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It was 1862 when a 17 year old Margaret Nichol Vaulx, growing up during a time of great national strife wrote the words, "that I may be in after years an ornament to society and the delight of my dear parents." She came of age during the American Civil War and has left us writings which are that very ornament which she so prophetically spoke of. Margaret (hereafter known as Maggie) was indeed the delight of her dear parents and of future Vaulx...

What can a 14 year old boy do when his father dies and leaves seven children and a widow in her late fifties? He already knows about struggle and death. He knows that his maternal grandparents had been killed when Indians attacked their log cabin a few years before he was born. In that attack his mother had been kidnapped, carried hundreds of miles away and held captive by Creek Indians for over 3 years. His father had told him about being a s...

IN THE EARLY 1980S, the citizens of Clarksville, Tennessee, were traumatized by the unrelated disappearances and random murders of two All-American teenagers, whose bodies were found within 24 hours of each other in the most shocking and mind-numbing of circumstances imaginable. Having a job to do, but emotionally affected by the double tragedy, reporters and editors at the city's daily newspaper wrestled with their sanity while they pursued f...

IN THE EARLY 1980S, the citizens of Clarksville, Tennessee, were traumatized by the unrelated disappearances and random murders of two All-American teenagers, whose bodies were found within 24 hours of each other in the most shocking and mind-numbing of circumstances imaginable. Having a job to do, but emotionally affected by the double tragedy, reporters and editors at the city's daily newspaper wrestled with their sanity while they pursued f...

Like the Afghan war today and the ten-year-war in Iraq, the Vietnam War tore at the bodies and souls of those who served, particularly the nearly 1, 100 Americans who lost multiple limbs and returned home from Vietnam to face a different kind of battle: acceptance. In this riveting first novel, winner of the Military Writers Society of America 2010 Silver Medal Award, author T.L. Gould draws upon his experience recovering in a military hospita...

This remarkable work is the result of the author's four-month journey throughout Europe and the Middle East to meet "children of war" and talk with them. While there, she recorded the stories of children and families who had lost homes, relatives, and friends, and were living in ruined villages, orphanages, and refugee camps. All the people and places whose stories are shared here were real, though some of the names were changed to protect rel...

Jim Kelly draws on his long career as a psychotherapist and lessons learned as a husband and father to identify ten key traits of an adult-a set of principles and practices that mature adults integrate into their lives. He uses poignant examples from his clinical work with clients and anecdotes from his personal experiences in marriage and as a parent to illustrate the application of the ten traits. He makes complex insights and skills underst...

This volume contains both friends' and the Spain family's collected memories of Jackie Burton Spain. It includes collected writings both by and aout Jackie, and the limited first edition also includes DVDs.

If you are thinking about fostering or adoption, this is a good book to start with. It doesn't offer beautiful pictures of waiting infants or angelic toddlers. Those, you can get from any agency. Instead, in fifty-two short chapters on different topics related to adoption and foster care, this book invites you to consider and prepare for realistic possibilities your agency may not think to mention. This book is written from the point of vie...

Aprons-that most humble of garments-are represented in all walks of life but none more so than in the history of nursing and in the lives of mid-1950's American women. When a trove of vintage domestic aprons from a Tennessee farmhouse turned up in some musty boxes of linens, forty-nine registered nurses adopted them and, inspired by their adopted aprons, created submissions for this book. At about the same time these nurses learned about a hum...

The Lingo Guide for Landscapers / The Lingo Guide Para Jardineros includes thousands of trade-specific words and phrases for practical, on-the-job communication in both English to Spanish and Spanish to English versions. By simply flipping the book over, the reader can communicate in both directions, covering all gardening terms from installation and maintenance to everything in between.

The Lingo Guide for Builders / The Lingo Guide Para Constructores includes thousands of trade-specific words and phrases for practical, on-the-job communication in both English to Spanish and Spanish to English versions. By simply flipping the book over, the reader can communicate in both directions, covering all construction trades from demolition to roofing and everything in between.

Ginger Manley addresses the many complex issues of love, sex, and aging in an open and wonderful way. Instead of comparing us to randy 20-year-olds, she listens to the concerns of older individuals-Nathan, Sid, Marlene-there are some 87 of them. Many of her answers are heartwarming and reassuring, some are frank and factual, and some may stretch your thinking-if you're set on believing that your sex life is headed downhill even before you appl...

Two of America's most highly-regarded independent journalists - Rob Dollar and Tim Ghianni, also known as "The News Brothers" - look into their crystal ball while exploring the legendary UFO case that helped shape the narrative for sightings of Little Green Men. It was a hot, clear summer night - Sunday, August 21, 1955 - when a flying saucer supposedly landed in Kelly, Kentucky, near a farmhouse occupied by eight adults and three children. A ...

When Ginger Manley boarded a train from Innsbruck to Zurich in the summer of 1967, she had no idea of the adventure she was about to embark upon. Beside the railroad track in Feldkirch, Austria, Ginger, a registered nurse on the lam from a year of intensive trauma nursing, met John, an ex-fighter pilot and service-related arm amputee--and immediately disliked him. Two months later they married in what seemed a fairy-tale story but no happily-e...

Immediately upon hearing that nearby Fort Donelson had fallen, Clarksville citizens knew their city was the next intended target of Union Navy gunboats. What followed was a three-year occupation by enemy forces. Eyewitness accounts supported by historical documentation construct a narrative of ordinary people living a tentative existence in a town which was OCCUPIED...

As the number of surviving veterans of World War II dwindles, the appearance of new memoirs from participants in that conflict appears less likely. Fortunately, in 1989 Herschel Ponder, from Asheville, North Carolina, felt compelled to put pen to paper to inform his three daughters and grandchildren of his part in the greatest armed struggle of the twentieth century. A broad audience will welcome these well-written and fascinating recollection...

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...

Special needs children get a voice through this children's book. It reaches into the hearts and minds of children both with and without Cerebral Palsy, bringing them together in a way that neither expects. Mrs. McAuley's purpose in writing this book is to help educate all children, with or without special needs, by encouraging their acceptance of each other.

At age 15, Minda Lazarov became Patient 2410 at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's - a disease of the lymph nodes. The "C word" was never spoken that day in 1970. This diagnosis, however, was the first of many as cancer and other illnesses made a full-body assault on Minda for the next 40 years. The fact that Minda survived into her 50's is remarkable in itself, but what makes her story so compelling is...