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Recalls moving or amusing incidents from a distinguished career in healthcare and academia, and often makes a serious point without belabouring it.

From Cuba to Maine, Korea to California, take a journey down a few of life's lesser-traveled roads. Set in locales ranging from the United States to the Caribbean and from Mexico to the Far East, Bar Harbor features unique tales of humor, military service, personal history and relationships, and the characters and moments that populate our everyday life, from the mid-twentieth century down to today. Whether writing ultra-realistic stories or...

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All families are caught in a whirlwind of change. Not one is now what it used to be. Life for the Jantz family has been predicated by the Mennonite church. But through a series of shifting circumstances, inside their church and in the world at large, each member of this family is ultimately confronted with the decision to remain a part of their religious community. Darlene, Vernon, and Caroline "Shike" Jantz's intensely personal journeys are...

We are the stories we tell, and our relationships tell all.In these nine compelling stories, Cly Boehs captures people caught in the crosshairs of a dilemma-a twist of fate, an opportunity missed, a chance meeting with a stranger, a lover's betrayal-a turn of events that leaves no choice for emotional retreat. They must decide for or against a change in their lives. Their world of past perceptions, of predictability, security and permanence ca...

We are the stories we tell, and our relationships tell all.In these nine compelling stories, Cly Boehs captures people caught in the crosshairs of a dilemma-a twist of fate, an opportunity missed, a chance meeting with a stranger, a lover's betrayal-a turn of events that leaves no choice for emotional retreat. They must decide for or against a change in their lives. Their world of past perceptions, of predictability, security and permanence ca...

It's the Biggest Caucus Circus of All Time.After years of emceeing insipid singing competitions, TV personality Bryan Seafoam can't wait to host American President, the world's first reality show to elect a country's Chief Executive. It's the chance he's waited a lifetime for-an opportunity to be a real journalist, unearthing skeletons and playing hardball with the top ten candidates.But it doesn't take long for the contestants to start diggin...

No Power on Earth Could Save Them from Their Sins On a Sunday afternoon drive through Louisiana, Zassy, an elderly woman of color, tells the story of her son, the legendary Bayou Jesus, to a young white man. Born in an abandoned barn, Frank Potter touches the lives of all who encounter him. When he and young, unwed Zassy find haven at the rotting Boudreaux plantation, Bellwether, Frank's destiny becomes clear--a destiny that will forever chang...

No Power on Earth Could Save Them from Their Sins On a Sunday afternoon drive through Louisiana, Zassy, an elderly woman of color, tells the story of her son, the legendary Bayou Jesus, to a young white man. Born in an abandoned barn, Frank Potter touches the lives of all who encounter him. When he and young, unwed Zassy find haven at the rotting Boudreaux plantation, Bellwether, Frank's destiny becomes clear--a destiny that will forever chang...

It's the Biggest Caucus Circus of All Time.After years of emceeing insipid singing competitions, TV personality Bryan Seafoam can't wait to host American President, the world's first reality show to elect a country's Chief Executive. It's the chance he's waited a lifetime for-an opportunity to be a real journalist, unearthing skeletons and playing hardball with the top ten candidates.But it doesn't take long for the contestants to start diggin...

Photographs deceive. They hide as much as they reveal.Caroline Jantz listens to and reflects on the tales of five members of her family, stories that change the perceptions she has of them, but more profoundly, change her place with them in her life and in the stories they tell. These accounts center around recently-discovered family photographs, some from albums, some from dusty old attics, but all long forgotten. Caroline's Uncle Jesse is ch...

Photographs deceive. They hide as much as they reveal.Caroline Jantz listens to and reflects on the tales of five members of her family, stories that change the perceptions she has of them, but more profoundly, change her place with them in her life and in the stories they tell. These accounts center around recently-discovered family photographs, some from albums, some from dusty old attics, but all long forgotten. Caroline's Uncle Jesse is ch...

Deliver Them Unto Me.I am Evelyn Winters.I am a good Christian. Sometimes it's hard being one. Sometimes it's hard being me...It was especially hard being caught in a drab, loveless marriage, especially hard wanting what she couldn't have: Canaan Heights' handsome new preacher.At least Evelyn had her children. Two beautiful boys. Corey was eight, Timothy was twelve. But boys will be boys, and they were testing her patience more every day. If o...

Deliver Them Unto Me. I am Evelyn Winters.I am a good Christian. Sometimes it's hard being one. Sometimes it's hard being me...It was especially hard being caught in a drab, loveless marriage, especially hard wanting what she couldn't have: Canaan Heights' handsome new preacher.At least Evelyn had her children. Two beautiful boys. Corey was eight, Timothy was twelve. But boys will be boys, and they were testing her patience more every day. If ...

Award-winning author JC Crumpton has collected some of his most-fascinating published fiction and poetry along with exciting new works just waiting to be explored across multiple genres. Cardboard Heroes speaks to various aspects of the imagination. Within these pages not only lie tales of an apocalyptic garage sale, an amnesiac with blood on his shoes, and a thief who learns about honor, but also works that wrestle with morality and question ...

Award-winning author JC Crumpton has collected some of his most-fascinating published fiction and poetry along with exciting new works just waiting to be explored across multiple genres. Cardboard Heroes speaks to various aspects of the imagination. Within these pages not only lie tales of an apocalyptic garage sale, an amnesiac with blood on his shoes, and a thief who learns about honor, but also works that wrestle with morality and question ...

Irish entertainer Kevin Hough looks back at his career. Whether it was chasing bluebottles around his father's shop or smashing crockery on the Sunday Night Play, donning the habit with Brendan Grace at the Gaiety Theatre or hitting the high notes on The Lyrics Board, recording behind bars at Mountjoy Prison or rounding up rabbits in Oklahoma!, riding a tank in the Lebanon or hanging from a helicopter over Dublin, his life has been high on ene...

¿I sentence you to three and a half years, ¿ bellowed the immaculately well-kept Judge Bolan ¿ ¿Thank you VERY much Judge Bolan, ya sanctimonious prick¿ were the words that came flooding into my mind as the walls of Court 5 came closing in on top of me ... but who was I kidding? So begins Gary Cunningham¿s remarkable memoir about his time in Mountjoy Prison. Occasionally harrowing but more often hilariously funny, Joys of Joy offers a searingl...

When an upstart band of students takes to the streets in a hot local election, the stakes are clear enough. A vacant seat on the city council. Industry versus the environment. The timeless pursuit of power. Campaigning in the inner city, the electioneers prove capable, enhancing their candidate's chances when few thought they could. But deep forces churn, and as the election unfolds, the twin evils of race and class threaten to devour everyone...

When an upstart band of students takes to the streets in a hot local election, the stakes are clear enough. A vacant seat on the city council. Industry versus the environment. The timeless pursuit of power. Campaigning in the inner city, the electioneers prove capable, enhancing their candidate's chances when few thought they could. But deep forces churn, and as the election unfolds, the twin evils of race and class threaten to devour everyone...