Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they pose questions for children even as...

These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home—thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home.

In 'The Greatest Works of Emerson Hough – 19 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)', readers are transported to the American frontier through Hough's vivid storytelling and rich descriptions of the landscape. Known for his realistic depiction of the Wild West, Hough's literary style captures the essence of the rugged beauty and harsh realities of Western life. The collection includes tales of adventure, romance, and the struggles of pioneers, providing a comprehensive view of the Ameri...

This illustrated ultimate collection gathers nineteen of Emerson Hough's Western classics, adventure novels, historical works, poems, and children's tales, presenting the breadth of a writer central to the literature of the American frontier. Hough's fiction blends romance, documentary observation, and vigorous narrative movement, often dramatizing migration, wilderness trial, national expansion, and the moral ambiguities of conquest. Read within the context of late nineteenth- and early t...

This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San MiguelYou see their silhouettes along the stone wallor arm in arm below the glow of garden lightshuddled like foothills, earth you coul...