Sherry Robinson

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Silas Calhoun. Robinson explores Calhoun's early life in Georgia and his military service in the Mexican War and how they led him west. Through exhaustive research Robinson shares Calhoun's story of arriving in New Mexico in 1849—a turbulent time in the region—to serve as its first Indian agent. Inhabitants were struggling to determine where their allegiances lay; they had historic and cultural ties with Mexico, but the United States offered an abundance of possibilities.An accomplished attorney, judge, legislator, and businessman and an experienced speaker and negotiator who spoke Spanish, Calhoun was uniquely qualified to serve as the first territorial governor only eighteen months into his service. While his time on the New Mexico political scene was brief, he served with passion, intelligence, and goodwill, making him one of the most intriguing political figures in the history of New Mexico.

In the most thorough account yet published, Sherry Robinson tells the story of the Lipan Apaches from their earliest interactions with Spaniards and kindred Apache groups through later alliances and to their love-hate relationships with Mexicans, Texas colonists, Texas Rangers, and the U.S. Army.

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Silas Calhoun. Robinson explores Calhoun's early life in Georgia and his military service in the Mexican War and how they led him west. Through exhaustive research Robinson shares Calhoun's story of arriving in New Mexico in 1849--a turbulent time in the region--to serve as its first Indian agent. Inhabitants were struggling to determine where their allegiances lay; they had historic and cultural ties with Mexico, but the United States offered an abundance of possibilities.An accomplished attorney, judge, legislator, and businessman and an experienced speaker and negotiator who spoke Spanish, Calhoun was uniquely qualified to serve as the first territorial governor only eighteen months into his service. While his time on the New Mexico political scene was brief, he served with passion, intelligence, and goodwill, making him one of the most intriguing political figures in the history of New Mexico.

A 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Winner, Bronze, Religious (Adult Fiction) A 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist (Fiction: General Adult and Religious) Finalist in the Fiction: Religious category of the 2020 International Book AwardsGrayson Armstrong's vision for a dying church has everyone in small-town Mercy, Kentucky, talking. The truth is everyone has been talking about Grayson ever since this dark-haired twenty-eight-year-old preacher with shoulder-length hair and an ill-fitting suit drove into town twelve years before in his silver convertible with his pretty wife and two rambunctious boys. It's his untimely death, though, that has everyone trying to understand who they thought he was.This vivid, poignant, and heart-breaking story is told by multiple characters whose paths intersect with Grayson: a homeless Vietnam veteran haunted by demons of war; the local diner's young waitress grappling with her family's dark history; aggrieved and supportive congregants and townspeople confronting change and the power of love and hate; and Grayson's wife and his coming-of-age gay son, struggling to understand their own feelings about Grayson. During a time when communities and countries are split apart, Robinson's calming prose and timely story encourages us to put aside our fears, hate, and biases and to open our hearts and challenge our perceptions. Blessed is ultimately a story of hope and of the power of forgiveness.

This is a religious study guide that will depict how man has followed the ways of the heathens. This book is to wake up our brothers and sisters to let them know their rightful place as the chosen people that the Bible speaks about (Hebrew Israelites). It outlines the Old Testament and The New Testament and shows how they go hand in hand opposed to the Ideology and myth that the Old Testament was done away with when Jesus Christ died on the cross.....

Carmen and Carla were identical twin sisters that even their parents had a hard time telling them a part. Their father took a job in Colorado, so they had to leave all their friends behind in California. Rocky Mountain high school was going to be their new playground, and since they were the new students wreaking havoc on the students was going to be easy. Most seniors are thinking about prom, being crown prom king and queen, graduation, and the colleges they hoped to be getting into, but Carmen and Carla intentions were to rid the school of all the kids that were evil, but they turned out to be the evil ones. They started killing off kids one by one while they sung nursery rhymes. As the bodies started to pile up the police had no clue who the killer or killers were. The principle (Mr. Culver) had no choice but to close the school down for the rest of the school year to try and make sure no one else died at the hands of the Rocky Mountain High School Killer.

Tommy thought after dad died it would bring him and his mother closer, but little did he know he didn't want to be as close as she was going to make him. When mommy goes off the deep end, and now has an appetite for killing would Tommy be able to survive her wrath after he learns her dirty little secret..

Synopsis: Marion got wind that Mya was pregnant even though she tried to hide it from him hoping he would leave town until the baby was born, but now that Latrice opened her mouth Marion is going to stick around until he is certain that the baby Mya is carrying isn't his. Mya tried to keep Treshawn from finding out that he may or may not be the father of her baby, although he had shared the good news with his mother...Now the real question is will Treshawn be the baby father, so him and Mya could live the fairytale life they have planned, or will Marion be the baby father, and ruin Mya's plans for happiness....