Sacred bathing brings the ancient tradition of meditation and prayer into the modern day ritual practice of a home bath, so that you can connect to Spirit daily and purify your energy."—Dr. Larry Dossey, author of One Mind and The Science of Premonitions Immerse Yourself in Healing Waters for Relaxation, Clarity, and Wholeness Gain inspiration and rejuvenation through the sacred act of bathing. With fifty-two bath recipes, one for every week of the year, The Book of Sacred Baths shows you how to use this relaxing practice to improve your love life, succeed in your career, strengthen your health, and transform your spirit. Each recipe is tailored to a specific emotional or spiritual need, from stress relief to divine assistance to self-connection for overall well-being. Using essential oils, candles, and color therapy along with visualization and ritual practice, you'll raise your vibration and release negative energy down the drain. Praise: "Fans of Sherman are in for an impressive treat with her collection of 52 fun and sacred baths to improve every aspect of your physical and spiritual life."—Publishers Weekly "A sacred bathing of the body ultimately becomes a sacred bathing of the mind, spirit, and soul, which unearths a mindfulness of self-nourishment that we might then gift as kindness to others as we go about our day."—Cathie Borrie, author of The Long Hello "I highly recommend this beautiful book of spiritual bathing for inner joy and healing."—Raven Keyes, author of The Healing Power of Reiki and The Healing Light of Angels
Marina and Salome meet on an island, each at pivotal times in their lives, and become fast friends. They soon cross paths with Alanika, a visitor from another world and a different dimension. Alanika introduces the girls to a higher purpose and sends them on a journey beyond anything they thought possible. Alanikas teacher and mentor, the Grand Master Zione, reveals the full extent of their dangerous quest. Marina and Salome must somehow unite with their twin flames and together remove the dark mist that hides the most majestic of planets, Ziama. Centuries before, dark lords placed a mist over the planet to keep humanity in a state of ignorance. Ziamas light and brilliance shined upon Earth has the power to help humanity remember its true purpose and spiritual nature. However, the dark lords have survived by feeding on the fears of man for eons. They wont give up their free meal without a fight. Marina and Salome must shake the vestiges of their physical being and embrace the divine to reveal Ziama and unshackle the human race from fear, anger, and hate for good.
In this beautiful celebration of national bead artisans and their native regions, readers will gain a perspective on how artists’ locations can influence their work. Beaders of all skill levels will enjoy the stories behind the artists and this expansive collection of 30 unique projects presented by some of the top names in the hobby including Sherri Serafini, Amy Katz, and Paulette Baron. Each artist presents a piece, tells the story behind it, and offers how-to instructions. Projects are inspirational for anyone who loves beading.
A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and courage! Native American Medal of Honor recipients, Heisman Trophy recipients, U.S. Olympians, a U.S. vice president, Congressional representatives, NASA astronauts, Pulitzer Prize recipients, U.S. poet laureates, Oscar winners, and more. The first Native magician, all-Native comedy show, architects, attorneys, bloggers, chefs, cartoonists, psychologists, religious leaders, filmmakers, educators, physicians, code talkers, and inventors. Luminaries like Jim Thorpe, King Kamehameha, Debra Haaland, and Will Rogers, along with less familiar notables such as Native Hawaiian language professor and radio host Larry Lindsey Kimura and Cree/Mohawk forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams. Their stories plus the stories of 2000 people, events and places are presented in Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events, including … Suzanne Van Cooten, Ph.D., Chickasaw Nation, the first Native female meteorologist in the country Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Wampanoag from Martha’s Vineyard, graduate of Harvard College in 1665 Debra Haaland, the Pueblo of Laguna, U.S. Congresswoman and Secretary of the Interior Sam Campos, the Native Hawaiian who developed the Hawaiian superhero Pineapple Man Thomas L. Sloan, Omaha, was the first Native American to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court William R. Pogue, Choctaw, astronaut Johnston Murray, Chickasaw, the first person of Native American descent to be elected governor in the United States, holding the office in Oklahoma from 1951 to 1955 The Cherokee Phoenix published its first edition February 21, 1828, making it the first tribal newspaper in North America and the first to be published in an Indigenous language The National Native American Honor Society was founded by acclaimed geneticist Dr. Frank C. Dukepoo , the first Hopi to earn a Ph.D. Louis Sockalexis, Penobscot, became the first Native American in the National Baseball League in 1897 as an outfielder with the Cleveland Spiders Jock Soto, Navajo/Puerto Rican, the youngest-ever man to be the principal dancer with the New York City Ballet The Seminole Tribe of Florida was the first Nation to own and operate an airplane