Sign-In
Cart
STAND FOR SOMETHING -Or- THE BLOOD NEVER FORGETS
Hardcover
Series: Dani, Book 3
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Parenting
Publisher Price: $27.00
ISBN13: 9781968965105
Publisher: H.R. Novelton, LLC
Published: Jan 16 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A violent attack can strike anyone at any time, anywhere without clear cause or reason. The third book in our Dani Series begins on a beautiful day in June when Dani has every reason to be happy and not a clue her family's lives are about to be wrecked. The aftermath of the event is traumatic, of course, but trauma is insidious like an illness that spreads in complex ways; but unlike an illness, trauma digs in for the long haul even as the shock fades; it might even fool us and pretend to be gone altogether, when it is only hiding and waiting to strike again unexpectedly like the violence that caused it.
As usually happens, victims of violence are left to pick up the pieces and go on with their lives; and that's really the story Dani has written. The picking up part and the going on. There is a morning after, a new day; and that's sometimes where the best part of life can begin. But first, one has to survive the pain of the memories.
Shouldn't I be trying to forget? asks Dani.
No, says her Grandpa. It is a mistake to forget...You cannot snuff out your most powerful memories. Trying to is futile...you can't move on without them and you can't fight them. They always win. What you need to do is keep them alive, give them a portal and a way for them to come and go through that portal, and when they come they will speak to you and give you strength. So it is very important to listen to your memories. That is what the good medicine is. On one side is the memory-speaking one, on the other is you the listening one.
At some level, we could say this story, this very book, is the memory speaking, and you the reader are the listener, for, as Dani's story reveals, the trauma belongs to all of us.
The story, as told by Dani herself as a third-person observer, threads her narrative tightly through her own character, a technique that creates urgency and tension and, for the reader, a personal sense of experience.
Also from
Novelton, H. R.
A Message To Tiger Lily: A Heartwarming Chipmunk Adventure of Friendship and Growth
Striatus, Genius Tamias
Novelton, H. R.
Paperback
A Message To Tiger Lily: A Heartwarming Chipmunk Adventure of Friendship and Growth
Striatus, Genius Tamias
Novelton, H. R.
Hardcover
Also in
Fiction Anthologies
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Pirsig, Robert M.
Pirsig, Wendy K.
Hardcover
James Weldon Johnson: Writings (Loa #145): The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / Essays and Editorials / Selected Poems
Johnson, James Weldon
Hardcover
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Paperback
Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
McCourt, Frank
McCourt, Malachy
Hardcover
Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All.
Allen, Mel
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Sophocles
Euripides
Aeschylus
Paperback
Learn Russian with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Russian to English
Hyplern, Bermuda Word
Gettys, Serafima
Van Den End, Kees
Paperback
Obvious Adams -- The Story of a Successful Businessman: New Business Edition
Updegraff, Robert R.
Paperback
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews
Poe, Edgar Allan
Hardcover
Bookin' in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women's Prison Book Club
Devoto, Pat Cunningham
Paperback
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording)
Sato, Eriko
Sato, Anna
Paperback
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, volume 1
Fager, Anders
Cubas, Cristina Fernández
Pedraza, Pilar
Paperback
The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio (Facsimile Reprint)
Randall, E. O.
Randall, Emilius Oviatt
Paperback