"The Katrina Legacy"
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
Volume 1 of "The Katrina Legacy"
When Mary Magdalena Redford chaperones an Alternative Spring Break project to the devastated Gulf, she finds herself haunted by a gnawing desire to do more. Yet, in the shadow of her past, she wrestles the inadequacies she feels holding her back. That’s until the example set by missionary grandparents takes her from her home in Hancock County, Ohio, to Hancock County, Mississippi.
Through the eyes of Hurricane Katrina’s victims, namely the children with whom she works and one dedicated librarian, she receives a new understanding of faith and total trust, and the word “resilience.” In the process of reaching out to “those less fortunate,” Mary Magdalena realizes she is the one learning the greatest lesson and receiving the supreme blessing.
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In the Sweet By and By
Volume 1 in The Winsome Ways of Miz Eudora Rumph
Miz Eudora Rumph, a native of Smackass Gap, North Carolina (in western NC’s mountainous Clay County), takes you on a zany journey of fun and hilarity when she gets picked up by mistake, on the way home from her husband, Horace’s funeral, by a busload of Red Hatters. It’s all Preacher Jake’s fault, for when he informs her that the funeral is to be a celebration, Miz Eudora leaves the black wool dress in the “blamed old cedar chest.” Stating that, “I didn’t know everybody was so glad Horace died,” she shows up at the service in the most festive clothes she can find - a purple “fopher” coat, a red hat, a “new used red leather purse” and red orthopedic shoes to match!
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Precious Memories
Volume 2 in The Winsome Ways of Miz Eudora Rumph
Pack your suitcase and join Miz Eudora Rumph of Smackass Gap, NC (Yes, it’s a real place!) for the most rollicking time you’ve ever had as she takes off on her first official “road trip” - better described as an indescribable “adventure” - when she claims her prize at the International Quilt Show & Contest in Paducah, KY. Her winning entry, Precious Memories, brings Miz Eudora a new array of adoring fans and launches a business endeavor as a fashion designer of her own collection, “Smack from the Gap.” If that, combined with her cruise on the Delta Queen, is not enough excitement for you, you’re welcome to go with her on her first beach trip where she learns to...well, you’d better read that for yourself.
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Old Rugged Cross
Volume 1 in The Sandman Series
After earning her graduate degree from the University of Michigan, Maggie Matelli sets off for Florida to spend a week in the sun and the sand and find her “perfect man.” The weather is expected to cooperate with her mission, so she knows she’s in luck . . . until she takes a “right” turn and finds herself behind five dump trucks filled with sand. All of her carefully designed plans go down an avenue of their own as Maggie discovers a gift – a “gift” that leads to a personal and victorious triumph of Easter.
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Let Us Break Bread Together
Volume 2 in The Sandman Series
In an effort to share her newfound Christ with former co-workers, Maggie (Mary Magdalena) Matelli finds herself besieged by a shameful past. Torn between facing "exposure" if she makes the "right" choice, or getting the money to buy a home and start a new life if she makes the "wrong" choice, the University of Michigan grad becomes entangled in a web of drama and suspense like the quiet town of Findlay, Ohio, has never known. Will the communion that Maggie shares with the townspeople through Joshua Redford's renowned Holy Week sand sculptures allow her to wholly accept Christ's atonement by forgiving herself? And will the residents of Findlay ever see her in the same "Light" again?
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Victory in Jesus
Volume 3 in The Sandman Series
In her move to Findlay, OH, Mary Magdalena Matelli finds herself surrounded by love and support through her new circle of friends. With the aid of their encouragement, she gathers the strength to step out of her past world – a world she feared too dark for forgiveness – and into a world of service to which God has called her. Mary Magdalena discovers it is only through her past that she has the expertise to carry out that work.
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Love Lifted Me
Volume 1 in the Eagle's Wings Trilogy
Christina Cache, a well-educated and well-traveled minister, is literally “thrown” into the face (and arms) of Shane Sievers, a “bad boy” who’s just attempted suicide while strung out on cocaine, and spent his entire adolescent and adult life in places she’s spent her trying to avoid. This twice-divorced mother of two miraculously learns this is the most witty, intelligent, compassionate man she has ever met. The struggle emerges as Christina, with her wholesome and angelic qualities, battles the evil of Shane’s uttermost worldly existence, and the depths of his earthly hell created by his now thoroughly outcast position in society. Their five-month journey down the same path teaches them of a love far greater than any physical or emotional sense of the word, and each emerges as a totally different entity who has reached a completeness never before known.
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Higher Ground
Volume 2 in the Eagle's Wings Trilogy
Because of a recent and strange relationship with the most unlikely of soul mates, Christina Cache dares to take the necessary leap to follow her calling. Ever willing and anxious to face a challenge, she leaves her comfort zone, finding herself with a new home and a new career. Equipped with little more than her intellect, her talent, and life’s brutal lessons, the determined survivor sets out to conquer this seemingly insurmountable goal. Hard work, faith and perseverance pay off as she climbs the peak in search of her new life. But, in having to virtually start from ground zero, Christina finds that the greatest reward of finally topping her summit is in helping others reach their own higher ground.
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In the Bleak Midwinter
Volume 1 in the Shooting Star Series
To Celia, it was simply the yearly Christmas concert at the private school. It was the first year in their new facility and the local media was to be on hand, so in a sense, just maybe it was going to be a special evening. But to the burned-out music teacher, it seemed no more than another night of getting dressed in her finest, only to watch 700 children do the same. However, as her elite boys’ choir sang Gesu Bambino, their pure voices perfectly on pitch, their Latin enunciation impeccable, Celia was overcome by the sound of a baby’s low cry. Feeling “strangely warmed,” she dismissed it as an emotional moment caused by the glow of lights on the regal, deep-purple velvet stage curtain. Little did she know that she was about to discover the most memorable gift of her life, and give her students the most valuable lesson they would ever learn.
