Bücher von James Graham

Through love and loss, trial and error, and the sheer will of God, young circuit-riding parson Caleb Booker embarks on an incredible life of faith and self-discovery in James Graham's Parson Booker.As a child, Caleb had a sensitive soul and a yearning in his heart-for what, he didn't know. He spent his days completing chores, traipsing in the woods, and catching fish. At 10 years old, he visits his neighbor's home and meets Parson Jenks, a kindhearted, knowledgeable preacher of the Methodist faith. Suddenly, Caleb's life is thrown into sharp relief: this is the missing piece his heart yearned for.After begging his father to teach him the alphabet, Caleb learns to read and spends every moment he can with his nose stuck in the family Bible. A few short years later, when Caleb turns 16, Parson Jenks returns with a proposition.Ready to retire, Parson Jenks tasks Caleb with becoming his replacement-promising that he's ready for the challenge ahead and even handing over his horse, Betsy.Though hesitant because of his young age and lack of experience, Caleb agrees to take up the mantle after hearing God's comforting words. His parents adorn him in a black, broadcloth suit and a black, broad-brimmed hat and Caleb sets out on his new life.For the next several decades, the newly-minted Parson Booker rides the circuit, ministering to his spread-out congregation, inviting others to get to know the Lord, and experiencing the variety of ups and downs life has to offer.Perfect for the religious reader in your life, Parson Booker promises adventure, romance, faith, and colorful life experience against the backdrop of early 1800s America.

This anthology of poetry is the second such book from British/Canadian author James Graham. If you look at the stars, as through the clear skies of the Canadian Rockies, you can experience a sense of timelessness. Maybe, also, a sense of humility and understanding that, through the miracle of life, we are part of the universe into which we gaze. A starry night expands our minds - and that's the intention of the poetry in this book. It doesn't take us into deep space. Rather, it takes us into the deep sub-conscious, where we respond to a chord of music, the burned-fuel aroma of the open road or a line from a song that blows on the forgotten embers of an old love.Poetry can get behind the mask of everyday experience and remind us of a recollected joy, the re-connecting of a wire when suddenly, the hidden self bursts Into the Light.

Every once in a while a story is told that, at least for a moment, changes the way you look at life. Finding Life is that story. It is an ageless and timeless tale of a glorious life destroyed by an unforgivable mistake, and the small miracles that turn the impossible into hope. After buying into the ways of the world, Chance Gordon commits an unspeakable sin - one that destroys the souls of himself and the love of his life. Buried deep in a sinking depression that isolates him from the world, it takes the small miracles of a faithful Grandfather, a desperate friend, and an innocent child to bring hope and an impossible journey to find life in the ashes.