Awarded the 2017 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, this compelling novel tells the sometimes grueling, sometimes humorous story of a woman in a man's world. Assigned as a nurse to a hospital ship during the Civil War, Dr. Rose Barnett hopes someone will apprentice her in the modern art of surgery. But she has more to learn than how to amputate the ruined limbs of Union soldiers. Confronted by her own preconceived notions of class, love, and race, she struggles to untangle life's persistent contradictions. As a pacifist, her greatest challenge is coming to grips with the terrible ironies of war. As a woman, she must learn to follow her heart. Based on the true story of a woman doctor in the American Civil War, A Great Length of Time is a woman's view of the politics and gender roles of the day, offering a fresh look at the war and the women who nursed its soldiers.

A Great Length of Time

Literature & Fiction

Cherry Cresswell, Joyce

Genre Fiction

Mountain View Press

Seven orphans rent an apartment in a barn owned by a pair of mature, but doting farm owners. The orphans enjoy life in the Pennsylvania mountains, but struggle with the seven deadly sins. They meet many colorful folks in coal country and enjoy a wonderful and Christian life together. A shocking ending awaits them all.

Orphans in the Barn: Seven Not-So Deadly Sins

Xu, David

Literary

Redneck Dystopia is a fictional tale about a brutal socialist America beginning after the 2020 election. The three equal branches are destroyed, totalitarianism sets in, and the country splits again. The Supreme Court is the weak link to enabling one-party rule after 245 years of free enterprise. Socialists run the nation with an iron grip and throw many Christians and capitalists in jail or worse. The government is supreme over the individual. Follow Sharon, Dale, and others from the mountains of Pennsylvania to Washington, DC in this dystopian world. This story must have a bad ending.

Redneck Dystopia

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Unfathomable evil grips the ancient homeland of the Children of Israel. For forty years, Yahweh, Most High God, has been preparing his people in the wilderness. At last they are ready to confront the darkness and claim their Promised Land. But before they can cross the Jordan River, the surrounding kingdoms of Moab and Midian summon the evil prophet Balaam from Babylonia. Joining forces with the ruthlessly ambitious Princess Cozbi, he gathers a coalition of five Midianite kings who will stop at nothing to defeat Israel and prevent a crossing that will change the world. Familiar biblical characters--Moses, Caleb, and Joshua--stride through the mutiny, plague, and war unleashed by Balaam's plot, but this is the coming of age story of the next generation. Six real, but minor biblical characters nurtured in a simple wilderness life suddenly find themselves caught in a life-changing vortex of violence and upheaval beyond anything they could have imagined.

Balaam's Curse (Stones of Gilgal Book 1) (Stones of Gilgal Series)

Christian Books & Bibles

Smith, C.L.

Herein lies an adventure woven in science and magic. The science is other worldly, and the magic? Some of it is effortless and some beyond the limits of time. Beon stares past the icy Ridge of Giants to the stars beyond. The power of the Ancients is within her grasp, but her visions have disappeared and left her confused. How then to finally escape the Changelings, and the one Enemy King who suspects her secret? The island's mountains have hidden most of the nomadic tribes, along with the Faery-Whites, the Web-Weavers, the giants and the dragons' children. Yet what of the darker forces: the power of the Whisperer, the wizard in the dungeon and Destroyer with his race of flying daemons? The Red Seers are working hard to invoke peace with their steel drums. While down at the seashore, the soldiers are fighting wolves with arrows and swords since their king has banished all magic; becoming more intrigued with the Techno-Orbs hidden in Star Capital, an ancient kingdom near perfection, encased in an unfathomable science designed to protect it. Ten Enemy Kings... ten kingdoms... and ten islands that might possibly disappear.

