Lydia Steinberg knew her husband, Yaacov, was dead. She had held shiva for him almost two years ago. So why was his voice speaking to her now from the silence of their empty shop? She had spent every Christmas season for the past fifty years here on this small-town mall offering unique Old World antiques to the customers of Steinberg's, but this was the first season she had heard voices when only she and Samson, the cat, were there. She would know Yaacov's voice anywhere, but that other voice--was it the voice of the Mayeem Khayeem, the Living Water Yaacov had discovered just before he died?...

Amid the controversy ignited by the new national education program known as Common Core, a small Southern school district finds itself embroiled in a modern replay of the Scopes Trial that sweeps six innocent people and a hired assassin into a morass of love, loss, loneliness, grief, and greed that leads...straight on to murder It is a million dollar contract that calls for the elimination of Creation, Inc.'s fiery head attorney Alex Sullivan that motivates the would-be assassin to cut the brakes on Sullivan's Toyota, but it is his hatred for retired prosecuting attorney Zephaniah Trebble...

Often life is portrayed as a road that leads from the innocent Spring of childhood through the lush Summer of youth and the mellowing of the middle Autumn years into its inevitable ending in the bleakness of Winter. This collection of twenty fictional short stories meanders down an Autumn lane beneath flamboyant oaks and brazen maples, chaperoned by prim white sycamores, across quaint bridges over whispering streams, past gray leaning barns and browning haystacks, bathed in golden sunlight from a matchless blue sky. Presented here are stories of loss and grief, hope and struggle, kindness and...

This beautiful novel of friendship between a boy and an old man takes place during World War I--when the death of thousands in Europe takes a backseat to a lone murder in the rural quiet of Drennan's Crossing on the banks of the Kentucky River. The narrator, 14-year-old Phillip, describes his special relationship with Joe, a new-comer to the small Southern community, as being ..".like a rush of water down a narrow creek bed, widening, deepening, opening up fascinating new channels..." "Most everythin' was put here for a purpose," the old man tells him, and Phillip finds himself viewing nature...