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Proud Flesh is the story of four generations of women whose life messes define their relationships. When tightly-wound secular-progressive sex therapist Carroll Murphy boards a plane from D.C. for California in 1988 she has no idea how her life is about to change through her reluctant friendship with her seatmates, Tennessee cousins Trixie and Peggy. Inwardly shielding her personal back-story, Carroll outwardly avoids acknowledgment of her own family baggage, allowing her to be blind-sided by the less sophisticated cousins. A tale of revelation, redemption, and reconciliation, Proud Flesh resonates with almost everyone who has faced the same issues as these women. Readers will laugh, groan, cry, and cheer as the hard-to-love Carroll discovers an unlikely network of support and unconditional love that buffers her transformational journey into a late-life relationship with a most-unpredictable man an into life-affirming connections with people she has not seen for more than forty years.

These stories are filled with glories and failures of my homeland, the South. They tell about five young boys who help win World War II; Lulu and her ladies of ill fame; Sister Bertha, a kind and gentle nun; Ya-nu, the Cherokee Bear Man; J.R., ranger and tracker in our search for a little boy lost in the Smokies; a mountain woman who exacts a terrible revenge; a folie a deux murder; the Ku Klux Klan's Hall of Fame Guidebook; the love of a former slave and an old confederate for one another; and many other fine folks who inhabit my land.

Green Book Festival Award-winner "The Healing of Gaia" is a fairy tale for our presently endangered world, written specifically to encourage and facilitate efforts by children of all ages to save her. It weaves a simpler story in boxes throughout the extended text; serves as a hopeful antidote to today's frightening news and alternative truths; and includes concrete actions even young ones can take, spiritual practices readers may want to incorporate, and positive real-life role models for them to emulate, all wrapped up in a fairy tale of hope for Grandmother Earth and a magical stag, and victory for the children who save them. 5 Stars from Readers' Favorite. "Nelson taps into a powerful modern fantasy of saving the Earth, and her hallucinatory, colorful illustrations help tell the story. A warmhearted, hopeful book." - Kirkus Reviews. One dollar of the proceeds from each book sale goes to support the work of the Earth Guardians (www.earthguardians.org).

"¿Quien mejor puede contar la historia que aquel que ha estado allí? Usted se sorprenderá del testimonio de conversión del autor del Catolicismo a la fe Apostólica. Los anales de la historia han sido abiertos y su oportunidad de ser conocedor de la historia de la iglesia está todo en una publicación corta. Usted va ser desafiado y usted será informado. La información contenida adentro es chocante pero al mismo tiempo pertinente y a tiempo. Que la verdad sea dicha, el autor no se ha reservado a si mismo en este escrito. Su mente será estimulada y su corazón abierto." J.A. Stirnemann, M.D.