Although Libby Peyton hailed from a small Ohio town, she branched out from attending a very small liberal arts school, which included a junior year sojourn in Japan, to a doctoral program at a major midwestern
university.
Her studies in sociology were interrupted, at least as she likes to think, by the onset of schizophrenia and a
subsequent hospitalization.
Despite the ongoing, unrelenting somatic symptoms, delusions, and suicidal ideation she experienced, she held down a low-level admini
Following the death of their husband and father, Logan, Carol Ainsley and her 12-year old daughter, Jill, help a horse desperately in need of someone to love him. When they do, they have no idea how much he will rescue them from their grief and help rebuild their lives. From the moment Official Business, Biz for short, wins their hearts, to the day Carol and Jill bring him home, their path i
Just as anti-war leaders invite protestors en masse to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the author, twenty-one and unmarried, discovers her pregnancy. The father, a young Black civil rights worker, is thrilled, but what about Gail’s
family? Her devout Catholic mother tries to have her declared mentally unstable. Her daughter is not only expecting a Black
man’s child, but drop
Alex McEwan, a young man growing up in New England at the beginning of World War II, desperately wants to join his friends and enlist in a branch of the service, any branch. But he can’t. Alex is deaf, and his dream of being a part of something bigger than himself goes down in flames. Instead, with his family’s encouragement and support, he attends the only deaf college in the worl
"How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded."
Christina Georgina Rossetti is the younges
Twelve-year-old Neon Blue Greene is queen of the cafeteria, co-captain of the cheerleading squad, and has the most amazing dog any seventh grader could ask for. Her only complaint in life is that her parents named her after the color of a sports energy drink ~ until the morning she overhears them whispering and learns that she has twenty-eight days left to live.
Neon needs a miracle, but how can she get one in only twenty-eight days? Then it hits her. She'll do a good deed every day
Afghanistan now ruled by the Taliban was once a land of emerald valleys and exotic gardens. It had the scent of freedom where women went horse riding, studied literature, played music, and had freedom to work and entertain. King Babur of Afghanistan, who became the first Moghul Emperor of India, was a great patron of poets, scholars and theologians. The story of Balzeeb with its mystery and romance unfolds in this land of mystical charms, once a center of rich culture brimming w
Prophecy of the Wolf, a gripping tale, is primarily about a young Neshnabek man, Ogima ... we plunge deep into cultures just beginning to feel the clash between Europeans, represented by French fur traders in the novel
Emmitt at Love is a 21st century Fitzgerald-esque take on love, loss, repentance, and redemption, as experienced by Emmitt Raines, a writer, in the last quarter of the 20th Century. Emmitt’s journey begins on the banks of the New River, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and from there outward to the rocky coasts of the New England Maritime, the lights of Paris, the smoother waters of the Cote D’
In this modern love story, Mariah, a young woman enamored with the Earth, meets Max, a widowed wind scientist. As the seasons unfold, Max deals with grief asMariah continues to cope with losses of her own. When Howard, representing a public relations firm for the fossil fuel industry, harasses Max and his fellow climate scientist Buck, Max leaves town. COVID strikes shortly after Max returns
This book portrays Sufic message of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s journey to America, Russia and Europe in his own words as he wrote. “The message of love, harmony and beauty is like a divine stream of spiritual evolution flowing onward throughout our daily lives. And this awakening to purity and wisdom is the true essence of all that is understood by the term Sufi. I was transported by destiny from
Horses escaping a wildfire. A pig trapped in a bomb cyclone. A donkey at a live-stock auction. An abandoned dog. These are just some of the gripping animal adventures Mel, her daughter Lennon, and their dog Mojo take the reader on in Second Chances: Moonlight Mile Ranch.
While Second Chances shares the amazing stories of each animal rescued, it also reveals the grit two families experience
Born into a world devoid of fossil fuels, Jason Ryder survives his mother’s death, then journeys in search of his missing father. His quest takes him hundreds of kilometers from his home, following a trail that is years cold, in a world slowly returning to its once wild splendor. Even though there are unexpected dangers and new lessons he must learn, Jason’s greatest obstacle is one man’s gr
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