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Eddy has lost his job and Gayle has cancer. Unemployment, failed chemotherapy, and no insurance bring them to the edge of life’s precipice. Eddy turns to a local preacher and a statue called Jesus the Consoler, seeking a miracle; Gayle dives deep into a secret scheme devised years earlier when her husband lost his first job. Can anything save them?
span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In /span>i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Broken Pieces of God /i>span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">David B. Seaburn returns to the domestic arena to explore the decidedly complex and extraordinary lives of an average American couple, Eddy and Gayle Kimes. Eddy, a supervisor for a cable company, is laid off again, this time with no possible return to work. Gayle, a tax accountant, is recently diagnosed with ovarian | |  | | Charlie No Face
Charlie No Face is a coming-of-age story about an 11 year old boy, Jackie, and the unlikely friendship he forges with local disfigured hermit, Charlie No Face, a friendship that transform them both.
Jackie, age 11, lost his mother when he was three months old; his father is going through a period of turmoil that Jackie doesn't understand. In the summer of 1959 while he plays baseball with friends, develops an interest in the female anatomy and goes on the hunt for local bogeyman, Charlie No Face, Jackie life is turned upside down.
His father must leave town for several weeks. Jackie goes to live with a distant relative, Great Aunt Dee, where he learns more about life than he could ever have expected. His unlikely friendship with Charlie No Face will change them both as Jackie a | |  | | Chimney Bluffs
When their four-year-old son, Danny, dies suddenly, Mitch and Kate’s grief overwhelms them. Conflicted about going on with their lives, Mitch and Kate decide to leap from a cliff at Chimney Bluffs. When the couple is found by park rangers, Clancy and Bobby, Kate is still very much alive. What follows is a poignant and powerful story of three strangers, each facing a tragic loss, who together find friendship and healing.
i>Chimney Bluffs is a story about tragic loss, painful decisions, and the healing that can be provided through relationships, even relationships among people who are wounded by life. After the death of their four year old son, Mitch and Kate, for very different reasons decide that suicide is something that would resolve the dilemma of their grief. At the last moment, Kate reconsiders this decision, although Mitch goes forward. Kate is eventually befriended by Clancy and Bobby, the park rangers that find her at the bottom of the cliffs. They create an unlikely | |  | | Darkness is as Light
Randall has struggled all his life to understand the circumstamces surrounding the death of his mother when he was a boy.
Randall is a middle-aged man who has spent his life trying to preserve the memory of the mother he lost when he was a boy. At the same time, he has struggled with the fact that he lives with the person he suspects of killing her---his alcoholic father. Tormented by both grief and failed opportunities, Randall finds himself in a psychiatric hospital piecing together the meaning of his life after an attempted suicide.
Upon returning home, Randall discovers that his father is dying of cancer and that now he must care for him. On this final journey, Randall learns what really happened t | |  | | GAVIN GOODE
"I don't know how and I don't know why, but I think I died today." For Gavin, the adventure begins.
“I don’t know how and I don’t know why, but I think I died today.” So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode and his family. What happened to Gavin and why? What secrets will emerge along the way? Frankie, his wife and a dress store owner, feels guilty, but why? His son, Ryan, who owns an ice cream parlor, and daughter-in-law, Jenna, who is a bank manager, are expecting their first baby. How will this trauma affect them? And what of Rosemary, Frankie’s best friend? Or Ben Hillman and eleven-year-old, Christopher? How are they implicated in the | |  | | MORE MORE TIME
Six lives are intertwined in unusual ways after the protangonist, Max, falls down his stairs and starts hearing an unusual messgae: endingtimeendingtimeendingtime.
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This is a humorous and poignant look at two brothers trying to figure out why their mother left them thirty years ago. The only help they have is n African grey parrot they've inherited after her death. When he starts talking, things change.
Lucas and Grinder are more than a little suprised and confused to hear that their mother, Millie, who they haven't seen in over thirty years, has died. Now her best friend wants them to come to Pittsburgh to take care of their mother's effects, chief among them being Paul.
A road trip ensues with memorable stops at a Racino, a Pittsburgh landmark geasy spoon, and finally a ride on an incline trolley to meet their mother's friend, janice. They are taken aback when she introduces them to Paul, an African grey parrot who has things to say that will change their lives. And so a tr | |  | | Pumpkin Hill
Six people's lives are changed forever by the startling events that occur at a rural crossroads named Pumpkin Hill.
Harry Backman is a mentally ill young man whose voices draw him to what he hopes will be an apocalyptic moment on Pumpkin Hill. Leonard Grace is an elderly man in a loveless marriage on his evening walk. Laura Hall is a writer and the wife of a Presbyterian minister whose automobile accident that night on Pumpkin Hill forms the heart of the story.
Warren, Laura's husband, is a young minister searching for the truth while struggling with whether his wife will survive her accident. Eloise, Harry's longsuffering mother, fears the worst about her son's involvement in what happened on Pu |
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Celts and Kings
by Mel Hathorn
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 Celts and Kings: The story behind the mystifying disappearance of the Celtic Earls in 1607. The story of a lost love and Celtic Spirituality.
The story of a forbidden love going back 400 years.
The story steeped in Irish history, Ce |
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