manufacturing company Warrior's Circle of Honor, the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, on the grounds of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian The Iolani Palace, constructed 1879–1882, the home of the Hawaiian royal family in Honolulu Loriene Roy, Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation, professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information, former president of the American Library Association Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne, U.S. representative and U.S. senator from Colorado Hanay Geiogamah, Kiowa /Delaware, founded the American Indian Theatre Ensemble Gerald Vizenor, White Earth Nation, writer, literary critic, and journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune Ely S. Parker (Hasanoanda, later Donehogawa), Tonawanda Seneca, lieutenant colonel in the Union Army, serving as General Ulysses S. Grant’s military secretary Fritz Scholder, Luiseno, painter inducted into the California Hall of Fame The Native American Women Warriors, the first all Native American female color guard Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman to become a board-certified surgeon Kay “Kaibah” C. Bennett, Navajo, teacher, author, and the first woman to run for the presidency of the Navajo Nation Sandra Sunrising Osawa, Makah Indian Nation, the first Native American to have a series on commercial television The Choctaw people’s 1847 donation to aid the Irish people suffering from the great famine Otakuye Conroy-Ben, Oglala Lakota, first to earn an environmental engineering Ph.D. at the University of Arizona Diane J. Willis, Kiowa, former President of the Society of Pediatric Psychology and founding editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology Shelly Niro, Mohawk, winner of Canada’s top photography prize, the Scotiabank Photography Award Loren Leman, Alutiiq/Russian-Polish, was the first Alaska Native elected lieutenant governor Kim TallBear, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, the first recipient of the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment Carissa Moore, Native Hawaiian, won the Gold Medal in Surfing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Will Rogers, Cherokee, actor, performer, humorist was named the first honorary mayor of Beverly Hills Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations by Lois Ellen Frank, Kiowa, was the first Native American cookbook to win the James Beard Award Diane Humetewa, Hopi, nominated by President Barack Obama, became the first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, Crow, the first Native American nurse to be inducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame Indigenous Firsts honors the ongoing and rich history of personal victories and triumphs, and with more than 200 photos and illustrations, this information-rich book also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. This vital collection will appeal to anyone interested in America’s amazing history and its resilient and skilled Indigenous people.
This book is about Grace, who after the acquisition of an unexpected inheritance and the death of her last kin, she purchased herself a guesthouse that she had always loved. Once moving into the Guesthouse she started having many mystical experiences that were to open her heart and mind to a multi-dimensional reality bringing her love in the most unconventional form.
Finally, there is an answer for how to live a healthy life and heal completely without drugs. The natural world and all life exists in a matrix of light and frequency. Modern lifestyle and toxicity create disturbances in the holographic body and cellular communication, causing ill health. Water, earth, electromagnetism, and air contain the energy and blueprint to maintain perfect health. FAB Health introduces a new, healing paradigm to treat Lyme, superbugs, and chronic diseases in a polluted world where antibiotics are failing. The emerging field of Frequency and Bioenergy (FAB) medicine is real and it’s possible. Paulette Agnew shares her journey through FAB medicine through her thought-provoking story combining cutting edge science and research with practical ancient medicine to help humanity wake up and live as they are meant to: with power, passion, and abundant energy. For those looking to live a natural lifestyle and protect the earth, FAB Health reveals the miracle of life and humanity’s interconnection with all beings.
In The Best for Last: One Woman's Unusual Tale of Life and Love readers will follow author Paulette Camnetar Meeks as she shares how an ordinary life can be extraordinary. You will laugh and you will cry as you walk through Paulette's journey from childhood to her wiser senior years. As high school ended, Paulette knew she was being called to leave her family and join the Daughters of Charity, devoting her life fully to Christ. But Paulette was not your stereotypical nun shut away in a convent. Instead, her heart of adventure caused her to take on many unexpected roles as a bilingual teacher, motorcycle enthusiast, translator, and a single-parent foster mom. And when Paulette felt God leading her to leave the sisterhood and to begin the search for her soulmate, she did not hesitate. Readers will be inspired by this story of faith, perseverance, and love, showing that we are never alone or without hope; sometimes God saves The Best for Last.
