Copper Creek Stories is a collection of three grassroots short stories. Set in the American Southwest, the stories journey through a sheepherder's camp on a mountaintop, a prison chaplain's Visitor's Room and finally, through the small town of Copper Creek as its residents cope with a punishing heat wave. The cast of characters, a sheepherder, a ranching family, a prison chaplain, a moonlight musician earning a living waiting tables and a carpenter turned sculptor, all have stories to shar...

Two thousand miles of barren, desert terrain mark the international border between the United States and Mexico. Known as The Borderlands, this stretch of harsh, unforgiving landscape is home to a diverse population, both human and animal. Dotted along both sides of the border you'll find large cities, small cities and hundreds of small towns and villages where the people share elements of language, food, customs, music and culture. Today I want to welcome you to one of those small towns, ...

How does Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross save us? In his Space Age Christianity series, author V. J. Moore offers a scientific explanation for how the Lord’s Passion saved the human race. Rejecting all approaches that involve mysticism, the supernatural, or theories of theology, Moore’s analysis puts forward solid scientific answers in what he calls “Atonement Biology.” In volume one of the series, Crucifixion, he investigates “the Biology of Crucifixion.” His analysis prov...

Author V. J. Moore continues his exploration of the Biology of the Atonement with a focus on the “Tabernacle of the Testimony” (also called “the Tent of Witness”), whose plan God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. Moore maintains that the Tabernacle was no ordinary witness. It was an “expert witness” that provides us with “expert testimony” regarding the Atonement. He concludes that the Tabernacle was a divinely given model of the human cell (as were the Temples, whose designs were based on the...

Author V. J. Moore continues his analysis of the Sanctuary and the cell. In volume 3, Resurrection, he describes the many ways in which the “expert Testimony” provided by the Tabernacle of Witness reveals how God rebuilt the Lord’s Body, prior to raising Him from the dead. The analysis extends to the Sacred Furniture, the carvings on the walls of Solomon’s Temple, the two 15-foot statues of Cherubim in the Most Holy Place of the Temple, and the Ark of the Covenant. Moore explains ...

Bordertales: From Deadwood To Deming chronicles the adventures of three extraordinary women who chose to follow the path less traveled in the American West of the turbulent 1840's to the 1930's, a time frame marked by tremendous westward expansion.

Bordertales: True Stories Volume One is a trilogy of adventures and misadventures encountered by three pioneering citizens who set out to establish new lives in the turbulent U.S. / Mexico border area of the Southwest. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century were times of tremendous growth and change along the border. Join me in following the stories of Maud, Frenchy and Charles Howard as they navigate volatile and dangerous times, both north and south of the Rio Grande.

Hughy Terson, midshipman aboard the commerce raider Aquila, has charge of the prize crew aboard the captured passenger liner Princess. He's an outlaw in the eyes of the Oligarchy, but the Confederation was merely the first to revolt in an inevitable process of trade liberalization. Getting Aquila to a safe haven is challenge enough. The beautiful and enigmatic Griffa Kathria Marte is another problem. Only a fool would trust her, or fall under her spell. A short and gripping space opera of ...

In News from Dead Mule Swamp, Anastasia Raven is running from the pain of a failed marriage, and hopes to hide from the world in an old farmhouse she has purchased at the edge of Dead Mule Swamp. When a hundred-year-old newspaper she finds inside a wall is stolen by Cliff Sorenson, and then Cliff disappears, Ana is convinced that the paper holds the key to the mystery. But what old news could be important enough to put Cliff in danger?(Anastasia Raven Mysteries #1)

Young Andre Mitchell is a gifted football player who is adept at dodging tackles and dodging trouble. In junior high he was a star. But now—in high school—Dre must not only make the grade in the classroom, he must hold his own on the field and in the streets.At John L. LeFlore, Dre is a small fish in a pond full of piranhas. He's uncertain if new love interests can be trusted, or if old puppy love can mature. All of this becomes even more complicated when a run-in with local thugs ...

In "The Fight for Conservation," Gifford Pinchot offers a compelling narrative that intertwines the principles of environmentalism with the pragmatic realities of natural resource management. Pinchot advocates for the responsible use and stewardship of America's forests, emphasizing the need for sustainable practices at a time when industrial expansion threatened ecological integrity. His eloquent prose and persuasive rhetoric not only highlight the philosophical underpinnings of conservat...

The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman is a compact but revealing documentary study of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts criminal case: the poisoning of Captain Codman and the prosecution of enslaved people under the archaic doctrine of "petit treason." Written in an antiquarian-legal style, the work reconstructs indictments, proceedings, punishments, and public memory, placing colonial slavery within English common-law categories and...