15 Ergebnisse.

VOICES - A Gemstone Book (CASEBOUND), 250 pages. *** When the World Conspires against you, where do you turn? Kala Westergaard sees herself as a modern-day Joan of Arc, with the unwarranted persecution but without a cause. Orphaned at the age of four, she is raised by her grandmother and aunt until the fateful night when she and her boyfriend, coming back from a party, are run off the road by a deer in the headlights. Before morning breaks, th...

A Gemstone Book (HARDCOVER) - 403 pages: **** When Danny Davenport and Nick Nicholson first slug it out on the south end of the football field they are two elementary-school innocents already troubled by the prospect of losing their youth. Then comes Lily Winterspring, binding them together "with all the pain of a splinter sewn through [their] hearts." The bitter flows out of the sweet and the bonds between the two are tested, first by sudden ...

TRADE PAPERBACK - 526 pages: A FAMILY ROMANCE is a novel duology. Two converging stories, first separately published as "What the Tiger Said" and "Nebraska's Map, " subsume themes from William Blake's poetry, search among the mysteries and manners of Flannery O'Conner for that "peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet, " and challenge the psychoanalytic and spiritual notions of what a family can be.

HARDCOVER DUST JACKET - 350 pages: RUBI MCCALLISTER WAS SIX YEARS OLD when she orphaned herself. Now, at nineteen, she had let a man in the barn. These acts, at least in her mind, were not mutually exclusive. To let a man in the barn, actually a man and his daughter, was an act of goodwill.So begins NEBRASKA'S MAP-in a small town in southern Utah, a few days before Christmas, when the world is on the verge of collapse. It is snowing, and the e...

TRADE PAPERBACK (350 pages) - "RUBI MCCALLISTER WAS SIX YEARS OLD when she orphaned herself. Now, at nineteen, she had let a man in the barn. These acts, at least in her mind, were not mutually exclusive. To let a man in the barn, actually a man and his daughter, was an act of goodwill."So begins NEBRASKA?S MAP?in a small town in southern Utah, a few days before Christmas, when the world is on the verge of collapse. It is snowing, and the evil...

CASEBOUND ? HARDCOVER (180 pages)?PAPS WAS IN JAIL AGAIN. Paps was in jail and she hardly knew what to do with herself.?So begins the plight of a nameless child who lives in a boxcar reading about Wonder Girl and wondering about adventure in a wonderless land. The world is on the verge of collapse, and when a man with tattoos on his face and his ?crush? with blue eyes come peddling tickets to heaven she finds herself not only in pursuit of a g...

VOICES - A Gemstone Book (HARDCOVER, DUST JACKET), 250 pages. *** When the World Conspires against you, where do you turn? Kala Westergaard sees herself as a modern-day Joan of Arc, with the unwarranted persecution but without a cause. Orphaned at the age of four, she is raised by her grandmother and aunt until the fateful night when she and her boyfriend, coming back from a party, are run off the road by a deer in the headlights. Before morni...

PAPERBACK PERFECT BOUND (180 pages)"PAPS WAS IN JAIL AGAIN. Paps was in jail and she hardly knew what to do with herself."So begins the plight of a nameless child who lives in a boxcar reading about Wonder Girl and wondering about adventure in a wonderless land. The world is on the verge of collapse, and when a man with tattoos on his face and his "crush" with blue eyes come peddling tickets to heaven she finds herself not only in pursuit of a...

A Compass Book (Trade Paperback) - 130 pages *** AS NOTED IN THE PREFACE to this tour de force, "It is virtually impossible to read the scriptures without considering the multitude of contraryisms if not the profound if only 'apparent contradictions' that embody divine truths." *** The Divine Paradox gives consideration to a few of the remarkable and deeply profound paradoxes that lie within the scriptures, paradoxes given and revealed by divi...

Published by Creative Editions (Trade Paperback) - 94 pages *** Riding the Absolute is "...a deeply philosophical collection of poems assaying the ultimate questions with élan and music. A book celebrating our capacity 'to solve the riddles of love & pain.... Uncompromising...'" - Judges' Citation, Writer's Digest National Book Award *** "A bright shining discovery. In each poem there is that one breathtaking turn of phrase, that unexpected sl...

A Gemstone Book (Trade Paperback) - 194 pages *** What comes of Gardening without Gloves? Read each of the twelve stories in this volume to find answers that you wouldn't expect. On one level Memmott's book is an excursion into the psychology of love, while on another level it voices the despair of love and relationships misunderstood. One story shows this weathered visage and another one that. The characters, in their own dangerous and diamet...

A Gemstone Book (TRADE PAPERBACK) - 347 pages *** By turns quirky and inventive, humorous and adept, SWEET SALLY ANN challenges the depths of childhood fear, from the suspicion of parents on the verge of divorce to the prospect of something that lurks in the woods. When young Cody Bryant becomes obsessed with the disappearance of his classmate, everything that was right seems suddenly wrong. A year later, when he discovers her bones, it's time...

A Gemstone Book (TRADE PAPERBACK) - 349 pages *** To escape a life of abuse, fifteen-year-old Evan Adamson sacrifices the love of his childhood sweetheart only to find himself caught up in the ill-begotten adventures of three Gypsy outcasts who ultimately teach him the ways of the heart and the soul, and most importantly that, "...there will always be that in this world which goes beyond understanding and speaks to the heart in a more meaningf...

A Gemstone Book (TRADE PAPERBACK) - 403 pages: **** When Danny Davenport and Nick Nicholson first slug it out on the south end of the football field they are two elementary-school innocents already troubled by the prospect of losing their youth. Then comes Lily Winterspring, binding them together "with all the pain of a splinter sewn through [their] hearts." The bitter flows out of the sweet and the bonds between the two are tested, first by s...

VOICES - A Gemstone Book (TRADE PAPERBACK), 250 pages. *** When the World Conspires against you, where do you turn? Kala Westergaard sees herself as a modern-day Joan of Arc, with the unwarranted persecution but without a cause. Orphaned at the age of four, she is raised by her grandmother and aunt until the fateful night when she and her boyfriend, coming back from a party, are run off the road by a deer in the headlights. Before morning brea...