Helms: 97 books

Some years ago I was privileged to be a member of a writers' group. We met each month at the library. A story we had written was to be read to the group at that time. This book is a compilation of those stories. My family moved many times during my younger years. Every place brought new people...

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the fourth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. Manuals for memory tourism, a secret order of monks that tries to use a scriptural technicality to put off the end of the world indefinitely, a friendly nonbinary...

The richly textured, panoramic story of an American mother and daughter stuck in the expatriate community of Ankara, Turkey, in 1975--each of them trying to discover a life in the larger world, each in way over her head When she is twelve years old, Canada moves with her mother and father to...

(Instructional). The Hal Leonard Lap Steel Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the six-string lap steel guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by country music veteran Johnie Helms includes many fun songs and hot licks to learn and play. The accompanying audio...

« J’avais frôlé la mort. On peut même dire que je l’avais vue en face. Toutes les ombres ne s’étaient pas dissipées. Pas pour le moment. Je sentais toujours la colère me tordre le ventre. Mais ce n’était pas grave. J’avais le droit d’être en colère. » Hantée par un traumatisme...

BEING A LETTER TO HON. GROVER CLEVELAND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BY DONN PIATT Of Mac-o-cheek, Ohio CINCINNATI  1885 The English usage of the letter may be dated but not the message. I have left the English and punctuation as I found it.    Mr. Piatt is writing here about a subject that haunts us to this day.

“An impassioned critique of the handling of the Haditha massacre by U.S. Marines” and America’s failure of justice in Iraq (Kirkus Reviews).   In 2005, twelve Marines stationed in Iraq were ambushed by Sunni Muslim insurgents in the city of Haditha. An IED (improvised explosive device) detonated...

Growing up in the rural Texas town of Goldthwaite in the 50's and 60's was rich, not in material ways, but in the things that really mattered. Family was first; friends and community ran a close second, and life was full of adventure if you only used your imagination. In this coming of age story,...

In many non-industrial, non-Western societies, power and prestige are closely linked to the extent of an individual's or group's perceived connection to the supernatural realm, which also explains and validates tangible activities such as economic success, victories in war, or control over lucrative...

This book is arranged based on The Circle of Fifths and is designed to help you learn the Keys and the chords associated with each Key. Open the book to any of the Keys. With the name of the Key at the top of the page you will see the seven principle chords which belong in that Key shown with colored...

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...

The most painful scars are the ones you never see. In her DJ booth at a Cleveland dance club, Casey feels a sense of connection that's the closest she ever gets to normal. On her college campus, she's reserved, practical--all too aware of the disaster that can result when you trust the wrong...

Helms drives his imaginary pen through neighborhoods we may not really want to visit, but once there cannot keep our eyes from prying. From trampolines to peanut butter, The World Split Open explores the dim edges of things humorus, grotesque, and otherwise mildly frightening.