"Of the World" is the second book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It follows "Journey," the first book of the trilogy, and the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review. At sixteen, licensed to drive, armed with his trumpet and a talented band, Shake Tauffler begins to slip the harness of his home and neighborhood to test himself in the raw world of the streets and nightclubs of Salt Lake and its outlying towns. His threatened parents intensify...

"Journey," the groundbreaking first book of the trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," is a recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review. It begins in 1956 when young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck and discovers his dream to play jazz trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a town outside Salt Lake - on his father's quest to bring his family from Switzerland to the heartland of the Mormon church. In two months, when Shake turns twelve, he'll join his buddies on a shared journey through the ranks of his...

In this collection of 47 stories you'll head down a twisted road called "Actual Mileage" with award-winning writer Max Zimmer as your driver. Take the passenger seat, buckle up, hang on tight, and get set to experience fits of gutbusting laughter, some heartwrenching tearjerkers along the way, and brief encounters with real-life characters you'll relate to and find hard to forget. Most all of them are real -- although what Zimmer sometimes does with them is fiction and even slips at times into fantasy. Some samples: In "Getting Ants Drunk," a couple spend a humid summer afternoon on their...