When twenty-nine-year-old artist John Gaitha Browning enlisted in 1942, he was determined to keep a journal recording his observations of army life--from boot camp to combat.
He is often wryly humorous: "We figured out recently just how long it would take to get our brigade home on the so-called 'rotation plan.' Exactly SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS " More often he is philosophical, as this entry from November 11, 1943 shows: "Only tonight did I have time to realize that this is Armistice Day celebrated for over twenty-five years as the end of war. I wonder what is taking place at home...

A grimy hand reaches down and pulls the maiden up to the evil brave's pony, as MeiLi joyfully dances in a meadow following her coming of age ceremony. Will her Medicine Woman and Shaman heritage bring the Apache girl through the spellbinding adventures she must endure? Being lost, raped, and held in cruel slavery test the girl's determined spirit. When she is rescued, MeiLi is drawn into the gripping struggle between Catholicism and loyalty to her tribal Gaan. Healing and saving lives earn her the name, Santa Apache, but she is forced to commit murder to prevent disaster. Set against the...

A grimy hand reaches down and pulls the maiden up to the evil brave's pony, as MeiLi joyfully dances in a meadow following her coming of age ceremony. Will her Medicine Woman and Shaman heritage bring the Apache girl through the spellbinding adventures she must endure? Being lost, raped, and held in cruel slavery test the girl's determined spirit. When she is rescued, MeiLi is drawn into the gripping struggle between Catholicism and loyalty to her tribal Gaan. Healing and saving lives earn her the name, Santa Apache, but she is forced to commit murder to prevent disaster. Set against the...

While dancing with joyful abandon after her coming of age ceremony, a beautiful Indian maiden is captured by hostile Indians. The Apache girl escapes only to be lost, injured and hungry. MeiLi's peaceful life changes into one of danger and loss made endurable only by the healing skills learned from her medicine woman mother and the shamanic strengths passed down to her by her grandmother. The evil brave recaptures her, rapes her, and takes her to Pecos Pueblo as a slave. After two years of cruelty from a maddened crone, the girl is rescued by a Spanish rancher, Don Carlos de Vega. Her new...

Born with one brown and one blue eye, Taffy is a very different little girl who discovers how she can become other interesting things using rhymes she makes up and special words. As a door in her new neighbor's house, a weather vane up on her roof, a brown bulb growing under ground and an eagle flying high above, her imagination and curiosity wrap the reader in a cocoon of delight. Learning other words from the big dictionary fills her life with new understanding. Every child will want Taffy for a friend This is a story for elementary and early middle school children to be shared with them...