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Ten Sisters
A True Story
Virginia Rackley, Deloris Hart, Rhita Brniak, Mary Margaret Hickmott, Irma Swierk Allen, Pauline Ariel, Phyllis Ferguson, Vera Barber, Audrey Alford, Doris R. Wenzel
Nonfiction SoftcoverPhotos
Fourth Printing/Second Ed
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804481-8 or ISBN 978 187804481-5
The separation of ten Sisters in 1942 led to this work each sister writing her own candid chapter
Ten Sisters has captured the interest of many, including Family Circle Magazine, and in 2004, it won a Public Television's Gracie Allen Award.
Articles based on the book, Ten Sisters: A True Story have won additional awards for journalists. A second television documentary, based closely on the book, Ten Sisters will be aired on many PBS stations across the country beginning in December 2007. Ask your local PBS stations for times and dates.
"....These are distinct voices." American Library Association
"....I could not lay it down....This book lends credibility to the theory that sibling ties should never be severed..." May E. Johnson, Founder & Exec. Director, Orphan Train Heritage Society of America
"While each of the ten sisters wrote her own story...weaving through each chapter is the need for family, the need for stability...." Award-winning article by Bill Lair, Mid-America Newspapers
"...The experience of writing the book reunited them in a way their parents could not." Kirby Pringle, Champaign News Gazette
Ten Sisters: A True Story is included in the reading list at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
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Audio Book
Ten Sisters: A True Story
Rackley et. al.
$64.95 - $4.22 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 978 193227829-3
Recorded in 1997
Read by the Sisters
See Children's Illustrated Books
A DVD of the PBS documentary is available through WILL (217 333 1070).
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To Send A Dove
One Womans Triumph Over Breast Cancer
Delores Hackett Rutherford
Nonfiction
Original Softcover Photos
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804479-6 or ISBN 978 187804479-2
Delores Hackett Rutherford's To Send A Dove, is being used in a program in Western Illinois for those newly diagnosed with breast cancer
A straight-talking survivor of breast cancer, the author is both moving and engaging. She holds on to faith and hope in this insightful journey.
"I wish every breast cancer patient could read To Send A Dove...." John Robert McFarland, author, cancer survivor, Now That I have Cancer I am Whole
"...You'll come away with new insights and perspectives." Bill Nelson, former copyeditor and feature writer, The Milwaukee Journal
"...a sensitive and powerful journey of courage and faith." David R. Collins, retired teacher and author of 77 books for young readers
"...the way breast cancer is ...impossibly unreal and all-too-frighteningly real...." Roald Tweet, Professor, Augustana College
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A Somalia Journal
Mark Rausenberger
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$12.95 - $0.87 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804426-5 or ISBN 978 187804426-6
Rausenberger served dutifully in Somalia, but what he experienced both surprised and discouraged him.
"Soldiers get lonely and angry in Rausenberger's book..." Laurie Miles, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Blackhawk Down told of the horrors of Somalia, but for most soldiers it was less horrifying, but no less disillusioning. This simple journal, mixed with letters to and from home, expresses what many soldiers felt in a nearly forgotten war.

Council of Angels
Jo Long
Nonfiction Original Softcover
$12.95 - $0.87 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804474-5 or ISBN 978 187804474-7
Original Softcover
This book provides absorbing questions about the limitations and creations of the soul.
This is no ordinary autobiography. Jo Long reports a life as reluctant receiver of spiritually inspired writings and the company of unexpected angels.
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Sister & Me
Gertrude Stonesifer
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$7.95 - $.54 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804462-1 or ISBN 978 187804462-4
An artist, Stonesifer began writing in her late 80's, and published three books for children with Mayhaven and Wild Rose (Mayhaven Imprint): The Peanut Butter Kid, The Monarch, The Snow Goose & the Butterfly Tree, and Then and Now Stories. Sister & Me, an autobiography for older children and adults, provides insight into her influences and inspirations.
The late Gertrude Stonesifer became a friend, and we spent many hours working on her books and enjoying a good meal or a drive where Gertrude saw art in everyday objects and told of her adventures. Marrying late, she was adveturous. She took a tramp steamer to South America during the 1930s, and when her young husband died suddenly, she took over his newspaper while caring for her infant son. Life was an adventure for Gertrude and every conversation with Gertrude is memorable.

