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The Cape Ann
A disarmingly involving portrait of a family struggling to stay together through the Great Depression, The Cape Ann is an unforgettable story of life from a child’s-eye view. Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann, and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark’s father’s gambling threatens the down payment her mother has worked so hard to save, Lark’s mother takes matters into her own indomitable hands.
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse
“More than forty years of history bookend a lifelong love affair with reading for the resilient heroine of [this] novel set in Harvester, Minnesota.” —Kirkus Reviews A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the Year When Nell Stillman’s boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-town America at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the face of nearly insurmountable odds, Nell finds strength in lasting friendships and in the rich inner life awakened by the novels she reads. She falls in love with John Flynn, a charming congressman who become...
What a Woman Must Do
Ten years ago, Bess Canby's parents died in a suspicious car accident. Since then Bess has lived with her Aunt Kate and Cousin Harriet -- a makeshift family that seemed as solid as any in town. Now, in the space of three days, each woman must decide how much she owes to the past and how much to the future. Bess, who is leaving for college in the fall, finds herself involved with a married man. Middle-aged Harriet is comfortable with her spinster's life until a widowed farmer comes courting. And Kate, deeply saddened by the death of her husband and the loss of their farm years before, dispenses acerbic advice to her younger cousins, while secretly battling the ghosts who live at the heart of all their lives. Critical Acclaim for The Cape Ann: "Like To Kill a Mockingbird, [it] is a story of a child's loss of innocence, of a growing awareness of just how complex life can be." -- Washington Post Book World "A fascinating, original novel." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ruby & Roland
“Rapturous . . . The joyful sense of community within this love story offers a charming and refreshing escape from the modern world.” —Kirkus Reviews Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter’s night, her beloved parents perish in an accident—and suddenly Ruby finds herself destitute and nearly alone in the world. Her new path eventually takes her to Harvester, Minnesota, where she’s lucky enough to find work on the welcoming Schoonover farm. Kind Emma, forward-thinking Henry, and their hired men—ambitious Dennis and reserved Jake—soon become a second family to the orphaned teenager. Young women are expected to be focused on c...
Gardenias
"It is 1942, only a month after the United States has joined World War II, and everything is in upheaval, including the Erhardt family. Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are leaving Harvester, Minnesota, breaking away from their Depression-era lives to seek new opportunities in California. Arlene has boldly left her husband behind - he gambled away the money she'd saved to build the house of her and Lark's dreams. She brings Lark and Betty reluctantly in her wake." "In San Diego, Arlene settles the family into a wartime housing project and secures a promising office job at Consolidated Aircraft. Betty finds work at a department store, and Lark, often left alone, navigates the bare yards of her new neighborhood. She avoids the boys who roam in threatening packs and meets Shirley, an unkempt girl who latches on to the family. Desperately homesick, Lark nevertheless attentively observes her new surroundings - the crowds who fill the plaza downtown, the junk man whose furniture they buy on credit, and the neighbors who, like her, have arrived from all across the country. Every day she waters a scraggly gardenia bush in the side yard and wonders if it will bloom."--BOOK JACKET.
What a Woman Must Do
When Celia Canby Kate s niece, Bess s mother, and Harriet s cousin is killed in a car accident, it s up to Kate and Harriet to raise Bess. Ten years later, on the day of the accident, the local newspaper in Harvester, MN, dredges up the story of the accident for a careless Way Back When piece, subjecting the women to another round of grief. Kate, arthritic and stuck far away from the farm she loves, is concerned about Bess. Headstrong and closed off, Bess yearns to escape Harvester before she goes bad. But when she begins to trace the same path of mistakes her mother made a risky relationship with a local married man everything seems on the verge of falling apart. In a novel that celebrates the power of what a woman can do, "What A Woman Must Do" asks timeless questions about love and loss: How does our history define us? How can we let go of it? Should we? "
Communicating Faith
This book enriches appreciation of the many ways that Christian faith is communicated. It casts light on the sensitivities, skills, and qualities necessary for the effective communication of faith, where justice is done both to the "seed" to be sown and to the "soil" being cultivated.
Prison Religion
More than the citizens of most countries, Americans are either religious or in jail--or both. But what does it mean when imprisonment and evangelization actually go hand in hand, or at least appear to? What do "faith-based" prison programs mean for the constitutional separation of church and state, particularly when prisoners who participate get special privileges? In Prison Religion, law and religion scholar Winnifred Fallers Sullivan takes up these and other important questions through a close examination of a 2005 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a faith-based residential rehabilitation program in an Iowa state prison. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State v....
Windows Into the Soul
Working with clay, paint, crayons, or pencils, artists have long known that the act of creating art can help people explore the deepest recesses of their hearts - and bring about real change in their lives. Michael Sullivan discovered the power of art for himself in the midst of grieving the loss of a young parishioner. Ever since, he has been using simple art projects as a form of prayer and a way of helping others explore what God may be saying to them. Windows into the Soul is a practical, hands-on resource for those who want to explore this means of prayer and contemplation for themselves, approaching the process not as an artist but as a spiritual seeker. Readers will find projects in various media, including clay, charcoal, and acrylic, including not only technical directions, but a gentle guide to the spiritual gold to be mined from the experience.
The Empress of One
Faith Sullivan's readers follow her fiction devotedly. Her 1988 novel "The Cape Ann" is a classic slice of small-town life read and reread by book clubs around the country. With "The Empress of One", winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, readers returned to Sullivan's Harvester, Minnesota, in the 1930s, and placed the novel firmly on bestseller lists.
