"Son-Up, Son-Down" is a novel about children in harm's way.  The story, set in the mountains of western North Carolina, follows the early lives of two brothers, Jeffrey and Leeroy Swink, cast adrift in "the system" by an abusive and fragmented family; by parents who were, themselves, the products of dysfunctional families.  It is a story of pain and failure, but also of help and hope.  The book is the third in a set of three companion volumes written to illustrate the promise of a new and exciting approach to the care and treatment of troubled and troubling young people.  That approach, Therapeutic Foster Care, has been conceived to combine all of the best, family-centered features of traditional foster care with the most current and vigorous youth treatment methods available.  "Son-Up, Son-Down" offers a fictional account of the experiences of one family, the Swinks, with a foster family treatment program called Professional Parenting, a real program operated in Morganton, North Carolina, by the Bringing It All Back Home Study Center.  It is intended to convey an intimate and realistic perspective on the lives of severely troubled youngsters and on the texture and complexity of the task of trying to help them.

Son-Up, Son-Down (Triology, Book 3)

Literature & Fiction

Carenen, John

United States

Child Welfare League of Amer

Keeping to Himself

"A gripping, character-driven thriller with alluring landscapes." 
﻿-Kirkus Reviews\nDeep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Whit Coombs seeks peace, quiet, and healing. Scarred spiritually by the death of his wife, who died cursing him for not euthanizing her, and physically from an IED in Iraq, he just wants a simple life in his cabin by a lake, miles from a hard road. Then, on a nighttime hike, he witnesses a grisly murder and finds himself with a dilemma: report the crime and lose his privacy-and maybe his life-or let the killers get away with it. As the killers and the attractive female county sheriff get closer to discovering what he saw, he realizes that maybe Keeping to Himself won't give him the peace he needs.

Genre Fiction

Koehler Books

Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Whit Coombs seeks peace, quiet, and healing. Scarred spiritually by the death of his wife, who died cursing him for not euthanizing her, and physically from an IED in Iraq, he just wants a simple life in his cabin by a lake, miles from a hard road. Then, on a nighttime hike, he witnesses a grisly murder and finds himself with a dilemma: report the crime and lose his privacy-and maybe his life-or let the killers get away with it. As the killers and the attractive female county sheriff get closer to discovering what he saw, he realizes that maybe Keeping to Himself won't give him the peace he needs.

Signs of Struggle (Thomas O'Shea Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

A Far Gone Night

He’d promised Sheriff Payne that he wouldn’t take any more matters into his own hands. So, when on a leisurely morning drive, SEAL-trained Thomas O’Shea sees two girls attacking a boy on a sidewalk, he opts not to intervene. When the boy is later murdered in the local hospital, though, all promises are off. What seems at the start to be a simple case of gang activity turns out to be far more. Even O’Shea, who has seen more than his share of evil, could not have guessed what is about to transpire…

The Face on the Other Side (Thomas O'Shea Mysteries)

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Son-Up, Son-Down (Triology, Book 3)

Keeping to Himself

Keeping to Himself

Signs of Struggle (Thomas O'Shea Mysteries)

A Far Gone Night

The Face on the Other Side (Thomas O'Shea Mysteries)