The undying friendship and fierce loyalty between Boudreaux James and Johnny Frye was forged in the depths of despair during their years spent together in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. This stirring tale of survival and hope chronicles their journey from the horrors of war, through their eventual liberation, to their triumphant return to the Hill Country of central Texas.Believing God spared them for greater things, Boudreaux decides to make the most of his natural, athletic tale...

Swimming in the mortar-riddled shallows of the East China Sea. Jumping off bridges into the barracuda-infested waters of the Florida Straits. Trudging through a fresh snowfall in the pristine silence of a New England forest. Hunting the elusive pheasant in the frigid, windswept plains of Illinois. Trying to stay out of trouble while experiencing great adventures with my brother while Mom was busy caring for the younger children and Dad was off fighting the greatfight. Always being t...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Wilils Toms, podcaster and workshop leader Omkari Williams addresses the question: How do we keep ourselves “in the game” when we become overwhelmed, dispirited, and downhearted by the enormity of needs in today’s challenging times? Williams gives us some powerful suggestions for a sustainable form of activism that she describes as micro-activism. She believes that the size of the action isn’t the point. What matters is that we take regular action. Th...

Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of French Guiana and then twice crossed the broad Pacific on rafts of his own design, with only housecats and a parrot for companionship. His first voyage, atop a ten-ton balsa monstrosity,...

It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment—learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle listen to him on the radio every Saturday night, and Tate just knows that she and Hank are kindred spirits.Told entirely through Tate's hopeful letters, this beautifully drawn novel ...

Dolly WillisA strain.. A fracture. A break. How one seemingly secret, seemingly harmless, seemingly "he'll never find out" act, can ruin a relationship forever. Loss of friends, loss of family, loss of her husband.This is the story of Dolly Willis.Romeo and JulietAs a tribute to one of the best playwrites in history, the great tragedy, Romeo and Juliet has been featured as a great addition to the sad story of Dolly Willis.

Here we stare down our present situation without flinching but with radical hope as Williams reminds us that love and beauty is felt in chaos and heartbreak. Healing is going beyond anger; It’s a process of eroding and evolving at once. We must let go of our certainty to come back into a place of communion and communication with each other and with the earth.

" Nelson's unmistakable voice shines through . . . funny, inspirational and bawdy, with a well-honed sense of humor." — Kirkus ReviewsIn Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This collection of williamshakespeare's works includes all of williamshakespeare's poems and plays in an elegant souvenir edition and has been split into multiple books as the author's unrevised works could not be summed up in one book.Whether it's a shakespeare fan or someone discovering it now, this is the perfect collection to experience the drama of shakespeare's words.Inside you will read ab...

Michael Lorca était le meilleur pilote de la région. Un homme discret, efficace… au service de personnes qu'il n'aurait peut-être jamais dû rencontrer. Puis, une nuit de novembre, sur une route verglacée de la Nièvre, tout s'arrête. À son réveil, son identité a disparu. Sa mémoire a été effacée. Et la vie qu'il connaissait n'existe plus. Désormais, il conduit pour ALPIA A390 — une voiture d'un genre nouveau. Une intelligence capable de parler, d'analyser… et de veiller. Mais plus Michael a...

Environmental politics becomes a matter of sensual passion rather than political correctness in this rich, colorful mosaic of thoughts on wildness, landscape, animals, and humans. It sparkles with gems of insight mined from Williams' own profound sense of belonging in nature and includes the voice of the late Edward Abbey, maverick environmentalist and friend of hers.

Williams connects two catastrophic events: living downwind of atomic nuclear testing in the deserts of Utah and the record breaking flooding of the Great Salt Lake. These events have deeply affected her sense of the need for refuge. She poetically conveys to us her personal perspectives on grief, love, and the spirituality of nature, lake and desert.