Just who is the quiet warehouse worker named Bill Harmony? Disturbed by the shallow sermons and self-aggrandising showmanship of his pastor, Bill confronts Doctor Littlehope privately only to be brushed off as an ignorant layman. An upcoming revival event at the church run by a TV evangelist who claims he can heal and raise people from the dead raises even more red flags. Certain this isn't the hand of God at work, Bill and his friends set about exposing the scam. But there's more to Bill than meets the eye, and when locals begin revealing the miraculous works he's performed quietly, far from the spotlight, everyone, including his close friends, begin to ask, "Who is Bill Harmony anyway?
The road from Louisiana to the L Bar Ranch on the Bosque River, Texas is a long and dangerous one, but for Earl Lamar, recently discharged sergeant from the First Texas Confederate Cavalry, it's the only way home. After surviving the war, discharged Confederate soldier Earl Lamar learns his parents didn't...and the responsibility of the L Bar Ranch falls to him. After selling enough cattle to care for the original cowboys and new families, the Esperanzas and the Roses along with cook Henry Spooner, Earl has his work cut out for him keeping the ranch going with rustlers, conmen, false imprisonment and Comanche raids all presenting tough challenges to be overcome. When Earl falls in love and he and Gloria find themselves expecting their first child, he begins to hope that maybe, just maybe, a new life awaits him on the Bosque.
The road from Louisiana to the L Bar Ranch on the Bosque River, Texas is a long and dangerous one, but for Earl Lamar, recently discharged sergeant from the First Texas Confederate Cavalry, it's the only way home. In June 1866, Texas struggles to recover from the conclusion of the War between the States. Though cattle aren't worth much in Texas, other places clamor for beef, and the Goodnight-Loving trail opens that summer to sell cattle to the U.S. government looking to feed reservation Indians. Earl Lamar, owner of the L Bar Ranch, decides to add two hundred head from his own cattle herd to Charles Goodnight's first drive to the Pecos River. With gold in his pocket, Earl sets his sights on returning home to meet his new son Ralph, but trouble is brewing in Texas, and Meridian and Bosque County won't be left out. Rustlers, bushwhackers and carpetbaggers threaten the stability and future of Earl's ranch. A ruthless banker and his gang put Earl and his cowboys out of commission, then kidnap their women and children. Little do they realize Earl and his men are indeed alive, if not well, and have every intention of rescuing their families.
Sending Josh Holt and his friends home to Daddy tied backward on their horses might seem a cruel thing to do, but fast-thinking Deputy U.S. Marshal Stan Hankins figures it's better than sending them home dead. Hankins and his partner Chico Wrath find and arrest outlaws who've fled to Indian Territory in the 1870s to escape the law. Sure-as-shooting it's a dangerous job that doesn't pay very well. Still, at the end of the day, it beats farming!
Once again Dr. Herb Marlow entertains us, this time with characters of the old west. In High Lonesome, we meet Trapper Stark, Clint Morgan, Ralph Giddings, Jerry Miller, Alan Kidd and Larry Hardwell. Each man with his own lonesome life is striving to or eventually successfully living a moral life. For some it seems to be more difficult, for others it comes naturally and is welcomed. One may win the heroine, while others leave, not with regrets but giving thought to how life might have been if he had remained. Which is the right way to go? For one man, settling down becomes the comfortable way but for others, what is over the next hill continues to beckon him on and on...... The six exciting stories in High Lonesome include Trapper's Wife, Buffalo Gap, Forty-Four Caliber Justice, Hawken 50, The Wolfer, and Gone at Midnight. Fans of western life of the 1800's will find this collection hard to put down. This is Herb Marlow's latest book for Bottom of the Hill Publishing. When Dr. Marlow isn't writing or caring for his small Texas ranch, he conducts a limited pastoral counseling practice through face-to-face encounters and a unique Internet-based, on-line counseling service.
