"Tired of typical summers in their midwestern town, three teenagers set out on a backpacking trip to the mountains of Colorado. There, the boys find themselves overwhelmed and underprepared. When Riley splits off from the other two, Matt and Hank have no option but to push through with their supplies strangled. Told from Hank's perspective, END AND BACK chronicles his thoughts on a journey burgeoning from youthful bliss to the realities of one's tactile...

"The Ankenys were prominent and influential early Iowans. They lived adventurous, interesting and successful lives as settlers, gold miners, civil war officers, business developers, elected officials, suffragettes, city founders and much more. Their remarkable lives are chronicled and woven within interpretive story-telling to create an entertaining and educational memorial to their legacy. Feelings of love and sorrow, achievement and loss, joy and...

"It is 1940 and a tragedy has just occurred outside Tiffin, Iowa. After a bloody collarbone, pieces of flesh and garments are found on the railrod tracks, local police learn that Flynn Fletcher, an eighteen-year-old American Indian psychiatric patient, has escaped from the hospital. Moments later, a bank in Iowa City is robbed. Without a body to autopsy, Officer Hugh Chancy has his work cut out for him. While his captain contemplates whether the two...

"Vanessa Kingston is engaged to the son of the likely next president of the United States. Her life is about to change in ways she never imagined, and her upcoming fairytale wedding is a welcome distraction that leaves little time to reflect on her first love and a past mistake. Then, one phone call uncovers the secret Vanessa thought she had completely hidden, one that threatens to destroy all her future hopes and dreams. Since a deep betrayal from...

"Winning is great, but being accepted is greater. One of the many perks of winning the national 'America's Family' Sweepstakes is the chance to meet and make appearances with the President on his reelection campaign. When an eclectic African-American family becomes the unexpected winner of the prestigious 'America's Family' contest, the President and his shiesty reelection campaign manager tries to get the family disqualified, thinking that this particular...

"In 1871 a bewildered young White Mountain Apache girl--Talks Like Thunder--is seized by her grandfather, Gray Fox, and taken to Chiricahua village. So begins Thunder's extraordinary training in the ancient mystical beliefs and traditions of these valiant and fearless Chiricahua warriors whose reverence for their lands, their skies, thier ancestors, for all animals and their spirits, has guided them since time immemorial. But now, Mhite Man has arrived,...

"Passengers set sail aboard the RMS Lusitania after an ominous warning: submarines might sink her before she arrives in England! It's the First World War, and Great Britain is at war with Germany. Despite the war, two thousand people dare to ignore the warning and travel anyway. Seventeen-year-old deckhand Leo Masterson joins the crew of the RMS Lusitania at the last minute. He knows the Lusitania is fast enough to outrun any submarine! But the...

"Michael Wingert takes a memorable look at his father Robert Wingert's life as a dedicated photographer. He benefits from notes written by his father for a talk given at one of his photographic exhibits in the 1960's, in which he told how he became interested in photography in his youth. It was near the beginning of the 20th century and early in the evolution of photographic art and equipment. He described how he learned his craft and his experiences...