Westbow press jul 2007 (38 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'To say McSherry has lived a 'hard knock' life is an understatement, but the Lehman High School teacher and Brio Award winner has crafted a Bronx version of Angela's Ashes that resonates with hope, wit, and perseverance.'-Derek Woods, host of the television program, Bronx MagazineTold through a series of striking vignettes, A Clean Street's A Happy Street: A Bronx Memoir is a masterful coming-of-age tale brimming with heartache, forgiveness, and redemption.Growing up in a tough Bronx neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s, James McSherry dreams of becoming a writer. Faced with his mother's mental illness, his father's brutal murder, and poverty's chokehold, McSherry refuses to lose sight of his future. He struggles to survive in a fragmented world, clinging to his education and his poetry when his mother's fragile grip on reality shatters.The harsh consequences of his mother's debilitating mental health binds McSherry and his four siblings in a painful knot, but the love and commitment they have for each other sustains them through a turbulent adolescence. Powerful and moving, A Clean Street's A Happy Street intimately reveals one man's determination to break free from a troubling childhood and boldly create a luminous new future. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'The fact is, June Akers Seese refuses to lie. When her eye lights on something, she arrests it with a photographic infallibility that is simply breathtaking. She writes Hemingway's best declarative sentence through the lens of Kafka and the searing elegance of Joan Didion. Yet, on top of everything, she manages to be very, very funny-often excruciatingly so. Some Things Are Better Left to Saxophones, her latest novel, embodies vintage Seese and her all-too-human, all-too-like-us, unforgiving domestic landscape: inside our houses, insides our heads, inside our hearts.'-Joseph Bathanti, Professor of Creative Writing and Co-Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State UniversityIn this novel, June Akers Seese writes of two retired Detroit teachers and their retarded daughter, Melody, who lives with them and works at a downtown hotel folding napkins and polishing tabletops. Melody's sisters and brother have moved on. One sister to Japan to study languages and literature; another to a boarding house on the Wayne State University campus where she collects Master's degrees that go nowhere and earns her living as a sometimes waitress. Their brother has fled to Alaska where land is cheap and his carpentry skills valued. All approaching 40, these offspring have no plans to marry or return home. They are all trapped in a dream of escaping the responsibility of Melody when their parents die.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - If you're concerned about your child's weight, you should be. Obesity ratescontinue to climb, and a child's sedentary lifestyle can spell trouble downthe road. To combat this future problem, parents need to take charge now.The Health Plan for Overweight Children provides an innovative approachto improving your child's life by shifting the focus from a child's weight to hisor her health. To help you achieve this worthy goal, Dr. Melissa Langoneincorporates the unique strategies of her HAVE FUN plan, which include: Healthy foods Activity Vitamins and minerals End emotional eating Family as support U as a role model No weighingDr. Langone shows you how to make better nutritional choices for yourchildren by helping you learn how to read food labels, choose vitaminsupplements, and create the proper portion sizes. She also includes helpfultips on how to promote physical activity for those children who enjoy music,art, and video games instead of sports.In addition, Langone addresses the challenges faced by single parents andtwo-parent working families, as well as the unique issues of emotionaleaters. Help secure your child's future health with this invaluable guide.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Flash Fiction is the current term of choice for the short-short story-a fast-paced, pared-down narrative parcel which can be read on short subway rides, often between stops. In this funny, heart-warming and sometimes eerie collection, you will encounter:An anonymous message of such diabolical power it turns any recipient into an emotional basket case.An eager young teacher who experiences the most catastrophic lesson-plan failure in human history.A suburban husband who gets the motor vehicle department to issue him a license plate that the New York Times won't print.A college professor who parlays a passing thought into a full-fledged new university.A resentful office worker who discovers just how wildly a symbolic act of revenge can boomerang.A truth teller whose last lesson in life is that nobody wants to learn the truth.The purveyor of a fantastic invention whose real purpose is not, nor cannot be stated.A conniving suburbanite who exploits crime-catching data technology to cover his crime.A bank ATM that brings human-machine interaction to a whole new level.A college president who devises the ultimate retrenchment plan.FLASH FICTION PLUS also includes a number of plays and regular-length stories for those not infrequent occasions when the subway ride turns out longer than expected.