Riley Davis loves everything about gymnastics—the chalk on her hands, the narrow beam beneath her feet, and the thrill of mastering a new skill. But on the morning of her first Level Seven competition of the year, excitement gives way to fear.When Amanda and Tyler stop by to wish her "bad luck," their hurtful words follow Riley all the way to the gym. Every event becomes more than a test of skill. Riley must manage her nerves, recover from mistakes, listen to the people who believe...

In 1940s New Orleans, Mary Lee Morris dreams of creating a loving and secure home for her family. Her marriage to William Bernard Williams begins a new chapter filled with hope, duty, sacrifice, and the everyday demands of raising children during uncertain times. At the center of their lives stands the house at 3239 Bloomingdale Court—a place that will hold far more than walls and rooms. It will hold people, stories, sorrow, and return.When tragedy leaves Mary Lee a widow, she must...

A family name can survive even when history forgets the man who carried it.Born in 1896, William Percy Williams comes of age among the roaring glass furnaces and unforgiving steel mills of western Pennsylvania. As the son of George Williams and Josephine C. Payton Williams, he inherits more than a name—he inherits the struggle to build a life in a country where a Black man's labor is often recorded more carefully than his story.William's journey carries him through marriage...

What do we really know about the people who came before us?In Beneath the Surface, the life of Edward William Murrell becomes the doorway into a much larger family story—one shaped by military service, migration, marriage, loss, memory, and the difficult work of separating fact from family legend.Edward was a United States Navy veteran remembered by his family as a diver, a man with a big smile, and someone whose later work brought him close to death and the offici...

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Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon.Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him 'Slackjaw'. When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine.Luke and Jon is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how li...

Billionaire adventurer Stan Owens has everything, success, fame, all the luxury money can buy... until a plane crash leaves him stranded in the desert. Alone in a hostile environment, he makes a horrifying discovery in the desert wastes.This is a frightening new short story by Robert Williams, the acclaimed author of "Peculiar, MO."

It was a hot, shimmering July afternoon, and it was much pleasanter to sit out of doors on a tombstone, listening to the vicars voice as it came though the dark lancets like a sound of running water. Half a mile or so away, nestled in trees, was the village of Omberley, with its glimpses of white walls and tiled or slated roofs. Then there were soft, hazy stretches of pasture, with idyllic groupings of cattle and sheep and trees. The fields of wheat and barley, turnips and potatoes, lay ou...

Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in the Supreme Court’s Indian law decisions.Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall’s foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing today in the judgments of the Rehnqu...

The Man Who Rocked The Earth by Arthur Train And Robert Williams Wood.

Two hearts are brought together by a mysterious chart of love, and their lives are forever changed.

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