Mosaic offers the reader a poignant assortment of enjoyable and infinitely readable stories garnered from ten talented American authors. Enjoy the literary contributions of: Marjorie Doering, Gayle Farmer, Irene Gardner, Norma Howell, Dawn Boeder Johnson, Rita Salter, Virginia Sciarpelletti, Heidi Tassone, William Walz and Frederick West. Let the mood, the unique tone and tenor of these gifted storytellers transport you to another world ] of the past, of the future ] the likely and the unlikely, let them whisk you away for a short trip through a looking glass. Tucked between the mysteries and thrillers are humorous tales, both light and dark, that will tickle the funny bone. Romantic ghosts, benign witches and honorable vampires mingle seamlessly with the thought-provoking, spiritually uplifting, or just plain eerie. Stroll through this exceptional compilation and prepare to be impressed, inspired and enthralled by stories that piece together like an intricate MOSAIC.
Larry Kline is the newest member of the Doubletree Team. He brings his talented mare, Connie, to the barn and joins the lessons. The team is impressed and readily accepts him as a new member. Not only is Larry a great rider with a fun, outgoing personality, he's very handsome and it's love at first sight for Melanie Young. Beautiful, smart and popular, it would only make sense for him to reciprocate her feelings, and he wants to, but sometimes wanting and doing are poles apart. With both reluctance and relief, he admits to his new friends he's gay. He's pleasantly surprised when they accept his statement without condemnation. Their main concern is for Melanie.
DESCRIPTION: Dennis pulled himself to his feet with a grunt and pretended to stretch. He watched her make her way to the top of the beach and hesitated. She could be heading for the parking lot or she might be coming out to the pier for a bite to eat at one of the many restaurants that lined the sand. He waited. She walked toward the parking lot, a swing in her step, long hair waving about her shoulders. As he picked up his pace, a peculiar swishing sound accompanied him. His massive thighs, gelatinous in texture and always raw, rubbed against each other, wrinkling his pants. He rounded the corner just in time to see her get into a bright yellow Mazda Miata. She backed out of the slot and hesitated, as though giving him the chance to read the license. He snickered. LAKATY. A personalized plate. They were all easy to trace, but this was a piece of cake. He pulled his cell from his pocket and started dialing. He watched her turn onto 66 and merge into traffic. She was his. Now or later, but soon. Very soon. He headed for a blue Lexus sedan. REVIEWS: I've been reading Ms. Farmer since I found a copy of Secret Lives on a friend's coffee table. Her novels are original, entertaining and downright scary and her newest novel, Something Wicked, really delivers. Farmer's known for her snappy, realistic dialogue, and convincing characters and she's at her best here with a truly creepy tale of a psychotic killer known as the LA Carver. And then, there's Frankie. Guaranteed to please. K. Ackerman, Los Angeles Intense and disturbing is the only way to describe this up close and personal look into the mind of a serial killer. The characters are so real and the descriptions of the Los Angeles area are accurately portrayed. I could not put it down. J.W., Denver
Becky Edwards wants to become a horse trainer more than anything else in the world. She moves to Del Mar and goes to the Doubletree ranch, looking for any kind of work that will include horses. She is befriended by Melanie Young, team leader and their trainer, Karen Evans and before long she's working with Karen. That doesn't sit well with all the team members and a whispering campaign begins. Suspicious tongues start to wag when a valuable figurine belonging to Billy Martin comes up missing and fingers point to the newcomer. Although exonerated, Becky feels betrayed, and knowing she'll never really be a team member, she starts to pull away from Karen and the team. A lucky twist of fate brings Becky to the barn early one morning and she finds Shievon Mahoney's mare, Megan cast in her stall. A combination of quick thinking and luck allows Becky to pull the little mare off the wall, thus making her a hero to the team and winning Shievon's undying allegiance. That's just the beginning of her adventures along the road to fulfilling her dreams.
