John Phillips, a 25 year old E-6 in the United States Army, stationed at St. Eustis, VA, wins a 127 million dollar state lottery. So what does he do next? He gets out of the Army and takes his 127 million dollars out to California and buys a mansion, complete with a

Careful, you might get what you've always wanted Meet Fenton Carmody who got everything he ever thought he wanted: a pretty wife, a job as a small college basketball coach, a Victorian house in a small Minnesota town. Now he's not so sure. He can't keep his wife and loses his child. His professional path is approaching a dead end; he drinks too much beer for his own good and the college's new dean is looking for reasons to fire him. To find his way, he consorts with an iconoclastic barber, a retired sculptress, a quirky team, a beautiful woman who owns a mysterious past, a widow on crutches,...

Separatist Pilgrims, Swiss Anabaptists, Scots-Irish Presbyterians and Swedish Protestants hold different beliefs but those who immigrated to America were bound with a common thread. They sought the freedom to own land, to worship without fear-an archetypal American Dream no less real today. The author traces his familial roots to these four groups in an eclectic memoir-based, genealogical narrative lightly framed lightly by historical perspective. Readers who join the adventure can expect to make odd stops to review details related to the founding of a private Christian boys' school, the...

The order between questions and answers is at issue. Is an answer truly produced by a question or is the question motivated by the answer? And is there a pairing between questions and answers? Over time the author has come to suspect that there may indeed be a great imbalance between the number of questions and the number of answers but that the imbalance lies in a greater ponderance of answers. The book was written for the sheer joy of writing it, to savor memories and thoughts, but also in the hope that it might provide some new grist for serious, thought provoking bible studies. It is not...

How to trace the history of the people and describe it with the thoughts and actions of the distinguished members of their society? How to convey the legends and reality of one civilization that is still alive and makes, as it's done in the past, a great contribution to the progress of humanity? Is there a reincarnation, or it is a fruit of science fiction? The novel offers you to believe in it, and only then comes the understanding of the past that brought us to the present and the curtain will slightly open on some aspects of the future.