Bøger af Wayne Bethard

Can an orphanage-raised mother, pregnant with her second, run a multimillion-dollar business she inherits from her unborn child's grandfather? In his latest novel, Wayne Bethard returns with an extraordinary story of an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile a life without a true family. Thirty-two-year-old Angela Pinkston spent her adolescence in a caring orphanage. Through a series of recent tragedies in her life, she inherits a thriving business. Having grown up with few future-stimulating circumstances, beautiful, young Angela Pinkston decides to run the business herself. This is her story, a story of confrontation and struggle when she faces hard-nosed business associates determined to leverage her out. Cognizant of heart, intensely observed, The Rite Way Angel is a brilliant novel about finding your way in life, obeying your heart, but most of all believing in yourself.

Young Catipo of Taposa never thought of himself as a hero. Smaller than others his age, shunned by his elders, and looked down on for his meekness, he dreamed of someday becoming a great Quapaw warrior. Under the wing of an old medicine man he's chosen to receive the gifts of the upper world and sent on his own Journey Quest to acquire the tools to achieve his life's goal. During a mission to rescue his kidnapped mother he teams up with another hero blessed by the Gods. Together they confront the dastardliest of all enemies, the devil himself.

All The Pleasures We've Had will sweep you casually into the lives of two lonely people who come of age in a struggling society. This is the story dealing with the rites of passage, heart shattering loss and a whispered voice that seeks the real meaning of life. The story takes you into the enjoyable life of a society many take for granted, and the happy times and memories they enjoy and share. Although it is along the line of young lovers facing tragedy in their lives, this is a more realistic rendition of a Love Story or a Madison County or a Fault In Our Stars. All The Pleasures will indeed grab you by the heart but it will turn loose the many pleasures these two lovers

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits¿ Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to popular medicinal forms during America's frontier era that were said to cure everything from fallen arches to a broken windmill. Grandmas, mommas, and even certified physicians treated the sick, lame, and unlucky with what was available: barbed wire and horseshoe nails, cactus, pokeweed, buckeyes, you name it. Ironically, a lot of these homespun treatments actually worked. In Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs, a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the most popular medicines from the frontier days and how they were intended to work.