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Ten-year-old Keely Rosalie Tucker is a modern-day knight with no armor. Constantly bullied by a neighbor boy, Keely struggles to find her place in the world in which she is comforted only by the stories her Gramms has told her about enchanted, faraway places, where unicorns, fairies, and angels protect children from life's everyday pains and dangers. Now all Keely has to do is figure out how to call them to help her. Everything changes when h...

This cookbook has been in the making for some time. I have been cooking from a young age and have had things that turn out well and things that just turn out awesome. The objective of the book is to show anyone that has an interest in cooking and in being creative can do it as long as there is a desire to take on the challenge. I have a vast variety of recipes within the book, and some are easy and a little more challenging. All my life I have...

In this book you will find Devotionals, Poems, and Prayers. Since each article is seasoned with a touch of spiritual flavor, it can be read as a daily devotional or just read at your own pace. There are words of wisdom for everyone and you will surely find something that touches the heart.

Indian Annie was a young child in the northern hills of Alabama, when Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal law forced Native Americans to leave the south. Her family decided not to leave their sacred homeland, but to hide in the mountains, speak English, and blend into the rural farming population. They called their young child, "Indian Annie" because she declared herself proud to be Indian. Annie tells her family's story of surviving in what becam...

Indian Annie was a young child in the northern hills of Alabama, when Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal law forced Native Americans to leave the south. Her family decided not to leave their sacred homeland, but to hide in the mountains, speak English, and blend into the rural farming population. They called their young child, "Indian Annie" because she declared herself proud to be Indian. Annie tells her family's story of surviving in what becam...

I do believe that a lot of what I draw comes from within. The images of Indian princesses and their horses have always been a part of my life. Since I've been a small child, I've understood those feeling all so well. I've lived with the love for many horses in my lifetime. They are still here in my heart and soul, so it comes very easy to me in image-the love between a girl and her horse. I hope that goes across to the one looking at the image...

This book is designed to assist the advanced mathematics and science students through the maze of the Ancient World/Hellenistic World/ Classical World and its flow into the Modern World. This book will not only put critical events in perspective but also in their true chronological order. This book will give the reader knowledge of the history of the Mediterranean World from the Persian Empire to the 1883 A.D. discovery of electricity and beyo...

The main problem for the international community is developing enough renewable energy to offset the loss of oil energy. With population growth of two billion by 2037 there will be a crisis in feeding the world, including a shortage of food and energy for transportation. The author finds plenty of energy but not enough of the special energy required for transportation of food. He fears that airplanes will have major problems in acquiring usabl...

Shakespeare's Hamlet - written 2, 000 years after the classical Greek period - follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn't the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra's influence again in the 20th-century works of Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill and T.S. Eliot, among others. This revised and updated edition looks more closely at the influence of Electra on popular culture throughout history and the qu...

Shakespeare's Hamlet - written 2, 000 years after the classical Greek period - follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn't the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra's influence again in the 20th-century works of Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill and T.S. Eliot, among others. This revised and updated edition looks more closely at the influence of Electra on popular culture throughout history and the ques...

As their lives unfold, the three women find themselves facing choices they would never have envisioned. In my heart, I call to their mothers, 'Take your sons to your houses. Bind them to your chairs: gag them, blindfold them if necessary until they grow calm. Then teach them, for they have forgotten, about peace, about the blessed life, about a future-a present-without pain. Beneath their prayers, in their morning cups of coffee, beneath their...

Since the age of ten, Allison Weston has lived under the sheltering arms of the nuns at St. Ives Institution. Sister Margaret, Allie's guardian, is concerned that Allie is hiding from the nightmares of a tragic childhood. So after Allie's college graduation, Margaret insists that Allie experience life outside the institution before taking her vows. In Allie, rookie reporter Ryan Harper suspects secrets so dark that he hungers to break the st...

­This is Jeanne's second book. ­ The first was Acid and Bribery, also a young adult mystery. Cowboy on the Wrong Train is a fictional story based on Jeanne's experience growing up in Colorado Middle Park cattle ranch and her imagination. It is a mystery for young adults, all mystery readers, those interested in ranch life and those who like reading novels without profanity. Professional Richard S. Rose, M.A., read this book and wrote: "Jeanne...

In the starving years after the Civil War, a girl is born in the northern hills of Alabama. The mother dies, and the heart-broken grandmother gives the precious child to strangers to raise as their own. Rambunctious and inquisitive, the little girl wants to "know everything." Yet she finds herself surrounded by secrets. Who can she ask? Who can she tell?

The Follower is Axel Tressler, an indestructible hero. It tells the tale of how an accident at birth led to his becoming a force to be feared and admired. He is the younger of twin brothers who were born after their mother survives an airplane crash. His brother Adam is born next to the wreckage but Axel is not born until three days later. There appears to be nothing different about them, however as Axel reaches puberty, he and his mother reco...

The rainforest of Costa Rica is not an ordinary place. Therein lives an endangered tiger cat cub named Señor Tiger. He is not alone. Someone is watching him. Perico, a bi-lingual Macaw parrot, watches from above because he doesn't like what he sees. Something is wrong with the baby tiger cat. He could hear the other wild rainforest animals make fun of him and he doesn't like it. Perico decides to follow him for several days and discovers that ...

So many of us grow up being constantly reminded about an all-forgiving, merciful, and beneficent deity. All throughout life, it can even be drummed into us that we cannot live happy, purposeful lives without a heavenly father who protects us and grants our wishes through prayer. And if things don't go according to plan, then we are simply told that God works in mysterious ways! But what if we have more questions? What if these things we are be...

The rainforest of Costa Rica is not an ordinary place. Therein lives an endangered tiger cat cub named Señor Tiger. He is not alone. Someone is watching him. Perico, a bi-lingual Macaw parrot, watches from above because he doesn't like what he sees. Something is wrong with the baby tiger cat. He could hear the other wild rainforest animals make fun of him and he doesn't like it. Perico decides to follow him for several days and discovers that ...

Kathy's heartwarming story begins in 1961 where she lives in a prairie home in Northeastern Montana near Four Buttes. Five-year-old Kathy is the youngest of 5 children in the post-World War II era, and the story is the charming tale of a little girl growing up in the love and security of her family and community, the exciting times of calving, planting, harvesting, and trips to town. She alludes to Laura Ingalls Wilder in her story, ending wit...

Tomar El Oro, the stakes winning three-year-old American Quarter Horse stallion favored to win the race, unexpectedly lost miserably. Having overheard a conversation that suggested bribery, Kelsey Kelley wondered if her best friend's father, Eustacio Rios, was bribed to lose. While Kelsey searched for clues, her father, who had deserted his family, arrived wanting to make amends, much to Kelsey's disgust. Kelsey learned to accept both disappo...