Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling and also for saving the original Beech Mountain Jack tales brought to the Appalachian Mountains by his ancestors as early as 1776, Hicks was conscious of the role he played in the preservation of oral storytelling. Many of those stories are...

A WAKE UP CALL TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY."The Pain Didn’t Start Here: Trauma & Violence in the African-American Community" by Denyse Hicks-Ray, Ph.D., B.C.E.T.S connects the clinical definition of psychological trauma and its affects of violent and maladaptive behaviors presented in the African-American community.Revealing painful truths about African-American trauma, this important, cutting edge book takes the reader on a psychologist’s perspective of the journey o...

I take my college experience as an athlete and use it as a metaphor for becoming or being a stronger Christian. Whether you play football, another sport, or watch sports, all sports have lines that you have to play within. These lines keep us from going out of bounds, being disqualified, or hurting ourselves. The Bible, the word of God, are our guidelines that keeps us in bounds and becoming more like Him. You will come to understand that when you know Jesus, He makes you new. In this book...

The long-awaited new novel by America’s master playwright and activist—a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fearsForty years in the making, The American People embodies Larry Kramer’s vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters. Here, as only he can, he tells the heartbreaking and heroic story of one nation ...

The first in a three part walk through the Bible, this curriculum is designed to help children experience both the technical aspects of using the Bible as well as the wonders the Bible contains. Laying the Foundation explores how the Bible began as stories around a campfire and progressed to the written word on papyrus scrolls. Covering the first 22 books of the Bible, children are introduced to the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, the Judges, the Kings and the Assyrian, Babyloni...

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...

The Maddox Maimers, the turkey baster, the audio gnome, and Flo return in this new Perpetual Twilight adventure, the sequel to Perpetual Revenge. The Maddox Maimers run amuck, stealing stuff and kidnapping girls. The action culminates with a pair of Perpetual Twilight visitors staging a gallant hostage rescue. The characters Brian and Ray are used with permission of A. S. Warwick.