When Billy Martin scores eight tickets to the prestigious Olympic Equestrian Team Trials held in Las Vegas, the Doubletree kids are delighted. The first day of showing brings thrills as a hometown girl they all know places third. Late that night, Becky Edwards gets a call from her old trainer asking for help in an emergency. While at the barn braiding horses for the next day's classes, she hears two men talking about drugging a horse. She recognizes one voice although she can't place it at first. At the show the following day, Sirocco, a highly rated champion mare, is eliminated from the competition due to steroid abuse, and a horrific accident takes one of the top scoring riders out of contention on a permanent basis. Determined to get to the bottom of both mysteries, the kids go sleuthing and what they turn up exposes a part of the show world they never knew existed. Join them in mystery, intrigue and high adventure in this, the latest book in the Doubletree Kids series.
Riding Blind, the latest entry in the exciting Doubletree Series, brings a new cast of characters to the fore as well as old time favorites from the original team. Lisa Freeman, blind since birth, dreams of learning how to ride a horse and with that end in mind, comes to Mystic Ridge for the summer riding group. She falls in love with Angel, the horse her trainer pairs her with, and before the session ends, Lisa accomplishes feats no one, not even she, ever expected. Riding Blind is all about fighting against impossible odds and refusing to quit, no matter what anyone else says about your chances of success. Things don't always come easy for Lisa, but she never ever gives up. In the end her spunk and determination make her a winner all around. Heartwarming story filled with warmth, understanding and great characters.
Brilliant nuclear scientist, Arnie Baker, is working on the formula that will turn the world's predominant energy source from expensive, polluting fossil fuels to cheap and abundant Helium-3. He's just months from completion when his wife, Candace, is kidnapped by Russian operatives who will stop at nothing to ensure that Arnie does not finish the formula. Baker hires PI's Jim Sessions and Lenny Browning to find her. Just days later, the Russians contact Arnie, offering to exchange him for his wife. They renege on their deal, keeping Arnie and Candace captive in a remote chalet. Unknown to them, Sessions and Browning are hot on their trail. Thus begins a novel of mystery, espionage and intrigue as Jim and Lenny race the clock in an attempt to rescue Dr. Baker and his wife.
Terry Wagner has one thing going for her most battered wives don't: Ella Russell, her tenacious and loving twin sister. Bold and fearless, she's good with a gun, has powerful friends and a unique weapon she's not afraid to use. With her indomitable spirit, vivid imagination and fierce devotion to her twin, Ella is a formidable adversary. After a brutal beating, it's clearly kill or be killed, so they devise a plan to murder Terry's husband, Bob Wagner. When he demands that Terry accompany him to their remote mountain cabin for a vacation, Bob gives the girls the perfect setting and opportunity. Knowing they need help, Ella discloses their scheme to her fianc, Jim Sessions. He takes the job of backup man, but he has a better idea and he's not sharing it with the girls. Tension mounts on both sides as the trip approaches. Little do they know Bob Wagner has plans of his own. Hollywood provides the perfect setting for intrigue, nestled among the rich and infamous and filled with dark mysteries. Secret Lives twists and turns its way through one shocking revelation after another, leaving the reader laughing one moment and gasping the next when another impossible tidbit from Bob's past threatens Terry's future.
Through a variety of unlikely events, Cathy Abbott becomes the dangerous obsession of a very disturbed and troubled man. Nathan Stanley leads a precarious life, constantly balancing reality with fantasy. He admires the courage and determination of the blind sculptress, attending her showings and buying various pieces of her work over the years. Painfully shy and retiring, he can only admire her from afar until one night, while enjoying a solitary dinner on his rooftop lanai, he glances across to the next door building and watches a woman dancing in the moonlight. When he recognizes Cathy's face, his feelings for her morph from inhibited admiration to ardent love in one extraordinary move.... Thus begins an overwhelming obsession coupled with dangerous desires that threaten to cause harm to everyone. Rudy Clark, member of the S & B team, agrees to serve as body guard while Cathy adjusts to the loss of her guide-dog, Suzi and acclimates to her new dog, a Doberman named Kip. Blind Trust combines the tender and moving story of two people who thought love had passed them by and a psychotic who yearns to be a part of Cathy's life to the point of murder. Blind Trust is the latest in the Sessions & Browning mystery series.
