Richard Royal: 7 books

This is a short story in the traditional "O'Henry's Playhouse" style: it can be read in a single sitting of about twenty minutes, involves good quality writing, and has an amusing ending to bring a smile to the face of the reader. A businessman tries to help another person who has misplaced...

Mary is employed as a censor working in one of HM High Security women's prisons. Her job is to read incoming and outgoing personal mail between prisoners and their loved ones. She also has to listen in to their personal phone conversations. After five years of this she is, naturally, stressed. As...

Old Joe is the hired hand for a young couple living in a small town in a mid-western State of the USA. One day, while he is having his breakfast out front, two strange birds appear. The story revolves around the efforts of the young hero of the book, to find out what kind of birds these are. The story ends successfully in the end, but actually not through any of his efforts.

John and Corrine meet in the year 2050 when technology is slightly more advanced than today - sufficient to give the story more interest than most. And although it is primarily a romance, nonetheless it is also a human and family drama that is gripping from the first page, and performed on a global...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...

In the history of the United States, few periods could more justly be regarded as the best and worst of times than the Kennedy-Johnson era. The arrival of John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1961 unleashed an unprecedented wave of hope and optimism in a large segment of the population; a wave that...

The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as the thirty-fifth president of the United States serves as a reminder of a period of time that many Americans perceive as idyllic. Just as his election, despite a near-run thing, had instilled a pervasive sense...