The Legendary Daddy

A fathers journey is legendary. The life he lives after the birth of his child casts a light, or shadow, onto his progeny. This is the story of a father who realizes that his legend is as glorious as it is heartbreaking. His life-changing adventure serves as a guide for new parents, sending imperfect adults onto a life of heroic self-sacrifice.

Dad: The Man, The Myth, The Legend is an epic--and totally unexaggerated--tale for dads everywhere! Heroic, hilarious, and heartwarming, it's the sweet saga of Dad: protector, provider, and child's best friend.

From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candidly reveals his life inside the civil rights movement, illustrating the profound influence he had on his son. Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers in Stockbridge, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Sr., came of age under the looming threat of violence at the hands of white landowners. Growing up, he witnessed his family being crushed by the weight of poverty and racism, and escaped to Atlanta to answer the calling to become a preacher. Before engaging in acts of political dissent or preaching at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he would remain for more than four decades, King, Sr., earned high school and college diplomas while working double shifts as a truck driver—and he won the heart of his future wife, Alberta “Bunch” Williams. King, Sr., recalls the struggles and joys of his journey: the pain of leaving his parents and seven siblings on the family farm; the triumph of winning voting rights for blacks in Atlanta; and the feelings of fatherly pride and anxiety as he watched his son put his life in danger at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Originally published in 1980, Daddy King is an unexpected and poignant memoir. “There are two men I am supposed to hate. One is a white man, the other is black, and both are serving time for having committed murder. James Earl Ray is a prisoner in Tennessee, charged with killing my son. Marcus Chenault was institutionalized as deranged after shooting my wife to death. I don’t hate either one. There is no time for that, and no reason, either. Nothing that a man does takes him lower than when he allows himself to fall so far as to hate anyone.” —The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., in Daddy King

The year is 1860. In Evanston, Illinois, a young, unassuming butcher, Ruse Blackburn, wants what every man wants, to earn a decent living and marry a lovely wife. With these goals almost in his grasp, the privileged stomp on his ambitions. Ruse, rightly accused of murder and tortured, sells his soul and ends up as General William T. Shermans aidecharged with keeping the general drunk enough to do evil but sober enough to conduct war. As Shermans troops pillage Georgia, Ruse sinks deeper and deeper into madness. In the meantime, beautiful Anne Southern lives a life of lonely luxury with her two young sons at Meridian Plantation. Her husband, Allen, fires the mortar that begins the Civil War and abandons his family to fight for the Confederacy. Swept with her dependents to Atlanta by the winds of war, Anne must deal with a society in decline and a diminishing food supply. To feed her children, in an act of desperation and desire, she gives dearly to a suitor for ten pounds of jerky. Evicted from Atlanta, Anne returns to the plantation. There, she encounters Major Ruse Blackburn and his skinning knifea man with a grudge to settle and a proclivity for cutting pretty flesh. Anne finds herself completely without resources and must make difficult decisions. A very entertaining, mile-a-minute style, and remarkably vivid characters. Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling author of the award winning Outlander novels.

The lakeside town of Reedville was a vacation village for wealthy people since the nineteenth century. However, two strange things were talked about for decades. A teenage girl disappeared without a trace in 1923, and was never found. Stranger still, people claimed over the years to have been saved by her. Billy Southwaite, a shy teenage boy with cerebral palsy, came to Reedville to spend the summer with his family. His stepsister Paige was happy to be there, but Billy wasn't. He didn't think he could have fun the way Paige could. But Billy would meet a girl who would change both of their lives. And the two teenagers would find out the truth of The Legend of Reedville Lake .

When a renegade explorer named Korvlos turns up missing at sea, Dyven and friends uncover evidence that he might be a Zyx. Worse yet, Dyven and friends suspect that he might be the leader of a shadow organization called the Nysterion who are plotting treachery against Aglar, the High King. As our heroes spiral further into peril on the high seas, forgotten secrets and disturbed pasts come to light as a troubling connection is made between the Nysterion, the Zyx, and the Royal Family itself.

Lisa Sharp and her husband Chance Benson have always shared one goal: to protect their families at all costs. Since they were teenagers and intruded on a man in the bathroom of Londons Ritz Hotel, overhearing his plans to bomb a local gentlemans club, they have vowed to protect their families always. Arriving in Canada with their son for the Christmas holidays, the last thing the couple expects is for their only child to be kidnapped. The couples only hope is the legend of the silent brotherhood, which they believe will help to keep their son and his cousins safe just like it did years ago

A beautiful and lyrical celebration of fatherhood, My Dad reveals all the little things that one child’s dad does that make him the best dad in the world.