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Zack was killed this morning! You have to help me!"And so Lorenzo Torres arrives in Fairfield, Virginia, just outside of Lexington, to the cries of murder by a prize bull at the farm of his former boss and mentor, Dr. Zachery Watson. Unable to make sense of the dubious circumstances of Zack's death, Lorenzo enlists the help of his business partner, investigator Nate Simon, the only person he is certain has the competence and tenacity to discov...

Based on a true story, Ruby at the Gate tells the story of Ruby, a lamb born weak and cared for by Robert Moses, a sheep farmer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Ruby developed a deep bond with her shepherd. Once she became strong enough to join the other sheep, she waited at the gate to greet him every day at feeding time. This is the second edition of Ruby at the Gate, updated with delightful illustrations by Erika Cummings. According to...

A guidebook by Lelia Vann and Greg Reck, who 'slack packed' the Appalachian Trail, "where you take only a daypack, enter and exit the trail every day, and you are ferried to a B&B, , hotel, or hostel each evening.

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In a devastating indictment of the GM management system, this insider expose outlines the $100 Billion fear-driven, top-down boondoggle that didn t make the news anywhere. And it was called the Paint Plan. Moving from general corporate engineering to a specialty in environmental issues, the author, Nicholas Kachman, became a quiet but persistent spokesman for common sense solutions to, among other things, the problem of air pollution from the ...

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Global Ink is a candid look at the art and the stories behind the art of tattoos. There are no movie stars or celebrities on these pages, just real people with stories as personal as their tattoos. In true journalist sense, every image was impromptu, taken where they were, as they were.

Beau-He-Me-N-Rib explores the unique original paintings, clay creations and poetry of Mary-Susan Kirkpatrick. Viewers will appreciate the personality of this soulful artist, revealing her natural expression and great sense of shape and color combinations. Mary-Susan's work gracefully flows across each canvas. Readers will enjoy the poetry she writes for her paintings. The artist's lifelong distinctive style continues into three dimensions with...

The life and letters of Jefferson provide timeless principles of leadership--personal, civic, and political--which are the key ingredients to making a free society work.

A Life Well Lived is a collection of daily journal comments by Harold Goodman about living a joyous life based his personal philosophy of each person taking full responsibility for their own happiness. If youre not happy with your life, guess who I think is responsible. Harold Goodman

At home in the foothills of the east Kentucky mountains, Bart Amburgey continues to write down his warm mountain memories from the 1930s-1950s. Bart also records other realities of survival in the east Kentucky mountains: ) If we carried a kerosene lantern, it would take too much time to turn off. The flashlight was very important to a moonshiner. They didnt want to be tracked if someone was watching.

Packed with essential facts, this resource presents a remarkable overview of Washington's life. Written for the general reader, it covers his public career and private life in an interesting, entertaining, and readable Q&A, format.

The Mourning Katrina National Writing Project helped survivors deal with the emotional trauma of their experience through writing poetry. This book was born out of human suffering and owes its existence to the cooperation and generosity of spirit of more than three hundred people who participated in the Project. The poems, or individual configurations of language, in Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy recall for us certain associat...

This story has over 150 authors! It was written cooperatively by the creative students and staff of Mountain View Elementary School, Rockbridge County, Virginia. Each class, kindergarten through fifth grade, added a chapter to the story, building upon the ideas in the chapter before them. Our Principal illustrated the story bringing the characters to life. On April 9, 2009, Mountain View students celebrated the release of over 100 "baby" trout...

Rittenburg examines the causes of the Civil War as seen by Rockbridge County, Virginia, a microcosm of antebellum Virginia. He touches upon why Union-loving people in the most critical Southern border state abandoned hope of compromise and cast their lot with the slaveholding South.

Husted examines the Virginia Military Institute's leadership development program in the first book in more than 30 years to provide a history of its recent graduates in combat around the world from Iraq and Afghanistan to the seas off Somalia.

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A memoir about Paul and Eula Simms, this volume contains a rich collection of stories from their life on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia during the first half of the 20th century.