Books published by Fulton Books

Written in the Stars is a love story based on two young people, Paul and Sara, who are destined to fall in love. Their love story begins when they were born on the same day, to parents whose friendship started on an Army base years before they were born. They developed a friendship so strong they are more like family than friends. After leaving the Army, Paul and Sara's parents moved them to a small ocean town and bought homes right down the street from each other. Paul and Sara always felt a strong pull to each other, but they hide their feelings from one another for fear of destroying a deep-rooted friendship. With the thought of heading in different directions for careers, Sara is off to college to become a teacher, and Paul is off to fire academe to become a firefighter; they found the courage to be bold and took a chance to proclaim their love for one another before they part ways. It only took one kiss on that fateful night, before leaving for Cancun, to set in motion a turn in their friendship that there is no turning back. Sara has waited her whole life to be in Paul's arms, and Paul can't believe how lucky he is to call beautiful Sara his. A family vacation together takes a new relationship into a passion fueled romance of true love. Finding a love so strong, based on a lifetime of friendship, had them speeding to the altar. Even true love can't stop their world from being turned upside down as flashing red and blue lights rip their worlds apart, testing the limits of their love.

This book is an authentic collection of creative rhyming poems. While this specific genre offers the reader an extensive array of interesting and provocative titles, it also connects the poetry to real-life.In this collection, the seventy-seven poems are organized into seven diverse and distinct categories. They include, African American history, pets, holidays, education, retirement, family reunion as well as thirty extraordinary poems about real-life experience as characterized in the miscellaneous category.Listed below is graphic compendium of the seven major categories:Life is no Bed of Roses, When it rains, it pours, and Living from Paycheck to Paycheck, are not only poems in the miscellaneous category, but describe some of life's challenges that give true meaning to another old saying, When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.The poem, 365 Days a Year, is a reminder that one day in the calendar year is someone's birthday as noted in B-Day, Your Day. "Live everyday as if it's your last, plan for the future and learn from the past," is a quote and good advice from the Age is nothing but a Number, poem.African American history is another fascinating category. It features eleven very unique and informative poems and short stories. While the month of February is designated as Black History month, the poem, From Africa they came, gives a very descriptive and meaningful picture of how the history actually began.Two other poems, Marin Luther King: the Dreamer, and Obama, the First Black President, both from two different eras, made important contributions to African American history. However, there were many others who paved the way and made significant sacrifices for a better life in, We Stand on the Shoulders.Jumping the Broom, and Living on the wrong side of the Railroad Tracks, are two interesting short rhyming stories that occurred during and after slavery.Education is paramount to a productive life and features fifteen poems. The important characters in this section are the students and teachers. Poems titled, Advice for Millennials, and What Good Teachers Do, tell about the importance of a good education.The poem, Grandparents Memory Page, describes the important role they played in the family reunion category. A holiday quote from My Valentine, poem describes how, "Both candy hearts and human hearts are symbols of love." One pumps money in the economy and the other pumps blood in the heart. Candy money can create a healthy economy and a romantic heart can create a healthy relationship.Dogs are the boys' best friends. Three poems in this category describe the love he had for his German shepherd, Doberman, and Maltese poodle.Retirement is just a special time in a person's life and definitely initiated a new chapter for those portrayed in the six retirement poems.There are just a few examples of the seventy-seven fantastic rhyming poems.I sincerely hope that everyone who reads this book will find one or more poems that might ring a bell for them, bring back fond memories, have an "aha" moment, put smiles on faces and just plain enjoy reading the carefully crafted words in this amazing rhyming poetry-ology book.

What if you had a chance to travel back to your youth when you fell in love for the first time, to relive that magical time when you met the girl who would forever change your life?Mark Peterson, a physics professor at Harvard University, has this chance, for he has created a time machine and uses it to transport himself back to that special summer of 1973.Mark arrives in 1973, taking over the young body of his former self, and begins to once again fall in love with Lena and spends time with his friends and family from so long ago. That carefree summer, shortly after the Vietnam war had ended when gas cost thirty-seven cents a gallon and Richard Nixon is nearing the end of his presidency as the Watergate hearings are taking place, at the beach with his friends, little transistor radios were playing hits from popular singers of the time like Jim Croce, Seals and Crofts, Gilbert O’Sullivan, and Roberta Flack.But this journey is not without danger, and Mark finds himself unable to return home. He has three weeks before his young body reclaims itself and he is erased from time.Without the help of his colleague and friend Ron Sarno, a fellow professor at Harvard, Mark will be unable to return to the present. Unbeknownst to Mark, Ron lies in a coma following a serious accident, unable to help his friend. As the point of no return approaches, Mark anxiously awaits his fate.Long Ago and Far Away, a suspenseful page-turner with a mixture of science fiction, adventure, and young love. A novel that will take you back to an innocent time, long before the internet, smartphones, and flat-screen TVs. A novel you won’t soon put down.