THE DOUBLETREE KIDS SERIES - Couples and All In The Game - Two Books In One COUPLES Bad girl Emily Goss has a crush on Steve Bianchi that doesn't sit well with his girlfriend, Becky Edwards, or the rest of the Doubletree team. Known throughout the riding community for cruelty to her horses and bad sportsmanship, the kids snub her efforts at friendship. Jealous and angry at their rebuff, she exacts revenge at the Championship show by causing Becky to lose her big class. When the team figures out how she spooked Becky's horse, Jessi Evans returns the trick, causing Emily to have a mishap in the show ring. The battle escalates to war and on the night of the Awards gala, the outcast seeks a wicked revenge. When Billy Martin invites the team to spend Christmas break aboard his mother's yacht and cruise to Hawaii, the kids are ecstatic. Upon boarding the yacht, Melanie Young heads to the restroom, her best friend, Blair Evans, in tow. Shortly after leaving the dock, pirates swarm from below decks and hijack the Sea Nymph. ALL IN THE GAME Big changes are in store for Steve when his parents begin divorce proceedings. With his mother gone, he starts to relax and behave like any normal teen. His seventeenth birthday is fast approaching and he invites the team over to his house to celebrate. His mother picks that same night to return home and crashes Steve's party with disastrous effects. A series of deadly events occur, taking Steve and Becky to the edge. What follows sets the tone for the rest of his life as he comes to grips with harsh realities and the true meaning of love and friendship.
An invitation to play in a charity golf tournament brings Jim Sessions and the gang to Palm Springs, CA. Looking forward to some serious shopping and a little fun in the sun, their holiday getaway turns deadly when Ella Russell, Jim's fiance, hears what she thinks is a gunshot. She dismisses it as a car backfiring until later, while enjoying dinner on the patio, the black velvet night erupts in violence and a woman's screams fill the air. Upon returning from a trip to L.A., Joan Chandler finds her husband, Joe, dead in a pool of blood and millions of dollars of fine art stolen from her home. When the police investigation turns up zero, the grieving widow hires Sessions & Browning to find his killer. After Joan and her son, Devon, are kidnapped in an attempt to recover Joe's files, Jim and Lenny are convinced the answer lies in his computer. They decipher his code and through a series of lucky breaks find the key that leads them to the Santa Monica airport, a terrorist plot to kill millions and a little red plane named Valkyrie. Lethal Intent builds to a nail-biting climax that holds the reader enthralled to the last word.
Beth Chapman is abducted from a famous San Diego amusement park by a stranger, Sam Hudson, and taken to a secluded barn high in California's National Forrest. He throws Beth into a dark, windowless room where she meets his first victim, Audrey Sims. The girls take strength from each other and plan their escape from the psychotic rapist's lair. Naked, barefoot and lost in unfamiliar terrain, they wander in the forest, finally coming upon a stream that feeds into a large reservoir. Encouraged, they bathe their bruised and battered bodies in the icy water and after a short rest, continue their trek. The girls follow the trail down the hill and end up finding a large abandoned campsite near the lake. They discover a small stash of food and clothing, including shoes for their bleeding feet, but they're still alone. The eerie silence is disconcerting and unable to rest, they resume their hike, hoping to find people down by the lake. Instead of kids swimming and frolicking in the water, solitude awaits them, a silence so complete even the birds are mute and they realize they are more than just alone. Something is very wrong. Jim Sessions and Lenny Browning, the PI team hired by Beth's parents to find their daughter, are hot on the trail. Through good fortune they catch a break that leads them to Beth's whereabouts, only to arrive at the barn after she and Audrey escape. With the help of their talented Doberman dogs, they begin to track the girls. Tracking them all is a raging, out-of-control wildfire. Jam packed full of adventure, this book leaves you breathless.
“Some peoples call you misisahk. It means horsefly. You fly with the horses . . . you’re small, with a big bite.” Raised on a ranch in Saskatchewan’s rugged Thickwood Hills, where the prairie transitions to forest, Willomena Swift, home from playing for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, finds a precious foal killed by a rogue stallion. The stallion’s owner, once Willo’s baseball coach, now chairs the committee heading up the new cooperative pasture—a pasture that is set to swallow her family lease, where she grew up, learned to love and understand horses, and dreamed of returning to raise them. Facing numerous challenges with both the stallion and his owner, Willo remembers her past years playing professional baseball as she struggles to realize her dreams in the present. Amid romance and tragedy, Willo must find a way to stand on her own and assert her rightful place in her beloved Thickwood.
