Ralph by Himself is a story of an elf that struggles with sensory issues due to the hustle and bustle of Santa's workshop as Christmas Day approaches. In order to calm himself down he steps away from his workbench to find solitude. Santa and the other elves are worried about Ralph and set out to find him. It is through the letters that Santa receives he realizes that Ralph may have a Sensory Processing Disorder. To accommodate for this he assigned Ralph to a quieter job, reading letters addressed to Santa. Santa realizes that other elves may need a quieter space to work so he creates a new job for them as well.
Ralph's Christmas Quest is a wonderous adventure tale for young readers, that unfolds in the magical animal world of the Texas Hill Country, far beyond the People Path. When Ralph, the reclusive raccoon from CatSpring, TX, loses his magic button on Christmas Eve, he sets out on a quest to find it with the help of his friends.With a story from award-winning writer, SJ Murray (with Abianne Miller Falla and Courtney Smith), and original watercolors by artist Emma Schmidt, Ralph is sure to delight readers young and old.
In this compilation of poems, dedication, s and photos, a previously unpublished bard's intimate observations of life, love, family, loss, and imagination are finally collected. Hidden in a box and discovered posthumously, these words convey the deep meaning Ralph Harry Nesson found in those around him.Ralph devoted his life to social justice causes and founded a successful nonprofit, raising millions for scholarships. While he and his wife worked and raised three children in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Ralph often wrote to honor an occasion or a person. His passion for relationships and experience flowed from his heart onto the page, and here, his innermost musings and yearnings are captured
A man rides a path of vengeance in this all-new Ralph Compton Western in the Sundown Riders series. Luke Hadley never imagined he would be left for dead with a chest full of bullets on the day of his wedding. All he wanted to do was tend to his farm with his new wife, Audrey, and begin their lives together. But when the Rhodes Gang crashes his wedding party, they wreak havoc and abduct his bride, leaving the lifeless bodies of his guests. Luke has only a sparse trail of clues to follow, but with help from a phony Pinkerton badge and a mysterious woman with many skills--including breaking him out of jail--he finally rides down those who've wronged him.... "The greatest Western writer of them all."--The Tombstone Epitaph
Two struggling miners may have just found their ticket to fortune--if they can keep it--in this riveting new Ralph Compton Western. England Dan Rutledge and his partner John Cooley have worked their claim for a year and are barely eking out a living. When Cooley shows up with a map of the abandoned Irish Lord Mine he drunkenly bought off a shady cowboy, England Dan is sure it's a complete fraud. After all, no one knows what happened to the most valuable gold mine in the Superstition Mountains after a banshee frightened off the last owner. But when England Dan gets a good look at the map, details start clicking into place. Maybe they have the key to a fortune after all But soon an infamous bank robber shows up looking for this mysterious map he claims is his. Now England Dan and his partner will have to fight off hostile Indians, miners, and a dangerous felon to find the cache of gold and strike it rich.
In this breathless new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's the Gunfighter series, an ex-con fights to free his hometown from the clutches of a greedy land baron. When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood--and of one special girl, Darla Winslow. What he finds instead is a town dramatically changed. Once a happy and carefree place to live, it is now populated by people who are angry and afraid. One man, Captain Archer Ringewald, has taken control of the town, and now he's turning the townspeople, even Darla, against Taylor. Can one ex-con single-handedly save an entire town?
In this compelling new installment of bestseller Ralph Compton's The Gunfighters series, a man driven by the destruction of his family seeks to protect a woman and her children from a band of desperados. John Stockbridge was once a peaceful man of medicine. Now, he's better known as Dr. Vengeance, a man who is as fast with a shotgun as any other gunfighter is with a six-gun. The murders of his wife and child left him with an aching hole where his soul once was. His only solace comes from wandering the West. Along the way, he encounters a woman and her two children searching for their missing fur-trapper husband/father in the Rockies. In the process, they run afoul of some foul former Confederates who have amassed money and local power by robbing those traveling west through a mountain pass. While searching for the missing trapper -- and aided by a Mexican mountain man and an independent woman who works at the local hotel-- Stockbridge must take down the vicious highwaymen one by one.
In this thrilling new installment in bestseller Ralph Compton's The Gunfighter series, a man wakes with no memory of who he is--or why someone wants him dead. A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. He has no recollection of how he got there, or even his own name. He's a dead man walking until his luck turns. He stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son who nurse him back to health. But in the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers, then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope of rescue is the very man who got them in this predicament. But how can he help them when he doesn't even know who he is? At least the men who want to kill him seem to know his name. Maybe they'll put it on his gravestone.
