New Releases

Back Cover SummaryThe previous edition of Plains to the Pacific won a national award in the Spiritual and Inspirational category with IndieReader in 2017. The emergence of this project is due to a fascinating discovery by coauthor James Harman: his great-grandfather Robert Slothower (born in 1871) had written a life-story manuscript.Robe...

Joy Comes in the Morning is a compilation of Matthew's writings, which he began as a very young child. The first poem he wrote was at nine years old and is included in this book. He writes about the love of family, nature, and his faith. His poems, prayers, and short stories are also expressive of the thoughts and feelings of those suffering from depressi...


Beside the Stream is a collection of colorful word pictures intermingled with scripture, meant for pondering, for inspiration, and for an encounter with the living God. They draw attention to what God can accomplish through someone who will surrender his or her will to Him, as in the poems “The Grass Is Really Greener Now” and “Your Grace Saved Me ...

Have you ever been riding on the school bus and look to see a big buck deer crossing an open tree line along the woods. And dream of going out on the big hunt and wonder if you had the skills to become a big game hunter. Well, I believe you do, so come along on this hunt with me and my two sons. I had dreams of hunting a big buck at a very young age and s...

Strange circumstances changed the life of a Hebrew baby found floating in a basket on the Nile River. After many years of being groomed to be the future ruler of Egypt, Moses abdicated his right to the throne and fled for his life after killing an Egyptian. After forty years of living in Midian of Arabia, God told Moses to return and lead His people out...






Become a better leader, right where you are, right now.In Leadership Maxims, Woody Hester shares twelve timeless leadership truths in the context of compelling, real world stories about success and failure that prove these truths to be powerful catalysts for organizational and personal success. In 1970, at the age of twenty-four, U.S. Army Captain Woody H...

I'm a high school dropout. I never made it past the ninth grade.A The reason why is complicated and will be explored throughout the telling of my story of perseverance. When I was fifteen years old, I dropped out of high school. At that time, I had only earned one-half of gym credit.My life's story of is a journey of survival, resilience, and redemption. ...





SummaryThis is a fictional story about a frail young girl who witnessed her parents being killed at the hands of a rebellious group, causing chaos to make changes in their country. The young girl was encouraged by her mother to find a way to flee the country and to safety, giving her a pillowcase of silver to buy her way to freedom. The pillowcase contain...


Back Cover SummaryDeath and dying, what could be a more interesting and frightening topic? Statistics show that over one hundred die worldwide every minute! Death and violence of every kind flood our theater screens. Interactive video games depicting the gruesome violence of war are now at the fingertips of our children. Major cities across America record...

The Great Bear Mountains of Tennessee are mysterious and wonderful. For everyone who lives on this glorious mountain range, with acres of giant, beautiful trees, their families have been there for hundreds of years. The only newcomers are the ones recently born on the mountain, or those who have been approved for very short vacation visits. That's the way...

Maynard Olms is an eighty-year-old bachelor who lives in a three-room house with his wolf-dog, Duke, in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri. John and Marcella Washburn and their two children, Kelsey and Andrew, live on one end of Coon Hollow Road. Maynard and Duke live on the other.It is the summer of 1988, “the nation's worst drought in 50 years,...

I have crossed the perfect bridge many times. If I didn't look for the bridge, I'd be perpetually stuck in the face of a rut. Sometimes the bridge is easy to see when the way seems impassable. Other times, I have had to search, sometimes plead, to be shown the way.Curiously, the bridge is always the same one. It looks a bit different to me in every season...