While still a child himself, Tom Dotson loses his mother at the age of twelve. He goes to live with the Choctaw Indians in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. After graduating high school, he goes on and gets a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and moves to Kansas City.While in Kansas City, he buys an old house to fix up, as well as works on old cars. One day while attending an afternoon get-together, he meets the love of his life, Lisa, and they get married. They are happy and soon has a baby. However, that is short-lived when his wife and child gets in a horrific car accident and both passes away.He then helps an older lady with her car and she offers for him to move in with her, and he does. What he doesn't know is that she has a daughter.Read the book to see how the remainder unfolds.

Gone Fishing: The Line Sinker is a powerful and delectable tale of a young mother searching for answers to questions regarding her own mother, and a journey of discovery that yields answers and new meaning to her life and the lives of others around her.On the eve of 1981, the drama continues to unfold in this, the third and final installment of the Gone Fishing trilogy, Gone Fishing: The Sinker. In this stunning finish, we follow Ethel as she endeavors to discover the identity of the other woman in the picture with her mother. This picture is the last unexplained item in a cherished collection of Ethel's mother's things. Will this unknown woman know the whereabouts of Ethel's half sister? Will Ethel ever understand the circumstances that brought her mother to take a vow of silence? And who was in that terrible accident on that snowy evening? Did they survive? A world of adoption and a home for unwed mothers reveals to Ethel the true price her mother paid, as Ethel and her husband, Charlie, travel throughout New England to find the answers.And through it all, the colorful characters of Piney Bluffs, beginning with Ethel's Daddy, Eddy, and on to Caleb, Sadie, Miss Ruthie, Big Beulah, Ginny and the rest, remind Ethel of the goodness of small-town Maine that surrounds her as she follows her heart to the truth. This truth will give a voice to the silence of her mother's past. Piney Bluffs, and its spirit, creativity, and Yankee ingenuity, is a blueprint for all small New England towns to embrace.Follow her at http//www.janeherrdesrosiers.com or on Facebook at Jane Herr Desrosiers. For her blog: See Jane, See Jane Write.

Cory Markert's The Pizza Toad and Other Poems is a wonderful book of poems with accompanying commentaries. The poems are based on Mr. Markert's observations, brainstorming, and imagination. This book includes funny, witty, and moving poems that are sure to please almost all ages. The poems are long, short and medium in length. This book also contains sixty beautiful, full-color illustrations by three talented artists.

Keyth Dickson is a retired teacher and archaeologist. He has written two books on the prehistory of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and surrounding states and has published many articles in regional archaeological journals.Keyth is deeply interested in the basic issues of life and has studied world religions and philosophy for over fifty years. He has published three volumes on various aspects of spirituality and has authored many articles on related subjects.Born as Donald Dickson in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in 1934, he grew up in the community of Cherokee City, Arkansas.He attended local schools and obtained a master's degree in English from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He now resides on a farm near Gentry, Arkansas and writes under the pseudonym of Keyth Dickson.