Trees are the grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their complex root systems, trees represent shelter, stability, place, and community as few other living objects can. Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world's trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and demonstrate that the landscape is a gift, to be both received and, sometimes, tragically, to be destroyed. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific tree or group of trees and its relationship to both natural and human history, while exploring themes of community, memory, time, and place. Readers learn that colonial farmers planted marker trees near their homes to commemorate auspicious events like the birth of a child, a marriage, or the building of a house. They discover that Benjamin Franklin's Newtown Pippin apples were made into a pie aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour while the ship was sailing between Tahiti and New Zealand. They are told the little-known story of how the Japanese flowering cherry became the official tree of our nation's capital--a tale spanning many decades and involving an international cast of characters. Taken together, these and many other stories provide us with a new ways to interpret the American landscape. "It is my hope," the author writes, "that this collection will be seen for what it is, a few trees selected from a great forest, and that readers will explore both--the trees and the forest--and find pieces of their own stories in each.
In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, killing at least 72 people and injuring many more. An entire community was destroyed. For many people affected by this tragedy, the psychological scars may never heal. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a condition that affects many people who have endured traumatic events, leaving them unable to move on from life-changing tragedies. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, the focus was rightly placed on providing food, shelter and health care for those left homeless – but it is important that we don’t lose sight of the psychological impact this fire will have had on its survivors. 24 Stories is an anthology of short stories, written on themes of community and hope, by a mix of the UK’s best established writers and previously unpublished authors, whose pieces were chosen by Kathy Burke from over 250 entries. Contributors include: Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy, Meera Syal, John Niven, Pauline Melville, Daisy Buchanan, Christopher Brookmyre, Zoe Venditozzi, Nina Stibbe, Mike Gayle, Murray Lachlan Young, Barney Farmer.
“Some peoples call you misisahk. It means horsefly. You fly with the horses . . . you’re small, with a big bite.” Raised on a ranch in Saskatchewan’s rugged Thickwood Hills, where the prairie transitions to forest, Willomena Swift, home from playing for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, finds a precious foal killed by a rogue stallion. The stallion’s owner, once Willo’s baseball coach, now chairs the committee heading up the new cooperative pasture—a pasture that is set to swallow her family lease, where she grew up, learned to love and understand horses, and dreamed of returning to raise them. Facing numerous challenges with both the stallion and his owner, Willo remembers her past years playing professional baseball as she struggles to realize her dreams in the present. Amid romance and tragedy, Willo must find a way to stand on her own and assert her rightful place in her beloved Thickwood.
Mama's Song is a portrait of life in the tiny rural community of Elgood, West Virginia, in the early 1900s. It centers around the Higginbothams, a close-knit farming family, and particularly on Maude, their youngest daughter. It chronicles how their lives are shaped by historical events, their own personal choices, and the trials they face in an era before modern conveniences and modern medicine. They are just an ordinary family--none of them pursue or gain worldly fame. Even so, their unassuming lives are powerful examples of faith, perseverance, and sacrificial love, and the impact that simple acts of kindness have on the lives of others. Their journey through life teaches them that love, loss, and grief are intertwined and will always be so, this side of heaven.
Fans of the Little House books will fall in love with Esther. Thanks to her superstitious mother, Esther knows some tricks for avoiding bad luck: toss salt over your left shoulder, never button your shirt crooked, and avoid black cats. But even luck can't keep her family safe from the Great Depression. When Pa loses his job, Esther's family leaves their comfy Chicago life behind for a farm in Wisconsin. Living on a farm comes with lots of hard work, but that means there are plenty of opportunities for Esther to show her mother how helpful she can be. She loves all of the farm animals (except the mean geese) and even better makes a fast friend in lively Bethany. But then Ma sees a sign that Esther just knows is wrong. If believing a superstition makes you miserable, how can that be good luck? Debut author Gayle Rosengren brings the past to life in this extraordinary, hopeful story.
