Family life has a way of bringing us to our knees. Whether in marriage or parenting, reality falls short of our expectations. Relationship challenges leave us feeling hopeless. Good news! The gospel of Jesus Christ provides us with resilient hope, unwavering confidence, and joyful purpose that helps us meet those challenges. Real Hope for Your Home is a practical guide for how an under-emphasized or forgotten part of the gospel provides a refreshing reset and a new path forward for our homes. Study and discussion questions are provided after each chapter.

Real Hope For Your Home: How Finding Joy Changes us and our Relationships

Parenting & Relationships

Wallace, Eric E.

Family Relationships

Institute for Uniting Church and Home

UNDERTOW features 18 dramatic and entertaining stories by award-winning author Eric E. Wallace. What do teaspoons have to do with love? A pawn ticket to rebuilding someone's life? A skunk to changing the future? A baby's pram to calamity? Filled with unusual juxtapositions and remarkable characters, the diverse stories of UNDERTOW touch on important themes, including love, war, mortality, ambition and memory. Eric Wallace's distinctive voice is sometimes lyrical, sometimes ironic, sometimes quietly-humorous. And always engaging.

Undertow

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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Seven dramatic and entertaining stories by award-winning author Eric E. Wallace (UNDERTOW). What might you experience inside a tornado? Could you go out onto a snowy rooftop to confront a jumper? How long could you keep a huge secret from your fans? Are there significant moments of your childhood you may have repressed? What if you suspect something about yourself which could demolish your career? How would you choose between two irreconcilable talents? How easily could outside forces radically change your orderly life? Filled with unusual juxtapositions and remarkable characters, the diverse stories of Hoar Frost touch on important themes--including grief, love, mortality, faith and memory. Eric Wallace's distinctive voice is sometimes lyrical, sometimes ironic, sometimes quietly-humorous. And always engaging.

Hoar Frost

STONERISE: An anthology of nine dramatic and entertaining literary short stories by award-winning author Eric E. Wallace (UNDERTOW; HOAR FROST). Could your memories keep you alive? What would it take to make you climb a mountain? Could you be happy living in complete poverty? To what extremes might you go to protect your privacy? What might you learn while working inside a gorilla suit? Filled with highly-evocative settings, unusual juxtapositions and remarkable characters, the diverse stories of STONERISE touch on important themes—including grief, love, mortality, obsession and memory. Eric Wallace's distinctive literary voice is sometimes lyrical, sometimes ironic, sometimes quietly-humorous. And always engaging. "Such gorgeous prose! (His) writing flows with authority in its language and with characters so richly rounded, so soulful." - Toasted Cheese Literary Journal.

Stonerise

Highly atmospheric, often lyrical, filled with quirky and memorable characters, Emperor's Reach intertwines a fascinating psychological portrait with history, humor, romance and suspense. There's much to admire about Darrol Yount. He's one of the best young waiters in San Francisco. He's smart, handsome, charming and artistic. He's very kind to the street people he encounters on his walks—eccentrics like Billy Pickleface, Gerta Twoshoes and Burlap Ives. Darrol's also interested in San Francisco history. He's particularly fascinated with a 19th-Century character—the deranged Joshua Norton, who declared himself Emperor and, much beloved, somehow held the entire city in thrall for over two decades. How to achieve that kind of influence without actually being crazy? That's one of Darrol's secret questions. For few know that Darrol is a narcissist. He's a manipulator. He craves power. He wants to make San Francisco his city. Interfere with his plan or cross him, and you'll end up on his payback list. He's becoming more and more skillful at serious retribution. But Darrol is blind to one thing: in the world he seeks to control, he's not the only person with a secret agenda. There's bound to be a collision.

