Other books:

"In his book Abercrombie shows the marks of a social scientist, impelled by a twin loyalty to his religious faith and to the armed forces of the United States, who investigates a special manifestation of problems arising at the juncture of religious and secular loyalties.  He focuses on the United States Army chaplaincy, in the period during and immediately following the Vietnam War."  -from the foreword by Bruce M. Russett

Writing Women in Central America: Gender and the Fictionalization of History 

What is the relationship between history and fiction in a place with a contentious past? And of what concern is gender in the telling of stories about that past?


Writing Women in Central America explores these questions as it considers key Central American texts. This study analyzes how authors appropriate history to confront the rhetoric of the state, global economic powers, and even dissident groups within their own cultures. Laura Barbas Rhoden winds a common thread in the literary imaginations of Claribel Alegría, Rosario Aguilar, Gioconda Belli, and Tatiana Lobo and shows how these writers offer provocative supplements to the historical record.  Writing Women in Central America considers more than a dozen narratives in which the authors craft their own interpretations of history to make room for women, indigenous peoples, and Afro-Latin Americans. Some of the texts reveal silences in the narratives of empire- and nation-building. Others reinterpret events to highlight the struggle of marginalized peoples for dignity and humanity in the face of oppression. All confront the ways in which stories have been told about the past.  -Ohio University Press

The Wofford Lecture Series: Religion, Ethics & Society, 1985-2000

Inaugurated in 1985 by a generous grant from Wofford College alumnus William H. Willimon (Class of 1968), Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, the Wofford Lectures on Religion, Ethics and Society have brought to the campus some of the most distinguished and respected religious-studies scholars in America.  They have addressed timely and important issues ranging from the role of religion in government to problems of medical ethics and, along the way, the nature and value of liberal arts education in a Christian context.

Lectures by Albert C. Outler (Class of 1928), William E. Muehl, B. Davie Napier, Schubert M. Ogden, Leander E. Keck, James T. Laney, Martin E. Marty, Luke Timothy Johnson, and Gene Outka are included in this volume.

The Truman Years, 1945-1953
by Mark S. Byrnes
Addison-Wesley/ Pearson Education Ltd. (2000)

Written in a lively style, The Truman Years, offers a concise, accessible and illuminating history on an important and fascinating period in American history.  It is recommended for college students as well as for anyone trying to understand the legacy of Truman's presidency.  -Wofford Today

Elizabeth Cox, John C. Cobb Chair in the Humanities

The Slow Moon
by Elizabeth Cox
Random House (2006)

Cox's carefully wrought latest (following Familiar Ground) delineates the heartbreaking cruelty that sunders a group of adolescent friends in a small Tennessee town. During a late-night party, high school sweethearts Sophie and Crow go off into the woods. When Crow leaves Sophie for 20 minutes to fetch a condom, she's raped and beaten by a group of boys she will not be able to identify after the trauma. To the shock of the town, Crow, known to be a fine and upstanding young man, is charged with her attack. Cox painstakingly enters the consciousness of the various characters who have a stake in Crow's fate, including his diffident, religious mother, Helen, and adulterous stepfather, Carl; Crow's younger brother, Johnny, who struggles to come to terms with his homosexual attraction for Tom, one of the boys in Crow's band; the judge adjudicating Crow's case, Aurelia Bailey, who has to manage her own troubled teenage boy, Bobbie; and other teens and townsfolk. The fact of Crow's innocence is plain to all, yet no one moves to defend him, not even Sophie, who claims she can't remember what happened. Cox stands back and lets the truth emerge with quiet determination.  -Publishers Weekly


Bargains in the Real World
by Elizabeth Cox
Random House (2001)

In this finely crafted collection, acclaimed writer Elizabeth Cox examines the lives of common people and how they deal with life when uncommon things happen to them — how they accept their fate, sometimes choosing to move on, sometimes not. The stories, many set in the South, deal with questions of loyalty, betrayal, discovery, sexuality, death, birth, and the inner dynamics that drive the choices we make. The characters struggle with a complex mixture of kindness and violence, and their final choices reveal a flawed but finally compassionate humanity. Contains the 1994 O. Henry Award winning story, "The Third of July."



