PANAMA captures the sweep of this country's tumultuous history. Moving between past and present--from pivotal events in Panama's past to the American withdrawal in 1999--this is the fast-paced saga of a man and a nation searching for their identities.

Panama

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Carlos Ledson

Contemporary

Xlibris

Panama: A Novel

Xlibris, Corp.

BELIZE is the saga of a Central American father and his two sons -- one American and one Belizean -- who struggle against a forbidding land, and often with each other. This is the compelling story of a family and a nation searching for their identities.

Belize

Genre Fiction

Belize: A Novel

Set on the Texas Gulf Coast, STROKE is the story of a young woman’s quest to compete in the male-dominated world of professional pool. 
Rich in images and accurate in the nuances of the game, Miller captures our attention with a title that at first glance might conjure up images of hypertension. But STROKE is aptly named. Pool players know that being "in stroke" is akin to basketball players being "in the zone." 
Refreshingly, STROKE is not just another pool hustle novel. Sedonia Forbes, raised by a single-parent father who fostered her athletic skills and encouraged her competitive nature, wins the U. S. Amateur Women’s Golf Championship and is heralded as an up-and-coming, female Tiger Woods. 
But before Sedonia turns professional, she receives two crushing blows. The first is the death of her father, and the second is a severe shoulder injury that precludes her ever playing golf again. These losses bring her life to a standstill. 
When the story opens, Sedonia’s competitive nature and her need to excel begin to kindle a new fire among the ashes of her heartbreak. Leaving the country-club life behind, she enters the green felt, poolroom jungle.

Stroke: A Novel

Redbud Publishing

PANAMA captures the sweep of this country's tumultuous history. Moving from pivotal events in Panama's past to the American withdrawal in 1999, this is the action-filled saga of a man and a nation searching for their identities. Hank Duque is a third-generation Canal Zonian, a hybrid of American and Panamanian ancestry, who returns to Panama in 1989, after a twenty-five year exile. Immediately upon his arrival, a La Guardia intelligence officer, Major Carlos Mejias, recognizes Hank and knows of his role in the bloody 1964 student riot. Hank wonders how the major was able to identify him so quickly. Hank's odyssey takes him throughout Panama, from the teeming streets of Panama City to the impenetrable jungle of the interior, from the landscaped boulevards of the American Canal Zone to a squalid cell in a Panamanian prison known as La Preventiva. 'Sal si puedes,' Hank's Panamanian grandfather had implored. 'Get out if you can.' Now, twenty-five years later, Hank has returned.

BookSurge Publishing

Ramon Kelley is the ambitious manager of the last company to log mahogany in the Belizean rain forest. The story opens on the eve of Hurrican Hatti, then transports the reader across 40 years, from the unrest of colonial British Honduras to the turnbulence of modern Belize. The personal odysseys of Ramon Kelley, Ray Kelley, and Clive Lightburn take them from the teeming streets of Belize City to the impenetrable rain forest, from the far western mountains to the pristine Caribbean cayes. Set on a harsh, exciting landscape, BELIZE is the action-filled saga of a family and a nation searching for their identities.

Stroke

What happens when a young woman, who has known only acclaim and security, abruptly loses everything? Sedonia Forbes sits in her sports car, parked behind a rundown poolroom. Three months ago, she was the top amateur woman golfer in the nation. Newspapers heralded her as an up-and-coming female Tiger Woods. Now she's a nobody, who can never play golf again. She's come to this poolroom looking for a hustler named Emilio. Tears of frustration well, but she blinks them back. There's been enough of that! She climbs out of her car, and leaving her country-club life behind, she enters the green-felt poolroom jungle. Populated by authentic characters and told from an insider's view of professional pool, Stroke is the story of a young woman's quest for redemption and self-renewal.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Who Speaks for Earth?" isn’t for everyone. It’s a straightforward memoir, which may offend some readers, since Carlos Ledson Miller explores a controversial topic: “Religion vs. Science.” In this book, Miller recounts personal experiences to explain his opposition to faith-based religions and his support of scientific exploration of our Universe.

Who Speaks for Earth?: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

It's the summer of 1958, and author Carlos "Carl" Miller has dropped out of college and has moved to New Orleans in search of a job. On a spur-of-the-moment whim, he strolls into the Marine Corps recruiting office on Canal Street. In "Skin of My Teeth," Miller recreates his coming of age during his four-year enlistment, from the culture shock of boot camp to the difficult decision of whether or not to reenlist. The social turbulence of the late 1950s and early 1960s provides the setting for this compelling account. About "Skin of My Teeth," the author says: “This memoir falls under a relatively-new category known as “creative nonfiction,” which presents actual people and events, through dramatization techniques usually used in writing fiction. My goal in writing this book was to recount my four years as a peacetime Marine, 1958-1962. At best, recollection can be subjective, and since more than half a century had passed, at times it was necessary for me to fill in memory gaps and to approximate the sequence of events. I’ve also originated dialogue, which I couldn’t possibly have remembered verbatim. Some characters are composites of more than one actual person, and except for a few notable public figures, I’ve changed the names of all of the characters, out of my respect for the privacy of the actual people."

Skin of My Teeth: A Memoir

Leaders & Notable People

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Panama

Panama: A Novel

Belize

Belize: A Novel

Stroke: A Novel

Panama: A Novel

Belize: A Novel

Stroke

Who Speaks for Earth?: A Memoir

Skin of My Teeth: A Memoir