Gertrude Stonesifer
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Two Walk the Golden Road
Two Soldiers, Two Cultures, Their Histories Entwined
Wilson Powell & Zhou Ming Fu
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804482-6 or ISBN 978 187804482-2
Some books are informative, many are entertaining, and some are very important. In these toubled times, this book offers the readers all three advantages.
Two men, one from the United States, one from China, fought on the treeless slopes of Korea, experiencing love and loss, political upheavals, and personal devils, and who, years later and by chance, became great friends.
Wilson Powell is the son of an American scientist, whose work helped develop the atomic bomb. Zhou Ming-Fu is the son of a Chinese shopkeeper. Both men, through essays and letters, have sought to come to terms with the influences of their lives.
"...this moved me to rethink...how diverse the world is, while still carrying the common bonds of family, friends and love...." Reader, Gerry Biala
"...peace among men, valuing diversity, respecting different cultures, and seeing all our human frailties...." Reader, Debbie Haley
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95 Years With John Jack Day The Orphan Nobody Wanted
John "Jack" Day
Nonfiction Original HardcoverPhotos
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804455-9 or ISBN 978 187804455-6
This very candid autobiography includes Day's estrangement from his only son, his reaction to his first wife's love affair, to the Great Depression, to his own love affair, and to a long-term, but limited second marriage. An active, competent, and graceful man until his last days, Day left a truly honest legacy in this story of an ordinary man.Reared in London's famous Barnardo's Orphanage, Day, as a 10-year-old child, was sent across the north Atlantic to work on a farm in Canada. Work eventually led him to America and the train yards of the midwest, always searching for a home of his own...
This book arrived two weeks before John Day's death. Alert to the end, he showed it to the steady stream of visitors who came in and out of his room. It was, he said, something he had to do.
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Brother Mine
Lessons Learned
Mike Odell
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S&H
ISBN 193227803-6 or ISBN 978 193227803-3

Brother Mine Audio Book
AUDIO $24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S&H
ISBN 978 193227831-6 or ISBN 193227831-1
Brother Mine takes us through a Midwestern saga of life's journey, the small dramas and the big life-challenging dramas. Mike's insightful prose moves the reader quietly, but powerfully, through a world of family, career, and passions that create a life and shape relationships." Dan Davis, editor and publisher , Victory Lane Magazine
"Their personalities, their work and their lives were different, but childhood lessons and interests that began in childhood held them together. From the beginning they embraced technology, especially anything to do with wheels. From wagons, to bicycles, to carsgreat carsthey found a common bond for life." Lee Publications
A reader writes: "...the manner in which the book was written just 'pulled' me back to a better era that caused me to reminisce about...that time....You caused me to ...realize how good it really was, back then. I believe your book would bring back 'simpler time' thoughts to anybody from the forties and fifties..." Larry Lowe
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Dear Family
A Family Saga through Letters, Diaries and Personal Stories
Marjorie Heaton Lynn
This book was nominated for an award by the Iowa Historical Society
Nonfiction Original HardcoverPhotos
$29.95 - $2.04 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804459-1 or ISBN 978 187804459-4
Includes four Civil War Journals
First of a Series
Seven Generations of an Iowa Family
Journals are one of the oldest forms of writing, and a favorite genre of many.

Marjorie Heaton Lynn
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Sugar From Lettuce
The 1930's
Marjorie Heaton Lynn
Nonfiction Original HardcoverPhotos
$39.95 - $2.70 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804467-2 or ISBN 978 187804467-9
The second volume in a series about seven generations of one extraodinary Iowa Family included preachers, teachers, a politician, successful inventors, Civil War soldiers, and musicians. Familiar names include: The George family, the Osmond family, The Nolte family, the Heaton family, and the Lynn Family.
Watch for the third volume, Life is a Song
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On the Wings of Love
Michael's Story
A Grandsons Life and Deathfrom Kawasaki's Disease
Donna Rhodes Collins
Nonfiction Original HardcoverPhotos
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804452-4 or ISBN 978 187804452-6
Dr. Kawasaki discovered the disease named after him, Kawasaki's disease. Collins' book, On The Wings of Love: Michael's Story, is the only known book on Kawasaki's disease for those outside the medical profession. Collins wrote of her grandson's death from heart failure resulting from Kawasaki's disease, and the American Heart Association believes complications from Kawasaki's is the number one cause of death f rom heart failure in American children.
