A young professional family from the Midwest follows God's call to minister in a poverty pocket in northern Appalachia, where their expectations run headlong into the reality of mountain culture. Quirky characters, outhouses, horning parties, cow riding, quilting bees, maple sugarin'they all become part of the fascinating daily life of the Farleys as they work to rebuild a struggling church in a quaint hamlet of Riggs, Pennsylvania. Nothing thrills me more than stories of God working in big ways in small places. This is why Tales of the Endless Mountains is such a treasure! Every page contains riveting adventure, humor, and wisdom, all proclaiming God's amazing grace and power. It almost reads like a fictional account. (How could real life in a country church be so dramatic?!) Woven into the tales you will find boat-loads of encouragement, challenges to enlarge your faith, and superb ministry insightsin fact, more (and better!) advice than many books written expressly for that purpose, which qualifies it for a ministry primer. And, I am pleased that it all happened during the Farleys' years of exemplary service with RHMA! - Dr. Ron Klassen, Executive Director, Rural Home Missionary Association

Momas Endless Mountains Memories is a collection of short stories written by Beverly L. Vanderpool over the past twenty-five years. Her unique ability to write was recognized at an early age when teachers would often call upon her to read out loud an essay or poem that she had written. She collected many rewards for her writings throughout her entire life and continues to do so today. Many of the short stories will tell the story of what life was like as a child growing up during the post-Depression years of the 1930as. Many other stories give Beverlyas perspective (as seen through her mindas eye) of various subjects that sheas encountered throughout her life. Itas a guarantee that once you open the front cover of this book, youall be hard-pressed to put it back down until you find yourself reading the last story at the end of the book.

Into the Endless Mountains is the suspenseful story of Russell Poe, a successful city lawyer who follows his instincts, retiring early to a mountain property that he unexpectedly inherits from his uncle. He finds himself drawn to the dark solitude of the forests, only to be caught up in increasingly dangerous and life-threatening situations.As Russell attempts to finish writing the book of a man who died recently under mysterious circumstances, he begins to experience the power of the local legends that have shaped the lives and destinies of his new friends. The complex characters emerge from a mountain culture of family and friendships, but also secret complicity, denial, loss, and survival. They seize your attention and will haunt you forever.Even Russell, who begins to seek intimacy in a relationship perhaps for the first time in his adult life, has to accept how his own family stories shape who he is becoming.Into the Endless Mountains weaves rich local history and historically based legends of the Pennsylvania mountains into one man's quest for identity and purpose.Norman K. Clark is a Pennsylvania native and a retired lawyer. This is his first full-length novel.

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The Endless Mountain Series is a Christian romantic suspense series with a taste of mystery and a generous helping of faith. In these inspirational stories you will get to know three amazing young women all of whom are first introduced in book one: Stella, Claudia, and Sofie. In book one, Shadowing Stella, Stella meets Jason while she struggles to come to terms with being the pregnant single daughter of the town’s preacher. All the while, she senses someone watching, but shrugs off the feeling as her overactive imagination. Her choice to ignore the danger may have deadly consequences if she’s not careful. In book two, Implicating Claudia, Claudia gets reacquainted with Dawson, a family friend and neighbor. Things go awry when she’s accused of murdering her childhood friend. When the real killer sets his sights on her, she must rely on others, but her stubborn independent streak causes difficulty. Her defiance may put more than one life at risk. In book three, Chasing Sofie, Sofie meets Caleb on the day of her boyfriend Johan’s untimely death. Johan was a professor on campus and Caleb is there to investigate a drug ring. She refuses to accept that Johan’s death was a suicide and begins an investigation of her own. When she uncovers evidence she thinks will lead to his killer, she finds out the hard way that being kept in the dark was far safer.

Donna Kshir is a child advocate, mom and grandmother to two amazing little boys who knows reading aloud to your children is an important movement to stimulate language, build word-sound awareness, create motivation, curiosity and memory. Donna Kshir and new writer Bob Shank know how to catch the attention of their young audience while challenging their imagination and intellect. Folk and Fairy Tales is a collection of entertaining stories and poems that are stimulating, witty, charming, surprising and a satisfying reading experience for children

Author is a renowned writer in international climbing community Fascinating story of hoax that inspired a quest for a North American Shangri-La Vivid recounting of fabled mountains from across the world Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.