Marsane and Valara were chosen to come to earth from their home planet Ziama, residing in the twelfth dimension. In this dimension, they were one being. Not until they lived on earth did they realize how harsh it could be to be separated into two souls and to drop ones vibration so low. Once the wheel of destiny had begun to turn, there would be no turning back. They had begun the experience of being human and could not return to their source until they had experienced and completed a cycle, which could be hundreds of thousands of years. Here is their story, their beginning of being human, and the enormous shock that was to come to them in learning what the future heldpain and suffering until they could eventually return to their original advanced state of consciousness. Their star family, especially Oriam and Stariam, would be there to guide them at all times, especially the many times they both wanted to give up. Marsane pledged to do all he could to keep balance on planet earth. He had no idea what was in store for him, committing himself to such a grand task. The time on earth for them to come back together is now!
Communicates information about the histories, contemporary presence, and various other facts of the Native peoples of the United States. From publisher description.
How to Read Architecture is based on the fundamental premise that reading and interpreting architecture is something we already do, and that close observation matters. This book enhances this skill so that given an unfamiliar building, you will have the tools to understand it and to be inspired by it. Author Paulette Singley encourages you to misread, closely read, conventionally read, and unconventionally read architecture to stimulate your creative process. This book explores three essential ways to help you understand architecture: reading a building from the outside-in, from the inside-out, and from the position of out-and-out, or formal, architecture. This book erodes boundaries between the frequently compartmentalized fields of interior design, landscape design, and building design with chapters exploring concepts of terroir, scenography, criticality, atmosphere, tectonics, inhabitation, type, form, and enclosure. Using examples and case studies that span a wide range of historical and global precedents, Singley addresses the complex interaction among the ways a building engages its context, addresses its performative exigencies, and operates as an autonomous aesthetic object. Including over 300 images, this book is an essential read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture with a global focus on the interpretation of buildings in their context.
An eloquent collection of natural poetic insight through the changing seasons of time. A thoughtful reflection of innovative verse revealing and releasing enticing thoughts with natural musical rhythm and prose. An entangle and enthralling journey through this heart felt poetry and spontaneous burst of enriching verse that are simple, imaginative, serene, and profound with the wisdom and natural ponderances. The essence of Ms. Pedicones independent spirit radiates from these words and images that are simple, but deep in their meaning. The inspiration to live and enjoy each day to attentively listen and embrace all the natural elements of The Rippling Changing Seasons of our lives.
This book is an intimate memoir of a very vivid set of experiences in the author’s life. Fascinated by a distant event, she becomes so drawn into it; she loses her mind, in the eyes of the world. Yet to her, it is a profoundly enlightening and moving experience, which instead of fading, only grows. Life imitates art, which imitates life and back again. What really is the nature of our consciousness, and what are its possibilities? Do we have any idea?
Thirty-one-year-old Carol Stivers is tiring of the rat race of modeling and wants to settle down. A rush hour fender-bender forces Carol Stivers and Jack Reynolds, the president of Future Span World Developers to cross paths. When she helps him reach his important meeting on time, he shows how grateful he really is. One of Jacks enemies plots revenge and a near death experience shows Jack a guardian angel. Could Carol be the angel he needs to get through the life threatening challenges ahead? A tropical escape could answer their questions. And a seven-day cruise is their ticket to drama and romance, as they uncover answers that will unlock their future.
