Mountain Memories

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.

For many years, Nobel Prize-winning author 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 his complex relationship with his home country of Turkey. He charts the seeds of his novels and the things that inspired his characters and the plots of his stories. Intertwined in his writings are the vibrant paintings of the landscapes that surround and inspire him.

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.

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.

"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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

"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!

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...

When looking for love, you sometimes find it...and sometimes you don't! Promises: A Story of Love, Betrayal & Revenge combines coming of age, romance, and suspense in a totally satisfying way.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annie Jordan’s newly opened can of worms sends her and Tyler on a trip. Two trips, as a matter of fact. They need to sort out the family matter. Whose father is who? Does what was in the past stay in the past or can Annie and Tyler unearth the mystery of their parentage? What about the mysterious woman who’s left her a message. Who is she? How does she fit in with Sam? Does she? Annie’s trying not to be overtly curious, but can you blame a girl—ahem, woman!—for wondering about this newly arrived stranger? Then there’s the matter of all the bad luck she’s been having. And the ...