In 1938 Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to “do something” about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action.Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators. Exposed as a collaborato...

Growing up in Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel’s Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy’s paradise…until a shotgun blast killed Charlie’s father and put his mother on trial for murder.For mysterious reasons, his mother entrusts his care to an old black man named Lacy Albert Coe. Lacy tells simple stories about the good and the bad t...

France, 1791.Amid the political turmoil of the French Revolution, another revolution is taking place, an ambitious project to remeasure the Paris meridian, thus determining the precise distance from the North Pole to the Equator in order to calculate a new base unit of length, the meter, establishing a rational system of measurement based on nature that will unite all people of all nations for all time.A young surveyor and would-be savant sets out for Southern France, charg...

This is the story of a border collie named Leonidas who works a small farm in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, with his owner, Farmer Ben. One day, while feeding and counting the animals in the barn, Farmer Ben notices that one of his award-winning sheep, Snowball, has come up missing. With one look from Ben, Leo understands what he must do, and he heads out on a journey across the United States looking for the lost ewe. Along the way, Leo learns about geography, state animals, life lessons, and ...

Disturbed……When life’s ugly truths are revealed from the first breath, what room is there for sanity?Detached……With everything taken from her, where does emotion fit? What does it mean?Apathetic…..When it’s toward self what power exists to crumble its walls?She came from nowhere. What chance is there for her when the diagnosis category is psychopathy? Irene(Nena) was born into destitution raised as a product of the state. Her understanding of life was in contention of ...

Hendrix in the Corner is a coming-of-age tale about a young reclusive musician learning to make sense of the world.

God wants YOU to be more than a mere storehouse of knowledge obtained just from attending church and religious events. His plan for you is far greater than lifelessly living the Christian life. It's time to experience God's power NOW! Through the Eye of the Needle will guide you into a vibrant and purposeful relationship with Christ.God gives us His Holy Spirit to transform us and make us fruitful. Are you ready for the Holy Spirit to move you into a more intimate relationship with...

This is the continuing story of Leo as his search to find Snowball finds him in Upstate New York, where he meets new friends, has new adventures, and learns new things.Come along with us on the continuing saga of Leo, the border collie from PA in New York.Book 2 in the Leo the Border Collie Series

Shady is the town where I grew up in every way a young man could, where I saw every kind of good and bad there is to see.Everybody found their true nature in Shady. In a single day, Benjamin Purdue lost his family, his love, his freedom and even his name for reasons he’s never known. Now Ben, the boy he used to be, is dead. And Henry Cole, the man he’s become, is no one he would ever want to know.With only a few dollars in his pocket, Henry journey...

Complete, step-by-step instructions for building schooners, galleons, clipper ships, more. Includes scale plans for 1846 clipper ship Sea Witch. Excellent guide for both the novice and the practiced woodworker — from the first steps in selecting proper materials to final task of painting the model. Over 150 photographs.

First Published in 2018. An explanation of changes in US Congress policies that affect the management of rangeland, timber, energy, mineral, and wilderness resources in the West of the country. The contributors examine policy decisions within the context of political, economic and demographic forces.

Shady doesn't exist anymore. Neither does Benjamin Purdue. In a single day he lost his family, his love, his freedom and even his name for reasons he's never known. Now after spending twenty-one years in prison for crimes he didn't commit, the young man he used to be is dead. And the man he's become is no one he-or anyone else-would ever want to know.With only fifty dollars of state money in his pocket, Henry Cole, aka Benjamin Purdue, journeys back to the dangerous outlaw settleme...