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Tristan, Dylan and the Dream Machine is a bedtime book created to spark a child's imagination, inspire positive thinking through the use of bold, vibrant imagery paired with a fun, clever tale. Take a journey with the boys and their father as they explore a world of dreams.

With his father lost to the Influenza Epic of 1918 before he was born, a boyhood divided between two homes, and a working mother, teaching to support her new family, John Spence learned early to find friends wherever he landed--even when he landed behind enemy lines in a momentous jump from a falling B-17 during World War II. After his release from the Army Air Force, John got his first job as a reporter and married the boss's daughter, the beautiful Mary Ann Simonton. Making daily rounds in Memphis, collecting opinions from City Hall official to the local gas station owner, John listened respectfully and reported objectively. He formed a lunch group, the Wolf River Society for the Preservation of Taking Oneself Too Seriously, and developed a knack for getting like-minded and not so like-minded people together to work toward a common cause. John served as an assistant director of the mid-South office of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during a crucial era for racial equality in America. Though sadly disillusioned with what seemed then, like the failure of his beloved Memphis to cope during the crucial events surrounding Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, John continued to promote purposeful gatherings. He demonstrated against the Vietnam War, became a teacher, and formed the Wolf River Conservancy. John Wilson Spence died in 2008. Crossing Borders is the memoir he worked on before his death and which was completed and edited by George W. Grider, Jr.

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Richard Little's latest collection of stories from the road begins high in the Rockies. Rivers, blue traceries on a map, are pathways of history. What are their legacies? Hang out with Butch Cassidy, Sitting Bull, Teddy Roosevelt, and others to find out ... and consider legacies we might leave to others.

from the foreword: "My 20th century life went by in what would have seemed from a distance as a pretty straight line of academic achievement leading to a successful career, living in a solid marriage and raising two wonderful kids in a secure community of friends. There was a lot of hard work, with planning and struggle on all fronts, of course, but things went along more or less as expected. Then came the new millennium and there was a job opportunity in Canada and a move, other travel to far off places, challenging health problems for my wife and for me, and watching children grow up, develop their own careers, find mates and have children. People got sick, people died. Adventures abounded. Life in the new millennium became so much richer and so much more out of control. I have had a habit of dating my poems to the time I finished their first full drafts. I have put them together by the months of their origin, forming one solar orbit in my personal life cycle journey. They are all stuffed in this book like the events they recall are all stuffed in my head. So start anywhere and finish when you wish. Perhaps you can pretend that you and I are walking together and I am telling you a random tale or two stimulated by a smell or sound, the season of the year or perhaps a connection in our real or imagined relationship. May you find one or two that delight you, confuse you or just make you wonder.L'chaim, Sterling Clarren"

Three hundred and seventy-five specially selected couples have traveled from all over the world to space elevator stations and have passed through fantastic space hotels on their way to their new home, that is currently in Earth orbit. This destination is Gaia II, an amazing O'neill cylinder generation starship. Gaia II is mankind's first attempt to send humans to another star system. Six beautiful living regions have been designed and constructed in two cylindrical habitats, by Disney International, using claytronic atom technology. On January 28, 2112, Gaia II will leave Earth orbit with a send off that will far overshadow the millennium celebration of the year 2000. The generation ship's first stop is Gliese 250Ac, the most Earth-like planet known within thirty-two light years. A mid-voyage crisis almost puts an end to this ambitious 600 year mission before it even has a chance to get started. Feelings of rapture and disbelief overcome the crew as they near the double star system of Gliese 250. They face a challenge never faced before as they try to leave behind probes during the flyby of the companion star. When they reach their destination, the Gaians have to make a decision of galactic importance. Come along on this epic journey and find out what happens.

Like the traditional Tinikling dancers of the Philippines, whose feet flash between poles drumming against the ground, the poems and essays of Dancing Between Bamboo Poles evoke the agility needed to move between history and personal experience, to negotiate conflicting cultural expectations, and to trace the fluid nature of identity as it shifts from role to role.

Observing a mysterious white culture while living on the ragged edge of poverty in an unaccepted Mexican subculture of America was acutely troubling to a child simply looking for safety, acceptance and a place to belong.These poems are of the brutal struggles of hard work in dangerous times. These poems are about a papá who never wavered under the difficult challenges of working and raising a family in a foreign country as a migrant laborer and a mamá who dedicated herself to loving and protecting her children at all costs, in a man's world, twice over.In a time when we were innocent and vulnerable and the world was a scary, foreign place, all we had were our parent's gifts. Papá's strong work ethic helped us forge ahead and not give up through difficult times and Mamá's passion and the pictures she painted in our minds filled us with hope... and hope was the road we traveled into our future.Migrant Sun is a poignant tale of love in hard times, racism, forgiveness in the face of brutality, but most of all, how the bonds of family are ultimately more important than any differences we may have had within our family or that existed outside of it.

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"Carol McMillan's Grand Canyon poems take us on a journey of gentle reflection and precipitous adventure, filling each moment with wonder." - Jim Milstead, the Bard of Bellingham"Carol McMillan may ... invite levity into the lives of friends and acquaintances, but it is the grit of her words; deep, warm, hard, strong, riveting words; that will take you inward. Hold her book in your palms and breathe the Grand Canyon as experienced by a poet adventuress. If you don't have the courage (like me) to take such a journey, know that McMillan has done it for you. Her book is full of the raw experience of raging white water, towering red walls and rarely seen sunsets. McMillan includes her photographs and paintings. I am in awe of the writer as well as the scenery." - CJ Prince, author of Mother, May I?

A book of poetry written to express the poet's great love and devotion of God. Many of these poems move readers to tears and others overwhelm with Joy. The slender volume is the type of book you will keep by your bedstand and read again and ageing with great delight.