Wonderland is a fantastic collection of stories. Sam Ligon has mastered the art of capturing the sweet derangement of love. His characters are drunk with desire and reckless in all the right ways, and his prose is incandescent, absurd, wickedly funny and, in the end, achingly true.
Ten Years On the Line is a factual account of this retired immigration/CBPoffi cer's efforts to enforce immigration laws at the nation's most corruptPort of Entry - Douglas, Arizona. Extracted from hundreds of carefullypreserved incident reports, memorandums and investigation records theauthor details the daily struggle he had with management and others toprevent illegal aliens and criminals of all stripes from entering the UnitedStates. Working and living in the most law-enforcement saturated sectorof the United States border the author describes in detail experiences bothon and off-duty in which he doggedly maintained his idealism and sense ofjustice against an institutionalized culture of corruption, malfeasance anddisloyalty.
This comprehensive pocket-size handbook is the essential reference for clinicians and others serving patients with advanced or life-limiting illness. It offers up-to-date, relevant, and highly practical guidance to expertly meet the challenges of serving these patients and their families. This user-friendly manual emphasizes the importance of honoring patients' wishes throughout their medical journey while meeting their whole-person, often complex needs-from symptom management to attending to spiritual and emotional suffering-and always acknowledges the context of patients' lives, including the needs of loved ones supporting them. The layout makes finding information quick and easy, with alphabetically organized chapter headings and a detailed index. Organ-system-based chapters offer disease-specific, goals-of-care discussion guidance and reviews of etiology, signs and symptoms, assessment, and management-including standard treatment as well as palliative options. Other chapters cover communication with patients and families, consultation with colleagues, and code status discussions, along with valuable subjects such as withdrawing life support, ethics, spirituality, physician-assisted death, and palliative options of last resort. Readers will find practical management strategies for symptoms such as pain, nausea, dyspnea, and delirium. In addition, chapters on opioid use and dosing, and pharmacology of commonly used palliative medications, make this guide an invaluable resource.
James Atkins lived a life filled with triumph and misfortune, dogged by hurt passed down through his family. As the years go by, he witnesses both joy and tragedy in a time of great change in the United States. Ember is a story of love, hurt, betrayal, faith and forgiveness reflected in the struggles of the Atkins and Knight families - from the disfiguring echoes of slavery in the deep South to the promise of a better life in the Imperial Valley, California during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s. Part mystery, part family saga, Ember traces the struggles, sacrifices, frustrations, and righteous anger of James Atkins culminating with the burning of his family home and its aftermath. James' life becomes a window into a troubled soul trying to find his footing in a changing world where answers are scarce and healing never seems to take hold.
I don't know fo sho coss I will be commin by the bus...Author Cynthia (Toni) Ligon's mother, Luzetta, always had a very unique way of speaking. For Luzetta, who was raised in the South during the Great Depression, this was a language steeped in tradition, history, family, and community.While Ligon knew that her mother's grammar, syntax, and style were special, she didn't fully understand the dialect's rich context until she started studying linguistics and cultural anthropology as a college student. It was then that she realized that Luzetta's dialect was preserving a way of life long forgotten. It was emblematic of a certain time, place, and people.Now, in My Mother's Tongue: Luzetta, Ligon celebrates her mother's language and its place in her own life. The study combines personal history with contextual information to create a stirring ode to one woman's voice. Ligon infuses her work with warmth and love for her mother and the lessons she taught her. Luzetta, now eighty-five and still thriving, also has lessons to teach you about language, dialect, and cultural memory.
A chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean. It records experimental adoption of the sugar/African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years, to such disastrous effects.
Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kupperman is one of the leading scholars of the early modern Atlantic world. . . . I cannot think of any scholar better prepared to write an Introduction that places Ligon, his text, and Barbados in an Atlantic historical context. The Introduction is quite thorough, readable, and accurate; the notes [are] exemplary! --Susan Parrish, University of Michigan
Something, or someone is following Zee-Zee It not only happens in her dreams it happens every year at a certain time, the season leaves, which happens to be fall. Her little sister Charlie, and her best friend Olivia know all too well that someone is following little Zee. I am running fast, yet it runs just as fast, but when I turned to see who, or what is following me, it vanishes like poof...gone...disappeared
"A masterful exhibition in storytelling; a breathless page-turner. Ligon drives his narrative like a formula one racer. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a thrilling ride."--Jonathan Evison, West of Here"Part meditation on modern love's dark and often unexamined underbelly; part can't-put-it-down-even-for-a-dinner-break-thriller, this novel contains one of the most convincingly and complicatedly terrifying fictional characters I have run into."--Pam Houston, Contents May Have Shifted"A wildly original love story, a ghost story, a tense and suspenseful story in which the wickedly talented Ligon channels voices--of the lost, the longing, and the damned."--Jess Walter, We Live in WaterPraise for Safe in Heaven Dead: "A superbly convincing first novel....An expertly motivated debut."--Kirkus, starred review"This debut novel instantly seizes and holds the imagination."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Ligon is firmly in control, laying out the elements of the story like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle."--New York Times Book ReviewNikki has spent her life running from her abusive mother and the violent boyfriend she killed years ago, and now from his brother, Burke, just released from prison. Burke doesn't know yet how his brother died, but he's obsessed with finding Nikki and claiming her--and her daughter--as his own. Now she's run out of room to run.Samuel Ligon is the author of Safe in Heaven Dead (HarperCollins, 2003) and Drift and Swerve. His stories have appeared in more than twenty literary journals. He teaches at Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and is the editor of Willow Springs.
