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|  | | Fossil Rocks
Take a former country star, add a beautiful mining magnate, stir into a tiny town known for its fossil beds and stand back. It's an explosive mixture!
Wesley Callaghan was a star ten years ago, now he's an itinerant ranch hand. Yelisa MacKenzie has inhertited her family's mercury mine and operates it herself. One night at the local bar, they are both in the audience when a small band takes the stand. The leader recognizes Wesley and persuades him to sing a couple of numbers. Yeslisa is intrigued and electricity crackles betwen them. Complications set in when Wesley's current girlfriend causes ructions. Wesley decides to reactivate his music career and life is very exciting. An unexpected baby girl brings them a hefty a dose of reality -- | |  | | If You Can't Trust Your Uncle Sam
Wrin Veersil is 26 1/2 inches tall but don't cut her short as a private investigator -- she's one tough cooky. Large print format.
When murder erupts in a Washington, D.C. suburb, Wrin Veersil is hired to solve the questions of who did it and why. With her assistant, former Marine Claude Newhouse, Wrin sets to work and ties the case back to a nasty situation in southern Oregon created by the machinations of the federal government. Suspects include angry farmers and assorted bureaucrats. Wrin is small, which is sometimes inconvenient, but her diminutive height is unrelated to her stature as a working investigator. Wrin is smart, tough, and tenacious. | |  | | Presidential Education: Prelude to Power
An account of the education of all the boys who grew up to be president.
If you have ever wondered where and how our presidents were education, this book will give you the answers. There are no educational requirements nor is there a qualifying exam for the office of president. Some of our presidents have very little formal education; Abe Lincoln had less than a year of schooling and Andrew Johnson had none at all. The only president who held a Ph.D. was Woodrow Wilson and he dropped out of three colleges. Consider these intriguing presidential facts:
George Washington was once an officer in the British Army.
Franklin Pierce was constantly in trouble a | |  | | The Enslavement of the American Indian in Colonial Times
A nonfiction account of how the colonists enslaved the Indians, laying the foundation for the enslavement of millions of Black people.
In what is now the eastern and southern United States and Canada, the colonists used enslavement as a weapon of war in an effort to destroy the Indian nations and obtain the land for their own use. The practice began before Columbus kidnapped Indians to take to Spain and continued until about the end of the Revolutionary War. The English, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonists all employed enslavement of Indians as a policy. | |  | | They Lived Ever After
A collection of six stories tied together by reincarnating characters. Large print format.
Pat and Starla Mayhew, successful young professionals, find that love is not enough to heal the stresses in their marriage. After Starla leaves him, Pat seeks counseling and is introduced to the idea of using past-life regression to uncover the roots of the problems between him and his wife. The psychiatrist hypnotically regresses him to five previous lifetimes. Through Pat's eyes we see the lives in which he and Starla and another soul have been closely associated. Their relationships change as they are sometimes married, sometimes parent and child, sometimes enemies, with many permutation |
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