Mountain Memories

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...

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...

"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...

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.

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.

STILL WALKING Surviving the Mountains, Memories, and Monsters by William Ferrier Jr. When the plane went down, Maya thought the worst thing she’d face was the cold. She was wrong. Maya Chen-Rodriguez survives the impossible—an air-crash deep in the Bitterroot Mountains. Injured, alone, and with a damaged prosthetic leg, she should not be alive. But when she discovers her grandmother Rose wandered from the wreckage—confused, bleeding, and slipping into the fog of early-onset dementia—Maya makes a decision that will change her forever. She goes after her. What Maya doesn’t know is ...

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.

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 ...

Tracing a Killer A K-9 team in the crosshairs—and seeking justice. While tasked with protecting Trevor Gage from a serial killer, K-9 officer Hannah Scott inadvertently puts a second cold case murderer on their trail. The man who drowned Hannah’s childhood friend is back—and he wants to...

A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento supe que, para cambiar mi vida y la de las mujeres indígenas, debía transformar la ley más importante de mi país. Desde entonces, mi lucha ha sido para que los pueblos indígenas y afro no sean considerados menores de edad y para que las mujeres no sean personas de segunda.

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...

RECIPIENT OF MAXY AWARD FOR BEST LITERARY FICTION AND READERS' FAVORITE AWARD FOR WOMEN'S FICTION When Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn’t realize she’ll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between wife and daughter-in-law. She simply wants to fulfill her promise to Jack to visit their cabin in the West Virginia mountains, where their long love affair was safely hidden. Instead, her emotionally reminiscent trip becomes crowded with the two Sebring women, a grief counselor, and the massive role Callie assumes. She must speak for ...

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.

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.

A K-9 team in the crosshairs— and seeking justice. While tasked with protecting Trevor Gage from a serial killer, K-9 officer Hannah Scott inadvertently puts a second cold case murderer on their trail. The man who drowned Hannah’s childhood friend is back—and he wants to make Hannah his...

"Someone will be born hereabouts who will look just like the Great Stone Face, and he will be the noblest person of his time." This is the age-old prophecy that lies at the heart of the titular short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne of his remarkable collection, centering on tales situated in the White Mountains region. The hero in the first tale turns out to be the actual Great Stone Face, but it will take the villagers and himself a lifetime to realize this!

“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 ...

The Sycamore P.D. Series Sarah Thompson married Air Force pilot Harry Newcomb and left her children, Grant and Alison with her sister, Sybil while they went on their honeymoon. Harry told her family that she had been killed in a car wreck in Europe while on their honeymoon. Now, twenty years later Sarah Thompson Newcomb is very much alive and suffering from amnesia for all that time. Her husband, Harry, is killed in Afghanistan and she comes back to Sycamore, AZ with Harry’s orderly, Leo, to be with his family not knowing that she had any family of her own there. All of these people are ...

Resolved Memories AN UPLIFTING NOVEL WITH ROMANCE, MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE Resolved Memories - Third in the Sycamore P.D. Series by T. E. Killian Detective Lieutenant Sonia Nordstrom is trying to solve a series of murders when Wayne Newcomb almost becomes one of the victims. Wayne is still trying to resolve his feelings for his dead father who abandoned him over twenty years ago. Sonia is reunited with her mother after many years and her father and brothers hover over her all the time. Wayne has been pursuing Sonia for months. Can he change enough for her finally to give him a chance? Can they...

The Sycamore P.D. Series Sarah Thompson married Air Force pilot Harry Newcomb and left her children, Grant and Alison with her sister, Sybil while they went on their honeymoon. Harry told her family that she had been killed in a car wreck in Europe while on their honeymoon. Now, twenty years later Sarah Thompson Newcomb is very much alive and suffering from amnesia for all that time. Her husband, Harry, is killed in Afghanistan and she comes back to Sycamore, AZ, to be with his family not knowing that she had any family of her own there. All of these people are thrown together by the ...