A reader from the UK wrote: "....I have just finished reading your book about your Grandson Mikie....thank you for having the insight to put your tragedy into print. It was so helpful to read the same feelings of disbelief and sadness when a member of your family is subjected to KD....There needs to be much more awareness."
"Devastated by grief...Collins has written...in hopes of alerting other families..." Sue Ann Wood, St Louis Post Dispatch
"...insight about how families deal with illness...can help the medical profession." Dr. Ian C. Balfour, M.D.
"The disease strikes children under the age of eight. How the disease is contracted is not known, and at times it is fatal."
Amy DeHart, County Star Journal
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Lena
Murder in Southern Indiana
Christine Righthouse
Nonfiction Original HardcoverPhotos
Limited First Edition
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804473-7 or ISBN 978 187804473-0
A murder through the eyes of the victim's mother, the media, and the courts.
This story captured the imagination of Cosmopolitan magazine when they told the story from the perspective of Lena's sister, Alicia.
Scottsburg rests justs off Interstate 65, the main artery running north and south through America's heartland. The tree-covered hills shelter small farms and tiny, unexpected neighborhoods set miles from the main roads. Peaceful, idyllic places where windows are scrubbed, women still hang laundry outside to dry, where neighbors share local gossip and older children ride upand down the gravel roads on dirt bikes purchased by hard-working parents.The houses show pride in ownership, rising out of the rocky soil and carefully tended front yards and backyards that fall gently away to tree lines so thick they mask the rising sun.
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Chicken Tommy & Other Stories
Richard Thomas
Nonfiction - Original Softcover - Photos
$14.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804416-8 or ISBN 978 187804416-7
Also Available in Special Hardcover EditionLimited Edition $24.95
Witness the rise and fall of the Broomcorn industrythe impact of the Illinois Central and the legendary City of New Orleansthe legacy of "The Slab", lodge life, barbershops and cafes. Discover Humboldt's connections to the famous (folksinger Burl Ives and former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar) and to the near famous (Chicken Tommy and a host of friends)and observe the changes wrought by time, technology, and war.
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Elizabeth Terwilliger
Someone Special
Phyllis M. Stanley
Nonfiction - Original SoftcoverPhotos
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804454-0 or ISBN 978 187804454-9
Children's Biography of famous Naturalist Elizabeth Terwilliger
Stanley first became interested in Terwilliger when she visited the Richardson Bay Audubon Center. She participated in many discovery walks with Terwilliger. Stanley's book is written for young people and features many photgraphs of Terwilliger and scenes from her work.
"...Stanley's books...reiterate...the progress of humanity is only as good as the values by which it is driven, and those values must include our environment and be demonstrated to our children." Christine Cole, Northern California Parent Magazine
"...what Ms. T's life is all about." Director, WildCare: Terwilliger Nature Education Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
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Abraham Lincoln:
From Skeptic to Prophet
Wayne C. Temple
The Renowned Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, Illinois, has listed, from over 10,000 books and pamphlets on Lincoln, their "Essential Lincoln Book Shelf." We are pleased to announce that Wayne C. Temple's Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet (Mayhaven Publishing) is included in these significant 161 time-honored titles.
A definitive work on Lincoln's Spiritual Life.
Many new and little-known facts.
Nonfiction First Edition (Limited Supply)-Hardcover-Photos
$29.95 - $2.04 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804436-2 or ISBN 978 187804436-5
Second EditionHardcoverPhotos
$29.95 $2.04 IL Tax $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804436-2 or ISBN 978 187804436-5
Watch for author and historian Wayne C. Temple on the History Channel on on a new PBS documentary
Dr. Wayne C. Temple has been a guest on the History Channel and is a member of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
We do not include reviews here as Abraham Lincoln: Skeptic to Prophet is the most reviewed book among all of Mayhaven's titles.
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"The Taste Is In My Mouth A Little..."
Lincoln's Victuals and Potables
Wayne C. Temple
Nonfiction Limited First Edition HardcoverPhotos
$39.95 - $2.70 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804441-9 or ISBN 978 187804441-9
This book by world-class historian, Wayne C. Temple, includes the entire text of the 1843 Editon of Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches (known to have been used in the Lincoln household). This book is appreciated by historians and cookbook collectors.