A collection - unfinished - of some of Paulette (Pesha Razela) Fein Lieberman's popular Jewish children's stories, ideas, and mood-photos. There is open space on pages for children to paste-in their own choices of pictures and/or drawings within the areas they so choose, and are "advised" to...! (Her CD - readings with music - of selections from this book is also available.) Ideal for wholesome children's reading material, and educational - fun projects guided by adults, who, thereby, also create meaningful bonding time! The urgent themes make this book of special interest to: parents, very young children, older siblings and relatives, teachers, educators, youth workers, community groups, yeshivas, Hebrew Schools, and camps. A must to engage young people, and delight readers! Help Jewish children explore their traditional problems, educational subjects through an interactive blend of adventure and fantasy with humor and drama. Enthusiastically, Jewish children are encouraged to discover and learn the true value of their identity, of friendship, kindness, and making important decisions The escapades motivate a need for reflection time with additional interest in resources and activities to follow up with!
My inspiration in making this book was cooking in New Orleans after Katrina. Almost all our workers were from up in the northern states. The cooks were from up there also, so when I got the chance to introduce some good ole down-home country cooking, they liked it. Also you cant come to New Orleans without eating some Cajun food. I had a lot of fun with some of the dishesthings they had never heard of, and some they had heard of but had never tried, by choice mostly. Our pastor asked me one day if I knew how to cook chitterlings (or chitlins). I suppose you know what this is. Its the intestines of the hogs prepared as food, better known as the unseen part of the hog. I cooked them, and to my surprise, some liked them, even my husband, who is from Wisconsin. I had many requests for the local recipes, so I decided to put them all together with some of our old family recipes. I have also tried to tell the story of the work of the volunteers and how we appreciate them. To all who gave up their time and money to help people in need, God bless you all. When Katrina came, we asked God, How much do you love us? He opened his arms and said, The whole world full. And the whole world came. Thank you!
Whisperings in the Wings is a collection of heart searching thoughts of one persons journey, but in that one person you may discover yourself. Within each of us is the child and adult. In recognizing the child the adult may begin the process of healing. Through faith and Gods love and mercy we can choose to be healed and made whole. Let forgiveness be your guide.
The legend had lived for more than a century, yet, in spite of eye witnesses who had seen her ghost, no one wanted to believe the validity of The Blue Lady. Why was she haunting Brindle Point? What was she trying to say? After one dockside farewell too many, Josiah Abbotts need for hearth and home suddenly outweigh his taste for salt air and billowing sails. When he is offered the commission of lighthouse keeper at a Virginia lighthouse station; he jumps at the chance and hangs up his captains hat for good. His family is more than willing to follow him to the new lighthouse, but will the ghost of Brindle Point welcome them? Can obstacles like: unannounced inspections, coastal storms and ghostly apparitions surmount their faith, or, will they ingratiate the Abbotts into a deeper love for the life? As the passing crew of a line packet ship becomes distracted by a murder on board, they face disaster. Josiahs daughter must put her faith into actions when one of the injured crew members falls in love with her. When the mending crew is brought before a board of inquiry, previous encounters with this ghost can no longer be kept secret. Only, after the Abbotts decipher messages revealed by the ghost, can they discover truth, the true meaning of love and a true jewel for the keeping.
Francis BACON, in his Novum Organum, Robert BOYLE, in his Skeptical Chemist and René DESCARTES, in his Discourse on Method; all of these men were witnesses to the th scientific revolution, which, in the 17 century, began to awaken the western world from a long sleep. In each of these works, the author emphasizes the role of the experimental method in exploring the laws of Nature, that is to say, the way in which an experiment is designed, implemented according to tried and tested te- niques, and used as a basis for drawing conclusions that are based only on results, with their margins of error, taking into account contemporary traditions and prejudices. Two centuries later, Claude BERNARD, in his Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, made a passionate plea for the application of the experimental method when studying the functions of living beings. Twenty-first century Biology, which has been fertilized by highly sophisticated techniques inherited from Physics and Chemistry, blessed with a constantly increasing expertise in the manipulation of the genome, initiated into the mysteries of information techn- ogy, and enriched with the ever-growing fund of basic knowledge, at times appears to have forgotten its roots.
The remarkable debut poetry collection from renowned bestselling novelist and Award–winning poet Paulette Jiles, reissued in a handsome A List edition. Originally published in 1973, Paulette Jiles’s first collection amazed audiences with its rare depth of texture and verbal dexterity. Her work moves through landscapes that range from Africa to Mexico to Toronto with the ease of a travelling magician. Her swift, intricate metaphors leave the reader breathless, but her work also manages to be straight, earthy, vernacular, and disturbingly perceptive.
