selected poems by master poet Richard W. Jenkins is not your everyday smattering of poetic jargon. They will captivate and embrace your senses, taking you on a metaphorical jour...

The Hippo Campus transports children and people of all ages on an educational tour of the human brain. Using fun hippo characters standing in for the brain's real hippocampus, Dr. Borel teaches about many brain aspects, its chemicals, its microscopic actions, its messaging throughout the body, its memory-making. With scores of colorful and playful original art, her interactive, in-depth but light-hearted approach will have children and adults ...

In this first-ever collection, Mark Allen North shares 25 short pieces, including several stories, a children's fable, and a wide variety of personal-experience essays spanning childhood through his years in the aerospace industry. This mix of memoir, humor, tribute, and appreciation covers a wide range of topics, each looking at the world we inhabit, past and present. Essays such as Bugle Boy, A Shared Garden, The Ice Chest, Boy Scout Camp, A...

In this first-ever collection, Mark Allen North shares 25 short pieces, including several stories, a children's fable, and a wide variety of personal-experience essays spanning childhood through his years in the aerospace industry. This mix of memoir, humor, tribute, and appreciation covers a wide range of topics, each looking at the world we inhabit, past and present. Essays such as Bugle Boy, A Shared Garden, The Ice Chest, Boy Scout Camp, A...

Work, money, food, relationships, life in general-these are the everyday struggles for billions crowded into our challenging world. Larry Landgraf tells us his story and the many lessons he's learned for finding extraordinary happiness. How to Be a Smart SOB Like Me is a stark but heartfelt examination of a life well-lived. You might like him, and you might not, but you can't help but learn ways you, too, can achieve your best.

Work, money, food, relationships, life in general-these are the everyday struggles for billions crowded into our challenging world. Larry Landgraf tells us his story and the many lessons he's learned for finding extraordinary happiness. How to Be a Smart SOB Like Me is a stark but heartfelt examination of a life well-lived. You might like him, and you might not, but you can't help but learn ways you, too, can achieve your best.

What would you do to survive? Lars lives alone in the Texas countryside as the economy collapses and his world becomes a dystopian nightmare. Joined by 'city gal' outsider, Eileen, he and his neighbors band together in their "Peaceful Valley." Utilities are cut off, grocery stores close, gas stations close, and there is shooting in the neighborhood. Could you survive? Lars, Eileen, and the neighbors struggle with tough decisions while fending ...

Twenty years after Into Autumn, Sean and Robbie leave Peaceful Valley for Corpus Christi, hoping to find women who will join their fiercely protective group back home. What they find is a fight to survive the violent dictatorship of ruthless Sandra Hawkins. Meanwhile, a new family joins the group in the Valley, except that what seems like a safe addition might bring the worst kinds of change. Into Spring continues the Four Seasons saga about b...

Twenty years after Into Autumn, Sean and Robbie leave Peaceful Valley for Corpus Christi, hoping to find women who will join their fiercely protective group back home. What they find is a fight to survive the violent dictatorship of ruthless Sandra Hawkins. Meanwhile, a new family joins the group in the Valley, except that what seems like a safe addition might bring the worst kinds of change. Into Spring continues the Four Seasons saga about b...

Satan's plan always has a lie attached to it, making you think he is on your side to help you or to show you happiness. Ordained evangelist Lannie Richmond exposes Satan's lying ways with clear analysis and vivid examples, both from the Bible and his own exposure to Hell. Chapters such as "The Soul, the Real Life of a Man, " "Born Again (Saved), " "Deceiving Sins, " and "Love" guide us carefully through deeper understanding of a path toward sa...

While all of Mississippi bakes in the scorching summer of 1925, sudden orphanhood wraps its icy embrace around Emily Ann "Baby" Teegarten, a pretty young teen. Taken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, Baby Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that brings church ladies to righteous tears, and makes both angels and devils take notice. "I'm going to New York City to sing jazz, ...

In the second novel of The Lady Trilogy, auburn-haired beauty Leigh West continues her adventures in Alaska's majestic and mysterious Tongass National Forest in search of self-discovery and harmony with nature. In her journal, she chronicles becoming the Spiritual wife of Chi Mukwa (Big Bear) and guardian of two Tlingit teens. It is through Native American spirituality that she sparks new passion within herself, a new appreciation for others, ...

Princess Lil is a sad pony. Her little girl grew up and went away. Now Lil is in a scary place with lots of mean ponies. A fun furry farm-cat called Taffy and a nice roan horse named Pearly try to help. It even looks like Princess Lil might have a chance to cheer up special-needs children, too, but she is already too hurt and too sick. Princess Lil is about the differences between loyal friends and those who bully others. It shows the po...

In the first novel of The Lady Trilogy, auburn-haired beauty Leigh West travels to Alaska's majestic and mysterious Tongass National Forest in search of self-discovery and harmony with nature. In her journal, she chronicles all she learns from native Tlingit tribesmen, the cunning wolves and beligerent brown bears, and the transforming seasons of the region's glorious landscape. It is through Native American spirituality that she sparks new pa...

What would you do if you saw your best friend for 60 years slipping over the edge into mental oblivion? You would do anything to help him, right? Frank and Clay have been friends since the first day of first grade. Now both in their mid-sixties and retired, Frank is looking forward to spending a lot of quality time hanging out with his lifelong friend. But all that is threatened when Frank sees Clay going around the bend. Clay denies he ...