....a fascinating and important book. Wayne C. Temple, the great Lincoln scholar, has combed everything ever written about the Civil War President to produce a delightful account of what the Lincolns ate and drank and how their food was prepared. This book, like the recipes from Miss Leslies Directions for Cookery, Mary Lincolns cookbook, is a gourmets delight. David Herbert Donald, author of Lincoln and We Are Lincoln MenWith this intriguing volume, chock full of fresh information, the indefatigable Wayne Temple adds to the long and distinguished list of contributions he has made to the Lincoln literature. Yet again, he has earned the gratitude of all who wish to know the true historical Lincoln. Michael Burlingame, Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus
....Here, at last, is Lincolns recipe for success: the first informed guide to our great presidents taste in food and drink. With his usual precise attention to detail, his flair for the good story, and his uncanny ability to find new and fascinating information, Lincoln scholar Wayne Temple has unlocked valuable secrets that have long eluded other historians. The author and the subject are perfectly matched, and the resultin a wordis a feast. Harold Holzer
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By Square & Compass
Saga of the Lincoln Home
Wayne C. Temple
Nonfiction SoftcoverPhotos
Revised Second Edition
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804480-X or ISBN 978 187804480-8
The Lincoln's only home, located in Springfield, Illinois, has offered up many stories, some humorous, some poignant, and some very surprising.
Anyone who ever lived in the Lincoln Home

Dr. Wayne C. TemplePhoto by Quintin Porter

Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen
During the Last Days of His Life
Original Hardcover
$23.95 - $1.51 IL Tax - $5.00 S&H
ISBN 193227839-7 or ISBN 978 193227839-2
Once again, Lincoln scholar extraordinaire Wayne Temple has filled a void in the Lincoln literature with an authoritative, exhaustive, and irresistibly lively account of one of the 16th Presidents favorite perks: his riverboat. Any Lincoln enthusiast lucky enough to pick it up will find it impossible to set aside; impeccably researched, it reads like an adventure story. The River Queen was a witness to history. Fortunately for us, so is Wayne Temple. Harold Holzer, co-chairman, U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Lincolns Travels on the River Queen provides readers with careful detective work placed in a rich narrative. Temple offers new information about a well-known event. Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian
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Abraham Lincoln and Illinois' Fifth Capitol
Sunderine (Wilson) Temple
Wayne C. Temple
Nonfiction Revised Second EditionHardcover - Photos
$29.95 - $2.04 IL Tax - $6.00 S & H
ISBN 193227815-X or ISBN 978 193227815-6
Lincoln and the Long Nine brought Illinois' Fifth Capitol to Springfield, Illinois. This structure, a short walk from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, is filled with the history of Lincoln, and other great figures that walked its halls. Included in this journey through history are the men and women who built this edifice and the behind-the-scenes incidents that fill the pages with wonderful facts.
No one knows more about Springfield or its State Capitol than the citys legendary resident historian Wayne C. Temple, or his wife, the buildings longtime guide, Sunderine Temple. In their new book they combine prodigious research, an unerring appreciation for the great men who made history in this landmark, an ear for lively stories, and a dazzling storehouse of intricate detail, to create a long-needed, enchanting, and definitive study of one of the most important buildings in the life of Abraham Lincoln and his hometown. At last, one of Springfields great temples has found the perfect Temples to chronicle it with coherence and verve. Harold Holzer, Co-Chairman, U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
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Alexander Williamson
Friend of the Lincolns
Wayne C. Temple
Nonfiction Collectors Item
Original SoftcoverPhotos
$12.95 - $0.67 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
Published by the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin and included here at the request of the author

Abraham Lincoln & Others at the St Nicholas
Wayne C. Temple
COLLECTOR'S ITEM
Original SoftcoverPhotos
Limited Edition
$9.95 $0.67 IL Tax $5.00 S & H
Published privately in the 1960's (the book even displays the original price) this collector's item is an early publication penned by Temple.
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The Many Faces of Lincoln
Selected Articles from the Lincoln Herald
Ed.by: Charles M. Hubbard, Thomas R. Turner, and Steven K. Rogstad
Nonfiction Softcover EditionPhotos
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804453-2 or ISBN 978 187804453-2
Special Limited Hardcover EditionPhotos
$35.00 $2.25 IL Tax $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804453-2 or ISBN 978 187804453-2
COLLECTOR'S ITEM
Full of captivating articles, this book is like a painting, full of texture, surprise and colorful events and people, all having to do with Lincoln
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Basil Moores Lincoln
Basil Ward Moore
Illustrations by Lloyd Ostendorf
Nonfiction Original
HardcoverPhotos/Illustrations
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804402-8 or ISBN 978 187804402-0
Stories by and about Lincoln based on Basil Ward Moores humorous lectures which he delivered in nearly every state in the union for over forty years.