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Life is full of possibilities for recent college graduate Autumn Hummel. But the path she expected to take after school turns in a different direction when she receives a mysterious letter. Jon McFarland, a man Autumn has never met, has left her his South Carolina plantation near Georgetown, her childhood vacationing spot.Autumn chooses to accept the inheritance and moves into the sprawling Southern mansion where she meets the house's loveable staff. There's Fanny, the middle-aged gardener whose family has worked at the McFarland plantation for generations and Ian, the maintenance man who moved from the North to embrace a slower pace of life. But it's Autumn's handsome next-door neighbor, Boyd Masters, who captures her attention.Yet the beauty and charisma of Autumn's new life soon fade as one mystery after another emerges, the most important being why McFarland left her the plantation in the first place. As Autumn researches the connection, she begins to revisit her summer vacation memories and soon realizes that before she can pursue a happy future, she must deal with her painful past.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Maybe, eventually, I'll get some idea of who I am. Where I am. What I am.That's bound to be a good thing.Hadleyville is a small east-Tennessee mountain town, and Heathcliff Vanlandingham is a country boy with a wealthy father, a mother who loved Bronte, and a wife who equates sex with wine tasting. Cliff has a keen sense of humor and an even disposition, but lately, his patience is wearing thin with his open marriage to the beautiful Catherine. Her sexual exploits are a little too frequent for his liking, and he's tired of trying to fix their relationship.Trying to understand how he landed in this situation, Cliff starts a blog to examine his past, present, and future. The Internet is a new and fascinating place, and he soon finds that it is influencing his outlook. His real world seems to have become as dramatic as the online one, and Cliff has a few choices to make, ones that could determine his future happiness .…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - On their way home from a boring college party, African American college students Tracey and Janet come across a terrible scene. Members of a traditionally white fraternity have severely beaten two African American freshmen basketball players.Disturbed and upset by the incident, Tracey discovers that one of the athletes was on a date with a white cheerleader at the party. Was the assault racially motivated Tracey turns to her friend Terrance, the president of an African American organization on campus, for his help and advice. To her surprise, Terrance discounts her theory and tells her not to bother pursuing action against the fraternity.Tracey refuses to let the act go unpunished. After organizing a student protest to shake things up, she's gratified to see it earn coverage from the local press. But she's suddenly catapulted into the national spotlight when the names of two well-known politicians' sons end up in the headlines of the story.With the increasingly tense situation fast growing out of control, Tracey has to make some hard decisions that may affect not only the athletes.but the entire campus.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - When young Michael Callaway is murdered at the cloistered confines of Kings School, an exclusive private boarding school for the sons of the British upper classes, Chief Inspector Thomas Ford of Scotland Yard is dispatched to investigate. But Ford is haunted by grim memories of his own days at Kings and even more ghastly memories of his time spent in the trenches during the Great War.Ford's investigation doesn't start well. The school's authorities throw obstacles at him and offer vague, conflicting evidence. The clues are either red herrings or lead nowhere, and everyone has an alibi. The evidence points to another boy until he is also found dead, adding to the confusion. As the case unfolds, Ford finally discovers motives-too many motives, leading to too many suspects. Enmeshed in the coils of intrigue and deception, Ford pursues his quarry from sleepy rural villages to the gilded mansions of aristocratic England, searching for a grain of truth amid the dust of irrelevancies. But he must allow his loathsome time at Kings and his disturbing military experiences to fade if he hopes to flush out the true killer.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Expressive and wonderful Poetry. This fascinating and inspiring poetry will bring hope, peace, and comfort spiritually to the reader's soul to the savage reality of life. These wonderfully written poems were based on her own life experiences and her hope for peace in the world. This realistic and dramatic poetry will touch your hearts and will bring tears to your eyes.