In this screen-proliferated world, we reach between images for deeper feelings.
Jacob Marley Books
Women's Historical Literature
Reality Show
Farm Life
Spiritual Help
Prison Reform
Voices of Victorian Women
The Lark
Stuck in the shadow of her noble cousin, Eva is still eager to spend the social season in London. Despite her aunt daily assuring her she will end a spinster, her uncle’s political aspirations, and her cousin’s relentless pursuits in the marriage mart, Eva is in heaven. The Theater Royal is performing Shakespeare all season. However, there is no enjoying it when the duke meant for her cousin shows Eva too much attention. What can she do when her aunt goes on the attack?
High Bred Rose
What can a maiden aunt do in 1840 England when she comes home to find her niece being courted by a madman?
She is debilitated by the deep love she feels for her previous employer, Lawrence, a nobleman whose loyalty to his late wife insists mourning is a lifelong endeavor. She feels the best thing for her is to retire to her brother’s house in hopes of healing and never seeing Lawrence again. But Myra's own misery must be set aside when she must foil the plans of an entitled, wealthy young man who tries to run away with her niece. Can she humble herself enough to ask Lawrence for help? Will he reel her in and throw her back? Again?
The Basra Pearls
In Victorian England, Millie’s reputation and life are devastated when a simple carriage ride with the wrong man turns into an assault and ruins her prospects at marriage. Frank, an older childhood friend, steps in and marries her. A brilliant investigator, Frank is hired to help the most arrogant and incompetent barrister in London. Millie steps up as his equal to keep an innocent man from being hung. Will Millie heal enough to value her childhood-friendship-turned-marriage-of-convenience as more than just a way to free herself from scandal?
Tattered Sik
Poverty in the Victorian Era is not for the faint of heart. It is even worse for a woman with a pretty face. Anna wants nothing more than independence. Her lover betrays her to the workhouse, and the day she leaves the workhouse to be a paid servant, she is sure her luck is finally turning. But instead of settling into a cot in the attic for the rest of her life, her mistress, who is savagely jealous of her pretty face, accuses her of stealing. A soldier takes up her cause, but when he, in return, is accused of murder, Anna believes she is cursed. And that is only the beginning.
The Reality Show - Book 1 of 3
The Whole Package is a classy reality show centered on the woman who overcame hardship and is most worthy of million-dollar prize money. One of the contestants, Carrie Carnegie, an emotionally distant socialite, doesn’t believe she’ll give into the catty behavior of a reality show contestant. Despite the show's altruistic premise, Carrie is cruelly manipulated into performing for the crowd. She realizes this manipulation isn't new -- she's been shoved one way or another most of her life; her existence feels like a puppet on strings. Taunting her is the money she desperately needs and the strong affection she feels for the judge of the show. How can she keep her head above it all when the longer she’s on the show, the more she knows she’s morphed into a Reality TV Star.
The Whole Package - Book 2 of 3
Carrie Carnegie is in a quandary; she wants to feel powerful, but her love for the reality show judge, Ethan, makes her wonder: Was any of her time on television real? Can she count on Ethan’s feelings being mutual? Especially now she has new opportunities at love everywhere she looks? Enlightened to see the manipulation she’s lived in for years, Carrie realizes how much of her life is contrived by others. Her doubts and insecurities force her to face her own reality, which means tossing out the cold, impenetrable front she has hidden behind for so long. When the genuine, vulnerable yet shrewd Carrie emerges, where will her life lead?
Relevé - Book 3 of 3
Deep within those who succeed is a fight that cannot be lost. No matter how many times they fall. A professional dancer who combated scoliosis in her youth, Erin, hot-tempered at times, believed she could and would get up no matter how hard she is slammed down. But being utterly humiliated on a rigged television reality show – in front of her vast army of followers – she must find new strength to rise up against all odds to find love and become Prima Ballerina.
This Our Faith - farm life
After a terrible farm wreck, his young brother lies in the wheat chaff, still and bloody. This scene is all too familiar to Sydney; he has seen it obsessively, over and over in his mind, weeks before it happened. While the family struggles to pay doctor bills and save the farm, Sydney sees another future he must change, though it means risking his life.
Marry Up! (An amusing allegory)
Ever talk to your inner self? Farmer Og, deathly afraid of intimate relationships, cannot bring himself to court the woman he loves. When Og admits the hallucination of seeing an elf, a passing psychiatrist tells him it is his inner child, and to listen to it. After the psychiatrist leaves, townspeople twist the psychiatrist's printed advice for their own entertainment. That is, until he turns the tables on them. Yet Og's sincerity at wanting to change propels him through many misadventures.
Brady's Journey: Touching on Pridefulness (Spiritual help)
Everyone suffers from pridefulness, yet few truly love themselves. Genuine love of the deepest self – the opposite of the surface love of narcissism – is one of the most profound, important goals of life. It is this self-love that pridefulness counterfeits. Self-love is open where pridefulness is closed. Self-love tries to better the self where pridefulness tries to be better than anyone else. Self-love is forgiving where pridefulness is condemning. Self-love is healing, where pridefulness festers. Self-love welcomes others into the circle, where pridefulness is exclusive. Self-love is a spiritual relationship with self, where pridefulness is a carnal relationship with self.
All My Friends are Felons (Prison reform)
After a long and successful career as a coach and high school administrator, Mark Hugentobler was "sentenced" by his local school board to become academy principal in a local prison. He became academy principal in the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison, Utah. Arriving in the "Island of Misfit Toys," he changed everything by recognizing the true potential of many of the inmates. And realizing the current system is broken.
Into the Seed (A 1970s hippy book)
John discovers a world where nothing is as it seems – from cookies that scream when bitten, ice cream cones hanging in the sky that are quite something else, to an uppity turtle who invites others inside her shell for tea; a zany new adventure awaits at every corner. “From here, it looks like I went from the inside to the outside, when all the time I thought I was on the outside going to the inside.” The pert turtle patted John's curly locks. “There's still hope for you, boy,” she sighed, but with a hopeless look in her beady eyes.