A girl named Melissa O'Hara, born during the great depression found her way out of poverty by work and self determination. She had help from an unknown source even so, she was still considered as the girl from the other side of the tracks. A girl who lost her mother and nearly lost her father in the hardest of times yet with tatter clothes, dressed like a boy, she walked the railroad tracks searching for left over coal to heat the shanty town shack she and her father called home. 
A chance meeting of a very wealthy but lonely boy changed Meliisa's life forever.

Lucky Shanty Town Girl

Maddron, Ernie

Windsor House

Watching the Weeds Grow is based on true events in the life of the author in a novel format. The story opens with a battle on the hills of Vietnam and describes the struggles that were experienced by so many service men and women during that difficult tome in American history.

Watching the Weeds Grow

This story is based on the true events of a young Marine named, Tristan Angus Elliot who returns from the battlefields of outh Korea in the mid-fifties. He was to discover that his family ties were seemingly lost. Lost because his grand-father drove him away as a young teenager. Trustan knows that he must seek the forgiveness of his grand-father who wrongly accused him of stealing over two hundred dollars from a neighbor. Tristan gained the respect of his grand-father when he came back from the Korean War with a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Tristan and his grand-father, who had always called him "Bonnie's Lad, were united as his grand-father lay on his death bed. There was no more Shame, but instead Love and Honor.

Love, Shame & Honor

Literature & Fiction

United States

Cornerstone Pub Inc

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Lucky Shanty Town Girl

Watching the Weeds Grow

Love, Shame & Honor