The place: Canyon County, Idaho. Instead, alabama, henry chose Fairhope, a town with utopian ideals and a haven for strong-minded individualists. Henry’s dearest friend and intellectual sparring partner, and henry’s two adult sons, Thomas and Harvey, were baffled and angry that he would abandon them and move to the Deep South, Pastor Will Webb, living in a barn there while he built a round house of handmade concrete blocks.
Henry stuart points the way through life’s puzzles for all of us, becoming in this timeless tale a character of such dimension that he seems more alive now than ever. It’s 1925. San diego would be a good choice. On the coldest day of winter he was barefoot, a philosopher and poet with ideas and words to share with anyone who would listen.
Henry is sixty-seven, a retired professor and a widower who has been told a warmer climate would make the end more tolerable. Before dying, and all people, henry could begin to “perfect the soul awarded him” and rest in the faith that he, would succeed, underscored by the writings of his beloved Tolstoy, “even if it took eons.
Human existence, irrespective of blood and possessions and rank, continues in a perfect circle unmarred by flaws of personality, Henry believed, and separate from organized religion.
The Widow and the Tree
Some say the fabled giant tree was once a knee-high seedling brushed by the black boot of Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez. So why would the widow walk into a biker bar and hire a man to fire up his chainsaw and inflict fatal gashes around its trunk, ending in a few minutes what took five centuries to create?The Widow and the Tree is a tale of dark deeds committed with mercy in mind, provoking the reader to ask: Would I have done the same thing? This book is based on a true story.
It was a childhood friend and a spirit guide in troubled times. Her father is buried in its shade.
Eveningland: Stories
. . Grappling with dramas both epic and personal, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the “unspeakable misgivings of contentment, ” Eveningland captures with perfect authenticity of place the ways in which ordinary life astounds us with its complexity. A teenaged girl with a taste for violence holds a burglar hostage in her house on New Year’s Eve; a middle-aged couple examines the intricacies of their marriage as they prepare to throw a party; and a real estate mogul in the throes of grief buys up all the property on an island only to be accused of madness by his daughters.
Long considered a master of the form and an essential voice in american fiction, Michael Knight delivers a “deft and wonderful, wholly original” collection of interlinked stories set among the members of a Mobile, Alabama family in the years preceding a devastating hurricane The New York Times Book Review.
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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
This is the first-ever english-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years.
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
On a remote, isolated strip of land, Mariah, Richard and his girlfriend, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, embark on a new life. Imagine a year in provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta’s lingering racial tensions.
. Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters—blues legend T-Model Ford, eccentric millionaires, catfish farmers, cookbook maven Martha Foose, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Dispatches from pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place.
They learn to hunt, snakes, and fend off alligators, grow their own food, and varmints galore. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Winner of the pat conroy southern book prize mississippi's #1 bestseller of 2015 and 2016 the Clarion-Ledger A New York Times Bestseller In Dispatches from Pluto, beautiful, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, often derided Mississippi Delta.
Voices in the Stones: Life Lessons from the Native Way
Do not begrudge the white man his presence on this land. Though he doesn’t know it yet, he has come here to learn from us. A shoshone elderthe genius of the Native Americans has always been their profound spirituality and their deep understanding of the land and its ways. For three decades, author Kent Nerburn has lived and worked among the Native American people.
. At a dusty roadside café he introduces us to an elder who remembers the time when his ancestors could talk to animals. In these and other deeply touching stories, Nerburn reveals the spiritual awareness that animates all of Native American life, and shows us how we have much to learn from one another if only we have the heart to listen.
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, my southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, especially for Southerners or feel Southern at heart and anyone who appreciates great writing.
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The Beach Trees
The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather—and unlocks a surprising family history. Includes a readers guide and an excerpt of dreams of falling. Monica guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them.
From the new york times bestselling author of the tradd Street novels comes the story of one woman’s journey into a secret past—and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi. Working at an auction house in new York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister.
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Redhead by the Side of the Road: A novel
. A self-employed tech expert, he seems content leading a steady, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend" tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son.
From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah mortimer is a creature of habit.
Black Water Lilies: A Novel
Entangled in the mystery are three women: a young painting prodigy, the seductive village schoolteacher, and an old widow who watches over the village from a mill by the stream. From the author of the "wonderfully ingenious" marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review novel After the Crash, a thrilling tale of a murder that takes place in Claude Monet's garden and the mystery that surrounds it.
Giverny, France. Jérôme morval, a man whose passion for art was matched only by his passion for women, has been found dead in the stream that runs through the gardens. In his pocket is a postcard of Monet's Water Lilies with the words: Eleven years old. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village.
This is the story of thirteen days that begin with one murder and end with another.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
