Our Friend Travis

Chronicles the life of Travis Alexander his relationship with Jodi Arias.

Chronicles the life of Travis Alexander his relationship with Jodi Arias.

A brilliant first novel by Jeff Farrell, grandson of literary juggernaut James T. Farrell. In the spirit of Celine, with the prose of Tolstoy and the anguish of Solzhenitsyn, comes a contemporary tale like no other. Reality, really bites, so to speak. Meet the gentle, but developmentally disabled maintenance worker who had spent the formative years of his life being beaten by his resentful, racist mother. Meet the prostitute who falls in love, despite the irony of the concept. Meet the two brothers who run a local rendering plant and are just pure evil. And meet two twenty-something couples living together in an apartment, struggling with drugs, loss and each-other. Then hold on as everything crashes together, then crumbles in the end to all start the cycle over again.

The Apologies From a Repentant Christian series is the continuing story of a Christian pilgrim’s walk personified. Part I tells of an unrepentant sinner who surrendered her heart to God, embraced His forgiveness for her sins and received her new identity in Christ. Part II tells of the next stage of this Christian’s walk: a new believer faces rejection, spiritual battles, and learns how to live in a corrupted temple of flesh. Together, the two parts will encourage others to persevere through setbacks, tempting snares, hardships, and trials; And to always remember that life is a lot less scary when we realize God will never leave our sides.

Ridgeway Middle School Anthology: Cultures, Changes, and Choices is a collection of students' writings completed during the 2007-2008 school year at Ridgeway Middle School, Memphis, Tennessee. Students from an urban school district were given the opportunity to submit poems and personal essays for publication. The editor, Mrs. Hall, working with classroom teachers, selected the best of these and sent them for publication. The finished book will be of great interest to school libraries, teachers, and students. It is very important for students to see their completed work displayed in an attractive way.

Eli’s Redemption, the second book in the Atkins Family Low Country Saga series, is the thrilling sequel to Blood in the Low Country. As the story begins, it’s been five years since Eli Atkins, betrayed and abandoned, fled Charleston to avoid punishment for a crime he did not commit. Landing in the Bahamas, he sought refuge in a new identity. But angry, lonely, and adrift, he remained aloof, a stranger to all, never allowing anyone close enough to hurt him. But when fate introduces Eli to an old Scottish golfer, Lach McGregor, he finds reason to hope. Lach too is burdened by an incalculable loss, and together, teacher and student, they are each a lifeline for the other. When Eli falls for Lach’s lovely niece, Rachel, the pieces of a future fall into place. Standing between Eli though and a life lived fully, is the secret that forced him out of Charleston and the clutches of fugitive financier and professional criminal, Bernard Lasko, a malignant cancer who corrupts everyone he touches. Trapped in debt to Lasko, Eli returns to Charleston in dramatic fashion when given the chance to free himself from both the weight of his past and Lasko’s reach. But before he can embrace the freedom he craves, he must forgive, and trust, and be willing to risk his life to save another’s.