Many Moons Ago

These are the poignant recollections of one man about his childhood and coming of age in a developing First Nation community struggling valiantly to preserve its identity in twentieth-century Canada-an era of discrimination, stereotyping, and governmental persecution. With poems, stories, and memories, Many Moons Ago entertains while bringing understanding to a new generation of his Native and non-Native readers. Many Moons Ago is a powerful and vivid exploration of author Fred McCue's life story, set against a backdrop of fables, ancestral legends, and historical perspective of the Curve Lake, First Nation reservation in Ontario, Canada. The stories, poems, and memoirs capture the culture, the language, and the teachings of Mother Earth and her eternal spiritual qualities of a time gone by. They reflect the hardships that McCue and his community endured through poverty, social globalization, and the loss of their right to survive off the land. Told with courage, humour, compassion, and ancestral pride, these stories resonate off the pages and into one's own value of the importance of belonging. Many Moons Ago pays tribute to humanity and fortitude and celebrates McCue's people, his way of life, and his memories.

I have witnessed the trial and tribulations that special needs Christian parents go thru on a daily basis. Their struggles are real and many, triumphs are few, but their unwavering love is truly commendable. This book tries to convey, in some poems, a perceived view from the inside of a special need child's mind toward their parents or through an interaction with another person. The book is broken into four distinct categories as follows: Special Needs""meant to convey pro life and challenges faced head on by caring parents, Kids stories""stories with kids in mind with a Christian moral as the ending, Patriotic""two patriotic poems from a want to be soldier to a twenty plus years military retired soldier, and Christian life""comprised of some of my own personal events, other Christian love poems or stories. The book was written and submitted for publishing to convey message that we, as true Christians, must be more sympathetic to those less fortunate than us. To encourage, embrace, and help those that need our support whether it be a special needs child, parent, or caretaker of a special needs child or sick person and especially a sick child in a children's hospital.

The story is about a community in an Igbo land in Nigeria, which, many years after the first coming of the white man, struggles to preserve its tradition, culture, religion, and social setup as the colonialist consolidates his authority and administration and establishes his religion. Built on a village and a typical humble family setup of that period, the book describes in some detail the village and family life and the interference caused by the white man s new ways.

The author's shares her mother's journey through life as found in her journal. Lodemiah Goodman Eades had a hard life, as did many of her generation. Along with several of her siblings she spent many years growing up in the Mills Home Baptist Orphanage of Thomasville, North Carolina. Interspersed are the author's (Lodemiah's daughter's) own memories of the family.

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.

Legends of the Plains Indians. Grade 5-7.

This lavishly illustrated, fact- and fiction-filled book explores aspects of the moon such as Moon goddesses, the moon's place in astrology and ancient rites, the moon's effects on Earth, scientific facts about the moon itself, the future of moon travel, and more. Includes an introduction by Col. James Irwin, one of the 12 Apollo astronauts to walk on the moon. 250 photographs and illustrations, many in color.