"....Basil Moore...is a man of innate charm, with a twinkle in his eye, an appreciation of the sly humor of Abe Lincoln, but at the same time is deadly serious in his skillful use of yarns...to convey a faultless image of the 16th President as a human being." Dr. Harry V. Wann
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Misuse of Power
How the Far Right Gained and Misuses Power
Ed Asner & Burt Hall
Nonfiction (Exzcept for satire in Chapter 6)
Original Softcover
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S&H
ISBN 193227814-1 or ISBN 978 193227814-9
This primer on current politics is a must-read, especially for those outside the Washington D.C. beltway who wonder about what drives government policy.
This book has been called "Truthful," "Honest," and "Enlightening."

Authors: Edward Asner and Burt Hall
This is a book that speaks to people in ordinary language about some extraordinary events
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Americas Rural Hub
Trains in Central Illinois during the late 20th Century
Stanley A. Changnon
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$39.95 - $2.70 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804404-4 or ISBN 978 187804404-4
Changnon wrote in his preface: "After years of train watching, I found East-central Illinois...had more train activity than any comparably sized rural area in the nation!"
This book is the first written by Changnon about trains in Illinois.
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The Triangle
Busy Railroading in Southern Illinois
Stanley A. Changnon
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 096318110-6
Note: This book was not published by Mayhaven but is included in our catalog at the Author's request
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Railroad Bridges in the Heartland
Stanley A. Changnon
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$29.95 - $2.04 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 096318111-4
Note: This book was not published by Mayhaven but is included in our catalog at the Author's request
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Memories of the Heart
Rural Schools in Illinois
Warren Royer
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804417-6 or ISBN 978 187804417-6
Early learning through the eyes of the students and the teachers.
An interesting note: The publisher met the author before Mayhaven was established. He told about the book he had written and the cover, painted by his father. As the author was retired, it was a surprise to find out his father had painted this schoolhouse when he was 90 years old.
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Our Church
100th Anniversary of Osmond Lutheran Church
Osmond Centinnel Committee
Nonfiction Original SoftoverPhotos
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804425-7 or ISBN 978 187804425-9
A history of the Osmond, Illinois, Lutheran Church
A unsolicited reader said it was the "Best book on Church history I have ever read."
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An Unofficial History of Mahomet, Illinois
Isabelle Purnell
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804470-2 or ISBN 978 187804470-9
This is the story of one small, midwestern town that grew up along the Sangamon River when life seemed simple, but beneath the surface, love, hate, and tragedy played out in the lives of hard-working people.

Author Isabelle Purnell
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The History of Wood River
Baptist District Association
Vol II 19 96 - 2004
The Reverend Eddie Mabry, Ph.D
NonfictionOriginal Softcover
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 193227820-6 or ISBN 978 193227820-0
A history of: "...the oldest, continuing organization of Black churches in the nation."
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Bailey Island
Memories Pictures & Lore
Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
This book will soon be in its 3rd Printing
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804496-6 or ISBN 978 187804496-9
Bailey Island, ME
This book provides the surprising history of Bailey Islandfrom its rich fishing, shipping and trade industries to its lesser-known historic footnotes, including contact with famous figures, to gatherings of the Ku Klux Klan and the author's grandmother's connection to Helen Keller, who lived, for awhile, on the neighboring island.
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Coon Tales & Cockle Burs
Charles "Huey" Long
Short Stories Original Softcover
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804419-2 or ISBN 978 187804419-8
Whether tromping through the midwestern woods, or fishing in the cool waters of northern lakes, the author takes us on a journey of humor and insight.
Hunting & Fishing Stories
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Fridays With the Keglers
Gordon D. Schlundt
Short Stories Original Softcover
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804497-4 or ISBN 978 187804497-6
HUMOR
A Strike!
Old friends bring humor and home-spun philosphy to the bowling lanes.
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Tangled Tassels
Tales of Academe
Richard Eastman
Short Stories Original Softcover
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804427-3 or ISBN 978 187804427-3
Wry humor based on students, teachers and administrators of education.