BEON

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Brookshier, DJ

Fantasy

You are not your brain! For those who have ever endured the tyranny of out-of-control emotions, intrusiveness of unwanted thoughts and images, unrelenting symptoms of PTSD, and pressures of unrealistic societal expectations, this is fabulous news. It means that modern neuroscience has shown what many of us have known innately for millennia--we are majestic, wonderfully wired creatures who have more control over ourselves than we may have thought. Mental health disorders and the effects of trauma are real and legitimate issues that affect millions of people all over the world. Not only do the courageous individuals with mental illness battle overwhelming symptoms, but the stigma and shame they endure only exacerbate an already complicated problem. Understanding the issue from a whole-person perspective can be a game changer. Lasing Change; Overcoming the Grip of Anxiety, Depression & Trauma with User-Friendly Neuroscience is the result of over twenty years of research as well as the personal insights of one clinician who has made the painful journey from hopelessness to wholeness. This book presents a practical, down-to-earth approach to understanding and managing the mind, body, spirit, and social connections that so greatly affect our well-being.

Lasting Change: Overcoming the Grip of Anxiety, Depression, & Trauma with "User-Friendly" Neuroscience

UNKNOWN

Self-Help

Only a river separates Acsah, Othniel and friends from the long-awaited Promised Land. Their parent's generation is gone, but against all odds, they survived the gut-wrenching rebellion, plague, and war initiated by Balaam's Curse. Looking to the future beyond the Jordan with fiercely bright hope, they prepare to leave the sorrows of the Valley of Acacias behind forever. What could possibly go wrong? . . . Merely a volatile king, the crazed captain of Jericho's efficiently evil troops, labyrinthine caves, raging flood waters, and hovering over all, an evil force determined to stop the crossing that would change the world."I don't know when I've read work by an author who can make you feel and experience the sliminess of sin and the pure essence of God in all his white-light holiness. I wouldn't have thought it possible to put the reader right in the middle of Old Testament happenings, but C. L. Smith has done it." --Inger J. Logelin Sr. Editor, Redemption Press

A River to Cross (Stones of Gilgal Book 2)

C.L. Smith

Return to the turbulence of ancient Canaan in Book Three of The Stones of Gilgal. Even the raging floods of the Jordan could not stop the Israelites from crossing the river and setting up camp near Jericho. Canaanite kings and kingdoms--even the Anakim giants--are in turmoil. Former enemies jostle for power in new alliances, united only in their determination to destroy the Israelite invaders. When the massive fortifications of Jericho collapse, Salmon rushes into the ruins to save Rahab, the beautiful harlot who had rescued him and his fellow spy from certain death. But saving her from her own city is not so easy. And that is only the beginning of the trouble, treachery and devastating ruins they and their friends face as they settle into their new life in the Promised Land.

Trouble in the Ruins: (Stones of Gilgal Book 3)

When the past threatens the future…\nMick is my fiercest protector. He will stop at nothing to slay my insecurities and safeguard me from his fame and the sharp edges of his past.\nBut he refuses to face his own demons.\nInstead, he shields me from the ugliness when all I see is the beauty in him.\nProving I will walk through his darkness tests me in ways I never imagined. It exposes our relationship and my hard-won progress to overzealous paparazzi, the scrutiny of social media, and worse—vindictive enemies that lurk in the shadows.\nNow we must face our greatest battle. To fight like hell for each other or let those who want to come between us tear us apart. This time…for good.\nA Naked Beauty is the riveting conclusion to Fat Girl but can also be read as a stand-alone.

A Naked Beauty (Perfectly Imperfect)

Carron, Leigh

Erotica

''If you're with me, Denise, I can promise you there is nothing in this mess we cannot fix.'' 
When veteran rehabbers Denise and Greg Broadwater purchase a dilapidated Charleston Cottage in a sketchy part of town for less than the value of the lot, they soon uncover complications they didn't bargain for--both in the house and in their relationship. As a licensed counselor, Denise thought she could handle anything that came up in their 30-year marriage. However, she didn't plan on open dirt floors, a creepy bathroom or wildlife in her kitchen, and that's just for starters. Heartfelt and humorous, dramatic and down-to-earth, A House With Holes is a memoir with a message as Denise compares the house renovation to her adjustments as a new empty-nester.

A House With Holes : One Marriage Journey in a Charleston Renovation

Denise Mast Broadwater

Relationships

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