The owner of a delightful Southern café tastes the sharp sting of suspicion in this delectable comfort food mystery . . . It’s fall in Winter Garden, Virginia, and business at Amy Flowers’ Down South Café has never been better. So when struggling beekeeper Stuart Landon asks Amy to sell some of his honey, she’s happy to help. The jars of honey are a sweet success, but their partnership is cut short when Amy discovers Landon’s body outside the café early one morning. As Amy tries to figure out who could possibly have wanted to harm the unassuming beekeeper, she discovers an ever-expanding list of suspects—and they’re all buzzing mad. She’ll have to use all of her skills—and her Southern charm—to find her way out of this sticky situation...
A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed “Colonel Warburton's Madness” and “The Blood-Splattered Bridge,” plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on various Sherlockian subjects are also covered. Notable among them are the history of the real Criterion Bar and the contents of the Agra Treasure box. Discover the importance of pigs in the Canon (it is more than bacon!). Join in the fun of linking actor Wiliam Gillette, the first filmed Holmes, to today's BBC SHERLOCK’s Benedict Cumberbatch. Gayle Lange Puhl, ASH, is a past Solitary Typist of The Criterion Bar Association and the founder of two Sherlock Holmes scions. She has been published in The Baker Street Journal, The Devon County Chronicle, and The Serpentine Muse, the magazine of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes.
What would you do if faced with an invasion of your home/planet? Nikita Markain Malin has his answers. He has his Kings grudging agreement for his plans to move forward. Now he must reveal to the Interplanetary Alliance the population they missed and the mistakes made when colonizing Niki's home. Nikita, following Keyenoa's (God) guidance brings two worlds together with the help of his Joined, Jennie/Jenny, and their son Nathaneyellan Markain Malin. Does this unification go smoothly? When human's are involved, what answer can there be? What trouble will Niki face? How does Keyenoa (God) lead him to solutions, and what help does Jennie/Jenny give him so a world of two very different peoples can unite as one?
It starts in the year 2019. It is about a couple named Joseph and Lexie. The couple go through pain and suffering; heartache following the loss of a loved one all in the context of famine, war, and a pandemic. Just when they think that things couldn’t get any worse, the Rapture takes place and God takes his saints home. On the run from mankind, Satan, and his Demons, their limits will be tested; and the only people that they can depend on is each other.
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Oregon Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Beaver State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
The West’s pioneering experience has been both documented and dramatized enough to give us all some impression - for right or for wrong - of what pioneers were and what they did. Some of those impressions are dryly accurate, and some are excitingly fictitious. Jennie’s Tiger is neither - carefully researched and truthfully told, it gives a reliable view of the homesteading experience as well as an engrossing and moving story of strong characters making for themselves the life they want. The real Wes and Jennie Wooding homesteaded 160 acres on the Pend Oreille river in northeast Washington state from 1900 till 1923. Life before this chapter of their lives had been consistently hardscrabble and sometimes tragic. Building their own home on their own land was the greatest success and the greatest contentment they had ever had. They arrived at Tiger’s Landing by steamboat with three small boys and cut down enough trees to build a 14’ X 24’ one-story house to shelter them. In that house, named Hawthorn Lodge, they soon added a fourth boy. Like most settlers with no cash, Wes had to work “outside” to earn the money for Proving Up the homestead. He walked several hundred miles looking for the work he knew, in the mines. A devoted member of the Western Federation of Miners and a sincere Socialist, Wes was ambivalent about the Wobbly movement and glad when, after the required seven years, he could stay at home and make his life at Tiger’s Landing with Jennie and the boys. While Wes was away, Jennie was entirely capable of sheltering, feeding, clothing and raising the boys with her own skills. With help from the children, she chinked the cabin with river mud; she kept the table laid with game and fish she provided and produce she grew; she made furniture for the bare house; she skillfully sewed clothes for the family. She gradually turned the subsistence farm into a lucrative business. Fearful of missing Wes’s letters, she started the first post office in her community. As the boys reached school age, she donated land and saw that the first school began to operate. Bringing with her skills and medicines, she became doctor, nurse and midwife to the growing community. Frustrated by goods that came from a riverboat that could run only half the year, she started the first store. Through all this, Jennie was eternally buoyant; she never felt misused or deprived, only content, proud and happy. But when the outside world threatened Hawthorn Lodge in the form of a railroad right against the house, Jennie found she had to swallow her anger and make the best of it. When World War I took two of her boys away, she did what she could to help the soldiers while hating the war. Having successfully raised the four boys to strong men, Jennie’s years at Hawthorn Lodge, Tiger, Washington, come to a tragic end, and we last see her heading back to California and the outside world.