Dr. Danica Hubbard, Associate professor of English at the College of DuPage listed Dr. Richard Eastman's Tangled Tassels: Tales of Academe among the books she enjoys reading. If you have ever attended college, taught at a college, held academic office, or have thought you know what colleges and universities are all about, you will delight in this book.
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Broomcorn Johnnies
Richard Thomas
Nonfiction Original SoftcoverPhotos
$4.95 - $0.33 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804408-7 or ISBN 978 187804408-2
The Broomcorn Industry in Central Illinois
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Lincoln's Better Angel
David L. Selby
Novel - Original Hardcover
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 193227827-3 or ISBN 978 193227827-9
David Selby has presented a charming novel....Selby has Lincoln speaking in a mix of noble sentiments and very common wisdoma perfect combination for the Great Emancipator. Lincoln is clearly a person we wish we knew better, and in Selbys work we come to know him as never before. Michael P. Riccards, author, Ferocious Engine of Democracy, a two-volume history of the presidency
Lincolns Better Angel gives us a history lesson, and Lincolns words and actions demonstrate how he changed our way of thinking and made it possible for all of us to be the best that we can be. Rafer Johnson, Author, Humanitarian, and Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal Winner, Author, and Humanitarian
From its opening paragraph, Lincolns Better Angel is touching, and at times astonishing. David Selby has created a living, breathing Lincoln, true to historical roots, yet alive and relevant in todays world. Any student of American history will be dazzled by Selbys interpretation of Lincoln and his plausible reactions to contemporary events. With every page, you tumble further into this amazing world, and meet a charming, wise and surprising ghost of Lincoln. Bob Rogers, BRC Imagination Arts,Executive Producerof the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
David L. Selby has brought the ghost of Lincoln back to Washington D.C. where he appears to a Vietnam veteran assigned to the Lincoln Memorial. They discuss the past and the present in a very imaginative and philosophical dialogue. A most entertaining read. Wayne C. Temple, historian and author of Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet and other works, and Chief Deputy Director, Illinois State Archive
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The River Love
Margaret Hay Van Damm
Novel - Original Hardcover
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804478-8 or ISBN 978 187804478-5
"....Her witty insights into life and love force us to think about what really makes anyone happy, and who, after all, is responsible for that happiness. Most of all, the author reminds us that a river of love runs through all our existences...." Shirley Bolinaga, retired staff writer, The Virginian-Pilot
The author, daughter of George Hay, founder of Nashville's famous Grand Ole Opry, draws on her Southern heritage for this love story set in Mississippi.

The River Love AUDIO BOOK
READ BY THE AUTHOR
$29.95 - $2.02 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 978 193227834-7

Margaret Hay Van Damm
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Vienna Kisses
Mayhaven Award for Fiction
Wilfried G. Lippmann
Novel- Original Hardcover
$23.95 - $1.50 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804493-1 or ISBN 978 187804493-8
"....Lippmann tells a compelling tale whose message urges the reader to seize life with passion and without hesitation. Lippmann's characters that do not live according to his credo end up stale and miss out on the full flavor of life." Zachary Schneider Pazifische Rundschau
Set in Vienna at the end of World War II, this novel takes a unique approach to a serious topic, the unhearalded victums of war. Concentrating on the characters, Lippmann manages to make us laugh in the face of adversity.
Note: Wilfried G. Lippmann has twice won Mayhaven's Awards for Adult Fiction and he placed 3rd in the 2004 Children's Category.
".... readers....will be rewarded with indelible images..... Vienna Kisses is a light and lip-smacking literary confection." Barbara McMichael, the bookmonger, The Olympian
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Yats in Movieland
Michael Russo
Novel - Satire - Original Softcover
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804422-2 or ISBN 978 187804422-8
Russo sees the humor in everything, people, events, organizations, and ideas! One unsolicited reader wrote that he stood on the sidewalk and laughed out loud while reading Yats.
An outrageous and irreverent novel dealing with the movie industry and the crescent city. Loyola New Orleans Magazine
Russo...has talent...a lively writing style... Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune

Potter Junction
Mayhaven Award for Fiction
Lewis Thomas
Novel Original Softcover
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804471-0 or ISBN 978 187804471-6
Much of this novel is biographical, and it plucks sweet and sour notes from the songs of the south.
Set in lower Alabama from 1930s through the 1950s, this love story reflects the author's observations.
