In the summer of 1926, Colleen Spencer is a young girl of mixed heritage living in Senoia, Georgia. The elder women in her family have always taught Colleen to follow certain rules to avoid attention and perhaps even attack in the American Deep South. Despite moments of fear, her life is a happy one, but with maturity, so too come obstacles and distress.Proud of her mixed heritage, Colleen finds that God, family, and her own insights are some of the best anchors she implements as s...

A revived faith starts with a revived prayer life. This book will help you develop the faith and prayer life that God desires for you. What if your communication with God became as vibrant as the interaction between you and your best friend? What if God literally responded to your praise, your worship, and your requests? This is absolutely God's will for your prayer life! For many, prayer is only a matter of blessing their food, asking for help during a crisis, or whispering a need when th...

Is it bravery or cowardice to hasten death when one has no hope of living? Is it selfish or selfless to avoid the inevitable decline and dependence at the end of life? And is it a sin?Alone in her beautiful home in the woods, a newly widowed woman wrestles with these questions, knowing only that "the silence in the room was nothing like a silence she had ever known."Dying in the Red Chair follows the decades-long relationship between Etta, a slightly scattered obst...

The same three words echo inside her head. Lucy Watts calls them a mantra but they are not self- affirming. Instead, the words haunt her.Intentional - Malicious - AccidentalNo matter where she wanders, this constant wondering about a decade old mystery persists. And Lucy Watts is a wanderer, perhaps a dromomaniac. She climbs to high places, runs stretches of lonely miles, swims infinite numbers of laps, and moves so often her furniture is collapsible corrug...

Readings and conversation with Kurt Andersen, Libba Bray, Stephen Colbert, Oskar Eustis, Mary McDonagh Murphy, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Isaiah Sheffer, a discussion with the audience. Authors and actors including Stephen Colbert, Libba Bray (award winning young-adult novelist Going Bovine, winner of 2010 Printz Award), Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director at The Public Theater), Kurt Andersen (novelist and Studio 360 Host), Jayne Anne Phillips (novelist and National Book Award finalist Lark & T...