Mountain Memories

A series of true vignettes about life during the depression in Kentucky and West Virginia. My Grandmother had a unique way of seeing the world and her delightful, funny stories illustrate the innocence of times gone by. These are stories of America.

Best-selling author Kristen Heitzmann has inspired millions of fans with her colorful novels of Colorado, which include Honor's Pledge. In A Rush of Wings, a young woman seeking to escape her past finds refuge, romance, and a renewed faith high in the Rocky Mountains.

When Laurel Everhart returns to Booey Creek to work in the mountain fire tower, she expects quiet days and open skies. Instead, the ridge begins stirring pieces of a childhood she has spent decades trying to forget. Small, long-lost objects appear along her path—fragments from the night her best friend, Sarah Kate, fell from the ridge and the truth slipped into silence. With the help of Mira, a gentle memory healer, and Rylan, a steady presence she never saw coming, Laurel begins piecing together what really happened that night. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes ...

Apparently, it can get worse. Who would have thought? I've been taken prisoner by an enemy army with no idea about what happened to my dragon Saboraak or the people who fled the city. I hope they're all okay. But, of course, I can't just enjoy eating gruel and being pulled around on a cage on a cart. I have work to do and people to save. It's a tough life saving the world, but someone has to do it.

The journals of the Nobel Prize–winning author, beautifully illustrated with his own paintings For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks...

When Waylon's mom, Loretta, receives an offer for their old homeplace, they face a difficult decision. Loretta is ready to say goodbye, but Waylon clings to memories from a different time. Can they come together before the offer expires, or will they hold on to what they have?

For many years, Orhan Pamuk kept a record of his daily thoughts and observations, entering them in small notebooks and illustrating them with his own paintings. This book combines those notebooks into one volume. He writes about his travels around the world, his family, his writing process, and...

In the woods behind a remote Appalachian cabin stands a white marble staircase that should not exist. Anyone who climbs it disappears. Grieving widow Allison Dobson touches the stairs only once — and the forest seals shut behind her. She wakes in an underground labyrinth where corridors move, walls breathe, and the dead whisper her name. Something ancient stalks the tunnels, feeding on guilt and regret, reshaping reality to keep its victims trapped. It calls itself The Weaver. It knows everything Allison has ever loved. Including her dead husband. When Allison finds a silent child hiding ...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Beautiful, full-colour selections from Orhan Pamuk’s selected art notebooks. “One of the world's finest living writers.” The Independent “In this world of forgeries, where some might be in danger of losing their faith in literature, Pamuk is...

She’ll be home for Christmas… After years of chasing her dreams as an interior designer in the bustling city, Grace returns to Evergreen, a quaint mountain town that holds the magic of her childhood Christmases. The twinkling lights and festive atmosphere of her childhood Christmases bring back warm memories, but it's reuniting with her childhood best friend, Ethan, that truly stirs her heart. When the mayor calls for volunteers to organize the town's annual Christmas Eve festival, Grace jumps at the chance to make this holiday season one to remember. With Ethan by her side, Grace dives...

Fans of historical fiction and coming-of-age tales will not want to miss this nostalgic journey. Amidst the backdrop of a rapidly changing society, the four friends seek solace in the fantasy of Davy Crockett and the enchantment of Camelot. But as the threat of nuclear war looms and the nation mourns the heartbreak in Dallas, their once carefree world begins to unravel. Unlock the magic and nostalgia of a bygone era as you delve into the pages of Born In The Mountaintop. This heartfelt and poignant tale will transport you to a time filled with friendship, adventure, and history that will ...

"This audiobook is a touching testament to the power of stories, nature, and love to sustain and connect us." - AudioFile on Everything Left to Remember BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS meets WILD. In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s...

“John” has a problem. He doesn’t know his real name. He doesn’t know where he’s from. He’s not even sure if he’s in the right time. When John is found unconscious at the Huron Mountain Club and brought back to Marquette, Michigan to recuperate, everyone assures him it’s the year 1900, but somehow John’s memories of automobiles, televisions, and other modern devices seem to suggest he doesn’t belong in this time. Soon several people are trying to help John regain his memory from his teenage friend Hugh Allen to Marquette’s most prominent businessman, Peter White. But ...

Some dreams last a moment and others an entire life time...Matthew Smith was determined his would last long into the future. “He’d looked eastward and seen nothing but the staggering beauty of unspoiled mountains. In contrast, when his gaze shifted to the west the view was filled with buildings that jetted skywards and a maze of roads that could take a person wherever they wanted to go...or no where at all.” From the moment she knew that the so-called family vacation to the mountains was being planned, Jenna was determined to be part of it. They might not know exactly what they were ...

By any measure, Ed Zahniser is one of the truest poets in America in this century. If you love mountain poetry and wilderness on the page, Adirondack Mountain & Cabin Poems is your next read. Ed Zahniser writes from the Adirondack cabin he's visited since the 1940s. Here is the mountain experience rendered by the poet’s words and beyond. Encounter the bird that reads the poet’s note on the tree and startles away. A harvest of wilderness after-thoughts, Ed’s mountains restore the reader time and again: Paper Birch Scribble scribble scribble idly on white birchbark Leave these on the ...

NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered. “A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and ... adventure.” — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that...

Join the author on a trip back to a time when the roads were dirt and the times were hard. Sam Varney shares what life was like growing up in the coal mining area of Southwestern Virginia. It is an engaging look at the folklore and traditions of a simpler time in the Appalachian Mountains. When the Roads Were Dirt collects a series of articles originally presented in the Virginia Mountaineer plus additional material not previously released in the paperback version.

Read about the true adventures of American award winning writer, Michael Del Brown living and working in China; especially this short story of his trip to Anhui province and the subsequent climb up the mountain. This is the first in a series of short stories about the author's time in China.

A child is taken. A broken investigator is the only one who can find her. But the mountain may already have claimed her. When young Sharon Bishop vanishes from her home in the shadow of Kalanu Mountain, the entire county mobilizes to find her. The kidnapper is caught within hours. But there’s one problem. He swears he didn’t kill her. He says something else took her. Something ancient. Something the locals whisper about but never name. Still recovering from a brutal attack that left his memory fractured, investigator Tobias Atkins is pulled back into a case he may no longer be capable ...

A mad neuroscientist’s attempt to extract memories from a murder victim’s dead brain unravels an international conspiracy. Frank Kirk, an Ex-Army Ranger, has settled into his new life as a NJ State Police homicide detective when he encounters a perplexing case of a truck driver’s assassination. The few clues as they are seem to point to a professional hitman with military background. Frank doggedly pursues the case but finds there are far more powerful forces adamant on stopping him at all cost including setting a team of tier one rabid mercenaries on his tail. Frank will need all his...