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Minding Mama
WINNER! Mayhaven Award for Fiction
Marilyn Arnold
Novel Now in Second Printing - Softcover
$17.95 - $1.21 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 193227822-2 or SBN 978 193227822-4
"Get ready to laugh tears of delight at the absolutely enchanting humor and tenderness of Minding Mama. This is fiction without flaw....It is SO funny! I also found myself captivated by its underlying wisdom....This is not only fine writing by a gifted author, but, as a bonus, Minding Mama provides enrichment for the soul....Arnold's marvelous one-liners, mixed with the skilled unfolding of good tidings along the way...I couldn't put the book down. Humor is not spotty or occasional here, but a steady tickle of the ribs....This is a book you shouldn't miss....It deserves notice from every book lover in the country." Patricia Russell, Senior Sampler
"Marilyn Arnold's latest novel Minding Mama is a winner...a fun readgenuine humor, wholesome humor and laughing humor....Once readers finish the first scene, they will stay with this page-turner....Minding Mama will be her best-known book to date..." Douglas Alder, Daily Spectrum
More Praise for Minding Mama:
"Minding Mama is a wild, wacky rideMinding Mama....a grotesque, often funny account....Arnold is a talented witer who can tell a good story...." Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret Morning News
"...I picked up Minding Mama. Well, I could not put it down. What powerful heart medicine for the soul!....Marilyn Arnold writes with heart and head." Joe Morgan, author of Potato Branch and Into Chilling Water
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Perfecting Amiable
Marilyn Arnold
Novel - Softcover
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S&H
ISBN 193227823-0 or ISBN 978 193227823-1

Marilyn Arnold
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Wild Hands Toward the Sky
Ray Elliott
NovelHardcover
$28.00 - $2.00 IL Tax - $5.00 S&H
ISBN 0-9641423-7-6
A poignant memorial to a generation of Americans and a rural way of life that are soon to vanish. Miles Harvey, Author of The Island of Lost Maps
A book that deserves to find an audience-especially now that we are welcoming our war veterans back home again. St. Louis Post Dispatch
To arrange an interview with Ray Elliott, please contact Mat Wahlstrom by phone at 619-295-9213, by fax at 619-795-8813, or email at mwpublicity@earthlink.net

IWO Blasted Again
Ray Elliott
Note: Both novels published by Tales Press and included in our catalog at the aithor's request.
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Beijing Odyssey
Based on the Life and Times of Liang Shiyi
Steve Tung Au
Historical Novel Original Softcover
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804468-0 or ISBN 978 187804468-6
Translated Version published in China and available through the publisher and through Mayhaven
Although Beijing Odyssey is identified as a novel, is has been so intensely researched and so carefully written, it might very well be called a biography. Certainly it is an historical novel true to the history of China from the mid-1800s until the 1930s.
...an authentic, carefully researched novel about the wrenching changes in China and Chinese minds during a crucial period in Chinese history. All is there in the life of Liang Shiyi, one of the last scholar officials of the Manchu Dynasty and a behind-the-scenes operator in the dangerous, stumbling early years of the Chinese Republic. Liang Shiyi, who made his mark in the development of railways and the Chinese banking system, led a colorful private life with his wife and six concubines in his large well-off family. Throughout his lifetime, foreign imperialism clashed with Chinese nationalism as he struggled to adjust Confucian ways to his dream of a modern yet orderly China. Charles T. Cross, Ambassador of the United States of America (ret.)
This book has been translated and published in China
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No Mans A Mountain
John E. Cramer
Western Novel Original Hardcover
Set in Kansas after the Civil War
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804448-6 or ISBN 978 187804448-8
Cramers debut sports all the ingredients for a deceptively clever western whodunit...an honest rancher fighting the arrogant tycoon, becomes a complex mystery with clues...spread all over the Kansas prairie of 1876. Publishers Weekly
No Mans a Mountain is...a carefully plotted, fast-paced story of the old west. John Cramers is a refreshing new voice in the annals of western fiction. Jack Farris, author of the Classic Western, Ramey
It...moves quickly from the outset...fist fights and gunfights and a love interest...and a lot of whos and whys along the way. Rebecca Rasberry, Jonesboro Sun
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Seven Rode Together
John E. Cramer
Western Novel - Original Hardcover
$24.95 - $1.68 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804492-3 or ISBN 978 187804492-1
Set in the plains of Kansas after the Civil War, the main characters of Seven Rode Together will be familiar to those who have read Cramers first critically acclaimed western, No Mans A Mountain
Mort Kane and his son Joey find, after holding on to their land while others tried to steal them out and burn them out, that building a future in River Bend is a day-to-day risk. Kane stands up to the local land baron and battles through the wild west courts, but finds the ultimate assault, the kidnapping of young Joey, calls for plenty of help. Six men step up to face the challengesome old friends and some nearly strangers. The seven form a posse to hunt down the enemies at home and across the border into Mexican Territory.
