Helen R Norris

Written by an AQA moderator and based on the trusted and popular Science Foundations series, Science Support is a practical and flexible worksheet based resource to really enthuse your low attainers. New teacher book and CD-ROM resource that offers support materials and in-depth guidance on teaching...

Theron Estes, upon returning home from a 90-day stint in jail, is dismayed to find his two young daughters home alone and a cryptic note from his wife: "I had enuff its your turn." Thus begins the title story of Helen Norris's new collection, a funny yet pathos-filled tale of Theron's bizarre attemp...

This collection of reflective essays–all exploring themes of artistic self-discovery and regional awareness–showcases 19 nationally known writers who have roots in Alabama. In The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama ...

"Undertakers, who'd have 'em" This is one of the funniest books around. Not only does it let you into a world that would otherwise have remained fairly secret, it lets the cat out of the bag in terms of what the undertakers, morticians and policemen, have got up to in their own peculiar and somewhat...

Involves a West Virginia mountaineer family, father, mother, five sons and daughter. Their complicated rise from abject poverty to become multi-millionaires through their efforts in the coal-mining industry. From a small outcrop of coal on their unproductive farm, they eventually own thirty producti...

A lonely widower rents a woman to keep him company over the holidays. The young wife of a considerably older man steps off their train for just a moment and never returns. A woman and her withdrawn grandchild try to bridge the generations and loneliness keeping them apart. In these tales and others ...