Night Talk
by Elizabeth Cox
Graywolf (1997)

"Affecting, resonant...Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird."
-Library Journal

The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love
by Elizabeth Cox
North Point (1991)

"The elegieac and meticulously observed family portrait leaves the reader appreciative but also wary; only in art can the mistakes of our lives be measured with such grace and forgiveness, or redeemed through such close attention." -The New Yorker






Familiar Ground
by Elizabeth Cox
Athenuem (1984) 

"Cox's first novel reveals her as a writer of deep insights and a talent for conveying a sense of time and place...Holds the reader's interest and a promise of fine novels to come." -Publishers Weekly

The Legend of Auggie the Awkward Elf

A family Christmas story about the mishaps and misadventures of a young elf at the North Pole.  It's original and fast moving.  Auggie doesn't have magical powers or a fairy godmother to make his troubles disappear.  He has to deal with life's difficulties and his own shortcomings much like everyone else, although he has his own unique way of doing so.  A delightful story of courage and perseverance in search for-and acceptance of-one's self.

Ingeborg Bachmann's Telling Stories: Fairy Tale Beginnings & Holocaust Endings

Bachmann (1926-1973) is a highly recognized Austrian postwar author whose work has been translated into English.  Krick-Aigner's book explores the author's prose in a socio-cultural and historical context by demonstrating how she applies elements from traditional German and Austrian fairy tales to come to terms with evens of the Third Reich and her reactions to the Holocaust.
-Wofford Today

Chattooga: Descending into the Myth of Deliverance River

"Having previously explored the river, Lane returns to journey the entire length of it, describing its natural beauty and danger as well as pausing to view it through the prism of Dickey's book. . . . Lane artfully applies his poetic sensibility to the river itself . . . Lane's own writing and observations are good enough to stand outside of Dickey's considerable shadow."  -Publishers Weekly

Waist Deep in Black Water

Exquisite descriptions that recall the beauty and mystery of the earth as it must have been in raw and unfettered times.  -Southern Living

Waist Deep in Black Water offers a collection of Lane's own writings that range from wilderness exploration, to conservation issues, to explorations of family history in Spartanburg, SC.  Something is always at stake wherever Lane takes us: a stand of old-growth trees, a primate population, a friendship, a soul.  Lane bestows loving attention on the places and people he visits in this collection and, in the process, goes beyond traditional travel writing.  -Wofford Today

This collection honors Dr. Vincent E. Miller, Professor of English Emeritus. Wofford alumni who learned to "read" through questions of Professor Miller are honorring his years as a teacher, mentor and scholar by publishing A Packet for Vincent Miller.  Dr. Don Greiner '62, associate provost and dean of undergraduate affairs at the University of South Carolina, wrote the preface to the Miller book and selected a collection of Miller's own essays and reviews on modern writers to include.  He and co-editor John Lane '77, associate professor of English, then commissioned five former Miller students to write tributes.  The book also holds several of Miller's "teaching" documents.
-Wofford Today

The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing From the South

The Woods Stretched for Miles gathers essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such well-known names as Wendell Berry and Rick Bass but also distinctive new voices, including Christopher Camuto, Susan Cerulean, and Eddy L. Harris. From the savannas of south Florida through the hardwood uplands of Mississippi to the coastal rivers of the Carolinas and the high mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, the range in geography covered is equally broad. With insight and eloquence, these diverse talents take up similar themes: environmental restoration, the interplay between individual and community, the definition of wildness in an area transformed by human activity, and the meaning of our reactions to the natural world. Readers will treasure the passionate and intelligent honorings of land and nature offered by this rich anthology. With the publication of The Woods Stretched for Miles, southern voices establish their abiding place in the ever-popular nature writing genre.  -University of Georgia Press

This book is an anthology of essays and photos by faculty and students from the Sayre School of Lexington, Kentucky.  The essays were written on an outdoors trip to experience Wendell Berry's work and follow the path he sets forth in his essay, The Unforseen Wilderness. The journey along the Red River allowed the students to connect with Berry's work, led by poet and essayist John Lane and photographer Mark Olencki, both of whom were visiting Sayre as part of the Books Alive author series.

