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  • A QUIET DESPERATION
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    A Quiet Desperation is the straightforward autobiographical account of one man’s disturbing journey through disabling mental illness and into the Community of Faith.  This is a book that has provided help for many who have suffered psychiatric disorders, bringing hope without easy answers. ...

    $85.00

  • OLD HOSS
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    Charles Radbourn won fifty-nine games in 1884, the stuff of legends. In eleven years he racked up over three hundred wins and forty-five hundred innings—mind-blowing numbers. And yet the facts of this Hall of Famer’s play are more credible than the stories of his life of alcohol, womanizing, wild brawling, and, later, the ravages of syphilis.     Radbourn’s plaque at Cooperstow...

    $85.00

  • FAITH WISH
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    A teenage girl is drawn to a Christian preacher who could save her soul—or destroy her life Anne-Marie has gone to church her whole life, but until she sets foot in the revival tent, she has never felt the power of faith. She goes to watch Brother Jackson preach not because she’s interested in what he has to say, but to accompany a friend who has a crush on one of the boys in t...

    $119.00

  • I CAN HEAR THE MOURNING DOVE
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: A teenage girl fights to overcome depression with help from a rebellious friend Outside her window, Grace hears a dove. The birdsong reminds her that there is a world outside her hospital room, that life is not always as confusing as it seems. It’s a reminder she needs badly, because Grace’s life has gotten pretty scrambled lately. After her f...

    $119.00

  • THE FLEX OF THE THUMB
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    Struck by a flying bat, a high school pitcher becomes a completely different person in this hilarious story of sports and growing up The boy on the mound is Vano Lucas, and he may be the greatest pitcher the world has ever seen. He can throw a fastball 115 miles per hour, and that means wealth, stardom, and a spot in the Hall of Fame. His father wants him to bypass college and ...

    $119.00

  • BLUE STAR RAPTURE
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    A high school junior fights to protect his best friend from the dark side of college athletics Tyron has finally shed his baby fat, and he’s starting to look like a star. He moves with grace on the basketball court, showing the brilliance that eludes him everywhere else. He has the talent to win himself a college scholarship that could change his life—but he might not be strong...

    $119.00

  • HARVEY PORTER DOES DALLAS
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    An unusual boy gets a second chance in a very peculiar Texas school in this comical parody Bailey Mushrush is on his way home from work when he sees the homeless boy sitting outside his house. The boy is bigger than Bailey, with a ghastly scar down his forehead and a cigarette clenched between his lips. His name is Harvey Porter, and he has come to stay. Harvey is a transient w...

    $119.00

  • DAKOTA DREAM
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    An ALA Best Book for Young Adults: To fulfill his destiny, a teenage boy takes refuge on an Indian reservation Ever since he can remember, Floyd Rayfield has wanted to be a Native American. Abandoned by his family and raised in foster care, Floyd has never had a sense of who he was meant to be until the night he has the dream. He sees himself as a warrior of the Sioux Indians a...

    $119.00

  • PLUNKING REGGIE JACKSON
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    His brother dead, a baseball star struggles to fill his footsteps Coley Burke’s brother, Patrick, taught him how to throw a baseball, how to get girls, and how to keep their overbearing father off his back. Everything came easily to Patrick, whose natural talent on the baseball diamond had him set up for a career in the major leagues—right until the drunk-driving accident that ...

    $119.00

  • THE SQUARED CIRCLE
    JAMES W. BENNETT
    Sonny lives for basketball, and if he’s not careful, he might die for it Sonny Youngblood stands in the darkened fraternity house, a pledge bracing for another round of hazing. As he watches his fellow freshmen endure humiliation, Sonny’s mind is elsewhere. He’s not thinking about school, or women, or the relief that will come when the hazing is through. In his mind, Sonny is o...

    $119.00