Resting Place ~ Phoenix Can love last a lifetime? Sidney Weston asked this question again and again as she tried desperately for ten years to fall out of love with J.P. Carter, her childhood friend, and first love. Sidney was forced to leave behind everyone and everything she loved because she dared to cross cultural lines in a relationship with J.P. Carter. She was told she was not good enough. She moved to New York and was successful at a major IT company until she dared to pursue a senior executive position. She was then told that she was not a good fit -- not good enough. Trusting God, she returned to Resting Place for a new start, only to discover her feelings for J.P. hadn't diminished, even though he had moved on with his life. Will Sidney trust God to find the answer in Resting Place?

Resting Place: Phoenix, is about an interracial romance between Sidney Weston and J.P. Carter, best friends from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, who fall in love. After being told time and time again, that she's "not good enough," for J.P., Sidney was forced to leave the safety of her home for college in New York. She excels in the Information Technology (IT) field and becomes very successful at a major IT company ... until she pursues a senior executive position, where she once again is told that "she is not good enough." After 10 years of living and working in the big city, Sidney returns home, only to discover her feelings for J.P. have not diminished even though he has moved on with his life. Sidney is faced with two questions. Can true love truly last a lifetime? And, will she trust God to guide her through her emotional turmoil to find her very own resting place?

An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.

Melzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.

A thousand years of war, two opposing empires, blood soaked the vast continent, hatred spanning endless time and space. Wearing red clothes, he had been infected with so many evils. A black umbrella was holding up a part of heaven and earth. The young generals whose wives and children were unknown, the mysterious young ladies of bizarre origins, the ancient mythical beasts, the loyal knights, all of them would perform a fantasy drama of going against the heavens and being punished by the heavens, unveiling the mysterious veil of ancient legends. Li Doggy, another of Hai's works, the legendary life of Miss Kong.

In this deeply felt biography, Ashby Bland Crowder treats in near definitive fashion one of southern literature's unjustly neglected masters. In superb novels like Home from the Hill, The Ordways, and Proud Flesh as well as in the brilliant story collections The Last Husband and A Time and a Place, William Humphrey (1924--1997) created an imaginary East Texas Red River County, conjuring the speech and life rhythms of his native territory with artistic genius. Crowder's lyrical blending of biographical fact and incisive analysis corrects a mistaken view that Humphrey was among those writers mired in the pious cult of southern delusionary remembrance. From early short fiction set in a New York commuter village through late works of the Northeast, such as Hostages to Fortune and September Song, Humphrey allowed himself a psychic distance from the South that fueled an unsparing critique of its myths -- exemplified by the fierce deconstruction of Texas heroes found in his last novel, No Resting Place. In a poignant discussion of Humphrey's memoir, Farther Off from Heaven, Crowder demonstrates that the tragic death of his father led to Humphrey's overriding fictional themes of pain and inconsolable loss. Indeed, Crowder asserts that Humphrey failed to achieve literary renown in part because he evokes emotional experiences beyond what most people can endure. Humphrey's fiction derives its power from refusing to indulge in the false consolations of vanished people and history, from showing that living in the southern past is not living at all. Wakeful Anguish is among the first books about William Humphrey and will be greeted as one of the finest. Marshalling unpublished archival letters, interviews with persons who knew Humphrey at different stages in his life, and private correspondence and conversations between Humphrey and himself, Crowder achieves something rare in literary biography: a portrait that reveals both the sustained suffering in an author's life and work and his exultation in the triumph of his art.