The Dead Father Poems
by John Lane and Douglas Whittle
Horse & Buggy Press (2000)

Both of these artists lost their fathers to suicide, and by working together they were able to explore the artistic edges of grief, memory, and healing. The poems, written over a ten year period, have appeared in such literary journals as The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Tar River Poetry, and The Cattahoochee Review.
-Horse & Buggy Press

Hub City Christmas

Thirty-two Spartanburg writers contributed seasonal stories to this book, which has been a favorite in the area for many years. These authors invite you to spend Christmas in Campobello, King's Creek, Cowpens, Camp Croft, Clifton and Converse Heights. They take you to the lights of Hampton Heights, Woodridge and a Dickensian downtown, allowing you to wander through tales of "Christmas Cotton," "Granddaddy's Song," and "The Christmas Stick," among many, many others.

Hub City Anthology

Hub City Anthology is a collection of personal essays, artwork and photographs by the original group of Hub City representatives. Though Hub City Anthology is a book about Spartanburg, it is also a book with a much larger context. It's a book about a boomtown Southern community seeking to find its voice in the face of enormous change.

The essays in the book are, among other subjects, about places lost. Life in the suburbs, weird religion, threatened green spaces, the county fair, family reunions and, yes, of course, trains. The authors in this collection are young and old, black and white, native and newcomer.

Against Information and Other Poems

"For any who might have doubted that the human brain is the most explosively articulate of expert systems or feared that the best minds of our re-generation are being devoured by the Internet, this is the howl of the '90s, a poetic rallying cry for humane technology."
-Benjamin Dunlap, Wofford College

Weed Time: Essays from a Country Yard

"One of South Carolina's finest writers, Lane has built his reputation as a poet.  In this handsome little collection, he turns to the essay form, though the poet's sensibility is still strongly evident."
-William W. Starr, The State (SC)newspaper

As the World Around Us Sleeps

"John Lane is a poet who knows natural things, and who watches, records and celebrates...he is a poet to watch"
-Ruth Moose, The News & Observer - Raleigh, NC

The assumptions of perfect information and perfect competition have been at the heart of neo-classical economics. However, in Perfect Competition and the Transformation of Economics, Frank Machovec demonstrates that the Walrasian vision has had a detrimental impact on the definition of economics and on its policy prescriptions. The author examines how economists came to accept an interventionist approach to domestic policy issues, and how the perfect-competition model transformed four key areas of study: industrial organization; comparative systems; the economics of development; international trade.  -Routledge

Dan Mathewson, Assitant Professor of Religion
Death and Survival in the Book of Job: Desymbolization and Traumatic Experience
by Dan Mathewson
T&T Clark (2006)

The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again. The key is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. To help understand this focus on death in Job we turn to the psychohistorian, Robert Lifton, who investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic experiences (wars, natural disasters, etc). According to Lifton, survivors of disaster often sense that their world has "collapsed" and they engage in a struggle to go on living. Part of this struggle involves finding meaning in death and locating death's place in the continuity of life. Like many such survivors, Job's understanding of death is a flashpoint indicating his bewilderment (or "desymbolization") in the early portions of his speeches, and then, later on, his arrival at what Lifton calls "resymbolization," the reconfiguration of a world that can account for disaster and render death - and life - meaningful again.

This study guide accompanies The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, the number one text in the field.  McArthur and Mishkin produce this study guide, an instructor's manual and test bank of questions and problems, since their collaboration began in 1986.

Roll Back the Stone: Death and Burial in the World of Jesus
by Byron R. McCane
Trinity Press International (2003)

The Good Friday sequence of events is well-known and recorded in Christian scripture and traditions.  These events would have made sense to Jesus' contemporaries, as it stands in close harmony with Jewish customs and traditions of the time as understood by modern archaeology and anthropology. In Roll Back the Stone, McCane investigates these death and burial customs because such events create rifts in a social network, often reflecting efforts within a community to compensate and reaffirm traditional beliefs.  Typically, if one sees death and burial customs in transition, these changes reflect a significant upheaval in other aspects of a culture, such as in Roman-occupied Judea during the time of Christ.  -Wofford Today

