Hannah Blue Heron's story of her childhood begins with the imagined thoughts of the infant in her mother's womb. Even though she is born with painfully twisted feet and a severe allergy to milk, Anna Georgette becomes a happy, busy child.
She, her railroader father, her amazingly understanding mother and her much older sister moved twelve times in as many years, but with her violin, her beloved bike, Cap'n Henry and her devotion to the Girl Scouts, Georgette was always busy organizing circuses, puppet shows, a sports club and a "kid's" newspaper. However, The future Hannah Blue Heron...

In this, his second book, Steve Koelsch continues to display his unique conceptual gifts in the creation of memorable imagery and metaphor, across a wide variety of topics. If you are one of those people who is willing to pry into your own dark spaces, then these poems will be pearls that you will enjoy discovering.
The poems in this collection are honest, direct and adult. They are doorways into the thoughts and feelings of someone searching for understanding of the human condition. Most importantly, they are accessible, and offer evocative insights into the complexities of living that...

Until now, no book or long-term research (i.e., nearly forty years) has conclusively demonstrated that diabetes complications can be avoided for such a prolonged period of time.
Diabetes Without ComplicationsQ is the first book written that explores nearly forty years of a person's life with diabetes and how diabetes complications have been completely avoided, including valuable lessons learned over the years. The second half of the book contains information for building a successful diabetes management program.
Diabetes Without ComplicationsQ covers type 1 and type 2 diabetes,...

A non-fiction account of the annihilation of the 29th Infantry Regiment dispatched from the occupation of Okinawa to the Korean War at the earliest stage of the conflict. Author Paul G. Petredis, one of 21 survivors out of 235, chronicles his first escape, details the ongoing bloody battles which culminated with the entry of the Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) opposing the United Nations Forces. Following capture and eluding death again by escaping from the enemy, he describes his ordeal in graphic detail of 14 days behind enemy lines, bringing the reader along vicariously on the same horrific...

Don Meyer has been coaching the game of basketball at the collegiate level for the past 33 years, amassing more than 800 career victories at three different schools (Hamline University in Minneapolis, Minnesota; David Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee; and now at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD). He has won a national championship, coached players that were at one point in time the all-time leaders in college basketball in points (John Pierce, Philip Hutcheson), steals (Marcus Bodie), and assists (Jerry Meyer), been inducted into five different Halls of Fame, including the...

Have you ever wondered who are the Elementals or Nature Spirits? Why do these beings exist and what, if anything, do they have to do with our world? Are there really such things as Devas and who or what exactly is that legendary figure known as "Pan"? Read along as they explain to you in their own words, who they are, what they do and why they exist.
You will come to understand that each plant and tree, each flower and bush has a certain job to do; a job that each of them has chosen to benefit everyone in our world. You will soon discover that each Nature Spirit has their own talents and...

When the unimaginable suddenly happens, what do you do then?
When I Was Sifted is about the suddenlies of life. Sifting is about losses and the strength to endure them. Previously you have known others to experience them, but never in a million years could you imagine "it" happening to you. Now it is your turn. No matter what life was like before, it will never be the same.
Sifting is a nightmare or horror movie, except it is real. A series of suddenlies and circumstances that seem endless. Suddenlies are the physical changes associated with sifting. They have no rhyme, rationale or...

Forever Stay is a posthumous collection of heartfelt poems, dreams, and visions from the pen of Raquel Dawn Trigo (1982-2004). The writings, "visuals of my soul" as she described them, span the brief timeline of her journey from childhood to teenage adolescence, from young womanhood to maturity. They reflect a rainbow of different inspirations and influences. Some are quite innocent and straightforward, while others are more thoughtful and contemplative. From love sonnets and idyllic dreams so typical of many young girls, to deeper subjects and yearnings that reflected a maturity tempered by...

The characters of The Ant God are "Drew," and an angel named "Neo." Drew keeps an ant farm where he studies the daily existence of the ants. He wins an "interview with an angel" which allows him a two hour interview with the angel Neo.
During this interview he is entitled to ask any questions he chooses. Much of his questioning is directed to the position he has as the owner of an ant farm. Questions about man and his purpose are related to how an ant's can control their lives, but cannot control the individual ants, or their actions.
As Drew and Neo converse, they muse on the nature...

Located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay lies the isolated island of Forbes, locally known as Uist Skerrie - named so by ship-wrecked Scottish ancestors who took refuge and forged out a life centuries before...
Dr. Bralley Glenn, fresh out of her residency and planning to join a prestigious practice in Baltimore is suddenly served with a rural community binder to practice for four years on the island of her birth - an island she has no memory for, her life blank since before the age of seven.
She is forced to confront her lost memories of childhood as well as deal with the archaic...