Todd: 767 books

Norman D Gutter graduates with his civil engineering degree, and takes a job with I.C.E. Engineering in far away Appleville. Full of great hopes to make a difference in the world, he quickly encounters the reality of having to work with strange people in a semi-disfunctional consulting engineering...

After his mother died, with his dad still working nights, Danny Tompkins missed a lot of normal teenage activities. He survived those years, but decades later he realizes many of his adult habits of responsibility and difficulty having fun stemmed from those years. He relives it, and takes a small...

Daniel Tompkins has a vision—a sudden memory of his mom when she was a very sick woman. That brings back a flood of memories. It also gets him to thinking what it was that kept her alive, for many years after the onset of her debilitating disease, not one but two diseases. Something inside her caused...

Ronny Thompson was injured in the 7th game of the World Series. Having just concluded a spectacular season that earned him such nicknames as “Robo Ron” and the “Pitcher of a Century,” he faced an off-season of rehabilitation and hoping to be able to make a comeback the following season.At...

Ronny Thompson just want to play baseball. He's good at it, and can pitch the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in over a century. So why are all these Mafia-type event swirling around his life? How does he extricate himself from them? And how does he concentrate on winning games, rather...

Thirteen year old Danny Tompkins must deal with his mother's death, but on the day of the funeral people keep coming to his house, and seem to be partying. As he retreated to his bedroom—the closest thing to a safe haven available—he couldn't understand why those adults behaved as they did, or...

The six Danny Tompkins short stories explored teenage grief at the death of a parent. They are collected here in one volume. The stories follow 13-year-old Danny as he comes to grips with the death that changed his family. Decades later the adult Daniel re-lives many of the scenes from those few traumatic...

Are they tourists, or are they smugglers and spies?Roger and Sandra Brownwell, American expatriates on an around-the-world vacation with their two preschool children, are scheduled for two weeks across China. It’s 1983, only two years after China opened to tourism. They are looking forward...

Norman D Gutter, now in his second year of his career as a civil engineer, seems to go from one difficult situation to another—except most of it is humorous. Norman tries to find the humor as the company he works with incompetent contractors, and deals with fun-loving, joke-making fellow employees....

‘Tina Beattie is a fresh and exhilarating new voice in the current debate on religion who challenges atheist and believer alike’. Peter Stanford From its gradual decline during the latter part of the twentieth century, religion has been catapulted back into public consciousness, not least...

In 2004 a public attitudes survey suggested that 31 per cent of British people believed that all or most MPs told the truth. In 2012 this had dropped to 20 per cent.In 2004 50 per cent of respondents believed that all or most MPs did not use their power for personal gain. In 2012 this had dropped...

Physical and mental health tips for optimized well-being. As well as spiritual health tips for optimized spiritual well-being.

The work of René Girard is hugely influential in literature and cultural studies. But it is in understanding the relationship between religion and violence that his theory has created the greatest impact. Girard’s understanding of mimetic rivalry and conflict and of scapegoating are seen by many...

Stress is a massive issue in our 21st century culture, and the Church is by no means exempt. There is some evidence that people involved with the church might be at particular risk of stress related illness and burn out. How do we get the balance right when there’s so much more than work and life...