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This story is about family, specifically a family separated by slavery, and how they never lose faith that they will reunite one day. They are strong, and persevere, and prosper, like trees planted by the rivers of water…Tom, a young slave boy, was sold and separated from his family as a child. Many years later, in 1861, he escapes from a plantation in Charleston, South Carolina, believing he can join the Union Army and help win the war. He ha...

This story is about family, specifically a family separated by slavery, and how they never lose faith that they will reunite one day. They are strong, and persevere, and prosper, like trees planted by the rivers of water…Tom, a young slave boy, was sold and separated from his family as a child. Many years later, in 1861, he escapes from a plantation in Charleston, South Carolina, believing he can join the Union Army and help win the war. He ha...

Sondra G. Lee wrote "It All Comes Back to Family: A Family History of the Gay and Lee Families with Allied Lines" as a gift for her children and grandchildren. In it, she traces various lines of their family back to ancestors including: Henry Lee of York, William Beckwith, who came to Jamestown on the Phoenix in 1608, John Hardy, from Dorsetshire, England, Henry Gay of Nansemond County, Virginia, Henry Culpepper of Lower Norfolk County, Cleopa...

Sondra G. Lee wrote "It All Comes Back to Family Volume II: A Family History of the Gay and Culpepper Families with Allied Lines" as a gift for her children and grandchildren. In it, she traces various lines of their family back to ancestors including: John Hanson, Mary Ann Harris Gay, Samuel Maycock, Amy Sledge, the Skipwith Family along with its Plantagenet and Magna Carta connections, and family connections with Heraldry and Lineage Societies.

A beautifully written journey back into a rural Napa Valley and all its natural wonders, now largely given way to the vineyards, country clubs and luxury homes of what is now one of America's most expensive places. An award winning scholar's coming-of-age memoir replete with gorgeous archival and contemporary color photographs of creatures and places of a bygone world. Childhood creeks and woodland haunts come alive through tales of youthful e...

1580: On the return voyage from Mexico, a Spanish galleon loaded with six tons of gold wrecks on a reef in the West Indies. An Arawak tribe rescues the lone survivor, a pious Franciscan monk. Father Simon accepts being marooned as his assignment from God to civilize these naked savages and use the gold for the His glory.2002: It was to be a honeymoon in Saint Martin while awaiting her lover's divorce… Abandoned, hidden away at Orient Beach, Zu...

In "Working My Way Through Life, " the remarkable Russ Vahlbusch tells his life story, one job at a time... or at least he tells us the stories he can. Beginning with his first paying job at age five, he recounts his positions, responsibilities, and supervisors, spanning the next eighty-five years. A delightful book written when Russ was ninety-two.

When John Vernberg and Patricia Beckler met, he was a widower in his 90s and she was a widow in her 80s, but almost immediately they knew they had been destined to find and love each other. "A Love Story: FJV & PLB" is John and Pat's love story of hope and resilience, told in their own words. It will inspire readers of all ages to never give up on hope, and to never give up on love.

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.

The award-winning auteur producer-director Dan Curtis made television history with the epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the horror movies The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror, and the cult-classic Gothic serial Dark Shadows. Curtis also generated a large body of work in the mystery genre. This book provides information about all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions, from Challenge Golf (1963) to Our Fathers (2005)...

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With this passionate declaration of love for Saints Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II and his Royal Martyr Family, artist and author Ariane Trifunovic Montemuro pays back her Debt of Love to them for their amazing example and martyrdom on behalf of Orthodox Christians everywhere. This book tells their story intermingled with the stories of Saints they loved.

The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all-and did. For television, Curtis created the Gothic serial Dark Shadows and made horror movies (The Night Strangler), crime dramas (The Great Ice Rip-Off), trilogies (Dead of Night), family dramas (The Long Days of Summer), love stories (The Love Letter), and more. The revised second edition of this book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions, from Challe...

The Dream Bowl was a ballroom in Northern California that, when I was a kid, fascinated me each time I saw it in the 1950s on trips from Napa to Vallejo. Looking into its history, I was astonished at the parade of major musical acts that performed there from its opening in 1941 to its closure in 1969. It had Swing, Country & Western, and Rock bands during each of those eras. Near its end, I saw Santana, and the Grateful Dead at the Dream Bowl,...

How can parents help their kids gain the confidence to succeed in high school and college? The Perfect Student answers that question. The authors of this thought provoking book demonstrate valuable lessons and creative strategies to help students succeed in the classroom. It addresses the importance of students staying determined throughout the educational process. Ultimately, they will receive the joy of achieving their long-awaited goals.The...

Quem pode contar melhor a história do que aquele que testemunhou? Você ficará adimirado com o testemunho do autor sobre a sua conversão do Catolicismo à fé Apostólica. Os anais da história foram rompidos, e a sua chance de se tornar conhecedor da história da igreja está nesta publicação. Você se sentirá desafiado e informado. As informações contidas neste documento são chocantes, mas pertinentes e oportunas. Deixe a verdade ser dita, o autor n...

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.

This is retired Judge Ray Guadagni's second book, following 'The Adventures of the Squeeze Box Kid' which described life in small town Napa in the '50s. 'Tuna the Wonder Dog' takes us to his attendance at UC Berkley, UC Hastings Law School and the beginning of his long and storied legal career through the '60s, '70s and beyond. His 17 1/2 year relationship with his fantastic wonder dog Tuna is lovingly described in beautiful prose. Thank you s...

This collection of over 200 poems, rhymes, and limericks constitutes my final Hurrah! My health makes the title inevitable. The progression of disease makes this final Hurrah! even more emphatic. I present these writings as one elderly pastor's testament to the grace gift of a personal faith which transcends a plethora of doubts.

Contemporary short poetry, including both new material (50 poems, 2011-2018) and material previously published as Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (30 poems, 2005-2011), Susie Margaret Ross is not sure that she has a theory of writing, but if she does, it is that what the reader brings to a piece of writing is equally as important as what the writer brings.