What happens when you discover that the person you admire, love and trust most of all has secretly discredited your integrity for most of your life-even on their deathbed? Rebecca Painter's frank, far-flung and often funny exploration of a painful mother-daughter relationship is for anyone challenged by hidden as well as open assaults on their character.To understand and heal her deep-rooted/lifelong trauma, the author transports readers across the Pacific to her mother's youth in the outback of 1920s New Zealand, and Rachel's fateful voyage to the Pacific Northwest in 1939. Did a telegraph error ruin her engagement to the man she called the love of her life? Why would she quickly marry an American cult leader, Rebecca's father, whose paranormal influence lingers after his untimely death? We witness the family's survival struggles, and Rebecca's challenges as an outsider attending an elite women's college-which resemble the barriers her mother faced in the British class system. Rebecca's dream of a scholarly career is deferred, but her prayers are answered by the chance to care for and be reconciled with her dying mother. [LOVE] RACHEL speaks of believable miracles, and-despite decades of soul-wrenching negative judgments-how personal integrity can be defended and empowered from within. "A gripping, haunting journey of forgiveness. Despite her mother's harsh judgments, Rebecca learns to love herself, have compassion for her mother…and comes to terms with their demons. Her memoir is a lyrical and intelligent page-turner and an inspiration."-Carole Mallory, actress, supermodel, author of Picasso's Ghost, Loving Mailer, and Flash "Rebecca Painter's wonderful memoir examines the compelling, dramatic and puzzling events of her mother's life, in her struggle to understand their fraught relationship…. As a daughter, I consider this to be more than just a great story. It is a truly important read about human relations."-Miriam Katin, artist, author of award-winning illustrated memoir We Are on Our Own and Letting It Go "A daringly honest, amazing account of a complex, always fascinating relationship."- Lee J. Strauss, author of The First Language and Toward a Biology of Culture

"Giraffesaurus" is of course a fanciful tale, as it features a mythical creature direct from the mind of David Guess. But its charm is real, displaying Guess's gift for making large things even giraffesauruses small and accessible. Kids might be frightened by the idea of a gigantic giraffe but there's nothing scary at all about Jerry. -Ben Bromley / Senior Reporter, Capital Newspapers

Anna Casamento-Arrigo and Gregory Anthony Stone began their work on "All Red" shortly after the two became neighbors. Little did they realize that they had traveled very similar paths in life. It is said that, 'truth is stranger than fiction.' As fate would have it, Casamento-Arrigo and Stone both had a connection with Jersey City, New Jersey. Casamento-Arrigo grew up there after arriving in America from Sicily, whereas, Stone was born there. The parallels and connections do not end there though. Ironically, Stone's wife Phyllis had lived with her family at 200 Webster Avenue in Jersey City-a home which would later be occupied by Casamento-Arrigo and her family. The similarities didn't end there though, as it was also discovered that Stone went to school with and was a friend of one of Casamento-Arrigo's relatives by marriage. The two thus accepted this gift of fate and, indeed, welcomed it and the path that would eventually lead them to the creation of "All Red." Moreover, Casamento-Arrigo and Stone are also both stroke survivors who share a passion for all forms of self-expression. Together, they have, as fate would have it, used words to paint pictures and created pictures that spawned poems. It is within the pages of this book that you will experience exactly how passion may serve as an impetus to finding one's own calling and unleash that inner voice that speaks to you as well!

The airfield is quiet now! A warm breeze bends the grass that was once moved by the engine of the flying fortresses. Seventy-four years earlier, Glenn H. Rojohn would take off from Thorpe Abbotts and be involved in an event that raises questions to this day!!!The Piggyback Flight is the story of courage, heroism, and legend.-Michael Faley, 100th Bomb Group HistorianIn early December 1944, flight engineer T/Sgt Conley Culpepper flew aboard "The Little Skipper" for the fourth and final time. His 100th Bomb Group was headed to Berlin, again.Seventy years later, in a college aviation-science classroom, his namesake grandson discussed the remarkable airmanship that kept two conjoined B-17s, "The Little Skipper" and "Nine Lives," in the air on the final day of December 1944.The skills, discipline, and selfless actions of Glenn H Rojohn and William Leek saved many lives. Their example for young pilots is not lost to history.- Chip Culpepper, 100th Bomb Group Foundation Board DirectorEvents of survival like the Piggyback occurred during WWII. The bravery and sacrifice that the 100th Bomb Group endured needs to be told so future generations can learn from these men.- Dan Rosenthal, President of 100th Bomb Group Foundation and son of "Rosie" Rosenthal.

This book is about the reaction of young Americans and Israelites to Islamic extremism. This book also explores the complexity of the political and social fabric of the Middle East. This book fictionalizes actual events that occurred during the rise of ISIS. This book has enough violent action to satisfy the male readers and enough passionate sex to keep the female readers pleased. The author wants to personally thank Susan Shaffer for her help in researching and editing the final book.