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Sherlock Holmes-No other character in literature has inspired more people to imitation, tribute, commentary, and scholarship; from the deadly serious to the absurdly humorous.This book is a collection of hard to find essays by some of the most eminent and influential Sherlockians of the last seventy years. All contributors are members of both Hugo's Companions and The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), Chicago's two oldest scion societies of The Baker Street Irregulars. Tracts by classic scholars Vincent Starrett, Jay Finley Christ, Matthew Fairlie, Robert J. Mangler and Bob Hahn (among others) are brought together with those of more recent commentators in a mix of scholarship, commentary, and light hearted wit. A valuable and important addition to any Sherlockian library.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Mindgarden Volume I is a reflection of life's ultimate journeys: some loving, some tragic, others breathtakingly prophetic. Poet Paul Galloway illustrates how the fragile human spirit can follow the wrong path in spite of the warnings. Yet, with inner strength and hope, fortitude beats adversity, and this collection is a testament to that victory.Galloway does not shy away from acknowledging his failings as a young man in this first volume of poetry. The troubled soul of the poet writes early in this collection, 'Sorrows and sins complete your deedless days.' However, Galloway gains wisdom and comes to understand 'how the mind gardens itself upon us.' The poet's path to enlightenment embodies both free verse and rhyme, delving into raw emotions and, in turn, making life's journey worth traveling.Galloway guides you along the road through valleys and mountains, but eventually arrives at a comfortable place where he writes, 'rest newcomers, the old has failed.' Throughout Mindgarden Volume I, the poet holds a mirror to himself while quietly, albeit lyrically, ushering you with each turning page to forgiveness and love.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Clarice Burden grew up in a family rich in love, but poor in wealth. Despite her humble beginnings, Burden never let go of her dreams to become something better. She chronicles her amazing journey of joy, sadness, despair, and hope in What's From The Heart Touches The Heart.With a compelling mixture of poetry and prose, Burden artfully describes her life, from a little girl determined to succeed in life, to a frazzled single teenage mother struggling to make ends meet, and finally, to a college graduate accepting Jesus Christ as her savior. With God at the helm, Burden discovered the amazing power of His love and its wonderful influence in her life.If you're trying to find answers in life and coming up short, What's from the Heart Touches the Heart will encourage you to continue the good fight with its inspiring message of hope.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Without the Divine Mother principle incorporated into one's concept of 'God,' half the story regarding divine nature is not told.'-Toby Alexander, author of The Great MasterIvonne Delaflor's stunning collection of devotional poems sets in motion the Divine Feminine within your consciousness so that her compassion and wisdom will become a part of you. The poetry, the stories, the prayers, and the higher invocations included in this collection are not only about God as the feminine force in heaven, but are also for the God in everyone and everything-the feminine in each flower, each living creature, and each cell. The Divine Feminine lives in all creation. Whether you are male or female, let Divine Mother reawaken the Divine Feminine energies within you.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Nestled in a remote area of northwestern Pennsylvania, the small town of Tidioute became home to five cutlery manufacturers starting in the late-1800s. Although no longer in existence, these businesses produced some of the finest collectible knives and razors ever.Tidioute: A Town With an Edge relates the history and development of this unique stronghold of cutlery companies and how they competed with one another in the area known as the 'Magic Circle' of cutlery firms. These manufacturers included the Tidioute Cutlery Co. (LTD), Union Razor/Union Cutlery, Baldwin Cutlery, Tidioute Cutlery Co. and Penn Cutlery.With an ardent sense of detail, David Anthony shows how the cutlery tradition was handed down over multiple generations and involved keen business sense mixed with tragedy and luck. Anthony also includes photos of the various tang stamps used by the companies and a price guide to help determine the value of cutlery from this historic town.A must-have for the serious collector of fine antique knives, particularly those manufactured in Tidioute, this guide is also an in-depth, well-researched record of this unique Pennsylvania community.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this starkly humorous novel, set in post World-War 2 England, we experience the realities of life on the sprawling, sooty streets of Yorkshire. Martin Rooney is a young man, scarred by a childhood of bombings, black-outs and bad news followed by three years of traumatic service in R.A.F. Bomber Command, only to find equally bleak prospects for post-war employment. He signs on as an officer of the Crown and enters a world that he had never imagined, a world which quickly alters his view of policemen as angels of justice.Through Martin's eyes, we experience drunkenness, corruption, crime and death, viewed with gentle empathy and rare understanding. We ride with him through the bustle of life, seeing facets of the criminal world not usually considered; the imperfections of a deeply flawed criminal justice system and the day to day distortion of truth and honesty which results.A rich narrative by an author with intimate knowledge of the era, Never Pure and Seldom Simple offers a glimpse into the reality of life, bereft of glamour but still full of honesty, warmth, humor and affection.