Satya: 29 books

No Time For Laura was an award-winning story, April 2004, Burlington Writers Group. It is one of the stories published in the larger work, Southern Fried Women, available here and in paperback.

Long-overdue foundation to critical global issue that is Peak Oil. With a deceptively light-hearted and witty tone, Haynes reveals how deeply connected oil is to virtually everything we buy and use, how looming scarcity will change how we live, and what we can do to prepare. After all, after Peak...

Getting divorced or just thinking about it? Some days you may feel completely overwhelmed and unable to make even the simplest decisions; other days you may feel confident and secure with your choices. This divorce primer is an introduction to topics including interviewing an attorney, taking care...

Cable has woven together the music, language, religions, and traditions of the South in a collection of stories about Southern women, and a few men, struggling to find answers to unanswerable questions, hoping for forgiveness, seeking righteousness, and questioning the existence of God. These are...

Old Time Religion is one of the stories in the award-winning book, Southern Fried Women, and previously in the anthology, Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home To Roost, under the sin category of gluttony. Described as funny, dark, and disturbing, Old Time Religion actually touches on many sins....

A fast-paced novel about a woman fighting to save her family from the dark side of Televangelism. Andie Oliver is faithful—to God, to her handsome husband Joe, and to Reverend Calvin Artury, a Godfather in a Mafia of holy men who conducts global faith-healing crusades and creates a vast TV...

Learn to live this moment to its fullest. The high price for trying to get everything done is letting yourself become undone. A busy life is an easy place to lose you. Even in a busy life, the greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of your own attention, discovering from within what is true and authentic. For this self-discovery, exotic travel is optional. Inquiry is mandatory.

Cry is a contrast in extremes. A young girl, living just above the poverty line, struggles with unanswered questions about her past. Running parallel to her story is the opulent and abundant life of a televangelist, who is not only well-known, she’s a woman, “God’s anointed daughter.”Two different...

Here for Now combines narrative with meditations and exercises. While there have been many books on meditation and perhaps even more on cancer, until now, there have been no books that apply the principles of mindfulness to living with this disease. This book has been a welcome addition to the body...

What type of person lives in Needmore, North Carolina and do they really . . . need more? A woman with little education most people would look at and call “low life” or “white trash.” Vernell struggles to make a way where there seems to be no way . . . living from paycheck to paycheck (like so many women I know), the deck is stacked against her. From the book: Southern Fried Women

Beach Babies came to me a few years ago when I held a picture, now the cover of this book, and stared at it. Bobbie Sue Rossi isn’t a heroine, neither will she be a legend. She’s simply a woman that did what needed to be done. I understand her and identify with her in many ways. We make no excuses...

The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.

In the character of Dolly Foster, British writer Anthony Hope has created an unforgettable embodiment of the turbulent end of the Victorian era. Constrained by old-fashioned conventions but bursting with newfangled ideas, this young woman is the element that ties together all of the vignettes and short tales collected in The Dolly Dialogues.

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir,...