Porter: 1504 books

Tom Conard works for the EPA in Western North Carolina. When he helps a man take a 55 gallon blue barrel off his truck to place it in a storage unit, something doesn't seem right. He's afraid the man is trying to dispose of some illegal substance. He has no idea how his life is about to change. He...

A star in our Milky Way, far away from Earth, holds the planet Experiment. People who homo sapiens thought had become extinct, are preparing to leave to find a new planet that can sustain their lives in a safer, more comfortable environment. Experiment is becoming extremely dangerous. Five families...

Big Cataloochee and Little Cataloochee, rich valleys tucked in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, were settled by rugged individualists in 1838. These men went first to cut the trees then break the fertile soil for cultivation. They brought their families, helped each other to build log cabins...

The United States of America has collapsed and the continent is breaking into individual sovereignties based on geography, culture, political persuasion, and economics. The story is told through the eyes of Sam Buckwalter, one of the founders of Appalachian America, a new nation forming in the true...

Henry Negley, Freedom Fighter, is locked in a battle for the very existence of the United States and the world. He heads an underground movement, created because all corporations in the world have now merged into one, The Corporation. The Corporation controls all governments through coercion. Many...

America in the Sixties: A Most Interesting Decade, is all about the decade of the nineteen sixties in the U.S. This was the only decade in U.S. history that saw four prominent leaders of the country assassinated. It was a decade that began with the country nearly creating a nuclear holocaust. Then,...

Ivan Solansky was born in 2040. The year the story opens is 2005. Ivan is celebrating his thirty-fifth birthday as he moves backward in time. This is the story of a lonely man, a man whose circumstances prevent him from forming any relationships, man or woman, lover or friend. The story of Ivan is...

Three law-abiding brothers, professionals, rob a remote casino of forty-eight million dollars and bury the money on Chance Mountain. When they come back for it, six months later, it’s gone. Then the fun begins as twists and turns, murder and mayhem chase them in their pursuit of the money. When...

Volume Three of the Silver Valley series! A decade of storms, droughts and wildfires have ruined the nation's infrastructure and left most of the country dry and shattered. The end of oil has stopped food distribution, and America has returned to a horrifying state of nature, where the strong...

In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks...

You SAY you want to lose 20-30 pounds. You've been saying it for years. So why haven't you done it? Here's the story of how one junk food junkie's humiliating meeting with Ricky Gervais finally helped him move beyond wishful thinking and turn repeated failure into weight loss success.

READ Perspectives, a refereed annual publication of the Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ), Washington, D.C., begins its sixth year with the theme "Educating Language Minority Children: An Agenda for the Future." Volume 6 features presentations from a Boston...

With worshipful reverence, we sing hymns and bear testimony of the one Being whose omniscience, power, and splendor allow him to reign as the King of Kings. In this eloquent and personal book, Elder Bruce D. Porter teaches and bears witness of Jesus Christ. He explores the feelings and spirit surrounding...

A travel memoir with photos that explores one of the most fascinating regions of China.   A thousand years ago, the Yangtze River replaced the Yellow River as the center of Chinese civilization, and today the region known as Chiangnan remains a meaningful and evocative presence in the nation’s...