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The search for love is a pursuit every one of us can identify with. When love is found, the heart is overjoyed and liberated. But what happens to the spirit when love is lost With the heart of a poet and the pen of a songwriter, Larry Norman McCollum presents his first tome of poetry. Comprised of a lifetime's worth of poetry and songs, Love for All Mankind is indeed a labor of love for McCollum, who intends to finish out his twilight years sharing his gift of writing with the world.McCollum writes of the glorious nature of love found: 'I fall to my knees every night and ask God why he has brought someone to me that I love with all my heart and soul. / What did I do to deserve such an angel from heaven ' and wistfully looks back at love lost: 'Your touch was soft and gentle. / Your smile was a memory in my mind. / I guess I'll never find a love as true as the one I had with you. / And I'll always wonder why, how your heart turned blue.'A book of love-pursued, found, and lost-Love for All Mankind is full of poetry that touches the heart.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Spanning twenty years in the lives of a special young man and his mother, Attics of the Mind is a compelling account of Laura Lustig's journey in raising her son, Jesse, who has mental and physical challenges.Jesse seems just like any other child for the first few months of life. But as the ages pass when he should be achieving developmental milestones-crawling, walking, and talking-Laura knows something is not right. Jesse is soon diagnosed with cerebral palsy and its complications, changing the lives of everyone in the Lustig family.In Attics of the Mind, Laura expresses her innermost doubts, emotional pain, coping strategies, and the strengths she developed in dealing with her child's needs within his home, social, and educational environments. She also introduces us to other families and to the hidden qualities of the children with whom she worked. For current and future parents as well as professionals, Laura's experiences provide an inside look at the courage and fortitude needed by parents and gives new insights to light the way.Dramatic, poignant, and tender, Attics of the Mind is a testimony to the truly heroic efforts of parents who cope with adversity, and the special bonds forged in caring for a child with special needs.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - I Don't Mean to Smash Your Tomatoes, Honey! A Glimpse at Life's Perspectives from A to Z offers a compilation of essays that have been organized into 26 chapters. Each chapter focuses on a life perspective that is based upon a letter of the alphabet from A-Z. The essays featured provide global insight on a myriad of issues relevant to women of all ages, races, backgrounds, and social classes. We hope the expressions of these women will validate your own convictions and convey to you the message that your outlook is important and shared by many. Get ready to be enticed, engaged, and entertained. The 'smashing' is soon to begin.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the second novel involving the Virginia Militia featured in James E. Eubanks's A Southern Wind, Virginia billionaire and militia leader Claiborne Randolph is a highly powerful personal advisor to the U.S. president, and former government intelligence agent James Benton Stark is now a U.S. senator. This time, they're fighting a hideous virus infecting the people of the United States: illegal drugs.The presidential administration sends Lieutenant General John Hanberry and his forces to destroy the drug infrastructure of Colombia and confront China's growing influence in the old Canal Zone and Latin America. Hanberry's army is determined to end the perpetual cycle of human destruction caused by that insidious commerce-and they succeed.Emboldened by success in Colombia and Panama, the government, now led by President Randolph and Senator Stark, begins a new era of an American Democratic Empire based on the U.S. Constitution and the principles of freedom written by the Founding Fathers. But a bigger problem hides in the desert sands of Iran, one that won't be nearly as easy as their victories in Latin America and may just signal the end of the Virginia Militia .…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Eric Richtofen had been reported missing by his older brother Conrad on Christmas Eve. Local Sugar Springs, Ohio authorities had called in the FBI as a precautionary measure. Following several days of the most intense search in the history of Sugar Springs, details of the unsuccessful search for Eric Richtofen had not as yet been revealed to the public. 