Rachel Beiler loves her job as the teacher in her Amish community. She’s obedient, humble, and compliant and tries to keep the ordnung to the best of her ability. But Rachel has a secret—something that could get her shunned if she’s found out. She loves knowledge and yearns for a college education. After serving a dozen years in the Army, Rob Lanier has returned from Afghanistan. But now that he’s home again, he’s constantly reminded of his family’s fall from grace. His father—once a highly respected and wealthy community leader—has disgraced the family, and Rob can’t find it in his heart to forgive him. When Rachel and Rob meet, sparks fly. But when a series of frightening events surrounding Rachel’s brother Johnny brings Rachel’s world crashing down around her, this unlikely match between an Amish teacher and an Englischer ex-soldier seems to be God’s perfect answer.
Revised and updated, this compendium helps readers identify and understand the scope of key government reference sources-traditional books (including publications catalogs and telephone directories); information clearinghouses; and materials in new formats, such as CD-ROMs, datafiles, and Internet sites. The authors focus on free information and depository materials-both readily available through toll-free phone numbers, mail or e-mail requests to agencies, or federal depository library collections. Materials are fully described in annotations that differentiate between similar materials, identify typical citation formats, and note common abbreviations
The charming town of Abingdon is nestled in southwestern Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and situated along the Holston River. Originally known as Wolf Hills-a name bestowed upon the town by Daniel Boone-Abingdon was renamed in honor of Martha Washington's home in England. The town today enjoys a rich and varied palate suitable for residents and tourists, young and old alike. Images of America: Abingdon, Virginia celebrates the town's singular heritage by offering readers a rare find of almost 200 photographs, showcasing many well-known town entities, personalities, and businesses from the past century. These images portray such structures as the Stonewall Jackson Female Institute, the Abingdon Academy, the Belmont Hotel, and the Martha Washington Inn, as well as the Barter Theater, unique in its exchange of food and household goods for performances. Long-gone but rarely forgotten individuals also make appearances, allowing newcomers the chance to meet the people behind the names and longtime residents an opportunity to visit with old friends.
Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and contemporary text explores the idea of gender from the perspectives of history, sociology, social policy, anthropology, psychology, politics, pedagogy and geography and considers issues such as health and illness, work, family, crime and violence, and culture and media. Throughout the text, studies on masculinity are highlighted alongside essential feminist work, producing an integrated investigation of the field. Key features: A thematic structure provides a clear exploration of each debate without losing sight of the interconnections between disciplines. World in focus boxes and international case studies offer a broad global perspective on gender studies. In-text features and student exercises, including Controversy, A critical look and Stop and think boxes, allow the reader to engage in the debates and revise the material covered. Hotlinks throughout the text make connections between chapters, allowing the reader to follow the path of particular issues and debates between topics and disciplines. New to the second edition: A new chapter explores gender through the discipline of philosophy. A new section on international relations brings this relevant topic into focus. Current discussion on the language of gender across Europe is brought in to Chapter 1. A focus on Europe and Scandinavia as well as the UK gives the text a broader scope. Examples are updated throughout to ensure the text is cutting-edge and relevant. Introduction to Gender, second edition is highly relevant to today’s students across the social sciences and is an essential introduction for students of sociology, women’s studies and men’s studies.
