If you want to discover how to finally become organized and use your creative side at the same time, then keep reading...Highly demanding tasks and close deadlines are becoming the norm in our professional and personal lives. Our phone reminders can end up driving us insane with their blunt and high-pitched tones. Staying on top of everything can almost seem like an impossible task. There is, however, a new way, which allows you to bring order into all of this. A...

Virginia White is an average teenage girl excited to start high school. She thinks her town of Compass is a place where nothing unexpected ever happens. Then one afternoon eerie dark clouds move in over her neighborhood and abruptly turn her world upside down. Now Virginia is being chased by a storm of evil that is relentless in its pursuit. Tossed into a world of unknown, she's desperately searching for answers, barely staying ahead of those who will stop at nothing to control her. Will J...

Kick-start a new writing project, or breathe life into an old one!Do you have a story idea but aren't sure what to do next? Have you started writing a story, but now find your plot stuck in a corner? Have you lost interest in your story idea because the plot became boring?Whether you're a plotter who loves to outline or a pantser who prefers to hit the open road without a map, a broad strokes outline can help you avoid the pitfall of the unworkable...

In the tumultuous era of the 12th and 13th centuries, England underwent a profound transformation. "King and Baronage" delves into the intricate relationship between the monarchy and the baronage, exploring the power struggles, alliances, and conflicts that shaped the nation's destiny. Through meticulous research and vivid prose, William Holden Hutton paints a captivating portrait of a pivotal period in English history, shedding light on the origins of Parliament, the rise of Magna Carta, ...

Explore southwest Virginia's local links to maritime history. Until the growing popularity of air travel post-World War II, Americans going abroad traveled by ship. Though Southwest Virginia is not a coastal region, its residents traveled far and wide. Some were involved in the most infamous shipwrecks of the age of steamships, many of whom lost their lives. The foundering of the legendary Titanic on her maiden voyage, the horrific fire aboard Morro Castle and the smoke-engulfed decks of U...

"Read J.C. Ballagh's 'White Servitude' (Baltimore, 1895). An organized system of kidnapping had prevailed along the British coast; you lads were seized and sold into slavery on the American Plantations." -Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Oct. 28, 1919"Ballagh's monograph shows conscientious labor, good judgment, and a fair degree of skill in the arrangement of the matter." - Virginia Magazine of History, 1895Has full justice been done to the ...

A certain mixture of whimsy and derring-do is required to shove off down (or up) the New or Gauley River with scant protection aside from a helmet, life vest and one�s compatriots. It�s a choice that could be so easily avoided, but that wouldn�t make sense to the proud and colorful characters who have long been shooting these rapids, some of the most popular and treacherous in the country. Here, Jay Young, a raft guide turned writer, leads readers through the local lore and history of the ...

"Ballagh's monograph shows conscientious labor, good judgment, and a fair degree of skill in the arrangement of the matter." - Virginia Magazine of History, 1895Full justice has not yet been done to the great class of English servants, who came to America in the colonial age. To them, more, perhaps, than to any other distinct class is due the broad foundation upon which our American civilization was laid. These were honest and industrious people who were t...

Though West Virginia was founded for the purpose of remaining loyal to the Union, severing ties with Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, would prove difficult. West Virginia's fate would be tested on its battlegrounds. In August 1863, Union general William Woods Averell led a six-hundred-mile raid culminating in the Battle of White Sulphur Springs in Green Brier County. Colonel George S. Patton, grandfather of the legendary World War II general, met Averell with a dedicated C...

From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public … In Shorts! is a collection of forty classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest writers.Among the stories included are "The Death of a Government Clerk," Anton Chekhov's defining vignette; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain's comedic story that earned him national fame; "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry's masterful Christmastime tale about love and sacrifice; and "The Stor...

Virginia K. White's Paxton Plays the Piccolo is a sweet story about determination and following your dreams. this musical gem will warm the hearts of readers from all ages. Told simply with lots of p-words, the plot follows Paxton's adventures as he tries to gain acceptance in the philharmonic orchestra. Paxton is patient and demonstrates how determination allows him to prove he can do it, eventually achieving his dream. With stunningly spectacular illustrations, this story is a great way ...

In UNA NUOVA CHANCE (Un Mistero di Mackenzie White —Libro 2), l’agente dell’FBI in addestramento Mackenzie White lotta per lasciare il segno all’Accademia FBI di Quantico, dopo il suo trasferimento dal Nebraska, cercando di affermarsi come donna. Con la speranza di avere la stoffa per diventare un’agente dell’FBI e di lasciarsi definitivamente alle spalle la vita nel Midwest, Mackenzie desidera soltanto fare una buona impressione ai suoi superiori tenendo un profilo basso.Ma tutto ...