An historic novel, Hiawassee - Child of the Meadow by Doris Gaines Rapp, is written for middle-school and all ages. Hiawassee learned balance from the Cherokee legends of her childhood, peace and forgiveness in the Christianity of her adulthood. She was a Cherokee girl who left the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina before the army forced her people off their land and into the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma.
Into the mist of time, my heart reaches back to this free and cherished child of the Cherokee Nation. Buckskin clothes and moccasin feet, she ran along the trail next to the...

Waiting for Jesus in a Can't Wait World is an Amazing New Concept for our "electronically connected" teens, family and friends. There are two exciting features in this Advent book. Each day, beginning November 30, 2014, following the devotion, there is a Share and a Thought Prompt. These two "brain-rattlers" provide food to feast on each day, leading up to Christmas, rather than a steady diet of "gimme." 1: Shares: (text, tweet, post to FB, blogs, Pinterest, or anywhere.) The plan: to bring Jesus Christ into the daily thoughts of our family and friends. Rather than thinking about the presents...

Prayer Therapy of Jesus is a form of prayer, in which we pray for release from the negative emotions in our lives that harm us, so God can answer our specific request. The disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray and Christ gave them The Lord's Prayer. Many of us suffer from ill health, depression, fear, anger and other symptoms of illnesses that have a physical connection. The Prayer Therapy of Jesus teaches us how to pray for release from these elements that hold us captive. To learn to pray therapeutically, prescriptively, specifically, I have suggested the meaning for each phrase of...

Reformatted for Christmas giving and to fit into a Shoe Box Ministry container, Lincoln's Christmas Mouse is about a mouse that lives in the White House during the years of the Civil War. If you were the Christmas Mouse, like Hiram Antwhistle, what would you do to get President Lincoln to put up a tree for Christmas? Mr. Lincoln doesn't want to waste wood, so what about "recycling" the tree after the holidays? The Christmas Mouse comes up with a solution. Enjoy an entertaining Christmas story and learn about elements from our nation's past which finally come together and heal.

It is December 26, 2112, the day after Gifting Day. Lady Christiana Applewait, a legacy citizen of the Central Zone, and her friend Dr. Jason OReilly have been running from the Blue Guard. Though Christy is in line for a seat on the Council of Twelve, her position has not protected her from obsessive stalking by Chief Inspector Ward Stoner. She had to dress in a Gypsy mourning dress and veil to hide her identity in public.
They cannot stop. They must fill petitions to place a Citizens Referendum on the ballot at the next election in order to overturn the Length of Days law. If not, Christys...

News at Eleven - Part One appeared as a novelette in Glo Magazine: - serialized January - April 2015. Reader interest prompted an expansion to a full novel. In News at Eleven - A Novel, a cozy mystery, expanded from the novelette, Clisty Sinclair, a young Fort Wayne, Indiana TV News anchor, is stunned on camera. The picture of a childhood friend, missing for eighteen years, appears on the monitor during the early evening news. Clisty will have to overcome her own fears and nightmares to find her friend, Faith. To track down and capture Faith's kidnappers, will require all of Clisty's...