The Place of the Gospels in the General History of Literature by Karl Ludwig Schmidt
translated by Byron R. McCane
University of South Carolina Press (2002)

Karl Ludwig Schmidt's classic Die Stellung der Evangelien der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte was one of a handful of twentieth-century essays on the New Testament to set the agenda for an entire generation of New Testament scholars. First published in 1923, the text laid out Schmidt's contention that the gospels represent a literary genre that does not derive from others in the ancient world. In portraying the gospels as the written record of an oral tradition rather than as biographical or historical text, the German scholar found points of comparison with the Sayings of the Desert Fathers and the later collections of Faust legends. Schmidt's powerful argument has commanded attention in Germany for decades but has never before been fully available in English. In recent years the question of gospel genre has reemerged as an issue of debate. With this translation, Byron R. McCane enables a new generation of English-speaking scholars to engage with Schmidt's classic perspective on an enduring question.  -University of South Carolina Press

Published in 1981 as a part of the City of Spartanburg's celebration of the city's sesquicentennial, The Lives They Lived: A Look at Women in the History of Spartanburg was funded by the Spartanburg County Foundation and the South Carolina Committee for the Humanities.  The book highlights contributions of several women in the growth of the city and county of Spartanburg.  Revolutionary War heroines, educators, philanthropists, and slave women are among those included in collection of essays about Spartanburg women.

Seeing Spartanburg: A History in Images

Racine traces Spartanburg's history from its beginnings during the Colonial period, through the boom years of the early twenti­eth century and the hard days of war and depression, to the dynamic growth of the present era. Like a good poem, Seeing Spartanburg does not merely tell the city's story; it shows the story. Filled with images that are often poignant, sometimes surprising, and always rewarding, Seeing Spartanburg is a visual record of the life of one Southern city. It echoes many familiar themes of Southern life, yet the story it tells is filled with the particular details that make Spartanburg unique.
-Hub City Writer's Project

"This diary of a combat officer in the Army of the Potomac provides an up-front view of the Civil War. It is exceptionally valuable because Major Charles Mattocks of the Seventeenth Maine also kept up his diary during ten months as a prisoner of war after his capture in the Battle of the Wilderness.... Every student of the Civil War will learn something new from this book."
-James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom    

"Let us begin by discussing the weather,” U. B. Phillips writes in the opening lines of his famous book on Life and Labor in the Old South, and that is exactly what David Golightly Harris, a small slaveholder from the South Carolina upcountry, does over and over again in this unique and beautifully edited diary.

Although often tired, sick, or discouraged, David Harris faithfully wrote in his diary for fifteen years. He understood that one day it would serve “as a looking glass to look into & to see the past" (p. 454). We are fortunate he did, for Piedmont Farmer is one of those rare books that deserves a place alongside The Cotton Kingdom, My Bondage and My Freedom, The Children of Pride, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and the recent Freedom volumes as an indispensable source for historians of the nineteenth-century South.
-David C. Rankin, University of California Irvine

"Thomas Ward Osborn's journal turns Sherman's march into a Fiery Trail indeed, especially when it reaches the Carolinas. Students and buffs of the Civil War and historians of the Confederacy will find it indispensable."  -C. Vann Woodward, Yale University

Philip Racine's Spartanburg County: A Pictorial History took readers on a visual tour of Spartanburg, an upstate South Carolina city with a rich history. Treasured by teachers and local history aficionados, Pictorial History remained in demand long after it went out of print.
-Hub City Writers Project 

A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina

Admired by plant enthusiasts, botanists, and nature lovers of all ages, wildflowers comprise one of the most beloved—and diverse—groupings of flora in South Carolina. Although relatively small in size, the Palmetto State hosts a remarkable variety of wildflower species, from the trillium and bloodroot that brighten its forests to heliotrope and common toadflax that dot the state's roadsides and fields. With color photographs (all by Richard D. Porcher) and extensive descriptions of more than 680 species, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina offers a complete and indispensable reference for finding and appreciating these natural treasures.