Seven Rode Together...takes the reader back to a less sophisticated time when a cattle farmer in Kansas had to know how to handle more than livestock to survive....a fast-paced read.... Rebecca Rasberry, Jonesboro Sun
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Ho Nikon
The world of dinosaurs and super humans
G. McLeod
Novel Original Softcover
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804458-3 or ISBN 978 187804458-7
The world of dinosaurs and super humans
The story begins 60 million years ago, and ends in a modern-day urbane setting. The journey between the two introduces us to two heros, both striving to survive in hostile worlds.
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After the Blue
Russel Like
Novel Original Softcover
$12.95 - $0.87 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 096613090-4
The east coast of North America, sometime in the future when aliens seek a place and try to understand a time that no longer exists. Beneath the humor hide many questions.
Note: This book was not published by Mayhaven but is included in our catalog at the Author's request
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A Family Possessed
L. W. Stevenson
Mystery Novel - Softcover
In Second Edition
$12.95 - $0.74 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804463-X or ISBN 978-187804463-1
A Ghost Story based on reported events
Every once in awhile a book seems to have a life of its own. This one does.
"This ghost story is set among the cornfields and pasture lands of the midwest where a family shrinks from sounds in the night and shadowy figures that stalk the landscape. Note: L. W. Stevenson wrote several books before settling down to this spine-tingling subject.A haunting mystery.
Jeff Kelly, Mattoon Journal Gazette
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Murder at the Strawberry Festival
Warren Carrier
Mystery Novel
Original Hardcover
$19.95 - $1.35 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804414-1 or ISBN 978 187804414-3
...an excellent whodunit.
Marguerite Johnston, The Houston Post
...extremely exciting...one of the rare books I would call a page-turner.
Albert Guerard, Author of Gabrielle
The book shines in its parade of characters....a fascinating look into small town America.
Janice Simon, Galveston Daily News
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An Honorable Spy
Warren Carrier
Mystery Novel
Original Softcover
$10.95 - $0.74 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804411-7 or ISBN 978 187804411-2
A missing brother and bio-technology drive this story of international intrique
...a world of intrigue, mystery and espionage. Janice Simon, The Galveston Daily News
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A Byte of Charity
Lance Pearson
Mystery Novel
Original Softcover
A strange story of hacking and revenge
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804469-9 or ISBN 978 187804469-3
Nominated for the Library of Virginia Fiction Award
A Byte of Charity focuses on a man who uses computers to borrow money from the government and to force an unscrupulous business to stop a blackmail scheme...the hero...is not a computer nerd.
Jann Malone, Richmond Times Dispatch
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And Then She Was Gone
A Maggie Ryan Mystery
Susan McBride
Mayhaven Award for Fiction
Mystery NovelOriginal Softcover
ISBN 187804461-3
Second Edition
$14.95 - $1.01 IL Tax - $5.00 S & H
ISBN 187804483-4 or ISBN 978 187804483-4
In quiet Litchfield, Texas, a child vanishes without a trace. Detective Mggie Ryan uncovers many buried secrets, including one of her own.
Nominated for Reviewers Choice Award for Best First Mystery by Romantic Times
...a real heart-in-your-throat page-turner....McBride does a masterful job of creating harrowing situations, and Maggie Ryan is a character worth watching. Toby Bromburg, Mystery Reviewer, Romantic Times
"McBride's debut novel was a finalist in St. Martin's Best First Traditional Mystery contest and won the National Writer's Association Best Novel Contest. Neither distinction was as important as winning Mayhaven Publishing's First Annual Award for Fiction, which resulted in publication of this deserving effort." Book Browser Review
...well-written and brutally realistic...frightening and unforgettable.... Harriet Klausner for I Love A Mystery
..in the best story-telling tradition...a masterful piece of suspense writing... John A. Broussard, The Quill Magazine
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