Product Description: Essayist Theroux has long captivated readers and listeners with her pitch-perfect rendering of the inner lives of American women. The Journal Keeper is a memoir of six years in her life, covering universal topics such as love, loneliness, growing old, spiritual growth, and death...read more

Product Description: An inspiring portrait of a bishop renowned for his qualities as a pastor, a leader, and a human being. Walter F. Sullivan retired in 2003 after twenty-nine years as bishop of the Richmond, Virginia diocese. As one of the great generation of bishops appointed by Pope Paul VI, he was famous for his pastoral leadership and his prophetic role as a champion of peace and social justice...read more

Product Description: Ryland Falls wasn't paradise, but there was a certain storybook quality about the town that made visitors catch their breath. As in a book, the order of the stories never changed. On December first, the Chamber of Commerce always hung out the "Yuletide Greetings" banners, the plastic Santa Claus went back on the top of the firehouse roof, and grumpy Diane at Elwood's Market started wearing her set of imitation reindeer antlers...read more

Serefina's imagination makes her destined for greatness, according to her grandmother, but sometimes it leads her into trouble as well

Product Description: This invaluable anthology is the first and only collection dedicated to the art of the eulogy. For the past several years, Phyllis Theroux has collected the most eloquent and moving writing commemorating a death, assessing a life, or offering solace to the bereaved...read more

A source of solace to the bereaved offers a collection of writings, including Mark Twain on his daughter's death, William Styron on James Baldwin's death, and Robert Kennedy's remarks on the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. 25,000 first printing.

Essays discuss adoption, childbirth, jealousy, fairness, sports, shopping with children, school, boredom, embarassment, responsibility, games, pets, parties, and teachers

An unusual series of charming, poignant, and perceptive vignettes captures the quiet drama and extraordinary qualities of ordinary people and places

A journey back to California and her father's bedside prompts the noted writer to recall her California childhood and her studies and career in the East and to examine the customs and mores of California