All Blog Posts Tagged 'american' (21)

Have you ever gone skinnydipping?

You may have felt the freedom of running nude through your backyard, feeling the sun all over your skin and the wind enveloping you like a hug from nature.

You may have enjoyed the company of friends who went skinnydipping with you by the lake or the beach.  You may have invited a loved one, a girlfriend or boyfriend to share in that moment of nude freedom.

If all of this sounds like a great lifestyle, well, it…

My name is Moonlight.  I was an orphaned slave. I wrote the first Primer for orphaned slaves after the Civil War and started a school on Jewelweed, the planation on which I was once a slave.…

I'm stoked to be hosting author Heather Huffman on my blog. She has graciously written a guest post and is allowing me to post information about her book.



About Jailbird



A paradoxical blend of light and dark, Jailbird is a warm and humorous tale about the power of hope.



Neena Allen has led a tough life. Born on the reservation, raped and unjustly convicted of murdering her attacker, she survives prison - barely. When an…

More than 6.5 million Americans are in prison or have served time there. That's 1-100 adults living in the U.S., the highest incarceration level in the world, according to a new report by the Justice Department. In California and New York, more tax dollars are spent on prison corrections than higher education. Many other states are catching up.

Troy Jones, a 44 year old black male, originally from New Orleans, Louisiana understands these stats from the inside out. He has served time…

In Roll Call, Glenn Langohr takes the reader on a journey from his runaway childhood, to addict and drug dealer, deeper into the drug war for an inside look at Mexican cartel wars, corrupt narcotic detectives and a California Prison Union bent on breeding bigger criminals.

Glenn Langohr draws from his own experiences as an inmate in his new books, Roll Call and A California Pelican Bay Prison Story Series, and drops readers into the story behind the story of the ongoing L.A Jail prisoner abuse scandal.

Glenn…

Title: How the Moon Regained Her Shape

Author: Janet Ruth Heller

Illustrator: Ben Hodson

Publisher: Sylvan Dell…

In the writing of “Navigating Life’s Roadways” Deborah L.  Parker, born and raised on Route 606 in Waverly, invites you to share the stories of her motivational memoir filled with “Insight from My Odyssey and Inspiration for Your Journey”. Published in July 2011, the triumphs and setbacks of faith, career, family, health, and relationships are creatively presented in her book’s narratives as she reveals the many twisting paths and roads of her personal voyage…

You know by now that I’m a sucker for a beautiful book cover and this one was no exception. There’s just so much potential in that gorgeous sky. When I read the publisher’s description for Rust by award-winning author Julie Mars, it touched something in me and knew I wanted to read Rust whether I reviewed it or not. Although I could have reviewed it closer to its release date, I knew it would be the perfect novel to share with you for…

This is another book cover that intrigued me. My family is very musical, which is probably one of the reasons I was drawn to it. I really knew nothing else about A Good American by Alex George when I received an advance readers’ copy from the publisher. As I read the inside cover blurb, I realized I had other connections to this novel’s subject matter through my ex-husband’s family. That made this a much more personal read for me.

In A Good…

AMER'ICAN, a. Pertaining to America. Webster’s Dictionary 1828…

Lost on Spirit River

Written by Tommy Batchelor…

Mexican Autumn

John Howard Reid

Lulu.com (February 9, 2006)

978-1411677203

312 pages



Mexican Autumn is a short story collection that reads like a novel, full of intriguing characters and trademark charm and wit from author John Howard Reid.



The first sixteen…

In Nazi Literature in the Americas Roberto Bolaño - an Argentinean writer who sadly died aged fifty in 2003 - has provided the perfect literary companion. It’s an exhaustive collection of pocket obituaries of all the major and many of the minor poets, writers and novelists whose political conservatism took them to the extreme right, who became Nazis or fellow travellers, all of whom were born in the Americas. It’s such a pity we do…