From AP News: N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89.
N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet, educator and folklorist whose debut novel “House Made of Dawn” is widely credited as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature, has died. He was 89.
Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced. He had been in failing health.
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
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American based Foreign correspondent Ivor Davis, delivers a gripping, “I was there” eye witness, inside story about the most notorious murder spree of the 20th century.
In Manson Exposed: A Reporter’s Fifty-Year Journey into Madness and Murder, Davis is the brutally honest guide to this true crime horror story.
In this mix of personal memoir, criticism, and investigative journalism, Davis delivers a truly original take on the byzantine case that terrified and mesmerized the nation, including his new conclusion that THE BEATLES DIDN’T MAKE THEM DO IT.
Davis was on the front lines of the story and offers vivid, personal accounts, interviews and hitherto unknown details from the very beginning right up to the death of the blue collar psycho named Charles Manson.
He charts the tragic inside stories not only of the those murdered but of the long list of Collateral Damage victims: the rock star, the Oscar winning director and the entertainment legends, whose lives were also destroyed by Charles Manson and his crackpot acolytes.
– Learn MoreAn innocent girl stolen from a wedding. The ex-cop avenging angel bride worn out from battle hesitates. The captor sets a deadline. Can retired hard hitting police officer and ruthless retrieval expert newlywed Robin Goode once more fight for those who can’t defend themselves?
The lobster boats in Candy’s Harbor in Maine are decorated for a wedding. At last, Robin Goode and Captain Erik Redbeard are married after seeking each other for ten years.
Erik’s visiting family gets a jolt when their most promising daughter goes missing after the raucous wedding party.
Is the pride and beauty of the family off on her first trip of exploration away from her strict family or was she taken?
Robin Goode faces the choice: once again don her armor and seek the missing girl or hide under the covers away from the cares of the world.
Her retirement from being an unrelenting avenging angel is thwarted by an ex-con on early release whose thirst for revenge for being locked up by Robin is matched only by his fantasy of being a modern king with a court of comely women to serve him.
The terrified family looks to Robin to do what she does best—trace, track, pursue and recover missing people with no mercy for the captor and no trace left on the scene.
Can Robin get out of bed and pursue the mad king or will she hide in shame, retired from battle?
When it comes to Robin Goode, those that take from her learn they had better kill her—or run.
– Learn MoreI Hurt My Foot Doing the Mashed Potato contains only one essay about my bad foot and 24 others ranging from Finding Bigfoot to Family Vacations, to a Poker Night in Hell. Enjoy the book and watch those old dances.
– Learn MoreAn ancient evil. Two unlikely heroes. Dual quests that could save the world or bring about its doom.
Callan can’t shake his sense of unease. Serving as a wardkeeper for his village, the keen-sighted youth patrols the outskirts alert for danger from wild beasts and the deadly plagued swamps that swallowed up his little sister. So after a monster comes out of the bogs and attacks two children, the dedicated protector sets out on a journey to gain help from a mysterious earth mage.
Vasha burns with impatience. At last granted a chance to go on a mission to mend magical breaches, the novice monk is thrilled to have her genius finally recognized. But after taking a tumble into one of the terrifying rifts, the young prodigy sees a frightening vision of a coming apocalypse.
Accompanied by friends, Callan fights his way to the wise woman, only to learn the world depends on him learning to wield a long-lost power. And as Vasha struggles to understand what she has foreseen, the realm-shifting aspirant fears the only means to save existence may be with heretical magic.
Can these forthright adventurers follow their divergent paths to stop the land from becoming a mass grave?
The Seam of Eternity is the immersive first book in the Veins of Eternity epic fantasy series. If you like relatable characters, classic sword and sorcery, and wondrous world-building, then you’ll love Rocco Levitas’s thought-provoking tale.