If you like .... Mystery .... Danger .... Drama .... Romance .... you will like To Everything: A Season, the first installment in a new series by novelist Dr. Herb Marlow. When Christian psychiatrist Dr. John Harlow returns to Grantsville, Nebraska, his sleepy hometown, he's hoping this homecoming will help him sort through the devastating sorrow of his past few months. Yes, he must settle the affairs of his recently deceased parents, including selling their home, the safest place of his youth. But this process proves easier than finding some sanctuary from his personal pain. Without really planning to do so, he sets up practice in Grantsville, only to find that the accoutrements of big city life have followed him home, including the psychological and spiritual maladies that seem rampant enough wherever you go. By the time he's done, Dr. Harlow has helped restore numerous relationships, solved a murder mystery, and heroically saved more than one life. Yet in the process he's left himself, and those he's recently come to love, at risk from terrorists driven by hatred and revenge at any cost. ------------------------------ We were sitting back with coffee after a great meal prepared by Alice, the wife of my life-long friend Don Saunders, when Don said, "John, I'd like to talk to you about a cold case in our files." "Sure, Don, but I'm not any kind of policeman, you know." "No, but you are a rather well-trained psychiatrist, and you understand the human mind. Those are the qualities I'd like to plumb." Excusing ourselves, we took our cups of coffee and went into Don's office. When we were seated, the police chief came right to the point. "A year ago your Uncle Mabry Sutton died in his home; you know about that, don't you?" "Yes, Aunt Rebekah wrote to tell me after it happened. I am planning to go see her tomorrow." "Well, we did a thorough investigation, and came up with nothing. At first I thought it might be a suicide, in fact all the surface evidence pointed that way, but as I dug deeper, it looked more like murder. I think you know that Sutton was not exactly a likeable individual. I can name four enemies right now that would have gladly shot him, but they all had ironclad alibis. There are several mysteries that surround the death, and I wonder if you would look over the evidence and apply your psychiatric skills to see if you can come up with some answers.
Dr. Charles Miller has just spent several months in Ruidoso, New Mexico. His time there was professionally, personally and spiritually satisfying. Now, he and his new bride, Jan, are on their way to Santa Fe, New Mexico where a new church awaits them. Living Word Community Church is in decline although many, including a goodly number of the congregation aren't willing to admit that fact. Charles intends to discover the problems, and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, do everything he can to solve or eliminate them. His track record says he's the right man for the job...but Charles has no inkling of what he'll discover as he adopts the spiritual reins of the church. Dr. Herb Marlow, a retired pastor in his own right, has created a highly interesting and spiritually satisfying novel as he continues the adventures of Dr. Charles Miller begun in MinisterWanted.com. This is Dr. Marlow's third novel for Bottom of the Hill Publishing, including Cowboy Riches. When he isn't writing or caring for his small Texas ranch, he conducts a limited pastoral counseling practice through face to face encounters and a unique Internet-based, on-line counseling service.
COWBOYS AND WIDOWS is a collection of five Old West short stories by author Herb Marlow. Each story contains a widow and a cowboy, and lots of excitement! Long Valley begins the book following the adventures of Chip Morton, a drifting cowboy who invests in a widow's ranch at the edge of the Texas Caprock. Next we follow Marshal James Harding to a tough trail town in Kansas where he takes care of the local bad boys, collecting a bullet that almost ends his career, but instead ends with his hand in that of the Widow Hastings. The third story, Beyond Fort Belknap, includes a widow and her pretty daughter who agree to cook for a bunch of rough men catching wild horses in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. In Three Mules for Widow Malone, Miles Laney takes three mules to the Malone Freight Yard in Abilene, Texas for friend of his on the Waggoner Ranch outside Wichita Falls, Texas. Once there he decides to stay in partners with the attractive Widow Malone, and then they decide to make the partnership permanent. The last story, Prodigal's Return, is about a man returning to his home town after ten years of being away. John Hand, now a gold mine owner in Colorado, didn't have good memories of Carter, Illinois, but his dying mother lived there. Coming back to see her in her last days he renewed an acquaintance with Mary Cummings, now Widow Miller. When he leaves town after seeing to his mother's funeral, he takes the comely widow with him, now wearing his ring and last name.
Hood River Home is the story of a family of migrant fruit workers - the Rainys - as they lived and worked in the mid-1960s. The book is set in the Hood River Valley of Oregon, and the facts about pear farms and the canning of pears are as accurate as the author can make them for that time period. Herb Marlow is intimately familiar with the canning process as he worked for Atlas Pacific Engineering at Diamond Fruit Growers in Hood River, Oregon for six years. (Herb is Bob Martin in the book.) He had friends there who were both natives of the Hood River Valley, and itinerant workers who followed the fruit harvests all over the western United States In the time period that this book covers, migrant fruit workers were a little known and very special segment of American society. The author has had no contact with these hard-working people since he left the Oregon area in the early 1970s, and thus he has no idea of the changes that have taken place in working and living conditions. At the time he writes about, some people native to the Valley, held the fruit workers in contempt and treated them badly. But others, like Kats Sakamoto and Doctor Ashley, accepted them as valuable and industrious people and treated them with respect.
