How Billy (the Kidney) Earned His Name is a story intended for elementary school age children and older who are experiencing kidney failure. This story aims to introduce the experience of kidney transplant to children-who better to explain transplant than a kidney with a sense of humor? The authors hope that this book makes medical procedures easier for children who are coping with the challenge of kidney transplant. Billy loved his job in "The Body," turning trash into urine (just a fancy word for "pee"). His world gets even better when he experiences a great big adventure. Billy describes his motivation for keeping the "New Body" strong and healthy and expresses gratitude for all she does to keep him healthy too.

Ever have those tough days that you would like to forget, or even a good day that could be made better? Would a good laugh help? Meet Bro. Billy Bob 'The Baptist' Bohannon: preacher, songwriter, poet. No Really My Name Is Brother Billy Bob Bohannon is Billy Bob's comical collection of tales about his colorful family, friends, and church families. You'll love his lighter-side stories like 'Uncle Buddy Lee Lightfoot and Cre-amation.' You'll snicker at his unusual Bible knowledge through stories such as 'The Story of Lot and Lottie' and 'Noah, Termites, Methuselah, and Joan of Ark.' Bro. Billy Bob is sure to enrich your life with his infectious blend of scripture, spirituality, and silliness.

Sixteen-year-old Barney can't remember life before the Complex, an experimental clinlc. He knows he's different--he's the control subject. Then he uncovers a terrible secret about himself, a secret that drives him to fulfill his and his fellow subjects' ultimate dream. The Bumblebee must fly!

Silence of Midnight This story is about a teenage girl who lost her mother from cancer. She and her father decided to take a trip to visit his sister down South, unknowing of the events that would take place on their journey. Sweet Voice Afar This story was told to me by my father one day while we were fishing at a river. Nothing was biting and there was nothing for us to do. He told me about his adventure in the great Pine Run Forest. A Reporters Hunch This is a story about a young reporter, named Frank Ross, who falls in love with writing. Not only just writing, but he wants to write down to earth, like getting involved with whoever he is writing about. To him, this is the only way a story should be written. Life as It Is This is about help from loneliness and fear. Seek and you should find; have faith in yourself. You know, there are lots of ups and downs in life, such as loneliness and fear. Lonelinessit could be one of the most frustrating experiences that any one person could face. There is a story that I would like to share with you. This story fits almost every person there is. My First Trip by Frank Ross This story, I hope, is a reminder to all that people change and you must look at them the way you want them to look at you. Another Frank Ross Story Hi, my name is Frank Ross. I work for a local newspaper. You probably read my story called A Reporters Hunch in this book. Written by my long-lasting friend, William Lyons. This story I am about to tell is about two people who lived a distance apart. They never met but had something in common.

From a New York Times bestseller, “with his tangled family roots and . . . deep psychic scars . . . Billy Bob already looks like a mythic hero in the making (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced Edgar Award–winning thriller from beloved–bestselling author James Lee Burke Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence—but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business. Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers—too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger. “Billy Bob’s humanity suffuses every page with a warm, golden glow.” —Library Journal “All the roiling intensity of the Robicheaux stories.” —Kirkus Reviews “Cimarron Rose is a fine, multitextured novel, full of Burke’s lilting, elegiac prose and unflinching in its portrait of the human heart in turmoil.” —Booklist