Todd: 2560 books

Norman D Gutter graduates with his civil engineering degree, and takes a job with I.C.E. Engineering in far away Appleville. Full of great hopes to make a difference in the world, he quickly encounters the reality of having to work with strange people in a semi-disfunctional consulting engineering...

After his mother died, with his dad still working nights, Danny Tompkins missed a lot of normal teenage activities. He survived those years, but decades later he realizes many of his adult habits of responsibility and difficulty having fun stemmed from those years. He relives it, and takes a small...

Daniel Tompkins has a vision—a sudden memory of his mom when she was a very sick woman. That brings back a flood of memories. It also gets him to thinking what it was that kept her alive, for many years after the onset of her debilitating disease, not one but two diseases. Something inside her caused...

Ronny Thompson was injured in the 7th game of the World Series. Having just concluded a spectacular season that earned him such nicknames as “Robo Ron” and the “Pitcher of a Century,” he faced an off-season of rehabilitation and hoping to be able to make a comeback the following season.At...

Ronny Thompson just want to play baseball. He's good at it, and can pitch the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in over a century. So why are all these Mafia-type event swirling around his life? How does he extricate himself from them? And how does he concentrate on winning games, rather...

Thirteen year old Danny Tompkins must deal with his mother's death, but on the day of the funeral people keep coming to his house, and seem to be partying. As he retreated to his bedroom—the closest thing to a safe haven available—he couldn't understand why those adults behaved as they did, or...

The six Danny Tompkins short stories explored teenage grief at the death of a parent. They are collected here in one volume. The stories follow 13-year-old Danny as he comes to grips with the death that changed his family. Decades later the adult Daniel re-lives many of the scenes from those few traumatic...

Are they tourists, or are they smugglers and spies?Roger and Sandra Brownwell, American expatriates on an around-the-world vacation with their two preschool children, are scheduled for two weeks across China. It’s 1983, only two years after China opened to tourism. They are looking forward...

Norman D Gutter, now in his second year of his career as a civil engineer, seems to go from one difficult situation to another—except most of it is humorous. Norman tries to find the humor as the company he works with incompetent contractors, and deals with fun-loving, joke-making fellow employees....

Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In...

A Broadway classic, a call to action, and an incredibly malleable popular song, "Ol' Man River" is not your typical musical theater standard. Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in the 1920s for Show Boat, "Ol Man River" perfectly blends two seemingly incongruous traits-the gravity of...

The Advent and Christmas season is often associated with joy, love, generosity, and unity. But for many people, this time of year magnifies loneliness, anxiety, grief, and despair. While others are enjoying celebrations with their friends and families, those who are hurting often feel even more lost,...

Our first reaction when the doctor says it's cancer: Why me? Receiving a cancer diagnosis is traumatic, both for the person diagnosed and family and friends. Todd Outcalt writes from the perspective of a husband who has accompanied his wife, a breast cancer survivor, through her cancer journey....

One of the biggest challenges in youth ministry is finding effective ways to minister to teenagers during school breaks and summer vacations—those times when the usual routines of education and structure aren’t there. Families are vacationing. Youth groups get smaller. And very often youth ministry...