The New Season

Alan and Lisa Robertson, members of America’s favorite back woods family and the Duck Commander Clan, take on the topic of relationships as they share the secrets that saved their marriage. Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame. Unfortunately, these are recurring themes in many of today’s marriages in America—even in the family-values-promoting, Christian-based Robertson family. With a romance that began in junior high, the couple got off to a rocky start but soon settled into married life and had two baby girls. Alan became a pastor in the church where his family had been members for years. Then, when Lisa had an affair, the heartache and the tension was very public. But this is not a book about a marriage gone wrong. It is a candid story of rescued love and renewed commitment. After nearly getting divorced, Alan and Lisa came to terms with what went wrong in their marriage and both began the hard work of making it right. Now married for twenty-nine years, Alan and Lisa counsel couples in trouble and speak across the country—openly sharing their hardships, their journey to renewed commitment, and a thriving marriage.

This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports opportunities for women students if they replaced the current commercial model with one that emphasizes student participation. This would benefit the college students who play varsity sports, instead of benefiting the coaches, athletic directors, or over-generous boosters who dominate many programs. In Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education, schools have been handed a golden opportunity to bring fiscal sanity and academic integrity back to their campuses by once again making students, and not money, the focal point of athletic policies. This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports opportunities for women students if they replace the current commercial model with one that emphasizes student participation. This would benefit the college students who play varsity sports, instead of benefiting the coaches, athletic directors, or over-generous boosters who dominate many programs. Reformist tinkering has done little to solve the deep-seated problems plaguing college sports. Porto argues that replacing the enormous commercial pressures corrupting college sports with a student-oriented participation model can solve these problems. Fiscal sanity, academic integrity, personal responsibility, and gender equity in college sports are possible. Faculty members can lead a broader movement to reclaim their institutions from the college sports industry. This book shows how college sports may once again be the integral part of the educational program the NCAA advertises them to be—and that they should be.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtful exploration of aging, loss, family, friendship, and love, all with his trademark humour and heart. Jack McMaster seemingly has it all. A beautiful house, a loving son of many talents (including cooking, which is great news for Jack, if not for his waistline), even a special bond with his buddies in his ball hockey league. But he’s also learning to live with loss, leaving a gaping hole in his life—a life that will never be the same as before. Jack passes his days knowing he has the support of his family and his friends, but he can’t shake the feeling that his life has gone gray, and that time is slipping by so quickly. Then, a short and shocking video from an unexpected source gives him the gumption to make a change and maybe even haul himself out of his melancholia. Inspired by his lifelong fascination with 1920s Paris, Jack finally visits the City of Light, following in the footsteps of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and wandering the Left Bank. Slowly, the colour seeps back into his life, aided by a chance encounter in a café that leads Jack into the art world, and a Paris mystery nearly a century old. Full of sincerity and warmth, A New Season shows us all that sometimes, making a change in your life can save your life.

A Robertson family love story of brokenness and redemption.

Dianne Rossol’s latest book of poetry and prose delves into the beauty of transitions. From literal changes in seasons to evolutions within ourselves, A Sweet New Season: Reflections explores the wisdom that comes with life experience. As we age, we have the opportunity to look at life through different lenses. While humanity naturally approaches youth with single-minded self-involvement, as we grow older, we start to recognize the many people, things, and experiences that enrich life. We learn to cultivate gratitude for both the objects and connections that surround us, but also the concepts we understand on a more visceral level, like faith and spirituality. A Sweet New Season explores—with unerring relatability—relationships and their importance, both in cultivating them and letting them go. Rossol’s poems and short stories go to the heart of what it means to live authentically. She celebrates love and family, frailty and grief, that intangible sense of belonging, and the wisdom of knowing that not all questions will or can be answered. In truth, Rossol celebrates all aspects of life, without the need for those rose-coloured glasses.

This collection of essays probes the values in a variety of authors who have had in common the fact of popularity and erstwhile reputation. Why were they esteemed? Who esteemed them? And what has become of their reputations, to readers, to the critic himself? No writer here has been asked to justify the work of his subject, and reports and conclusions about this wide variety of creative writers vary, sometimes emphasizing what the critic believes to be enduring qualities in the subject, in several cases finding limitations in what that writer has to offer us today.

As an Eastern Kentucky native from a small coal mining town, Emily's life has become a fairy tale. Her successful music career more than fulfills her ambitions for fame and fortune; however, her true happiness lies with her beloved husband Robert and their two children. When a horrible coal mining accident turns Emily's world upside down, she travels to Australia hoping to find a peace that can help heal her broken heart. There, Emily meets Colt, an outback cattle station owner. Sparks fly, and though several misunderstandings occur that portray Emily as a gold digger, Colt is maddeningly attracted to her. Can a new love rise from the ashes of Emily's grief and overcome numerous hurdles and misconceptions? Mixed emotions for a love that was, one that is, and the one that will last throughout eternity weave intricately through the pages of A New Season of Love. Tonia Hopson was born in Matewan, West Virginia in 1951, but grew up in Phelps, Pike County, Kentucky, where she still lives today.For ten years, Tonia was an elementary and middle school teacher, then became an elementary principal for eight years and has worked in the capacity of Pike County Schools' district instructional supervisor for the last six years. Tonia's previously published books include: Coal Dust to Stardust, Daisies to Roses, and Primitive Desires. All her novels are romantic fiction with a touch of action/adventure, capturing the positive qualities of the people of the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. http: //SBPRA.com/ToniaHopso

Political tension deepens between the government and its corporate partner over the plan to restore the people of Sestanus to rightful citizenship. Recriminations over the once-secret, now-public dossier separate the two groups, locked in a debate over contract rights while the global pace of operations slows. Esperian continues to question his role in these events as he struggles to rectify his own actions against the peaceful group, People’s Free State, coupled with the classified information revealed by his hidden contact within the Fed itself. Esperian also acts on insights recently learned to be more expressive and engage more with the people around him, impacting his understanding of what it means to lead and not just serving as squad sergeant. He recognizes the opportunities lost to his aloofness, striving to overcome his awkwardness to build meaningful experiences and learn more about himself. Esperian’s orientation within the Kulusai band complete, his current relationships grow while meeting new members and investigating an ever-deepening mystery as to their true goal on Sestanus. Can Esperian keep competing interests aligned to protect his squad—itself still suffering for the loss of one of its own—do his job, and work toward a better future for the people of Sestanus or will he face increasing pressure to pick a side?

Jo’s death looms over them like a cloak over the day, dulling the sun and clouding their hearts. All the girls process in different ways, changing them. Lost in their grief but still holding onto a glimmer of hope. Kate finally finds her niece, Shelby Pryde, in a rehabilitation school in Washington State. Sean supports Kate in bringing Shelby to California. Shelby is standoffish and is only willing to stay in California for as long as needed. Until Emma and a bevy of other seers are kidnapped by what they think is another faction of the Apocalypse. This sends Amy, Darci, and Shelby on a while goose chase around the city, seeking their friend. Can they find her in time?