<p>There were no secrets among the folk that lived in the Pine Mountain Region of Kentucky. Everyone knew that Alex Turner was an old man with strange powers. They also knew that his daughter Judy could ride and shoot like a man and had the same powers. But no one knew about the Black Heart Book...</p>

The Black Heart Book II

Biographies & Memoirs

Boggs-Qualls, Rosezelle

Community & Culture

Ascended Ideas

A biographical docudrama about the deaf and blind Nellie L. Zimmerman. After the death of her father, Nellie was committed to the Massillon State Mental Hospital at the age of 52. With no one on the staff trained in communicating with the deaf-blind, Nellie lived in silence for 19 years. She kept her mind sane by memorizing her Braille Bible and playing complicated math and word games in her head. She was finally discovered hiding under a bedsheet, finger spelling the Lord's Prayer. After she was released from the State Hospital in 1976, at the age of 71, she lived her life as if she were making up for lost time. With the help of her companion Emily Street, she attended Malone College, became a well-known lecturer throughout Northeast Ohio, and worked as a life skills instructor for deaf and deaf-blind boys. This inspiring true story will give you rare insight into the life of this amazing woman, who won many awards and was recognized by the Ohio State House of Representatives as an outstanding Ohioan.

Walking Free: The Nellie Zimmerman Story

Greene, Daryl C.

Densmore-Reid Pubns

Richard Cummins Gannon was born September 19, 1952 with a life expectancy of less than 12 years. To the author's knowledge, in January, 2007, he is one of the oldest living persons who were diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a newborn infant. Richard is the first person in Ohio to successfully undergo a triple-organ transplant, and the sixteen-hour surgery made medical news around the world! In January, 1991, at University Hospitals of Cleveland, he received a new liver, kidney, and pancreas. With the progression of modern medicine, his own constant faith in God, and the love, prayers, and support of his family and friends, Richard courageously persevered through overpowering life challenges.

Sixty Five Roses: The Richard C. Gannon Story

Parenting & Relationships

In May of 1976, at the age of 71, the deaf and blind Nellie Zimmerman was released from the Massillon State Hospital. After nineteen years of confinement she took her first breath of freedom. Nellie went on to attend college, became a well known lecturer and an award winning life skills instructor at a group home for deaf and deaf-blind teenage boys. Rosezelle Boggs-Qualls and Dr. Daryl Greene go behind the headlines to bring Nellie Zimmerman’s story to life, as told by Emily Street Hensel, her companion and friend and as documented by genealogical research and the national publicity surrounding her accomplishments. Dr. Greene writes, “This is an incredible story of the victory of the human spirit over what most of us would consider insurmountable circumstances. Once you read it, you will see your own life in a new light.”

Walking Free: The Life of Nellie Zimmerman

Greene, Daryl

There were no secrets among the folk who live deep in the Pine Mountains of Southeast Kentucky. However there are memories of Alex Turner as a man with strange powers and his daughter, Judy,  who could out-ride and out-shoot men, and had the same powers.  But no one knew about the Black Heart book.  This book is the fourth in The Black Heart Book Series. In The Black Heart Book IV-The Legacy Lives On, Rosezelle Boggs- Qualls continues to educate and entertain you with stunning  insight as she chronicles her family's life experiences. Judy  Turner-Smith-Collins all of her life has honored her promise to  God and to her father to use her special powers only for good.  Judy is a strong and fiercely independent woman. She instills  the same strengths in the author.

The Blackheart Book IV: The Legacy Continues