A true story about a 4-yr-old deaf boy, Jeremy Coots, who wandered away from the babysitter's home south of Atchison, KS, near the Missouri River on February 18, 1977. The author Melodye (Coots) Hathaway describes in captivating and honest detail the 5-day search for her son and the aftermath that followed. She was in her ninth month pregnancy with her second child as thousands of searchers over the course of 5 days came together to find her little boy, which officially ended with the findings of an air scent dog team. It is a sad, heartbreaking, moving, uplifting and hopeful read, with a...

"The Lightning Bug Named Blue" is a children's book created by the author, Melodye Hathaway, Hiawatha, Kansas, when she was 12 years old. She would tell the story to all the children she babysat for. It is a story about a lighnting bug named Blue, who was born unable to turn on his "light." He is picked on and bullied by his schoolmates and is struggling with not fitting in at school. Another classmate, Brute, comes up with an idea to seek out The Old Bug from another forest that will have the answers for helping Blue turn on his light. Together Blue and Brute share an adventure that leads...

This book is a long time in coming...it is the Moss D. Jones story in which he shares with the reader his WWII days at the Battle of the Bulge and the Crossing of the Rhine River, the aftermath, where soldiers go after the war, and how they start again. It's about a promise Moss made of how he would make Christmas special every year after spending Christmas Eve 1944 at the Front. Then, he and his family painted hand-made Christmas Window Paintings on the front windows of the family home yearly for 25 years. His unusual paints came about when he visited his relatives in Paris who were...