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For generations, the Worthings have been a successful, esteemed, and respected waterman family in the Chesapeake Bay Pound Net and, more recently, the Charter business. Hardships are a part of life on the water. When the son, who was being groomed to head the business, fell into drugs three years ago, it had a severe impact on the business. But the family pulled together and dealt with it. The sudden murder of the patriarch staggers the Worthings and threatens to end their way of life. But the widow is a warrior. With the help of her nephew, who they took into their home ten years ago when he was orphaned, she struggles to revive the debilitated business and clan.
1932: thrown off a Texas train, a tramp wanders to a decrepit Bible Belt ranch where he is rudely received by a widow and her son. Mutual trust is essential to face the Great Depression, an ongoing severe drought that is becoming the Dust Bowl, and a powerful rancher who delights in torment. The tramp's confidence and self-respect, gravely shaken in 1918 by a serious war wound and then stripped when he stumbled home to shocking horror, is reborn. He contacts relatives in Virginia and is urgently summoned home to face a crisis. While he's gone his new Texas family is staggered. He rushes back to focus recent, unanticipated resources on man-made and natural onslaughts. They find great strength in one another. But, how much can they take?
Rob is called to a VA hospital where he finally meets Jess, a man he has known all his life. Near death, Jess wants to tell Rob ""the rest of the story."" His tale takes Rob to a Virginia Chesapeake Bay town in 1931, to very dear family and friends he did not know existed. He hears a saga that opens with the sweet charm of an old Disney movie, then grows tense, becomes frightful, and ends in tragedy. Jess begs Rob to accept two burdens: guard his secret, and carry on his mission.
Through The Ranching For Profit School, Dave Pratt has helped thousands of families on millions of acres improve their land, their lives and the profitability of their ranches. In Healthy Land, Happy Families and Profitable Businesses, Dave shares insights and experiences from the school and his clients that can improve the health of your land, the happiness of your family and the profitability of your business. "A master storyteller, Dave Pratt explains, applies, and sticks the reader with the most profound insights you'll find in any farming business book. To have this much uncommon good sense packed into such a readable format is unprecedented. Because it condenses decades of experience into one volume, this book delivers more meaningful advice in a small space than I've ever seen. I'd want this one on my shelf even if I didn't have any others. What a delightful, wisdom-dense read." - Joel Salatin, Poly Face Farm
Six years from now, Paul Daniels, a dynamic young lawyer at a small but prestigious firm, handles the appeal of the Elmore family to overturn a decision awarded to a minor son under new Civil Rights legislation, specifically Title XII, Minors' Protection, and the subsequent Children's Rights Act. Daniels shocks everyone by winning the appeal, provoking powerful responses from a Children's Rights Title XII coalition and its opposing Family Rights Title XII group. The case goes to the Supreme Court. With the date for oral presentations just a week away, Daniels is discreetly visited by Mitch Harris, a Children's Rights champion - who is not yet born! That is followed by visits from Harris' adversaries - also from the future. A frantic week of intrigue, danger, threats and action ensues as all involved wrestle to impact the long term effect of the imminent Court decision on their interests.
When Shadows Shine is a collection of twenty short stories written by Stan Parsons over the past few years, plus early character glimpses that originally introduced one of his novels. It also contains a preview of his next novel, God Sent A Tramp. The short stories vary. Some of them have a mysterious, horror, or sci-fi twist; others are humorous. A couple are fictional battle sagas in real wars, one is a detective story. Many, like his novels, involve families or individuals who struggle to overcome difficulties. They are quick reads.
In Revolution on the Range, Courtney White challenges the conventional wisdom that those who wanted to work the land and those who wanted to protect it had fundamentally different—and irreconcilable—values. He argues that ranchers and environmentalists have more in common than they’ve typically admitted: a love of wildlife, a deep respect for nature, and a strong allergic reaction to suburbanization. The real conflict has not been over ethics, but approaches. As ranchers and environmentalists find common cause, they’re discovering new ways to live on—and preserve—the land they both love. Revolution on the Range is the story of that journey, and a heartening vision of the new American West.
Shocked and utterly distraught by news of his cousin's suicide, Grove Mathews leaves his Georgetown apartment in the middle of a 1972 summer night to drive to the family homestead in Orange, VA. Throughout the trip he is haunted with memories evoked by road signs. By the time he arrives, he has learned things about himself and his family that disgust him. And he has discovered that he always knew these things, but he hid and ran from them, resulting in a withdrawn and non-committal man that he is no longer willing to tolerate. When he arrives at the homestead he is ready to deal with it. And he does.
Rob is called to a VA hospital where he finally meets Jess, a man he has known all his life. Near death, Jess wants to tell Rob ""the rest of the story."" His tale takes Rob to a Virginia Chesapeake Bay town in 1931, to very dear family and friends he did not know existed. He hears a saga that opens with the sweet charm of an old Disney movie, then grows tense, becomes frightful, and ends in tragedy. Jess begs Rob to accept two burdens: guard his secret, and carry on his mission.
1991, an old estate in Virginia horse country. Imposing, impressive, but cold. Just one elderly man left in the family, with no heirs. There are those around him intent on changing that.