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Samuel Wesley Gathing: A Closer Look is the moving true story of Sam and Beatrice Gathing and the struggles they faced rearing their fourteen children during the era of the Jim Crow laws. These laws meant that both society and the system enforced the damaging view that their children were just stupid...

The summer of 1966 ends tragically for Californian Charlie Sullivan. Hes been ordered to report to the local draft board in two weeks or face five years in the penitentiary. Sullivan fully understands he might end up fighting the war in Southeast Asiamaybe even losing his life in the process.. After...

Nice girls do not yell at men. We are supposed to take whatever is dished out at us and smile in return. No matter how awful. Our mothers taught us this and then our churches, schools, political and cultural institutions reinforced it. Nice girls keep their mouths shut. No more. In...

Ultra is a young man born into the dark underworld of pimping and whoring. He is forced to take on the burdens of life before he learns the meaning of the word life. Faced with the demons of his subconscious, Ultra struggles to maintain his sanity. On the road to king pimp status (for his fathers...

At twenty-two years of age, Del Booker finds himself on the brink of adulthood. But he's still dependent on his family. He never even got his college degree. Meanwhile his friends are all at Ivy League schools while he grapples with his decision to become an artist. Eventually his sense of guilt becomes...

My experience with my mother gave me the strength to go through the emotional trauma that occurs after a death. In our Irish Catholic fishbowl, we had the family fight, the wake, the family fight, the burial, then finally the family no longer on speaking terms. It also gave me the strength to let...

In this book the writer describes life in Uganda as seen through the eyes of an expatriate civil servant employed by the Ministry of Education. He gives the reader an insight into a newly independent country transforming its colonial style education system through its Africanization policies, some...

It all started with an audition. Whit Harrison was nervous enough, but to have some guy barge into the room when he was trying to try out for a solo in the community choir did not make things any better. Instead of being annoyed with the intruder, however, Whit is quite fascinated with him. He doesn't...

This book contains High-Octane Christmas mischief from a crazy rogue elf by the name of Tuffy McNasty. Tuffys on a mission to rid his favorite home of a sweet, little Christmas elf named Frizbee. Only one problem: Frizbees a lot smarter and tougher than anyone thought. Tuffy has his work cut out for...

In a world characterized by violence and conflict in many regions, there is brokenness that occurs at the personal, family, community, and societal levels in virtually all countries of the world as we push into the second decade of the twenty-first century. Everywhere there is the need for the reconstruction...

Jake Farms moved to a small town in Iowa when his parents abandoned him after he turned eighteen. The only time he traveled was when his contact left him a message that justice needed to be done. His last job, he witnessed a crime in Minneapolis against a certain judge, but he went back home to Iowa...

This is a true story about a young boy with a little fiction added throughout. It begins in Guntersville, Alabama in 1932 when Charles Thomas Parker is born on a river boat on the Tennessee River. At five years of age, He and his mother, Naomer, move to Oakland, California. and then to the mountains...

This book is about some everyday challenges that we hear about and face throughout the year. Its written in poetry form, with a touch of inspiration thats delivered as only the Holy Spirit could. Its a book that deserves immediate attention. This book is written by an author who has dealt with similar...

Whenever youre at a party or any gathering of friends, family, and others, there will be a period when things get dull. This book is a wealth of information of simple games, which can be played on the spur of the moment anywhere and will give you the power to take any sagging gathering and turn it into a fun, memorable, game-playing experience, guaranteed.