When preachers in a rural Georgia town launch a campaign to ban selected novels from the high school curriculum and post the Ten Commandments in every classroom, only one person stands up to them: English teacher Anne Brady, an "outsider" from Atlanta who opposes censorship and champions the separation of Church and State. Refusing to "go along to get along," she finds herself a social outcast locked in a battle to save her job and reputation. For help, she turns to another outsider, lawyer Eugene Shapiro, who as the county's only Jewish attorney knows all too well what his client is up...

Short stories and poems written over the course of a writer's career, with an afterword on their creation.

Since 1996, the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group has provided a home for authors published, self-published, and aspiring. This year, the PVWG has created an anthology of its writers' best short stories. Included in this eclectic collection, you will find winners and losers, murderers and victims, talking dogs and terrified children, fairy tales and love stories, whimsy, comedy, and outright horror. In other words, the whole panoply of what it means to be human. (Even the dog) The stories are about evenly divided between authors who have been published before, and those who are seeing their work...

Princess Necie and her older brother and sisters look forward to the annual Harvest Festival. It is a time of fun and play without strict royal rules to follow. But when a bad thunderstorm happens, the fun turns to panic as no one can find Necie. NOTE: Shawn Lamb begins a new series of stories called "The King's Children" based upon characters from the epic young adult fantasy series "Allon." This story, Necie and the Apples, takes place during the early years of the children of King Ellis between Books 2 and 3 of the main series.

Princess Tristine can hardly wait for her 10th birthday to go on her first hunt with her father, King Ellis, and her older brother, Prince Nigel. Eager to prove herself, Tristine chases a stag deep into Dorgirith. Lost in the once-forbidden forest, Tristine and Nigel find something long forgotten

Prince Nigel promise to take his younger sister, Tristine, on her first daylong hunt. No parents, just the two of them for the entire day. But everything changed when he invited his friends to come along.

Atlanta teenager Billy Randolph is a talented musician whose rich father has sheltered him from all but classical works and the "soft" music played on his radio stations. But then Mr. Randolph hires a black yardman who happens to own a great collection of rock 'n' roll records. In no time at all, Billy is hearing a different drummer and singing a different tune