At two-and-a-half, Christina was autistic. She didnt speak and had the cognitive ability of an infant. With one-hundred seizures a day, her life was being ripped away by a relentless villainepilepsy. When doctors gave up, we hung on to hope and became her advocates, researching, praying and believing for a miracle. A special diet, with roots in scripture, became the first miracle. Christina proved nothing is impossible when she repeated words to a song, Good Morning Beautiful. Extremely delayed, it was a huge milestone. Her story caught the attention of the national recording artist who recorded the song and prior to brain surgery, people around the world began praying for her. Now seizure and autism free, therapists cite services are no longer needed as Christinas file doesnt match the patient. She made honor roll and still sings Good Morning, Beautiful.
In 1818, long before the state of Arkansas came into existence-when the land that would become Arkansas was still part of the Missouri Territory-Pulaski County was created by the Missouri legislature. It was named in honor of Polish nobleman Count Casimir Pulaski, who joined the American Revolution in 1777. Featuring over two hundred images from various sources, including the authors' personal collection, Historic Pulaski County covers the communities of Little Rock, North Little Rock, Levy, and Jacksonville. The authors provide a fascinating look at military life at Camp Pike and Camp Robinson. From the 1840s to the 1990s, the county's past is illustrated by scnenes of local people, places, and events that helped shape the last two centuries.
“Research based yet highly practical, Leading: The Way shows you how to transform your leadership style; communicate effectively up, down, and across; boost employee engagement; and exemplify vision and purpose. Get the complete picture of what’s working, what’s not working, and what you can do to improve from Paulette Ashlin’s straightforward, behavior-based strategies! A terrific resource!” —Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and New York Times best-selling author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There The key to being a great leader isn’t luck or being gifted, highly educated, or unusually driven. The key to being a great leader is behavior. Great leaders behave in great ways. In Leading: The Way—Behaviors That Drive Success, author Paulette Ashlin teaches you how to adapt your behavior to appropriate situations, which will inspire people to listen to you, to believe in you, and to follow your lead. A worldwide leadership and business coach, Ashlin shares behavior-based strategies to transform your leadership style and attain professional success. Leading: The Way discusses how knowing your strengths and weaknesses is not enough; you need to understand how to behave your way into your aspired roles. It highlights the general principles of effective leadership that revolve around the core concepts of self-awareness, self-control, humility, integrity, empathy, global intelligence, personal stewardship, and performance. Using personal anecdotes drawn from her coaching experiences, Ashlin offers guidance on how to become a leader and remain a leader. She emphasizes the importance of responding to, changing, and improving your behavior to become the best you can be.
Ensure complete coverage of the new CSEC English syllabus with focused exam-practice and SBA guidance. - Test understanding with Paper 2 practice focusing on summary writing skills, expository writing, narrative discourse and persuasive discourse, plus practice Paper 1 items throughout. - Help students prepare for SBA with annotated examples and rubrics. - Develop comprehension skills with a genre-based approach. - Support students of all abilities with an in incremental approach that builds writing skills through practice exercises.
