THE WINDOWS OF MY SOUL I want my poetry too be understood And appreciate but first an far more To know that it is God who give me the Talent And to him go all the Glory an Honor An Praise Because I am no body Special Just God faithful An Loving Servant Each day of my life I Seek God Whatever I want I Ask God Whatever I receive I Thank God When I am In Trouble I trust God If sickness occur I Believe God At All Times I Love God I hope my poems Bring Joy an Solitude A Spiritual awakening in y...

Barefooted: Spontaneous Reflections of a Southern Woman showcases bits and pieces of Golding’s life in poetry and prose. Returning to her roots, the author moves from tobacco farm life in Rockingham County into marriage, parenting and a cosmopolitan career, then glides into active retirement. The collection’s title, Barefooted, is inspired by the honesty in a line from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, “The Barefoot Boy,” where Whittier refers to shoes as the “prison cells of pride.” The aut...

In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his “enemy” has to offer. Top of his to-do list? A trip to Disneyland and an introduction to sexual icon Marilyn Monroe.Thanks to the impossible security requirements, Disneyland is out of the question. Marilyn, on the other hand, jumps at the chance to put on a show for the Russian official. During her appearance, she overhears the details of an ass...

Joyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn’t have any more—her youth, and that was what she needed most.Her boss fired her because he wanted someone with “young blood and young ideas.” Joyce was forced to start all over again. But could she compete with all the beautiful young kids who were so hungry for what she had?The X-Gen Agency could give Joyce everything she wanted, everyt...

A young woman from the Midwest, recipient of an unexpected college scholarship, is recruited into a lucrative courier job that shuttles her from Manhattan to Washington, DC. There’s a slight drawback: the previous two “cutouts” died by violence.Sierra Kane—who has bounced from one foster family to another—faces an uncertain future when she receives an unapplied-for scholarship to Barnard College specifically designed for orphans whose academic records are merely ab...

Photographer Mark Miller opened his studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1914. The town he chose to live and work in sits in a river valley in northern Colorado, nestled between the Rocky Mountain foothills and the semiarid high plains, with Denver to the south and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the north. Established as a Civil War'era army post, the town was a Wild West frontier outpost until it was tamed in the 1870s by the arrival of a land-grant college and the railroad. By the turn of the cen...

John Norman Collins was responsible for the "Michigan Murders"...Collins killed young women between 1967-69 in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area of Southeastern Michigan. He targeted victims between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, kidnapping, sexually assaulting and later killing them. It took three years before authorities finally caught up to Collins, catching him one week after his latest murder. What possessed Collins to commit these awful atrocities and how did he get away with the cr...

While today's Fort Collins is a popular destination for foodies and weekend adventurers, it was once a lonely military outpost poised on the nation's frontier. Cattle rustlers and trigger-happy cowboys walked an uneasy line between saloon doors and the hangman's noose. By 1895, Fort Collins had lost some of its gritty edge, and it became a dry town full of churches, sheep ranches and sugar beet farms. The city was again transformed over the past century into a community that embraced a thr...

A solicitor's letter invited Maria to come and discuss matters relating to the late Barbara Watkins' estate. Maria knew that Barbara had considered her a silly little kid, even after she'd helped save the life of one of her beloved horses. Barbara had made no secret of the fact she'd cared for each of her four legged friends than she ever had for anything on two legs.Those animals were now sold to pay off Barbaras debts. There was nothing of any financial value left. Those items of...

Was macht der Krieg mit den Menschen? Wie verändert und prägt er Gesellschaften? Was passiert mit »Familie« im und durch Krieg? Auf welche Weise und mit welchen Folgen beeinflusst er intimste Räume menschlichen Miteinanders? Dieser Band spannt einen Bogen von der Antike bis ins 21. Jahrhundert und liefert erstmals eine transepochale Perspektive auf familiäre Lebenswelten in und nach Kriegen. Leitbilder und Alltagserfahrungen stehen dabei ebenso im Blickpunkt wie Fürsorge- und Kontrollmaßna...

‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPERPicked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the ObserverA Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era’s own Jane A...

Don’t miss a single romance this Christmas with this 26-title collection, perfect for every mood! Unwrap passionate tales filled with holiday cheer A Cowboy for ChristmasHold Me, Cowboy by Maisey YatesHot Winter Nights by Debbi RawlinsHot Holiday Rancher by Catherine MannThe Italian's Billion-Dollar ChristmasShameful Secret, Shotgun Wedding by Sharon Kend...