Sylvia Winters returns to her hometown where eight years ago she broke her engagement to Joe Dixon. Stricken with cervical cancer, Syl moved away for treatment but never told Joe the truth. To heal the pain of his fiance’s imagined betrayal, Joe turned to drinking and accidentally killed a man. Now Joe is out of prison [CONTINUE READING]
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Nov 302010
Smarter than a history teacher, funnier than the Founding Fathers, and more American than Alaska, an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff) In trademark smart aleck style, this is history according to mental_floss, an insightfully accurate and incisively humorous exploration of little-known truths and widely believed [CONTINUE READING]
“Where the Heart Was” is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln who once called on the ‘mystic chords of memory’ as a way to preserve America; the country he labeled ‘the last best hope of earth.’ In his stunningly original novel, author and historian Glenn G. Boyer does just that, as he traces the history of the [CONTINUE READING]
