DON'T YOU REMEMBER? is a fascinating and haunting memoir of a stunning past-life event that began when author George Ella Lyon was five years old, traveling with her family on a trip to Niagara Falls. Many years later this family story hesitantly emerges, and she begins pursuing it (or, as she notes, the story seems to pursue her). Her quest to understand the details and characters of this spiritual mystery becomes a decades-long journey from Harlan County, Kentucky; to Bath, New York; to Llanrwst, Wales. Told with keen eye, open heart and mastery of language, this is a story for past-life believers and non-believers alike, for it is the author's healthy skepticism that keeps this unique story in balance with the reality of her daily life. BOBBIE ANN MASON calls DON'T YOU REMEMBER? "An IRRESISTIBLE story, filled with suspense and wonder." SILAS HOUSE says it is "HAUNTING, thought-provoking, brave ... and maybe even the best book yet from this beloved author." LEE SMITH deems it "ENTHRALLING ... a mystery story of the highest order." And MARY ANN TAYLOR-HALL describes this memoir as "RIVETING ... a penetrating, serious meditation ...." (More info: www.MotesBooks.com.)

Don't You Remember?

Lyon, George Ella

Religion & Spirituality

MOTES

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Motivator, Teacher, Shrink : How to Attract and Develop Highly Successful Salespeople

Business & Money

Bob Teichart

Marketing & Sales

During the six months following the fiery Fourth of July deaths of his parents in a car wreck, Calvin Turtle, 20-year-old heir to a Louisville playing card company, attempts to manage the family business and his father's vast hunting preserve in Gaheena, Arkansas, all the while being force to fight charges that he killed his parents. Calvin's struggle to comprehend and master a world of good, evil and indifference culminates in a snaky quagmire where he battles a man named Karl who epitomizes raw, guiltless power. In a compelling 1970's tale that contrasts normalcy, whatever that may be, against the paradoxes in nature and humanity, THE KING OF GAHEENA reflects the very heart of a troubled American generation. From the opening deal to the final play of the cards, Calvin's obsessive odyssey is shot through with stout doses of confrontation and loss, love and lust, violence and wonder, longing and learning, rediscovery and redemption. www.MotesBooks.com

The King of Gaheena

Literature & Fiction

Babcock, Squire

Literary

In HER SECRET SONG, Jim Minick peers into the "hollow-hidden spring" of his aunt's life, exploring a continual seep "that sings her secret song." This collection of poems tells of the poet's Aunt Ruth, her struggles with poverty, "elephant man's disease," loneliness, cancer... and, inevitably, with the way of her death. HER SECRET SONG chronicles a story of connection that transcends the frailties of living and dying by revealing the essences of looking, loving and learning. www.MotesBooks.com

Her Secret Song

MINICK, JIM

Poetry

This is a book of beautiful writing that is, simultaneously, an insightful volume about the art of writing. In the various sections of THE HURTING PART: EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN PLAY, Silas House (author of A Parchment Of Leaves, Clay's Quilt, The Coal Tattoo, and Eli The Good) presents his three-act drama, THE HURTING PART, alongside its full literary and developmental context. The book contains not only the full-length script, but also the short story from which the play itself evolved. Also included are a thorough interview in which House desribes his writing process and an analytical essay by the author discussing how the two fictional works originated from one of his family's often-repeated stories. Personal vignettes about the author, his family, and the play's premiere are woven into the literary and cultural fabric of this book. House outlines solid advice for actors on speaking the Appalachian dialect, with which he has a lifetime of experience. He also describes some of the influences that other playwrights and novelists have injected into his own writing. THE HURTING PART: EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN PLAY includes photographic images of the author, members of his family, and scenes from the world premiere. This book is not to be missed by fans of Silas House's writing. Even more important, THE HURTING PART: EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN PLAY is extremely valuable for anyone who teaches, studies or appreciates good writing and where it comes from. -- www.MotesBooks.com

The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play

House, Silas

Science & Math

WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM is a multi-genre anthology of noted authors and young writers speaking out against mountaintop removal coal mining. There is the fifth-grader who vows to fight the destruction until he's "laid in the ground," the college student who recalls her shock and heartbreak at first seeing a mountaintop removal site, the best-selling novelist who believes that "to destroy mountains is to spit in the face of God." This startling collection includes writers from 17 states and features material from celebrated artists and activists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Wendell Berry, Earl Hamner, Ashley Judd, Silas House, Denise Giardina, Erik Reece, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bob Edwards, Penny Loeb, Hal Crowther, Jean Ritchie, Terry Tempest Williams, Jeff Biggers, Ann Pancake, George Ella Lyon, Ben Sollee and many more. Edited by journalist &amp; activist Jason Howard (coauthor of Something's Rising), this book presents a rallying chorus of dissent against a reckless industry and drives home the point that energy (particularly domestic coal) is everyone's issue … not only at the source but all the way "downstream." (www.MotesBooks.com)

