A collection of short stories of a country boy growing up on a rural farm in Louisiana with a few personal thoughts along the way.

Here is a heartwarming collection of a country boys stories of life lived way back before technology so dramatically changed our world. You will be taken back to a time when you had to work really hard just to live, especially when you were living on a farm. Without high-tech tools or gadgets, and without todays modern conveniences, life was more free and loving. In those days, hard work meant something that people today will never understand. The Way It Was Back Then showcases that beautiful past and the real value of hard work that the modern world has long forgotten.

Tales of growing up in the Southeast Missouri "Bootheel" and the values that it instilled in us.

In his mind's eye, he is more than just a friend of the workers, he is one. He doesn't see that success has changed him and that the workers are no longer his friends. It takes an angry strike, a violent attack, and the Great Depression to bring him back to reality, to reveal that a life of simplicity is the only life congruous with nature. The Story of a Country Boy was first published in 1934 and has been out of print for more than sixty years."--BOOK JACKET.

This book is a collection of stories that God has given me. Each story was given to me from our Glorious Lord. Since my walk with God began in 2011, God gives me a word for me to research, usually a word that does not apply to my current situation, or a word that I have never used, always leading me to a part of my life where I thought I was alone, God is showing me how He not is with me know, but has always been the footprints in the sand during my life. Thank you Jesus!

In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong journey fly fishing all of the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country. This is a story of the resilience of nature and the best of human nature. It is the story of a living, breathing place where the footprints of dinosaurs, conquistadors, and Comanches have mingled just beneath the clear spring-fed waters. This book is an impassioned plea for the survival of this landscape and its biodiversity, and for a new ethic in how we treat fish, nature, and each other.

Eat Whatever Your Momma Cooks, and Be Grateful, A Country Boy's Philosophy on Life is a continuation of inspirational and thought provoking stories from the author of Not Just Beans and Cornbread. These short stories are meant to help the reader appreciate and adjust to life's changing situations.

In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.

A Country Boy's Stories and Poems are a culmination of Mr. Pinckard's life. These stories and poems will make you laugh and cry as you read about the events, family and friends who influenced his life. Mr. Pinckard began writing poetry after a mystical encounter that led him to reevaluate his life.