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Learning As I Go
An eccentric romp of a book, Learning As I Go takes shots at our messy culture, picks a lover's quarrel with the Catholic Church, throws unabashed educational advice at young people, and pays homage to books and writers. Along the way, Jeff Minick looks at burka babes and crazy ladies, finds beauty in small places, shops with Flannery O'Connor at WalMart, shakes hands with adult adolescents, and examines honor and duty in a world which seems bereft of both. All of Joe Ecclesia's "Letters to the Bishop," originally published in Chronicles Magazine, are included here. In addition, there are twenty-nine other essays, nearly all of which have appeared in Chronicles, the Smoky Mountain News, vocabula.com, and other magazines. Minick is also the author of the novel Amanda Bell. Of this story of loss and redemption, one online reviewer wrote: "Victimized by a series of unfortunate events, Amanda Bell--a beautiful, twenty-seven-year-old woman--seeks to recede further and further into herself...Meeting an unlikely figure in modern literature, however, Amanda slowly lets down her walls and eventually lets herself slip into love. Amanda Bell may remind us all that love comes in many forms."
Movies Make the Man
"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power, mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil, and I want you to remember this...true love never dies. You remember that, boy...Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in." --Hub McCann, Secondhand Lions In the film Secondhand Lions, Hub McCann, a soldier and adventurer grown old in years but not in spirit, frequently teaches teenage males the meaning of manhood. He lives by a code of...
Amanda Bell
"I get the job done." This is Amanda Bell's credo, the bedrock principle she ruthlessly embraces as a supervisor at Saxon & Henle, an Atlanta Law and accounting firm. Ambitious, tough, and disciplined, Amanda demands the impossible from herself and her subordinates. Despite their hostility--their kindest nickname for her is "The Immaculate Perfection"--her success in the corporate world seems assured. But is it? What happens when carefully-laid plans unexpectedly explode? What happens when a storm demolishes cherished dreams, when dreams themselves are blown to dust? What becomes of the heart when it hides behind the walls of an interior castle, locking out friendship, affection, and love? T...
Teach Me to Pray
The Riess children live on a farm, with several pets and a big yard to explore. As they read the Bible, and other books about miracles, they begin to pray about everything. This family wants to buy a horse with a foal, but it just costs too much. Janelle desperately wants to take skating lessons, even though it seems impossible. Ryan cries over his limp, lifeless kitten who appears to have drowned. How will prayer help. Does God care about our day-to-day lives? As you read these stories, you will see a miracle-working God who answers prayers--and you will know that He cares about you!
Dust on Their Wings
Margaret Hart. Maximilian Lamb. Their superiors from beyond the stars have given them human bodies and dispatched them to Planet Earth, specifically to Asheville, North Carolina. Their mission: to bring together Emily Hoffman, a broken-hearted teacher, and pharmacist John Flyte, a boy in a man's body who claims to know women, but can never hold onto one. As it turns out, John and Emily are the least of their problems. Soon after their arrival, Max and Maggie find themselves embroiled in a situation never before encountered by any of their kind, a bewildering dance of emotions incomprehensible to them. Why were they sent here? What is their real mission? What strange force is drawing them tog...
The Lighthouse
Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent "vigilant", performing his duties courageously year after year, with an admirable sense of responsibility. He cherishes his solitude and is grateful that his interactions with human beings are rare. Even so, he is haunted by his aloneness in the world and by a feeling that his life is meaningless. His courage, his integrity, his love of the sea and wildlife, of practical skills and of learning are, in the end, not enough. He is faced with internal storms and sometimes literal storms of terrifying po...
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.
The Accidental Agent
“To paraphrase a line from the movie Jerry McGuire, ‘This book had me from “Hello.”’...powerful..."—Rose Hooper, The Sylva Herald The Montserrat volcano forces an international drug lord from his home, setting in motion a chain of events that leads through boat explosions; mid-air plane conflagrations; chases through rush hour streets of Atlanta and Chicago; back-alley machine gun killings and the works of one of the world’s best sociopathic hit-men. Brian Withers wants to live his life quietly, teaching college, but the FBI and the drug ring both find him an attractive cover for gathering information. Brian and his wife Susannah are pulled constantly deeper into a world they n...
Things Left Undone
Suspense, action, murder, romance, mystery. Different than anything you’ve ever read. A young man’s nude body is found in a dumpster; it has a finger freshly amputated. A beautiful well-dressed woman lives in a cave. A lawyer in Florida hauls an old woman’s body in the back of his truck too long. A 24-year-old Adonis has the mind of a four-year-old...but remembers too well. A man jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the windshield of the car of the one man in the world who can least endure the trauma. A trucker in New England barely misses death by an avalanche of deer. A horse rancher in Montana returns home to find his wife dead. The drug trade from South America filters into a mountain village in North Carolina. A man is killed by a used bullet. The Death Card keeps coming in Tarot. Four men from four sections of the country each experience a life-changing tragedy. They pack up and leave, looking for a new beginning...and find one another in a swirling microcosm of emotions. What effect does each have on the other and those around him? And each has something left undone.
All That Glitters
Ellie Perro harbored an unattained goal to travel to places she had dreamed to see since childhood. Now in the twilight of her life she has encouraged her husband, Rick, to retire from his accounting business in Pennsylvania and move to their condominium in Tropico, Florida. Rick is a workaholic and declines retirement until he experiences heart irregularity, and because of his doctor's advice, agrees to move to Florida. Ellie has suspected infidelity on the part of her handsome husband ever since he had an affair with Julie Cordell during Ellie's second pregnancy. Overall the marriage of forty years has been essentially stable but has lost most of the luster once enjoyed by the couple. Elli...