'Area 62', also known as Chamberlain Heights, is a top-secret government facility, located nineteen miles west of Sugar Springs. The site was selected in the early 1960's for the development of rocket fuel to power the Redstone Rocket, which the United States used to launch man into space and to the moon. Now, over forty years later, the government was once again using 'Area 62' for top-secret 'black box' projects.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Flaring tensions over Jerusalem's Temple Mount have led to the complete structural collapse of the Dome of the Rock. Prophesied for millennia, the final terror is at hand, followed by seven long years of apocalyptic warfare locked in stalemate. And then the war is over. Or so it would seem.From out of nowhere, and to the cheers of an exhausted globe, a charismatic teacher and mystic calling himself Janus Philio has crowned himself King of kings in Jerusalem. World-healing miracles ensue, but is he the second coming of Jesus Christ-which he refuses to call himself-or another in a seemingly endless series of Antichrists Meanwhile, rising from obscurity in plague-ravaged Los Angeles, preacher's son and former NFL superstar Julian 'the Mighty' Quinn leads a grassroots rebellion that topples the war-happy government in Washington, propelling him to the pinnacle of American political power. Viewed as the only counterweight to Philio's heresy, Quinn soon falls under the spell of a secret society known only as 'the Guardians' set on assassinating the King of kings to hasten a return to traditional values. It's after Armageddon that the ultimate battle over the future of mankind on Earth begins.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Just when things seem as bad as they can be, with Del torn between a mother who hates Del's Hispanic spouse and a spouse determined to be part of the family, Del's daughter makes an announcement which adds new and unsolvable racial tension to the stew-pot of problems. Mission Impossible turns into Mission Unthinkable. In recurring nightmares, Del drives but can't see the road ahead. Someone has curtained the windshield, or she moves through heavy fog or a blinding snowstorm-or her headlights won't come on. Again, she is not driving but riding the train-and her spouse climbs off and abandons her, promising, 'I'll meet you in Syracuse.' Something has to be done about the situation-but what Is there a solution. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Few American spiritual teachers of recent years have inspired others as lovingly as Ron Roth. After serving the Roman Catholic Church as a priest for twenty-five years, Roth left to pursue a more universal spirituality, teaching the possibility of a one-to-one relationship with Divinity as well as the belief that healing and enlightenment are available to all people.Speaking from the cornerstone teachings that have inspired his ministry, Roth journals his reflections on his personal realizations in The Sacred Light of Healing. He reflects on the Holy Spirit, the original teachings of Jesus, and the inner way of the ancient monks known as the Therapeutae. Roth also discusses his late-life journey to India and an awakening to his own work for global peace.As related to and written by Roger Montgomery, this first-person account is Roth's moving true story of how we all can move into a closer relationship of Oneness with God.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - On the morning of her centennial birthday, Amelia Moorland wakes from a recurring dream and instinctively knows she will be dead by the end of the day. For eighty years, she has been haunted by a tragedy that occurred in the cold waters of Nantucket Sound-and it is now time to break her silence.A rambunctious twenty-year-old in the early 1900s, Amelia follows her childhood friend, Samantha, onto the ferry from Nantucket. Samantha ties herself to her heavy suitcase, picks it up, and jumps into the ocean. Amelia dives after her and struggles to bring Samantha back to the surface. But Samantha is too heavy, and Amelia has no choice but to let her go. When the authorities open an investigation, no one believes Amelia's anguished account-and her reputation is ruined. Eighty years later, in an attempt to clear her name, Amelia recounts her story. From the early years of twentieth-century Nantucket, to New York City and the battlefields of World War I France, Amelia gives a detailed account of her extraordinary life, one filled with joy, disappointment, loss, and enduring love. But no one knows if Amelia's finally telling the truth-or permanently covering up a decades-long mystery.