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Some called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she'd always say. Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which ...

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Responding to failure in ministry is painful for all touched by it. The journey toward failure is unchosen, undesired, and unplanned. When it occurs, we all ask ourselves this one question: why? The result of failure is the loss of many well-trained and adequately equipped men and women from churches. Often, they disappear into oblivion. This has been true throughout history. It's not a new problem. Witness the experiences of Abraham, David, E...

Food fraudsters be warned! Sophisticated science was at the centre of detecting and prosecuting this new crime of food fraud. The ground-breaking case, a first of its kind, needed new sentencing guidelines for judges, new working arrangements for prosecutors and police and an EU-wide agreement on techniques and standards used for prosecution, which were agreed on the hoof in response to a crime detected in over 40 countries. In 2013 thousands...

This book is about a group of guys who became a real family on and off the football field. It will tell you about the things that these kids went through just in order to be able to play in the leagues that they were in. It also lets you see how and what they were playing for and how they stayed together throughout the season as well as during the off-season also. The book talks about how they had to find Rasse in order to make the travel game...

There's little room in this world for a moral man

Engagement in ministry as a life vocation necessitates adapting to change. Most pastors transition from one ministry location to another several times over their vocational journey. Crossculturalministry involves frequent transitions from one opportunity to another.These transitions may be for very good reasons or a response to conflict or tension. In either case theyactivate responses that are often difficult, confusing, or painful. The turbu...

Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fast. Trenchmouth sips moonshine, handles snakes, pleases women, and masters the rifle--a skill that lands him in the middle of the West Virginia coal war...

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the author of "The Ballad Of Trenchmouth Taggart", set in West Virginia in the early 20th century.

From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.

From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.

Im Alter von einhundertacht Jahren erzählt Taggart seine mitreißende, lebenspralle Geschichte: Es ist die eines Außenseiters in West Virginia, USA, einer Art Forrest Gump des Hinterlands, dessen Leben das ganze 20. Jahrhundert durchmisst. Ein Antiheld und Abenteurer, der Glanz und Schatten des amerikanischen Traums verkörpert, voller Derbheit, Witz und Melancholie. Dazu eine Landschaft wie die Brokeback Mountains und eine Rockabilly-Blues-Stim...

A dream of land of their own...Homesteaders traveled westward to the unbroken prairies of Dakota Territory, known as South Dakota and North Dakota after President Benjamin Harrison signed the statehood papers. ____ Four different worlds collided on this windswept land, Native Americans, cattlemen, sheepmen and homesteaders all tried to fit their way of life onto the broad expanse of prairie that rose up from the Missouri River and surrounding ...

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There's little room in this world for a moral man.

Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of True Grit and Carter Beats the Devil, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both.

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Life is about relationships, good and bad. Individualism may feel strong. In reality, it's much weaker than when we stand together. Much of the joy of life comes from the manner in which others touch our lives. Do you remember the last time someone touched your life with a word of encouragement? Your response may have been a smile or a sense of joy. Not all touches are like that. Some people touch our lives with pain through hurtful co...

United Gas CEO Lester Thomson is tired of paying taxes on a tract of land he considers a useless asset. Located seventy miles from Houston, the land sits idle save for the lignite deposits beneath its surface. But if there's a way to generate revenue from a couple of hundred acres, Lester will certainly entertain the idea. For once, Roger Murray, an impractical yet brilliant engineer, proposes a viable option. Two scientists have unwittingly s...