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When Sammy Balle is gravely injured on the final play of the big game his chances of going pro are as shattered as his body. While wallowing in self-pity and contemplating what could have been, he finds redemption when his niece is injured and becomes comatose. Death comes to take her away and Sammy challenges him to a football game for her life. Sammy must now research old time, passed on players for his team with the help of an elderly footb...

Winner of the 1989 Award in Criticism from the Association for Mormon Letters Music has flourished in the Mormon church since its beginning. In this book--now available in paperback--Michael Hicks examines the direction that music's growth has taken since 1830. He looks closely at topics including the denomination's first official hymnals, the views of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young on singing, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the changing att...

The small community of New Liberty in rural Maine is horrified when a young girl is brutally raped and murdered. Dodd's Convenience Store serves as the social center of the town, and Clary Dodd is one of its most prominent citizens. Clary is an inveterate puzzle solver. She has helped the police with one or two minor cases in the past and feels herself uniquely qualified to catch the murderer. Against the advice of her husband and with the hel...

An entry in Cabell's fantastic "Poictesme" series.

A collection of 10 science fiction stories by acclaimed master Keith Roberts, author of "Pavane" and "The Chalk Giants.

Hulda Hansen awaits the return of her betrothed, Ole Kamp, who promised her great fortune after his voyage aboard the fishing boat, Viking. When the Viking fails to return and is feared lost, a bottle is found with a note for Hulda and a lottery ticket, numbered 9672. News of the tragedy spreads, along with Hulda's possible riches from the lottery ticket, whose drawing day grows near.

How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture.

Whereas Balwant Bhagwandin's wild flowers was a gathering of thoughts and emotions, i hear guyana cry!, his second book of poetry, focuses on the destruction that is being visited upon his native land and its people.These poems speak of the agony from the mayhem and madness of yet another 'Turd' World country on the brink of a 'failed state' the like of Somalia and Liberia with warlords and child-soldiers, drug lords and their phantom enforcer...

Dennis Bacchus is a man who has outlived himself. HIV-positive and prepared to die at any minute, he finds himself in the late 1990s blessed with life-giving drugs, supportive friends, a boom economy, and an era of never-ending celebration--and he doesn't know what to do with himself. For ten years he has traveled and celebrated a curtailed life with the similarly infected Jimmy and, though Dennis was never that close to Jimmy, he decided to l...

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Throughout this book you will see and feel the pain that I feel, but you also see the joy, the passion and love I feel. If you look deep enough you will also see the pain that I see in every-day life that most people don't want to see. I was a little boy growing up in North Carolina during the early 70s, a time of changes. One either changed or was left behind. Whites and Blacks were learning to live together, work together. The dream was comi...

Thirty-Eight Miles from the Nearest Road is a story of the trials and tribulations encountered by a young couple during their early years. Bob Johnson is the grandson of hearty immigrants who all migrated to the United States from Finland over 100 years ago. They were all too familiar with the harsh elements of winter and the yoke of Soviet oppression. This background prepared Bob for a life of hard work, shortages, and self-dependence in the ...

Advance Praise for The Vittorio Deception Chris Potter's suspense novel will have you grabbing your chair and hanging on until the end. Jan Pope, author of Agency Games Talented author Chris Potter gives us an exciting premise in his book The Vittorio Deception, a suspense tale guaranteed to give you an edge-of-the-seat read. This is a book you won't forget! Recommended highly. Anne K. Edwards, author of Journey into Terror.

Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.

An entry in Cabell's fantastic "Poictesme" series.

An entry in Cabell's fantastic "Poictesme" series.

Donnie and Jean" was a time of great transition for our nation, one in which there was no television, and radio and Hollywood were the main sources of both entertainment and news defining what would later be called "The Great Generation." Comic books and the funny papers were war oriented and children were ready to defend America against all invaders, while adults fought the war, children played at war. Donnie and Jean is more than a story of ...

This unique edition of the "Tao Te Ching features: - the first comprehensive verbatim translation of the entire text of the "Tao Te Ching, - literal character definitions that allow the reader to create his or her own interpretation, - a concordance section that enables the reader to track the different ways a single character is used throughout the work, - grammatical and interpretive notes on individual terms and verses, - a unique commentar...

[Cabell's] most substantial post-Biography fantasy was "The Nightmare Has Triplets, " a sequence comprising Smirt: An Urban Nightmare, Smith: A Sylvan Interlude, and Smire: An Acceptance in the Third Person. This explicitly emulates the logic and geography of dreams . . . successfully mistly and dreamlike . . ." --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy