Second Wind: 82 books

Celia Whitfield’s Boy is a riveting, bittersweet, funny and historically accurate account of a talented young man coming of age in a changing, challenging time. Set in the lumber country of eastern North Carolina in the early days of the 20th century, the novel allows us to watch the growth and...

Told through the eyes of eclectic characters intersecting over time between rural Illinois and New York City, D.A. MacQuin’s stories explore disillusionment in the pursuit of greatness, profound loneliness, and darkness driven by outsider status. In the title story, Matthew Gold is a Jewish-American...

Graduate student Koral Walker has a lovely, relaxing spring break inmind—just walking through the budding beauty of springtime in theOzarks. Beginning with the mechanical failure of her faithful, oldToyota and the intervention of a threatening, compelling stranger—who seems strangely familiar—the...

What if you could change the future.But you couldn’t change it back...It’s the week before Christmas, 1969, and an unexpected gift arrives for 15-year-old Arthur August Mallory. His namesake great uncle, a man whose existence was unknown to him until the package arrived, has sent him a remarkable...

Doctors' visits and counseling bring no relief to 15-year-old Lyn. Then she has an exquisite dream--one that brings her immediate and lasting relief. Simply remembering the dream fills her with serenity. Then a stranger, a handsome young man, comes into her life by chance. She begins to believe...

FRACTURED is a cautionary novel of the still urgent problem of nuclear waste disposal and the errors governments and the scientific community can make, and have made, in trying to safely solve deadly situations resulting from our technological advances.Geophysicist Mark Cabot and his lover/fiancé...

This outstanding application of family systems theory for American classroom educators in the 21st century is concise, light-hearted, extremely helpful and empowering.

Two souls, a Scandanavian man and an American woman, dwell in distant parts of the globe. Each is a mature adult and each feels an abiding sense of being unfulfilled. Fate draws together these two star-crossed lovers who are so alike, and yet as distinct as night and day.

Can tenderhearted Pastor Ian MacCraig keep a pair of prickly sisters from marrying the wrong men? Emily Downey has found the perfect groom. If only she loved the man... Chelsea Downey is wild about her boyfriend. Trouble is, he’s two-timing her and everyone sees it but her.Their thorny situation...

Tracy's supposedly perfect life as a pastor's wife and mother of three is turned upside down when her husband leaves her for a man. Clay Alexander's charmed existence starts spinning out of control when his father threatens to shut down Maple Valley 's woolen mill - unless Clay conforms to his family's...

When Phil Webbers best friend is murdered his mind begins its slow spiral into darkness. As Detective Sergeant Jerzey Swift begins her search for the killer, her recently retired partner, Ray Cleveland, is called in as a consultant to help. When another murder occurs the case is thrown into chaos....

A pretentious, self-important couple is about to face the darkest day of their lives, courtesy of a flamboyant, well-upholstered opera luminary. When their best friends’ clandestine adult-film star daughter schemes to come to their rescue, a bizarre, enlightening, and humorous journey unfolds. Evelyn...

Ellen wakes one morning with nothing more than an inner sense that something just isn’t right. It doesn’t take long before this attractive divorced woman discovers that her beloved brother Bud is missing—and something has been added to her world as well. A handsome, abrasive stranger—Zack—has...

Amanda Snow, whose father is a retired policeman, is well-schooled in the dangers of picking up hitchhikers. It is something she would never do. But when she is driving through a fierce blizzard and almost runs a man down, it seems the least she can do is give him a lift. The storm worsens and they...