Readers truly don't want to miss this twist-and-turn mystery sure to be a best seller. Delia is greedy, insane, genius, jealous of Celeste, the oldest of her three sisters, and the apple of her father's eye. Different than most who desire the American dream of family, career, long life, love, and happiness, Delia seeks each opportunity to achieve wealth-no matter who it destroys. She will proceed with her evil plans without guilt. At her own father's memorial service, a former well known contractor, she corners a client who owes debt. 'Hello Mrs. Champion, glad you could attend the memorial service. Did you remember to bring the money you owe Dad's account?' The look on her face I will never forget. Shocked. Why was she shocked that I asked her that question? Mrs. Champion responded with a quirky voice. 'One of our three children has been sick, Miss Delia. The bills have been very high, but if you will ask your mother, she will tell you I cleaned all her windows along with many other chores and errands she needed. She said the bill was covered.' I responded, 'Don't make a scene. Surely you don't think I would ask my mother a question concerning prior bills today of all days? The gold locket around your neck will compensate for the time being. What I am saying, Mrs. Champion, is reach around your neck and unfastened the pendant. It will drop to the floor. We will both reach for it. Only I will pick it up. Understand?' Mrs. Champion groaned. 'But please, Miss Delia, it contains a small but sentimental picture of my children.' Gentle statements compared to what lies ahead at the hands of Delia. 'Karen Paulette's writing is vivid and takes the reader right to the scene.' Noel Thrasher, Tate Publishing
This unique guide is the first book to: identify everything you need to know about destination weddings, marriage renewals, and honeymoon packages offered by more than 135 elegant hotels and cruise ships in the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii and US; tell you which resorts will marry you or renew your vows FOR FREE if you stay there; reveal what hundreds of people really thought about the resorts after staying there. The resorts chosen for this book will put everything together for your wedding (or renewal). All offer a ceremony with an official. Many also include a beautifully decorated wedding site, flowers, cake, photographers, and special touches, like free romantic dinners, or breakfast in bed after the ceremony. And in many places -- and only this book tells you where -- they will even provide all of this for free! You will also learn the low-down that you won't find in any other guidebooks. The secrets and details your travel agent doesn't even know. Vital information that will help you decide which resort you want to choose.
Box of Memories By: Paulette Atencio, Storyteller In the dumps and abandoned houses of northern New Mexico, two girls search for treasure, chasing childhood fairy tales and family myths and the secrets beneath the surface of their small town. When their grandfather's house is carefully demolished one August afternoon, the old doors and wood salvaged for a new building, the girls discover a priceless treasure. Young Paulette pries loose floorboards to reveal a small box. A memory box. Their grandfather’s lost secrets. A brief and beautiful memoir, Box of Memories shares the story of the box's discovery and some of the secrets that lay hidden for decades beneath its lid.
Echoes of Color By Paulette After tragedy hits her family, teenage Albany flees her home in Arkansas and sets off to make a new life for herself. Her reputation grows quickly as a strong, spirited woman who won’t back down from a fight and who knows how to handle a gun. Echoes of Color, set in the post-Civil War United States, is a gripping epic of one woman’s ambition to build a strong, supportive environment for the family and friends around her. In both her courtship and marriage to Clayton Drew (a Frenchman known as both a skillful gunman and ladies’ man) and her raising of seven children, Albany continually stands up for what she believes is right, refusing to give in to anyone, including her husband. Echoes of Color will leave you crying, laughing, and gasping in surprise — and sometimes all on the same page.
Paulette Jiles, the bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women, pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Island—a captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future—a literary dystopian tale resonant with love and hope. In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth is crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought is so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It is a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan. Growing up, she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest. When an opportunity for escape arises, Nadia embarks on a dangerous and sometimes comic adventure. Along the way she meets a man who changes the course of her life: James Orotov, a mapmaker and demolition expert. Together, they evade arrest and head north toward a place of wild beauty that lies beyond the megapolis—Lighthouse Island.
In 1863, the War Between the States creeps slowly yet inevitably toward its bloody conclusion—and eastern thoughts are already turning to different wars and enemies. Searching for a life and future, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson is venturing west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children—wary but undeterred by sobering tales of atrocities inflicted upon those who trespass against the Comanche and the Kiowa. Settling on the Texas plains, the Johnson family hopes to build on the dreams that carried them from the Confederate South to this new land of possibility—dreams that are abruptly shattered by a brutal Indian raid upon the settlement while Britt is away establishing a business. Returning to face the unthinkable—his friends and neighbors slain or captured, his eldest son dead, his beloved Mary severely damaged and enslaved, and his remaining children absorbed into an alien society that will never relinquish its hold on them—the heartsick freedman vows not to rest until his family is whole again. Samuel Hammond follows a different road west. A Quaker whose fortune is destroyed by a capricious act of an inscrutable God, he has resigned himself to the role the Deity has chosen for him. As a new agent for the Office of Indian Affairs, it is Hammond's goal to ferret out corruption and win justice for the noble natives now in his charge. But the proud, stubborn people refuse to cease their raids, free their prisoners, and accept the farming implements and lifestyle the white man would foist upon them, adding fuel to smoldering tensions that threaten to turn a man of peace, faith, and reason onto a course of terrible retribution. A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post–Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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