On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a suspenseful, deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Keeping fact, speculation, and contradiction playing off one another as the details unfold, author Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that is as gripping as it is richly human. His beautiful, clear-eyed prose builds to an extremely...
On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on h...
Set among the splendor of the Rocky Mountains, "The Grant Conspiracy (Wake of the Civil War)" takes you to a Colorado mining town that's being torn apart by a couple of crooked attorneys out for revenge.
Frost and Hancock are ex-Confederates who, with the help of their henchmen, are plotting the assassination of former president Ulysses S. Grant. But they're not angry over the war; rather, their hatred comes from pure greed. They lost their fortunes when Grant dumped government gold on the market.
Now, with Grant planning a tour of the Rockies, they're scheming to lure him to...
Set among the splendor of the Rocky Mountains, "The Grant Conspiracy (Wake of the Civil War)" takes you to a Colorado mining town that's being torn...
From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee s father, once known for doing a good turn for his neighbors, changed that afternoon in the cornfields, becoming an embittered, hardened man. All our lives have private truths, Martin writes, and the truth about my father was that after his accident he brought a deep and abiding rage into our home. I knew his hooks as intimately as I ever knew anything about my father. How easily our bodies become us, our souls bound to...
From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly los...
Laney a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world thinks she s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah.Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever. Seven hundred miles away, in Texas, Miss Baby has the hardened heart of a woman who has been used by men in every possible way, yet she is desperate for true love. When she meets a stranger, a man who claims he can t remember his real name or his past but who seems gentle and trusting, Miss Baby thinks she may...
Laney a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world thinks she s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah.Then the police come to ask La...
Our lives are filled with twists and turns, each one determined by choices that we make and colored by the consequences of what we find beyond our control. Somewhere along the road on our journey, between the sweetness of God's grace and the aftermath of merciful judgment in our lives, we find ourselves in the middle of God's will. In Lee Martin's brilliant and compelling novel, Southern Psalms, shunned Amish Minister Travis Marlowe is confronted with the missiles and pangs of life. Finding himself now living in the aftermath of a terrible choice and battling not only with forces seen and...
Our lives are filled with twists and turns, each one determined by choices that we make and colored by the consequences of what we find beyond our ...
It's been a strange and unusual week in the normally peaceful mountain town of Palisades, West Virginia. One lucky coal miner wins a million dollar lotto. However, on the same night, one unlucky miner is found dying in the town's dump, a bullet in his head. Then scantly two days later, another murder. It seems former New York City police detective, Nate Davenport, the town's new police chief of barely two months, suddenly has a second, execution style killing on his hands. But unfortunately, already in his short term, Nate finds he's doing battle with Palisades's long-time mayor, Vince...
It's been a strange and unusual week in the normally peaceful mountain town of Palisades, West Virginia. One lucky coal miner wins a million dollar lo...
Due to the related cognitive decline, the majority of people with dementia will experience a reduction in mealtime abilities at some stage of the disease. Changes in mealtime abilities can lead to malnutrition and related issues for the person with dementia, and feelings of powerlessness and worry for carers. Despite this, there is a current lack of information on how to deal with this complex issue. In this accessible guide, Lee Martinoffers simple, practical and cost-effective solutions to ensure healthy and enjoyable eating for people with dementia. Presenting clinical advice in...
Due to the related cognitive decline, the majority of people with dementia will experience a reduction in mealtime abilities at some stage of the dise...