Jericho Shade was not a Mountain Man but he was a rough and ready trapper. He'd been told about the Oregon territory, so he headed in that direction. His entire life was about to change, but Jericho didn't know what was in store. Herb Marlow has crafted a story that is loaded with action that will thrill anyone who craves hearty western tales.
TRAILS WEST...an Anthology of Western Lore invites the reader to share six short stories that embrace six different situations in the old west. NO TOMORROW by Herb Marlow is the story of the plight and rewards one cattle boss finds as he lives his dream on the western frontier. Marlow is the author of over 30 books and essays, including his recently published Cowboy Riches. THE FAMILY MAN by new author Hamilton Haley is a tale of a good man who is one of the first immigrants to the Oregon Country. It relates the way he assists three different families to a better life in Oregon's Willamette Valley. THE STRANGER IN RAIL CAMP SEVEN by Jim Kennison tells about one weekend that might have happened in the life of a true historical figure. Kennison is new to Bottom of the Hill Publishing but not to readers as he has several books to his credit. TROUBLE IN COLD ROCK COUNTRY by Johnny Gunn relates the realities of frontier justice with a happy ending for one cattle drover. Johnny Gunn is the author of the recently published book of short stories entitled Out of the West...Tales of the Western Frontier. THE DOUBLE DEAL by Dave P. Fisher tells how a U.S. Marshal goes about solving a murder case where every clue seems to be a dead end. Dave P. Fisher is the author of the Poudre Canyon Saga, a trilogy being published by Bottom of the Hill Publishing. THE LADY AND THE LION by cowboy poet and author Hal Swift is another chapter in the life of Logan West. Logan is a banjo playing journalist to whom readers were introduced in Hal's book, Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West. The fun continues in Drytown with many of the folks you met in that recently published book.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder create havoc in families and classrooms in our society today. In this book, Dr. Marlow addresses these problems in a case study format, outlining therapy techniques and problem solutions for children, teachers and parents. The case studies are taken from real-life situations, though names and other identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the people involved. This is a practical manual, and all techniques and procedures detailed have been used successfully many times by the author and his colleagues.
Tornados, knife attacks, deadly fire and threats. Doctor Charles Miller and wife, Jan have relocated to Wichita Falls, Texas. This time Charles is helping to create a brand new church but there's someone who isn't at all happy about a new church in town. With God's help Charles overcomes the initial obstacles, but greater challenges are in store for the Millers and their new church. Readers of MinisterWanted.com and its follow-up Minister Wanted: Santa Fe know that Charles Miller thrives on adversity. With steadfast faith he and Jan just keep moving forward, establishing their new church for believers, new and old. Dr. Herb Marlow has once again created a suspenseful and moral tale for Christians and non-Christians of all ages.
Revisit the wild, wild west during a time when unwritten rules of conduct for survival were never formal but respected everywhere on the range in this collection of ten, rollicking short stories, including: "Dangerous Ground": The town marshal quits his job yet he's reluctant to leave town once he hears about the mayor's plot to steal $200,000 in gold. "Out of the Desert": Undercover Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Boone correctly suspects a banker's plot to steal a gold shipment... "The Hero of Lost Creek": A crippled horse breaker turns hero when he foils cattle rustlers and wins the heart of the boss's daughter. "The Trail to Nowhere": With Indians hot on his heels, a naked trapper and former schoolteacher runs into the forest in the dead of winter and uses little more than ingenuity to thwart his enemies and get all his stuff back. "Quickdraw": Using a special arm harness and pieces of an old corset, Walker shoots it out with the town bully... "Square-Toed Boots": In a cow town, his farmer's boots appear to make him fair game but, when four cowboys dare to insult his wife, they're about to get a lesson in good manners. "Come Morning": At twelve, Sean Mixus can handle a Sharps .50 rifle like nobody's business but putting up with a bath at his sister's house every day forces him to consider O'Reilly and the trail herd as his best escape. "Gold is Where You Find It": Marcus and Saul swindle a greedy banker into buying a worthless gold mine, leave town, and they're living in what they believe is the lap of luxury when they read about a gold strike--right where their false map sent the banker! "Mad Dog Muncie": Two scoundrels at Fort Clark have been cheating folks and selling boys into slavery...but then Mad Dog Muncie appears to right a few wrongs. "Curley's Kids": Curley Samson is a lone trapper until he rescues two orphan kids and a pretty young woman and finds himself rescued from a life of loneliness in the process.