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In 1889, one of the worst environmental disasters to befall the United States occurred in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2,200 people died when a poorly maintained sporting dam gave way and destroyed the town.Only minutes before the catastrophe, a nineteen-year-old girl enters a church in Johnstown, puts a letter into a bottle, and places it inside a safe. In the year 2009, that safe is unearthed. The letter reveals that the author knew of the impending flood. At the same time, laboratory experiments in Russia have far-reaching implications. In what could prove to be the scientific discovery of the ages, researchers uncover a rare genetic mutation that could scientifically explain the clairvoyant powers exhibited by prophets of old.At the epicenter of the ensuing maelstrom, Dr. Victor Mark Silverstein, the Naval Research Laboratory's preeminent scientist, and his loyal assistant tangle with greedy U.S. senators, the CIA, and a Middle Eastern organization for verification and control of the 'prophecy gene.' The hunt begins for a present-day carrier who could confirm the gene's potential and prompt development of a synthetic replacement. At stake is theological chaos for the world's religions-and the power to control the planet.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Set in the aftermath of Bordering On Hatred, John Overland has been hired by the Tohono O'odham Reservation outside of Tucson, Arizona, for one reason: find the person that tried to smuggle a bomb across its borders. It doesn't matter that he knows he will be fired as soon as he has that answer. John isn't Native American and that alone is enough for the tribe to fire him once he does what they ask of him. It starts innocently enough with a dead duck jammed into the window of John's pickup one morning in October. That leads him to a man who lives in Tucson, a man who is pimping his wife's niece. Going to talk to the man, John discovers him dead. That death will lead him to answers about himself, his country and the reservation he has sworn to protect. They are all here: John, Kathy-his pregnant wife, Speaker and Dorinda-his daughters, plus his son, Josh and his wife, Simone. They are his reason for doing this. In the end, he will find there are other reasons for loyalty. Those reasons will propel him to find the answers for the O'odham and for himself.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Carl and I must make twenty trips back and forth carrying wounded to those who can offer comfort and medical aid. Each time I look at our litter-now covered with blood and gore-and wonder whether we've done our bit in time. Others scurry about clearing the aftermath of the battle. Burial details are already working to inter the dead before daylight and scavengers descend on this killing ground. The smell is worse than any hog butchering I was ever a party to. Already I can hear the buzz of flies and see the beady little eyes of small animals drawn to the smell of fresh blood.We stand over one soldier writhing in this 'sacred ground' as the sergeant called it and lift him ever so gently onto the litter. These men's blood may make the ground sacred, but by now I can see this place for what it actually is-a sea of Virginia mud trying to clutch and claim the dying. This wounded boy wears the blue of the Feds. He's calling out a name and reaching toward me, grasping at me with his trembling fingers as I lean closer. A strange feeling of comradeship comes to me when I realize how like my own fellow soldiers this Yankee fighter looks-just another man doing his duty, whatever his beliefs may be.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - I want to share with you a secret. It might surprise you at first, so allow yourself to read it three or four times if you have to. That's normal. Ready All you have ever dreamt of in life can be yours if you want it.Everybody wants something, whether it's confidence, a lean body, a soul mate, or material possessions. You probably already know what you're wonderful 'something' is, but it's buried underneath too many reasons why you shouldn't have it.Sam Chauhan understands-and he's learned how to make his dreams into reality. Now, he's here to show you how this gift can be yours. In Mind's Power Unleashed, Sam Chauhan guides you in thinking, acting, and feeling differently to facilitate positive changes in your life. He also explains the importance of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a set of techniques, axioms, and beliefs that are used as an approach to personal development.Sam Chauhan is not going to change your life. You are going to change your life-and Mind's Power Unleashed can show you how to fulfill your every dream. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Craig Mayeux's novel is a searing, searching portrait of mirth and misery, crammed with tender innocence, optimistic bonding and crashing sorrow-all weighed down by blind cultural precepts.Two boys, who share a crib in a New York institution, are suddenly immersed as 'orphan train' riders into Louisiana's Cajun/Creole folkways. One is adopted by a childless, doting couple; the other is indentured to hard-luck, hardscrabble farmers.The former is spoiled beyond gratification; the other abused emotionally and physically with heart-aching, backbreaking servitude.Throughout the continuing counterpoint of bare bones versus largesse, the boys stay true to their anthem of being Brothers Forever.The author knows of what he writes. His grandfather, George Leary, was an indentured 'orphan train' boy, who traveled from New York to Cottonport, Louisiana in the early twentieth century.Myron TassinAuthor/co-author of 20 books, including,Why Me Lord Recollections of a CottonpickerNous Sommes Acadiens/We Are Acadians.…