Employing the same innovative approach Richard D. Porcher used in Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry, he and Douglas A. Rayner simplify the task of identification by grouping species according to habitat. For each species identified, Porcher and Rayner include interesting facts—many of which are not widely known or readily available—about rarity, suitability for garden cultivation, and origin of common and scientific names.  -University of South Carolina Press

"Walkulla Springs is a crossroads, a place where man and nature have been meeting for a thousand years," writes Revels in Watery Eden. "Hopefully, man is a little better for the experience..."

Author Revels shows a special adeptness in describing the earliest European visitors and many attempts to exploit the springs for profit.  She clearly has done her homework as evidenced by numerous newspaper and journal excerpts and firsthand interviews. Revels writes with an active voice, and the book reads like an entertaining saga.  Plus, vintage photographs are interspersed throughout the pages. Proceeds from the sale of the book enhance park activities.
-Doug Alderson

The History of Great Britain
by Anne B. Rodrick
Greenwood Press (2004)

The very idea of "Britain" has changed with the gain and loss of empire, the assimilation and devolution of various portions of the country, and the introduction and then dismantling of a welfare state that was nothing short of revolutionary in the wake of World War II. This volume provides an introduction to the history and culture of a nation that just a century ago was the world's leading imperial power and today is striving to reestablish its place as an international leader. The fortunes of that nation are outlined, describing its development from the days of Roman rule through the most recent events of Tony Blair's prime ministership. Rodrick introduces many important issues in Great Britain's history and also provides the reader with an overview of contemporary British society, from the intricacies of parliamentary politics to the cultural significance of church and crown. Includes a biographical section highlighting famous figures in British history, a timeline of important historical events, and a short bibliographical essay with suggestions for further reading.

The nineteenth century witnesses a flowering of the culture and self-improvement that was reflected in a plethora of institutes, societies and journals that sprang up across Britain with the goal of spreading knowledge and learning to a wide spectrum of society. The prophets of self-improvement believed that not only was self-improvement a laudable goal in its own right, but more importantly it would contribute towards a general improvement in society.

Focusing on the city of Birmingham, and drawing on both local and national sources, this study by Professor Rodrick explores the changing nature of self-improvement and citizenship in Victorian Britain. By approaching the concept of citizenship from a new perspective, provincial identity and its relationship to wider ideas of 'Englishness' and 'Britishness,' a distinct ideal of citizenship is elucidated that adds further nuance to the current scholarship.

By drawing together various issues of citizenship, self-improvement, class and political power, this work brings a new perspective to the on-going attempts to determine who could claim the full rights, duties and responsibilities of the larger social body, thus illuminating the relationship between culture and power in nineteenth century England.
-Ashgate Publishing

This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation ut pictura musica (as with music, so with painting). Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction; concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music. Individual essays address such themes as visualization in music, the literary vs. pictorial basis of the symphonic poem, musical pictorialism in painting and lithography, and the influence of Wagner on the visual arts. In these and other ways, both composers and painters actively participated in interarts discourses in seeking to redefine the very identity and aims of their art.  -Garland Publishing

Global Issues: An Introduction

This book is an introduction to the causes, meaning and possible outcomes of some of the central issues of modern times.  Population growth, hunger, poverty, species extinction, climate change, resource depletion, deforestation and the misuse of technology are among those discussed in length.

The author describes the nature of world problems in both qualitative and quantitative terms. He shows that single problems never have single causes, that local issues frequently have global implications, and, further, that attempts to solve one (employment, for example) may often give rise to others (such as air and water pollution).  Indeed, he points out, it is all too often the case that problems arise from the economic progress and development it was hoped would put an end to them.  -Blackwell Publishers

Problem Solving in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories

This text introduces the beginning computer science student to the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and debugging of programs using ANSI C++, and to the breadth and richness of the computer science discipline. With ample use of examples and figures, the authors present material in a clear, visual manner. The introduction to object-oriented programming (OOP), which begins early in the text, is gradual and natural. Chapter 3 starts covering encapsulation with objects and use of classes, and Chapter 4 shows students how to define methods. Offering a wonderful hands-on introduction to many features of problem solving in C++, each chapter concludes with a laboratory section that is integrated with the topics in the text. Throughout the text, twenty-two discrete "breadth" sections present a broad range of topics in computer science. Students develop problem solving ability, programming skill, and an appreciation for the discipline of computer science.  -Thomson Brooks/Cole