Charlie Patton (1891-1934) was born in central Mississippi. By 1908, he had begun his performing career, initially at small house parties, then at barrelhouses and other settings that could accommodate a hundred people or more. Until his death in 1934, Patton was a top draw for the numerous African Americans then living and working in the Delta. In 1929 and 1930, he recorded several hits for Paramount Records, on the basis of which he was sought by the American Record Company in January 1934 for what would be his last recordings. He was immensely influential to other bluesmen, including Tommy Johnson, Kid Bailey, Robert Johnson, and Howlin' Wolf. Since 1991, his collected recordings have been available to the wider public. This book was previously published in 1988 under the authorship of Wardlow (b. 1940) and Calt (1946-2010). Its sole printing of 3,000 paperback copies sold out within seven years, and since 1988 additional recordings of Patton and his associates have been recovered and widely reissued to the public, particularly on Jack White's Third Man Records. Komara (b. 1966) has updated Wardlow and Calt's original edition and has written a new afterword discussing a resurgence of Delta-blues-style rock and the continuing influence of Patton and the music genre he helped pioneer"--
An expectant mother gets more than she bargained for when she marries into a seemingly perfect family in this gripping debut novel–a must read for fans of A. J. Finn and B. A. Paris. After surviving a nightmarish childhood, Anneliese Bakker is on the mend and searching for her birth mother. But when she meets Willem, she falls madly in love and finally finds a safe place to land. Engaged and expecting her first child, she moves into the Veldkamp mansion on a stately, tree-lined avenue in Amsterdam. And yet, nothing about Willem’s family is as it seems. Instead of the loving home she has longed for her entire life, she’s confronted with a cold and hostile household. Increasingly isolated, Anneliese is drawn to a creepy basement shrine to Louisa, Willem’s mother. Louisa Veldkamp was a legendary Dutch pianist who presumably drowned–but whose body has never been found. Though still revered by her fans, Louisa is a taboo subject in the family home. Haunted by her own demons, Anneliese must dig into the family’s past to untangle a dark web of secrets, inadvertently putting herself and her unborn child in grave danger. Not knowing who to trust, Anneliese has to decide just how far she is willing to go to safeguard the family life she so desperately seeks.
Early in our Christian lives we are taught the importance of tithing and making offerings. It is a way to show our love for God and desire to live in faith under his rules. But do we really know the background and importance of the call to tithe? Dr. J. Gayle Gaymons Beyond Tithes and Offerings: I AM the God of Recompense takes an in-depth look at the principle of tithes and offerings under the Mosaic Law. Scriptural references are provided to support her conclusions. She considers the question, If there is no longer Jew or Gentile, and you are grafted into Gods redemptive plan, does He require anything less from you? The author also discusses what it means to be wholly or partially in the body of Christ and how it relates to being called a Christian. You will also learn what else it takes to be a true Christian. Beyond Tithes and Offerings: I AM the God of Recompense will expand your faith knowledge, which will help you become a better servant for God.
Jessica's grandmother writes from her loft at her Wisconsin lakeside cottage of the intangibles she wants to give to Jessica and her generation. Writing in view of the red pines and birch trees, the water and the light, with the sound of loons in the distance, Gayle Graham Yates reflects upon insights, knowledge, and stories she has learned. A woman, family member, citizen, environmentalist, and spiritual seeker, Yates considers in this memoir-as-letter-to-her-granddaughter both distresses and joys, people, opportunities, and education that have shaped her own life and that she wants to pass along. The flow of the book is metaphorically seasonal from autumn through summer. Moving through ethical frameworks drawn from Aristotle's ethics and the Ojibway narrative by Ignatia Broker, Night Flying Woman, the chapters develop sequentially through ways of learning, ways of loving, and ways of hoping. All this is to the end of lovingly transmitting to her granddaughter what she knows.
This unique study examines the interface between contemporary philosophy and literature through Alexander Pope’s majestic translation of the Odyssey of Homer. Employing the lens supplied by the philosopher Graham Harman in his development of Object-Oriented Ontology, it explores the beautiful (and sometimes dazzling) figurative language of both Pope’s English and Homer’s Greek; in so doing, it uncovers something of the vast withdrawn and subterranean reality to which the poems can only allude, setting this against a contrasting sensual world—a world encrusted with shimmering images and objects that range from the quotidian to the metaphysically bizarre.
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