Robert Condry: 3 books

James longs to pursue religious studies in Jerusalem, but his older brother shows no interest in following their father's carpentry business. This means that James, as the second eldest, will have to forgo his own dreams to keep his father's shop alive. He is bitter and resentful, and sneeringly unappreciative...

In 1865, Ole Bill Smithson returns to his plantation because it's his home. He reluctantly saves Mave, a former slave from another plantation, from rape, and then finds her determined to stay on at his place, since she has nowhere else to go. She is both smart and useful, and Bill finds that he is...

A man works hard, marries well, has three kids, runs a successful business, and finally is able to move into his dream home. The problem is that it is still occupied, and has been - for 150 years - by the same man. But he can't tell his wife or his family this, or his mistress.