Emperor's Reach: A Novel of San Francisco

Pianist Garreth Llewelyn has a hair-trigger imagination. It helps him lead his audiences into amazing realms. His mesmerizing improvisations engage listeners' senses in incredible ways. Garreth is the best-known pianist in the world, but he's struggling to balance his music with his complicated personal life. His romantic relationships are becoming difficult. His authoritarian father and his envious brother are making it hard to have close family ties. A noted writer, following Garreth from concert to concert, is preparing the definitive biography. But his questions stir up things Garreth hasn't wanted to face. Is his music some form of escape? Is he hypnotizing his listeners? Garreth has other questions for himself: Why is he haunted by a menacing image from his childhood? Why do ancient stone cairns inhabit his thoughts? What is his music, with its increasing synesthesia, trying to tell him? And, most important: what can he do to achieve more with his life? The Improviser takes you around the world from Machu Picchu to northern Manitoba, from Istanbul to Wales, from the Sistine Chapel to the White House. And it takes you into the imagination of a musical genius, into a captivating place where illusion and reality intertwine.

The Improviser

Would you like to be able to read minds? Well, here's your chance. If vicariously. Set in Seattle and in the beautiful countryside of Vancouver Island, Mind After Mind is the story of highly-successful cartoonist Sloane Ferguson, clever, sardonic and philosophical. His prodigious output, brilliantly-drawn and wittily-written, appears across the country in newspapers, magazines, books and on television. When Sloane discovers that somehow he has developed the ability to read minds, he begins to practice extensively on strangers and friends. He gets better and better at it. He learns to go deeper and deeper into the thoughts, memories, emotions and senses of almost anyone he encounters. At first Sloane wants use these explorations to add new levels to his cartooning and writing, but he realizes his new skill might have many other uses. He probes even deeper into more and more minds. It's all intriguing and great fun, but his special ability quickly becomes an obsession. Sloane's mind-reading puts his relationships to the test. It raises serious ethical questions. It endangers himself and others. And eventually, it forces him to deeply examine the one mind he least understands: his own.

Mind After Mind

Graeme Stockbridge is America's best TV journalist and nightly news anchor, unequalled in talent and charisma. He's at the height of his career. But now, Graeme would like to drastically slow down whenever he's off the air. Rather than doing the news from the constant tumult of his network's studios, Graeme decides he wants to broadcast year-round from a small working ranch in semi-rural Idaho. Instead of being caught in the noisy rush of big city life, he wants to continue his work but also to enjoy farming, ranching and nature while living near Hiram, a small Idaho town where neighborliness is key. In his free time, Graeme wants to take long, traffic-free walks in the quiet countryside, try his hand at agriculture, rediscover photography, study birds, plants and insects, wander the canyons of the Snake River, enrich his marriage and further explore the meaning of his life. Graeme's network resists his grand idea; his wife Lara, a noted architect, also resists; and his TV-pioneer father resists. On top of that, not everyone in the little town of Hiram is as welcoming as one might expect. Far from it. Hiram and the surrounding areas have many charming residents and more than a few slightly-oddball types, mostly harmless and often fun. But there are also those people who like to flaunt their rights under Idaho's open-carry law, those who like to challenge all levels of government and those who keep parts of their lives well-hidden-for good reason. In seeking to move away from the ultra-fast pace of network news in Los Angeles and New York, Graeme sets in motion a serious of events which lead to tragedy, and which take him and Lara into a world of secrets and danger. The novel goes behind the scenes into control rooms and studios during major television broadcasts, into the adrenalin-infused complexities of covering of a national news crisis, into the machinations of corporate boardrooms and out into the remarkable Idaho countryside-a world of dramatic scenery, incredible raptors and an amazing insect, the dragonfly. HOVER POINT is told with Eric Wallace's usual flair, quiet humor and gorgeous prose. It is an intriguing mixture of drama, philosophical observations, lyricism, wit and suspense, with a great lineup of characters, including an operatic pathologist, an enigmatic sheriff, a sociopathic university professor and a border collie named, not without good reason, Trepidation.

Hover Point

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