The road from Louisiana to the L Bar Ranch on the Bosque River, Texas is a long and dangerous one, but for Earl Lamar, recently discharged sergeant from the First Texas Confederate Cavalry, it's the only way home. Earl Lamar, former Confederate soldier and Bosque County Texas rancher has made two successful cattle drives, selling cattle to keep the L Bar Ranch in business. While driving his herd safely across the Red River and Indian Territory will bring in enough gold to keep his ranch afloat for a long time to come, the danger in taking the trail to Kansas can't be overlooked with treacherous rivers to cross, Indians to avoid or fight, bad weather, and ruthless cattle thieves always lying in wait. Earl manages to return home in one piece just in time to meet his new daughter. But a carpetbagger Texas governor seems intent on playing rough with former rebelling states by making things as miserable as possible for native Texans. To make matters worse, the KKK raids Earl's ranch and Texas no longer seems to have a hope or prayer of ever returning to normal.
This book is a ?one-of-a-kind? manual. Herb Marlow, the author of PUBLISH NOW! searched for a book like this one when he first began to submit book manuscripts to publishers. Obviously, he didn?t find one. As Herb travels from school to school telling stories, selling books and inspiring kids to write, he often meets children and educators who have written a book, or who want to write a book. They ask him how they should begin, how to prepare manuscripts to send to publishers, how to market books and other questions about the mechanics of writing and publishing. Some of these fine people are interested in doing what Herb does: making appearances at schools to present a program and market books. With all of these questions in mind, PUBLISH NOW! was born. Not only does PUBLISH NOW! cover all of the basics of creating manuscripts and sending them to publishers, a section is also included on the self-publishing field.For authors who want to market books directly to schools, Herb has outlined how a writer can contact librarians and arrange school visits, how to prepare a program, and what to do when the booked date arrives. The final section in the book is all about Four Seasons Books, Inc., the Marlow imprint, and how to publish a book through Four Seasons.
This book is not written as a professional journal - though counseling professionals will certainly appreciate the practical application of therapy techniques found in its pages. It is what it proclaims to be: A guidebook for parents and teachers who deal with children on an everyday basis who have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Dr. Marlow does not attempt to trace the history of the Attention Deficit Disorders, as that has been done in other, far more scholarly works. Rather, this book addresses symptoms and solutions, ideas and results, situations and practical applications.
The greatest adventure I have ever taken part in has to be parenting. Having the responsibility of caring for children on a day-to-day basis is such uncharted water for all of us before the first child enters our homes, that we never know what to expect. What an adventure! And a further adventure is taking care of - and trying to understand - adolescents. Book Two of the Parenting Series: "I don't know! I didn't do it!" explores age groups 13 through 18. The author includes examples and episodes that illustrate the problems parents face, and their solutions. The episodes are taken from Dr. Marlow's copious files, real life scenarios with changes to protect confidentiality.
A young boy spends summers helping on his grandparents' farm in Guthrie County, Iowa, and there he learns the value of honesty, respect, loyalty, and hard work.
Joe Garth is back! In Cowboy Riches Joe won the Texas Lottery and became owner of his own ranch. He met a wonderful woman, married and life was full of happiness. Things changed suddenly; investments went sour, his wife died in childbirth leaving Joe with an infant to raise alone. Three years later Joe is part owner in a ranch, his daughter is happy and healthy, but still, he's a lonely incomplete man. As his relationship blossoms with his partner's daughter, Joe finds he can fall in love again. Life becomes more complete after settling into married life. Then strange gun shots create unrest and tension mounts when Lilly and Ashley disappear. When kidnappers call making demands for their return, Joe finds himself in despair. Dr. Herb Marlow has given us another spell-binding tale that will make it difficult to leave Mesquite Riches on the night stand.
Modern Texas Cowboy, Joe Garth, earning $900.00 a month wins over $4 million in the Texas Lottery. How long will it take him to spend it? At first, everything comes up roses. He buys a ranch and some good cattle and horses; meets a smart, pretty girl, marries and generally believes that life can't get much better. But then Joe's life suddenly takes a down turn. An investment turns sour, and the love of his life dies in childbirth. How can he overcome the loss of his beloved wife? Joe cowboys up, takes care of baby Ashley, and though his monetary losses are great, he realizes that he still has what is most important: his faith in God and his precious daughter. While looking for cowboy work Joe discovers a forgotten investment has made him part owner in a cattle ranch....and it's back to a life he understands and loves. The big surprise comes when he meets an old acquaintance...can love happen twice in a man's life? Perhaps...
The town of Rock Springs, Idaho does not know what to expect when TEXAS COMES CALLING, a tale of our country, America in its youth. Harmon Early & his Texas Cowboys drove a herd of Texas Longhorns northwest looking for a location where the grass is taller & the cattle fatten quicker. What follows is exciting action, intrigue, conspiracy and love.
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