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When she was 18, Barbara Hesselman joined the Army to finance her nursing education. A little more than four years later, and with less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. On the neurosurgical intensive care unit where she worked, she and her fellow soldiers fought for the lives of the wounded-and sometimes their sanity-with hard work and silly antics that included a mascot ...

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Skunk on the Potty is a comprehensive, imaginative and entertaining book for readers of all ages. This charming, genre-bending narrative has been created to teach the topic of waste-water treatment. Where does it go after we go? Follow Zorillo the skunk through this brilliant story as Rick Rotifer, master plumber, explains the ins and outs of turbulent flow.

Mr. Muffins lives a pretty normal life. He goes to school and plays with his toys. But one day, Mr. Muffins pulls a little too hard on his leash while barking at a squirrel, and everything changes.

From dawn to sunset a daylily blooms just once, its survival brief in the patterns of life. A dozen more disguise its demise with the next sunrise. Strength comes with the fresh bloom of the new day, weakens as the light fades." (from "Strength to Survive")

A blistering story of surviving, and overcoming, the worst kinds of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual. Shirley Turner tells her own story, from a squalid childhood in Maine, to a forced marriage and motherhood, constantly moving from place to place with her controlling husband. Ironically, it is becoming a mother that brings her greatest happiness, and also her greatest tragedy. This is a journey of triumph, a story that exalts the incredibl...

After years of delay, Ray Gagnon has finally entered retirement after successfully transitioning his black ops team over to his son-in-law, Johnny Torque. With his dark past in the rearview mirror, Ray begins to adapt to a normal life. But when Torque and his team are taken hostage by a vicious mercenary group, Ray is forced out of retirement and thrust back into action to save his former teammates before a wave of destruction is unleashed upo...

In the early 1980s, a stranger by the name of Kenny Collins moves to Down East Maine-a place rooted in the traditions of those who were born and bred there, and meets Mary Bagley, a woman who knows all too well the insidious nature of certain locals. Between drug dealings, blackmailing, and wild outbursts, Kenny becomes the subject of the rumor mill, and local state trooper, Harry Circus, does everything in his power to stop the cycle of abuse...

History affords us with many examples of individuals of principle who were either alone in their efforts or were part of a decided minority. They may have found themselves separated from the majority due to propinquity or circumstance, or they may have placed themselves in such position due to deep-seated beliefs, or an occasioned wisdom, or even just bad luck. But they stood, and because of that they will always stand the test of time. They k...

Scott Pennell witnessed something horrible on Halloween night, 1969 - he found the body of his girlfriend, Kacey Wymer, impaled upon the stick shift of his car. Kacey's brutal murder affected him so intensely, that he lost all memory of that time in his life…until 20 years later, when he returns to Columbus, Georgia to start a new job. One of the first persons he meets is a beautiful woman, Macey Garner, who not only lives in the same complex,...

It's just another beautiful morning on Itty Bitty Hill Farm until Grandma finds out that all the treats are gone! So Grandma does the only thing she can do. She bakes her famous Monkey Man Treats...

Memory poems spanning the life of the poet. Each poem is paired with a dragonfly image. In DRAGONFLY WINGS she offers poetic perceptions collected over forty years of her life. Bonnie lives with her husband, Craig, in Cape Neddick, Me.

E.D. Ward's first novel in the Harry Circus mystery series is a story of unforgettable suspense from the dramatic opening to the bloody finish. In rural Down East Maine, a seasoned State Trooper, Harry Circus, is driven to solve the most gruesome murder he's ever investigated. The body of Lester Sawyer, local banker and good friend of Harry's, is found disemboweled and partially skinned on the remote blueberry barrens, north of the small town ...

The year is 2016, but you wouldn't know it if you walked into Murray Segal's typewriter shop. The machines are a throwback to a bygone era, much like Murray himself. A mysterious old Underwood gives Murray a chance to play detective, but when he is visited by dangerous men who make him an offer he can't refuse, the peril is very real. Murray and his wife Janice find themselves on the run in northern Maine, their lives at stake. But that doesn'...

Anna Goodrich is a 28-year-old artist in New York City, out on a Friday night in the city when she gets the call that her uncle has suddenly died. When she returns home to mid-coast Maine for his funeral, she faces all that she left behind when she left seven years earlier. The pain of her own mother's death, the fractured relationships with her father and her first love. The life she had built for herself in New York - the art world, her boyf...

E.D. Ward's first novel in the Harry Circus mystery series is a story of unforgettable suspense from the dramatic opening to the bloody finish. In rural Down East Maine, a seasoned State Trooper, Harry Circus, is driven to solve the most gruesome murder he's ever investigated. The body of Lester Sawyer, local banker and good friend of Harry's, is found disemboweled and partially skinned on the remote blueberry barrens, north of the small town ...

The Count of Monte Cristo meets ancient Egypt in this riveting sequel to The Sun God's Heir: Return. Set during the wave tossed years of white slavery and Barbary pirates, this is the epic story of René Gilbert, a journey that defies time as he must draw on a larger awareness earned in previous lifetimes. The plague's dark fingers curl around Bordeaux. René must return home to save those he loves. But first he has to escape a Moroccan sultan'...

Poems from the Blue Ridge is a work of art. Indeed, two works of art in a single volume. On the one hand, a compendium of poems-inspiring poems, complex poems, playful poems-and on the other hand, a collection of sketches-inspiring sketches, complex sketches, playful sketches. The reader will return to these pages time and again to contemplate the art of the written word and to appreciate the art of illustration. Skim through a few pages. You ...

For three thousand years a hatred burns. In seventeenth century France two souls incarnate, one born the child of a prosperous merchant, the other, determined to continue an incarnation begun long ago. In ancient Egypt, there were two brothers, disciples of the pharaoh, Akhenaten. When the pharaoh died, the physician took the knowledge given and went to Greece to begin a mysterious school. The general made a deal with the priests and becam...