Data Structures in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories
by Angela B. Shiflet
West Group (1996)

Data Structures in C++ Including Breadth and Laboratories integrates laboratory exercises, problem-solving skills, and breadth sections covering non-programming aspects of computer science into the study of data structures. An appendix on non-object-oriented features of C++ helps students froma C background get up to speed, and Chapter 4 presents the aspects of OOP in C++ that students need in studying data structures. Other aids to learning include Programming Projects, over 1,000 exercises, and numerous figures. Laboratory programs and data files, data structure implementations, and program examples from the text are available via the World Wide Web.  -West Group

This introductory computer science text offers breadth sections on computer science theory and contains an integrated lab manual with code that students can manipulate.  -Brooks/Cole

Elementary Data Structures with Pascal: A Second Course in Computer Programming
by Angela B. Shiflet
West Group (1989)

Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science
by Angela B. Shiflet
West Group (1986)

Network Troubleshooting Tools

Network Troubleshooting Tools does the work for you--by describing the best of the freely available tools for debugging and troubleshooting. You can start with a lesser-known version of ping that diagnoses connectivity problems, or take on a much more comprehensive program like MRTG for graphing traffic through network interfaces. There's tkined for mapping and automatically monitoring networks, and Ethereal for capturing packets and debugging low-level problems.

This book isn't just about the tools available for troubleshooting common network problems. It also outlines a systematic approach to network troubleshooting: how to document your network so you know how it behaves under normal conditions, and how to think about problems when they arise, so you can solve them more effectively.
-O'Reilly and Associates

A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software focuses on the real-world issues that arise in planning and implementing effective testing for object-oriented and component-based software development. It shows how testing object-oriented software differs from testing procedural software and highlights the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in object-oriented software testing.

The authors reveal how object-oriented software development allows testing to be integrated into each stage of the process-from defining requirements to system integration-resulting in a smoother development process and a higher end quality. As they follow this process, they describe what to test at each stage as well as offer experienced-based testing techniques.  -Addison Wesley

Object-Oriented Software Development: Engineering Software for Reuse
by John D. McGregor and David A. Sykes
International Thomson Computer Press (1992)

Based on a 3-day course McGregor developed for Bell Labs. The text tries to do three things in a relatively few pages: give an intro to OO concepts and languages, present a (new) full lifecycle software methodology, and provide a reading-knowledge introduction to C++.

The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing From the South

The Woods Stretched for MilesThe Woods Stretched for Miles,, southern voices establish their abiding place in the ever-popular nature writing genre.  -University of Georgia Press

This unique collaboration between brother and sister compassionately measures the smallness of human lives and explores the crawlspace of human relationships. These twenty poems and twenty drawings speak to each other and to us about the confidences of love, death and transcendence.

New Southern Harmonies

The range of styles and subjects in these stories is as diverse as the landscape of the Palmetto State--from the offbeat humor of George Singleton's Outlaw Head and Tail, to the piercing passion of Rosa Shand's Density of Sunlight, to the sprawling, strange drama of Scott Gould's Nothing Fazes the Autopilot, to the unexpected twists of Deno Trakas's Eugene.

While all these storyteller share the same home--upstate South Carolina--they do not share the same view of the world, and they have vastly different imaginations. Inside these pages are philosophers and barkeeps, movie-makers and artists, airplane pilots and eccentric great-aunts, love-struck teens and 40-something hoopsters. There are characters confronting race, defying convention, and exploring the meaning of love. Settings range from the "semi-jungle" of Uganda to the imaginary world of Christ Almighty, North Carolina; along the way, there are vine-covered Southern homesteads, damp campgrounds, and ubiquitous suburban malls. There's even a house at the bottom of a lake.  Awarded the Independent Publishers Award for the best short fiction collection in the US & Canada.  -Hub City Writers Project

A chapbook of poems set at home and abroad, primarily in Spain, with a variety of voices asking questions of faith and commitment.

Jhon C. Akers, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Associate Director of the Success Initiative
A Small Friend, Carl Sandburg's Guitar
Bold Strummer