Bøger af Shawn Smucker

Manheim Township, PA, was rocked by a seemingly random triple-homicide during the summer of 2007. There were no witnesses, very few leads and no solid suspects. As days turned into weeks and the crime remained unsolved, the small-town neighborhood was filled with sadness, questions, and a growing sense of fear. One month after the murders, Tim Kreider's son Alec was committed to a mental health hospital. One of Alec's best friends had been one of the murder victims, and Tim feared that the loss had pushed his long-troubled son over the edge. Tim didn't realize that his world was about to come crashing down around him. Refuse to Drown is the true story of a father's despair and the type of perseverance that can lead to hope and healing.

Remember the parable of the 1 lost sheep that the shepherd left the flock to find? Today, 83 of the 100 sheep are lost. This book explores what we can do about it.

Elva Boyd-Wilson entered the world in 1919, the daughter of George Lowry and Edna May Barnes. Her father worked in a factory in Columbia, PA. She came of age during the Great Depression and set off to make a life for herself as a waitress in Atlantic City. She met her husband there, got married, settled down, and had three children. But life is full of surprises and heartache. After a tragic accident in 1958, Elva was left reeling. The life she had planned was gone. The path she had always imagined had been covered over. This is the story of a strong woman, forced out of her comfort zone, determined to make her way in the world. This is the story of Elva.

These poems explore the connections between us: family, friends, children, parents, strangers. There is a sense that not all is as it seems to be, that somewhere just beneath the thin skin of it all lies a sacredness waiting, yearning, to be discovered.

When Paul Elias receives a terminal diagnosis, he leaves his physician's office in a fog. Only one thing is clear to him: if he is going to die, he must find someone to watch over his granddaughter, Pearl, who has been in his charge since her drug-addicted father disappeared. Paul decides to take her back to Nysa--both the place where he grew up and the place where he lost his beloved wife under strange circumstances forty years earlier.But when he picks up Pearl from school, the little girl already seems to know of his plans, claiming a woman told her.In Nysa, Paul reconnects with an old friend but is not prepared for the onslaught of memory. And when Pearl starts vanishing at night and returning with increasingly bizarre tales, Paul begins to question her sanity, his own views on death, and the nature of reality itself.In this suspenseful and introspective story from award-winning author Shawn Smucker, the past and the present mingle like opposing breezes, teasing out the truth about life, death, and sacrifice.

Dan escaped captivity from the mountain long ago, but believes his brother is still there and waits each day in a nearby town for his escape. What Dan doesn't realize is that the rest of the townspeople are also waiting--but for reasons he never imagined.

When Cohen Marah steps over the body of his dead father on a cold spring morning, he steps into a labyrinth of memory. In the week that follows, he must confront his traumatic past, a violent present, and the most frightening question of all--did he kill his father?

The compelling true story of how an American man became friends with a Syrian refugee and his family and what that relationship taught him about grace, compassion, and finding our shared humanity across cultural, religious, and political divides.

When Abra Miller goes to New Orleans Cemetery No. 1 to search for the Tree of Life, she discovers a city teetering on the edge of chaos, people desperate for a way out, and an enemy intent on enslaving the human race.

When tragedy shakes young Samuel Chamber's family, his search for answers entangles him in the midst of an ancient conflict and leads him on an unexpected journey to find the Tree of Life.