This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age. In its realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware foreshadows Howells; in its conscious imagery it prefigures Norris, Crane, Henry James, and the "symbolic realism" of the twentieth century. Its author, Harold Frederic, internationally famous as London correspondent for the New York Times, wrote the novel two years before his death.

Product Description: I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany...read more

Turning loose a Midwestern species of magical realism on a small, God-haunted town in Kansas, Kellie Wells charms strangeness and wonder from what might be mistaken for “ordinary” life. Here is Martin LeFavor, convinced his father has been nabbed by a solicitous band of aliens in desperate need of skin; Charlotte McCorkle, a vexed visionary who believes she has helped her husband escape the flesh; Zero Loomis, plagued by sacrificial angels, the memory of his father, and a shadowy sexual identity; his sister Rachel, an amateur masseuse determined to settle accounts with the past, in particular with her lovingly violent father; Ruby Tuesday, Rachel’s daughter, a budding oracle, the embodiment of possibility and prey to history; and, holding this tilted cosmos together, fifteen-year-old Ivy Engel, who carefully measures the borders of Self, advocates for neighborhood bats, and frets about the health of her friend Duncan, his harrowed body mapped and perhaps ravaged by subcutaneous scars. What happens when the spirit exceeds the limits of the skin? More troubling yet, what happens if it doesn’t? These are the questions the inhabitants of What Cheer, Kansas, must finally face as their paths cross and recross in an ever more intriguing—and perhaps liberating—puzzle. (20050712)

Award-winning novelist Ann Tatlock once again lovingly crafts a story that will touch readers' hearts while illuminating a powerful spiritual truth. I'll Watch the Moon is the story of Catherine Tierney, angry at a God whom she no longer believes exists, and her painful journey back to faith. It is also the story of her friendship with Josef Karski, who teaches her how to trust in God as he reveals his own story of surviving the horrors of Auschwitz. And finally, it is the story of Nova Tierney, Catherine's daughter, and the threads that bind their lives together. Ann Tatlock has skillfully and gracefully woven a tale you won't soon forget.

Product Description: The Messenger's Letter is a poetic novella that defies categorization. Taking its inspiration from the surreal imagery of writers such as Franz Kafka, the story describes the Messenger's epic attempt to deliver his letter in the strange and sinister Whispering City, where he encounters the mysterious six-fingered people...read more

Product Description: The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination, written by legendary author Harold Frederic, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers...read more

Product Description: Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God...read more

Product Description: In an otherwise quiet village, a little girl with red hair and freckles named Shirley inspires a chain of events that cannot be explained by reason or scientific enquiry. Parents, friends, and neighbors are convinced by Shirley—often in spite of themselves—until everyone is swept away into a belief in the child’s miraculous power...read more

Product Description: Jimmy is a ten-year-old boy who has grown up too fast. None of his friends believe in Santa, and it is no longer cool for him to believe either. Even though Jimmy saw Santa one Christmas when he was young, he still refuses to accept him...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball and kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball and kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument...read more

Product Description: George comes home one day to find an elephant watching TV and eating chocolate chip cookies in his living room. When he tells his friends, they say it's impossible: George must be seeing things. But the next day, and the day after that, his large and uninvited guest remains and makes itself even more at home -- with disastrous results...read more

Product Description: True Believers projects the reader into a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels, husbands and runaway wives, punks and poets. They all are clinging desperately to some kind of faith in a mutable and dangerous world...read more

A Catholic-themed migratory freak show, the Traveling Death and Resurrection Show is made up of a group of misfit performers, including Frances Catherine, a twenty-eight-year-old stigmatic, who finds herself the unwitting center of a religious controversy as she struggles to reconcile her strict Catholic upbringing with her questioning faith. A first novel. Original. 35,000 first printing.

A penguin flies north, only to crash when he realizes penguins can't fly, and a human helps him train to fly again.

Shane suspects that his mother's new husband is not the insurance salesman he claims to be.

Lilia suspects her neighbor, Mr. Spann, of killing his wife after she sees him with a suspicious bag and his wife does not show up for work the next day.

Kerry and her grandfather believe that the neighbor that just moved in across the street is really a murderer involved in a crime that took place fifteen years ago.

Twelve years after her death, sixteen-year-old Mark suspects his father of murdering his mother.

Product Description: An engaging 1877 didactic novel offering light to the spiritual skeptic. The hero of the story turns to his old friend and former mentor as he struggles to bridge the gap between his rational atheism and his fiancé's Christian faith.

Product Description: For all those seeking more authentic ways to hold and practice Christian faith, Brian McLaren has been an inspiring, compassionateâ?"and provocativeâ?"voice. Starting with the award-winning A New K

Product Description: In this final installment in the trilogy that began with his award-winning A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIAN, Brian D. McLaren tells an intriguing fictional tale that raises urgent questions about hell and what

When the animals, who gather every night to share fairy tales, myths, and legends, refuse to believe Hedgehog's claims that he has seen a unicorn, they all lose their storytelling abilities as a strange quietness falls over the forest.

Recently defrocked for allowing a gay couple to remain in his congregation, Lutheran minister Herkimer Gudsen comes to believe that God has spoken directly to him, instructing him to 'Gather the Twelve' before his wife Megan succumbs to cancer. Original.

At the height of World War II, Father Frank Darragh, a young priest embarking on his new career in the church, finds himself torn between his conscience and the Catholic Church as he struggles with the temptation of the flesh in the person of seductive parishioner Kate Heggarty, a situation that is complicated by her murder and by accusations that he caused her death. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.