Jimmy Milton's tale is a riveting narrative of escape and survival. Wrongly confined, his fledgling rebellion against fate ignites a daring jailbreak. As Jimmy dodges relentless police and nature's threats in the deep South, his quest for freedom reveals the resilience of the human spirit. In a treacherous dance with destiny, every step, every heartbeat, is a fight for a second chance amid the dangers that lurk in freedom's shadow. This story is a powerful portrait of camaraderie, betrayal...

Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder’s years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder’s autobiographical novel...

Dive into the darkest recess of madness and experience the facets of fear reflected in the seven stories of Mind of a Mad Man.The Dance is a modern day ghost story, a tale of possessive love and religious intolerance. When a young novelists' grandmother dies, she inherits the house. Her first night there, she is visited by a lady in an old-fashioned ballgown who invites her to dance.In The Bar a young bartender weaves a tale about the night his life was changed forever....

Sometimes what looks like an angel really is one. Sometimes it's not.As a teenage boy, Duncan O'Malley moved from Ireland to New York, looking for a new start. As an adult in the 1890s, he believes he's accomplished it. What Irish immigrant could want more than to own a boxing gym with his charming, and only somewhat annoying brother? But one sweltering day in Hell's Kitchen, all of that changes when an old acquaintance shows up and informs him he is now a cop.Maggie Bloom ...

A Smashwords bestseller!In their urban fantasy series Dime Store Novel, Rachelle Reese and John E. Miller write about a world where there are unseen realms, each governed by a deity with dominion over an aspect of the natural realm. The weave between the realms is weakening, allowing the deities to interact with humans.From the Gator's Mouth is the story of an unlikely birth, an earthbound goddess who prefers her gator form over her clumsy two-legged one, and Swampy, a guy ...

The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors’ distinctive views of place, time, and culture. Along the way, he addresses the two most controversial issues for Wilder/Lane aficionados: how much did Lane actua...

Rolling prairie grasslands in the east, surreal Badlands and lush Black Hills in the west: South Dakota is a state of vivid contrasts. In this classic and now-rare guide to Depression-era South Dakota, you can discover the historic byways and back roads of this beautiful state. Originally part of the American Guide Series, this book was written both to chronicle the physical and cultural landscape of the Mount Rushmore State and to employ out-of-work writers. The result is a snapshot of So...

Evidence is accumulating that democracy is under siege--in the United States and around the world. This volume identifies and explains a dozen separate challenges threatening American democracy today. Sorting these challenges into political and social-cultural problems, each is placed in an historical context to describe how they work together to undermine the democratic underpinnings of the nation.Opening with a sketch of the historical development of democracy, this book makes th...

Jimmy Milton's tale is a riveting narrative of escape and survival. Wrongly confined, his fledgling rebellion against fate ignites a daring jailbreak. As Jimmy dodges relentless police and nature's threats in the deep South, his quest for freedom reveals the resilience of the human spirit. In a treacherous dance with destiny, every step, every heartbeat, is a fight for a second chance amid the dangers that lurk in freedom's shadow. This story is a powerful portrait of camaraderie, betrayal...

Children ask hard questions. One mother has to answer the hardest question of all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. Her life and times are captured in engaging text and 80 black-and-white illustrations.

When fallen pop star, Johnny O'Shea comes to High Bank Cottage, he considers himself fortunate, for the cottage appears to be the perfect retreat. But High Bank is not what it seems, for it holds a dark secret that is gradually revealed at the expense of others, who vanish without trace and for no apparent reason. Convinced he has a past connection with the cottage O'Shea sets out to solve the ever deepening mystery, and embarks on a quest that ultimately leads him to uncover the horrors o...