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A Song in the Air
Volume 2 in the Shooting Star Series
On his way to Daytona for the first race of the season, NASCAR great Dale Jarrett saves the life of a young homeless boy, Isaac Fuller, whose mother is killed. While in NorthEast Medical Center of Concord, NC, it is discovered that the boy has a terminal illness. During the months and the struggle for life that follow, Isaac – embraced by his newfound “family” of the racing community, the hospital, Tillman Academy (Celia) and the Red Pig Café – exemplifies the simple childlike faith that God desires from each of us. Guaranteed to touch the heart of every reader as it gives an inside look into the realistic worlds of NASCAR, wish-granting organizations and community service projects while depicting the impact of a lowly child on the world.
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'Tis So Sweet
Volume 1 in the Lift Up Mine Eyes Series
Little did Glenn Edgerton realize when he left for missionary service in Africa, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, that he was leaving behind the future love of his life. Only through correspondence with Eugenia Bennett, a new acquaintance from his church in eastern North Carolina, did he discover his mate for life long devotion. Based on the actual letters of a young Methodist missionary, a love story develops that captures the heart and soul in this novel that embarks the reader on an adventure extending from the plantation culture of the Old South to the primitive way of life of the Belgian Congo.
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Rudy, the Red Pig
Volume 1 in the Rudy, the Red Pig Series
Ages 3 – 7 – Rudy learns that he has a special gift and talent, a lesson that he uses throughout all the future books of this series as he promotes literacy, and a sense of reaching out to others, in America’s children. (This book is also available in Spanish – Rudy el Puerco Rojo) Hardcover.
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Rudy and the Magic Sleigh
Volume 2 in the Rudy, the Red Pig Series
A Rudy, the Red Pig Christmas story for ages 3 – 7 in which Rudy tries looking, listening, smelling, tasting and feeling as he searches to find the true meaning of the love and peace of Christmas. Hardcover.
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Kipper Finds a Home
Volume 1 of The White Squirrel Parables
Based on the story of the Good Samaritan, this delightful story uses two white squirrels, Kipper and Scarlet, to illustrate the parable on a child’s level. Ages 3 – 7 Hardcover.
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In the Garden
Rosemary sat on a bench amidst the flowers of the hospital’s garden reading the Mother’s Day card one last time before sealing the envelope. It was not the first time she and her mother had spent this special day in this surrounding. However, the last time, 47 years ago, was the day Rosemary was born. God had seen fit to work a miracle on that day, to allow a mother to hold onto her blessed child. Now Rosemary prayed that God would once again use this setting to work another Mother’s Day miracle. Only this time, she was hoping that He would allow the child to hold onto her blessed mother. As she finished her prayer, a vision came to her of another prayer once spoken in a garden by a lone, solitary man, also not wanting to drink from the cup. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Rosemary whispered as she stood to take the card to her mother. (A true story of Guess and her mother)
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Church in the Wildwood
Talitha Slagle has made a successful career of investigative journalism, yet, through an inheritance from her grandfather, she is literally handed the opportunity to follow her dream as a freelance writer. She finds her Mecca when she wanders upon a tiny church in the hidden community of Cedar Mountain, NC, and discovers that she’s spent her life asking all the wrong questions. In this novel of self-discovery, Talitha uncovers the “real” talent hidden inside her – a talent that opens doors for many of the residents of her new area and in her writing.
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For the Beauty of the Earth
A young woman whose husband dies suddenly is faced with the dilemma of how to feed her two young sons. The strength and determination of “Aunt Sallie” births a boarding house in Hendersonville, NC, at a time when disease and plague stopped the tourist industry in many of the “trendy” southern cities. Laced with historical tidbits between Henderson County, NC and TX, a fictional romance of two former boarders of the real-life Historic Johnson Farm leaves the reader enchanted.
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The Friendly Beasts
A Christmas story for the entire family based on a modern-day Scrooge – Catherine “spins” a delightfully Christmas “yarn” set in the historic textile mill village of McAdenville, NC, known as “Christmastown, USA” and Charlotte’s renowned 12-day Southern Christmas Show. The characters “literally” come to life as The Friendly Beasts unfolds into a beautifully touching story told in the manner of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Be Still, My Soul: The Story of the Seasons of One's Life
A non-fiction title based on the life of Harry “Pop” Kullgren who arrived in America from Sweden in 1929 on his 25th birthday. A story of love, generosity, integrity and spiritual example by a man who gave every day of his 102 years – as of March 5, 2006 – to the Lord. Pop died on April 18th, 2006 – the same day as his sister in Sweden. A lifelong Methodist, he sang in church his entire life and his last wish was to sing one more solo in church – a wish which Catherine Ritch Guess granted in August of 2005. The result was a musical CD, This Is My Song. Hardcover.
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Musical Sculptures
Musical Sculptures is a musical CD of original compositions and arrangements performed by Catherine Ritch Guess and son, Jamie Purser. The CD is a musical culmination inspired by the Sandman Series (Old Rugged Cross, Let Us Break Bread Together and Victory in Jesus.).
Price: $15.00
This is My Song
It was recorded by Guess, her 22-yr-old son, Jamie Purser, and Pop which released on Pop’s 102nd birthday with a concert by the trio at his New Milford UMC in CT. Pop ended the concert with a final solo – his now noted “soulful swan song.”
Price: $15.00