Product Description: How would you like to enlarge your heart for your family and grow as an agent for positive change in your home? Family Priorities offers you a guide in achieving this goal. By recognizing and applying significant family priorities, you can experience a personal transformation...read more

Product Description: Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, "Cassandra Singing, The Suicide's Wife, Abducted by Circumstance," and the recent "London Bridge in Plague and Fire," David Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of his active career...read more

Product Description: The poems in DECEMBERS have been written, usually one a year, beginning in 1973 when the author moved from the South to New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he took a job teaching creative writing at Westminster College. They are written to accompany the Christmas cards his wife Jane writes each year to keep in touch with friends from college, graduate school, and earlier jobs...read more

Product Description: For four decades, Knoxville, Tennessee, native David Madden has been writing compelling bestsellers, such as Bijou and The Suicide’s Wife, as well as highly respected literary novels, such as Sharpshooter. David Madden: A Writer for All Genres is the first full-length critical work devoted to the whole of Madden’s oeuvre, and collectively the essays make the case that the attention paid to Madden’s novels has overshadowed his innovative work as a critic, poet, short-story writer, and dramatist...read more

Product Description: One of the most striking parts of Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men is Chapter 4, in which narrator Jack Burden tells the story of his distant relative Cass Mastern. A Confederate soldier, Mastern betrays his best friend by falling in love with the man's wife and then out of guilt tries repeatedly to get killed in battle but ironically becomes a hero for his daring, before finally attaining a mortal wound...read more

Product Description: Twenty-one poets, male and female, North Korean and South Korean, well-known and long forgotten, appear in this collection, the first of its kind in English. The poems reflect the reality of living in a country torn in half by political ideologies...read more

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Product Description: More than just a collection of stories and essays by beloved writer Robert Drake, For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader is an introduction to the craft and art of short-story writing, as the stories are accompanied by analyses of Drake as a short story writer and essayist...read more

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Product Description: Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)