K. G. Bell Books

James Melvin Scott's book, The Missouri Kid, chronicles the life of a boy growing up in the Missouri Ozarks. While his parents, who were farmers, didn't have much--very few families did--they provided their four children with a rich childhood in an environment surrounded by nature. Missouri is a network of great rivers and magnificent streams. Scott grew up hunting and fishing on the rivers and in the Ozark Hills of Missouri. Scott's story takes you through his early years, through his youth when he played high school basketball and was a cowboy in the rodeo, and into adulthood when he eventually left Missouri and crossed the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim with a friend as he headed out West, to California, to pursue the American dream.

This novel is a passionate, intimate journey into a classical world of intrigue and courage. It explores the desolation and beauty that encompassed human life in the nations of the Near East and Africa during sixth century BC. It expresses glimpses of harmony among the peoples that created alliances and possibilities for new life in distant lands. The hero, Sundele, is caught up in the clashes of empires that are full of blood-thirsty, loathsome endeavors who prevailed to extend their challenging powers. The novel is a bold, exciting saga of a proud, flamboyant, courageous prince who rises above the thundering turbulence of international conflicts in search of his ?love woman,? Quinoxa. He searches far and wide for ten years, engaging in struggles and mind-bending horrors on battlefields that force him to wonder about and envision a more beautiful world, one that is enwrapped in peace and human kindness. When he found his beautiful Quinoxa, he journeyed to that world of peace and comfort in the Americas and became a dedicated leader of a people called the Olmec.

This book of Epic poems gives meaning to every moment of our living as it uses language to meander through ideas and philosophies of peoples and cultures, effecting behaviors, visions and changes. The Dance of Words, written with fire, reminds its readers of a time when integrity, honor and love were in flower, and lost moments of mankind s existence come vividly alive, with dramatic accounts of modern life, history, myths and fantasy. The Poems emerge with power and passion showing the values that impact upon human development and forces us to look deeply into our humanity in order to embrace fully this Blast of Light called life.