We All Live Downstream: Writings about Mountaintop Removal

Economics

MOTIF: WRITING BY EAR (an anthology of writings about music) is Volume 1 in the MOTIF anthology series from publisher MotesBooks. Future editions will focus on other themes, but each submission in this first collection uses music as a motif, either prominently or in artfully subtle ways. This first MOTIF anthology includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as some song lyrics by the likes of Patty Griffin and Buddy &amp; Julie Miller. Other contributors include Silas House, Barbara Crooker, Pamela Duncan, George Ella Lyon and Maurice Manning. From reviewer and songwriter Sue Massek: "Motif editor Marianne Worthington has woven these stories, songs and poems with music's silken threads, creating a symphony that rocks, sways and syncopates in rhythm to the heartbeats of humankind and follows the melodies and harmonies flowing through our veins. The writers' voices reflect the rich forms and styles of their deliciously diverse home places." From reviewer and music journalist Peter Cooper: "Within this beautiful book are thousands of words that offer poetry and laughter, peace and respite, Piano Red and Patty Loveless. There are burgundy shoes here, and feet that tattoo the earth. There is Roy, the wino who worked for Bud Whedbee doing maintenance jobs. There is bourbon and ginger, and melody and harmony in between the lines. All adorn the mystery, with no notion to unravel." (www.MotesBooks.com)

MOTIF: Writing By Ear

Arts & Photography

Music

KILROY WAS HERE (published by MotesBooks) is a collection of new and found poems that document a typical American family whose son, Johnny, is a soldier during WWII. Told mostly from the perspective of Johnny's little sister, with some passages from advertisements and announcements of the era or from letters Johnny writes home, KILROY WAS HERE puts a face on war from the perspective of both the soldier and the family he leaves behind. With humor and heartbreak in equal measure, Constance Alexander draws the reader right into those trying times. The result, historian James Klotter says, "reminds us of the costs of war, for those who do not survive, and for those who do." Journalist and WWII veteran Al Smith says, "Spare, ironic, mysterious - like Kilroy, the caricature in the graffiti - the poems signify a first-hand witness to the emotions and artifacts of that era, from ration stamps to Movie-Tone news and gold star mothers."    www.MotesBooks.com

Kilroy Was Here

Alexander, Constance

STORIES TOLD IN STONE: Cemetery Iconology is subtitled 'A Manual for Genealogy Research' for many reasons. From graveyard to cemetery, author and certified genealogist Gaylord Cooper explains definitions, symbols and sources beneficial in the study of genealogy, culture and history. Readers of many backgrounds will find this both a useful tool for research and a fascinating read for simple curiosity. Sometimes artfully ornate, sometimes tastefully spare, the meanings of icons used on grave markers are explained in detail. Do's and Don'ts for cleaning and preserving gravestones are presented. Worksheets, source lists, field guides and other helpful materials are included. This is a book for people searching for ancestors and recording genealogy, as well as for readers who find beauty in the visual symbolism of architectural and memorial monuments. Many photographs. (non-fiction) www.MotesBooks.com

Stories Told in Stone: Cemetery Iconology

History

Cooper, Gaylord

Historical Study & Educational Resources

~ The intertwined essays in BACK TO ABNORMAL: SURVIVING WITH AN OLD FARM IN THE NEW SOUTH spin out from author Dana Wildsmith's daily life on an old farm in the foothills of the north Georgia mountains, to the regional world of the ESL classes she teaches, to the national scope of her work as a writer and a teacher of creative writing. They create a web of connections between the actions of the individual and her relation to the wider world. The chapters read like a string of summer front-porch evenings with the author - talking about her past, her work on the farm, the people she lives among, and the eternal puzzle of how to make sure her time on this spot of earth continues whole, healthy and life-sustaining. Environmental writer Jeff Biggers calls BACK TO ABNORMAL "a testimony to what we risk to lose." Philip Lee Williams, a Georgia Author of the Year, says, "The rural world needs all the friends it can get, and it has here found the champion it deserves." Novelist Karen Salyer McElmurray notes: "Wildsmith's stories are sacrament. They are the wildness we need to keep our souls alive." Writer &amp; teacher Darnell Arnoult says BACK TO ABNORMAL is "a sharp and compassionate anthem and prophetic elegy to the pastoral standing ground against the hungry and devouring teeth of suburban sprawl." www.MotesBooks.com ~

Back To Abnormal: Surviving With An Old Farm In The New South

Wildsmith, Dana

Nature & Ecology

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