Steal Away, my 70,000-wd. Christian/magical realism novel, takes place in early nineteenth century Middle Georgia when teaching slaves to read the Bible was against the law. Jacob Wells, a twenty-year-old slave, knows how to read and wants to free the souls of his people, even if their bodies are trapped in chattel bondage.The novel opens with the death of his mentor, Mr. Alan Cudjoe, a free black, murdered for doing what Jacob aspires to. Beside Sarah, his sweetheart, his only fri...

Charles Cash is addicted to the mayo-drips and brown buns of a Big Mac, so he undergoes a colonoscopy. Under anesthesia he dreams about his advanced high school history class (three African American super stars) and the sometimes-salacious diary they’re reading from the Civil War. The diary concerns Charles’s own ancestors, specifically the picaresque adventures of Cato Cincinnatus Cash (“CC”), med school failure and dope addict, and his paramour, Lulu Hartmann, German bi-sexual chanteuse....

What an odyssey! A man who believes he caused his wife’s three miscarriages learns to love himself again.--Start with a lawyer drowning himself in the river--Add a film critic catfish who rescues said lawyer and nudges him back to sanity by discussing auteur theory and dissing Deniro--Throw in the lawyer’s sign-wearing crusade to squash sex (thus eliminating the possibility of anyone having another miscarriage)--And don’t neglect the three meth makers from the u...

Four male teens fall to their knees in front of an altar—of breasts. A breast cult? Pop art? Smart-alecs and idiots clash and hash out the consequences in Last Step GA and when mammalian fantasies enslave the four boys, an orthodox Jew, the only orthodox Jew in Last Step, reminds them that the flesh is never the final measure of love.

Before he can solve a brutal murder, a small-town police chief/preacher battles the town council, who wants to fire him, a hit man posing as Jerry Lee Lewis, who wants to kill him, a bar owner, who gets drunk every Christmas Eve and climbs the town water tower so the chief will climb up and retrieve her, and a squeeze-happy python named Beverly.

In Mijn leven in de wildernis vertelt de Nederlandse Miriam Lancewood over haar leven in de wildernis van Nieuw-Zeeland. In 2010 verruilde ze de Achterhoek voor een leven ver van de bewoonde wereld. Samen met haar man Peter leeft ze zonder enige vorm van luxe een geïsoleerd leven in de verlaten bergen op het Zuidereiland van Nieuw-Zeeland. In het televisieprogramma Floortje naar het einde van de wereld zocht Floortje Dessing het echtpaar op. Een inspirerend verhaal over durf, keuzes en gel...

Wil jij leren hoe je je voorbereidt op een zelfvoorzienend bestaan? In Overleven in de wildernis deelt Miriam Lancewood haar ervaringen en praktische survivaltechnieken.Miriam woonde zeven jaar in de wildernis van Nieuw-Zeeland en trekt nog steeds maandenlang door ongerepte natuur. Ze weet als geen ander hoe het is om volledig op jezelf aangewezen te zijn. In dit boek ontdek je hoe je je mentaal en praktisch voorbereidt op een leven buiten de gebaande paden.Met inspirerende...