Life is a constant struggle for Emily Hughes. Whether she's all in a dither over the recent weird behavior of her eighty-nine-year-old organ-playing mother or fretting over the fact that her grown son, Thomas, is dallying with a woman at the health department or just in a lather that her daughter, Ruthanna, is openly cavorting with the son of her worst enemy, there's always a crisis in view. Add all that to the fact that the new minister of music down at the Maxwell Street Baptist Church looks an awful lot like Paul Newman, and suddenly Emily is confronted with a hymn book full of rampaging hormones herself. And with Nashville, Tennessee, fast becoming a nesting ground for sin and wickedness, there's simply no time for a good Christian woman to get any rest.

Where Or When

Bland, Ralph

Literature & Fiction

Publishamerica Inc

Past Perfect

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Lockhart

Ralph Bland's eleventh novel, Lockhart, is the picaresque tale of Thomas Lockhart from his college days in the 1970s to his landing spot thirty years later in his hometown of Rhodes, Tennessee. Escaping from a dark past and a disreputable present, Tom Lockhart returns to Rhodes to confront the ghosts and demons of his past and somehow carve out a place to stand his ground against age, time, and the worst of all his enemies: himself. From a haunted incident to a shattered romance and the promise of a happy ending, Lockhart walks, runs, and shapeshifts himself through the labyrinthian corridors of the magically realistic world in his path.

Contemporary

Resource Publications

Resource Publications (CA)

Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line

From drinking sweet tea on a beloved grandmother's porch to playing army to witnessing prejudice and violence or receiving the lash, these stories illustrate growing up in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, what it felt, tasted, and looked like through the eyes of the boys who lived it.

Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line: 13 Stories

Biographies & Memoirs

Ball, Donald

Braswell, MIchael

Cavender, Anthony

Community & Culture

Long Long Time

Action & Adventure

Wandering Sage Publications, LLC

Lamb White Days is a magical realism trilogy in the Thomas Wolfe tradition about a young man's adventures and character development from three stages of his life. Beginning in 1962 and ending in 1970, the novel concerns the coming of age of Robinson Bell, a Southern boy the reader first meets at the age of twelve. From this opening part of the trilogy, Robinson progresses to age fifteen and eventually to his senior year of high school, chronicling his break from his family and familiar surroundings and his transition into a college freshman away from home for the first time. Between his growing sense of isolation, his ongoing discovery of the wicked ways of the world and its sometimes unexpected kindnesses, and his unceasing search for his own unique place upon the mystical earth of his existence, Robinson Bell discovers himself growing up to become the fellow he never thought he'd be. 
This first book in Bland's trilogy is sure to leave the reader with a keen sense of that magical age that was the 1960's through the eyes of his wonderfully raftered protagonist, Robinson Bell.

Lamb White Days

Literary

Powder River Publishing

Fast Car is the story of two men and a car that once was a classic, and how sometimesportions and sections of hopes and wishes have to be sorted through and decided uponto discover which to keep and which to let go. It is a coming-of-age story and a study ofclass differences, romance, and the inevitable abandonment of dreams.

Fast Car

Humor & Satire

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