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To Drink from a Stream
Residents of a settlement of poor mountain people living along a rustic stream are mysteriously dying. They look to Ray Quentin, an Environmental Enforcement Officer, who finds a major source of pollution and determines there are grounds for a criminal case. Fearing his arrest, a local businessman hires former prison inmates to put an end to the investigation. A hastily organized state environmental agency fails to adequately protect Quentin and fellow officers. To Drink from a Stream is a novel about the dangers faced by these officers in the early years of environmental enforcement. Xavier Somerfield is also the author of: Coming Through the Wintersweet, 2006, ISBN 1-4241-2511-1; Analemma Days, 2006, ISBN 1-4241-5344-1; Ridges of the Clouds, a Civil War novel, 2008, ISBN 1-4343-6766-2; Finches in the Gloaming, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4389-1375-9; Summer on Shallow Point, 2009 ISBN 978-1-60749-557-4; A Gift of Path, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4489-5695-1; Amoss Fire, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4512-3540-1
Summer on Shallow Point
Xavier Somerfieldas latest novel, Summer on Shallow Point: A Chesapeake Bay Love Story, will have you thinking: aSteamy.a aFull of surprises!a aItas one of those books that makes you appreciate where you are and gets you to wondering where you will be twe
Finches in the Gloaming
Finches in the Gloaming, a dark journey through autumn, is a collection of poetry spawned from life in the coal mining settlements of rural Appalachia. My father had to work bent over in an area that was only 42 inches in height, manually chipping away coal with a pick and loading it onto coal cars with a shovel, Xavier Somerfield says. The mountains have given us more than chunks of black carbon for our furnaces; they have blessed us with a culture that has prevailed through the harshest of conditions. Finches in the Gloaming is a reflection of that life. Xavier Somerfield incorporates shadows and seasons, mountain life and the passing of time into an ingenious blend. Long have these mountains bled Xavier Somerfield writes in Mountain Sorrow . Finches in the Gloaming also contains other noteworthy poems including, Montani Semper Liberi, Walking the Fence Line, Autumn Detaches, When Father was Late, and The Mines . Xavier Somerfield is the author of Coming Through the Wintersweet, (c) 2006, ISBN 1-4241-2511-1, Analemma Days, (c) 2006,
Amos's Fire
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Analemma Days
aSo much of my love of nature comes from Mother, a Xavier Somerfield says. aAs a child, she saw the rugged mountain life with eyes of wonderaaMother would have loved this daya!a She frequently quoted Whittier and Longfellow while we worked the fields of rural Appalachia.a Analemma Days is a celebration of the mothers who lovingly raised their children in the highlands and hollows of rural America despite the hardships. It is an artistas rendering of the journey through lifeas wonderful seasons and the reality of hard work, hunger, and what the author refers to as ahigh mountain lonelinessa. Analemma Days is a reflection of creation. Xavier Somerfield, also the author of Coming Through the Wintersweet, continues to produce beautifully crafted verse such as aLascaux, a aMotheras Love, a aEchoes, a and aHeart of Oak.a Analemma Days makes for wonderfully contemplative reading. Consider it as an ultimate Motheras Day gift.
Coming Through the Wintersweet
There is a place in the heart where the warmest times of our lives abide. We often go there to find shelter from the wind when those grey clouds get in our way. Coming Through the Wintersweet gives you the deep, meaningful thoughts that will carry you to peaceful places away from the storms of life. It is a spiritual journey through time, crafted by an author who weathered the storms himself. Somerfield makes you feel the moment. His verse is richly painted with images of nature and the passing of the seasons. Coming Through the Wintersweet is a celebration of life. We must capture times and remember sunsets and dayswe must cherish thoughts and live for love to the end for these are all we have If you are searching for a collection of verse that will warm your soul, Coming Through the Wintersweet is for you
Ridges of the Clouds
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Xavier Cockroachal Damon's, Um, Entirely Fictitious Autobiography
The story of the life of me, Xavier Cockroachal Damon, a rather bizarre life that some might find too impossible to be believed. The details of my youth were, let's just say, somewhat calamitous, but, still, Xavier Cockroachal Damon continued on, trying to find that one good thing in his life that could rescue him from disappointment, disillusionment and despair. It's a life seemingly forever ambushed by the absurd and assaulted by vile, unwanted circumstance to create a sorry, broken, disjointed dance. It is the life of Xavier Cockroachal Damon, the life of me, who, I suppose I must confess, may have, at times been his own worst enemy. But, as I traveled through life, did I ever find that one good thing, create a new song I could sing, something that could end forever nightmare scream? Well, life is only ever but a dream.
Xavier Cockroachal Damon's, Um, Entirely Fictitious Autobiography
The story of Xavier Cockroachal Damon. A life of bizzarity forever plunging deeper into further bizzarity and deeper into hell. Executioner for the CIA at a very young age, actually sent to assassinate Castro, things, they got a little strange. Forever plummeting into deeper and deeper hell as the crapathon it carries on...But could it be there is a new story to tell? A new beginning will he see? Can the worst detective team in history solve a single mystery? An end to forever nightmare scream? Well, life is only ever but a dream.
Racial Folly
Briscoe's grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve 'the half-caste problem'. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe's enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.
