When families from the American South gather around the dinner table, the meal is often preceded by the following interrogatory prompt: "who wants to turn thanks?" What we mean is: "will someone please step up and take the lead in thanking our Lord for the food that we are about to consume?" We are returning gratitude for the bountiful harvest before us. We are "turning thanks." In this cookbook, you will find a few of the many favorite recipes that the families of the Mt. Wesley Akin Nazarene Church in Southern Middle Tennessee turn thanks for on a regular basis. And you will learn a little about the church and our community along the way. So get out your pots, pans, and dishes. Polish up those forks, spoons, and knives. And bring your appetite. There's good eatin' and friendly folks waiting. Who wants to turn thanks?

The Turning Thanks Cookbook

Mt Wesley Akin Church of the Nazarene

Religion & Spirituality

Two Peas Publishing

It isn't the first time Little Toad has seen heavy rain, so he has little trouble falling asleep in the comfortable home he has made for himself under a suburban family's moveable basketball goal. In fact, the sound of the rain lulls him into a dream in which he finds himself comfortably adrift on a boat, rocking gently back and forth on the waves.  When Little Toad awakes, he discovers that the pleasant dream in his head was kindled by a nightmarish reality. The heavy rain has poured for so long that his home under the basketball goal is flooded. His leaf bed is floating atop the muddy brown water.  Frightened, Little Toad flees his home for the safety of a tall tree. From there, he watches his comfortable basketball goal home float away. Where will he live now? Where can he go to hide from bigger animals who might eat him?  Little Toad and the Big Flood is based on true events that occurred during the heavy flooding of Middle Tennessee on May 1, 2010. Told from the perspective of Little Toad, the story chronicles the sorrow and heartbreak of natural disaster as well as the love and triumph of neighbors helping neighbors.

The Little Toad and The Big Flood

Children's Books

Johnson, Jill

Animals

Jennifer's Plan

Jennifer Cerriety was the victim of a heinous crime, in a place where the perpetrators were the law. With no hope of justice, she had another thought. Someone once told her that the only thing sweeter than revenge was retribution and Jennifer had a plan.

Meyer, Don

Literature & Fiction

This is a true story in which Daniel, an inquisitive three-year-old, asks his mother the question, "Did you like being a kid?" Daniel thinks it would be fun if his mother were his best friend rather than a grown-up. He tells her all the good times they could have if they were about the same age, such as playing in the fort, going swimming, and catching fireflies. Mom, however, points out everything they would miss if she were not his mother. In the end, Daniel decides they can have a good time together as mother and son.

Daniel's Question

Smith, Kathleen Doyle

Humor

Lillypad

Michelle Duckworth Kelly Fischer

Teen & Young Adult

There's more to life than calculating the price of an apple in a high school math problem.That's what soulful high school graduate Peter Barooke hopes is the case, anyway, as he sets out in 1974 to find The Revolution, the true meaning of his existence amid the Wisconsin wilderness that surrounds his uncle's empty cabin in the woods. Peter arrives at the cabin only to find that a local rock 'n' roll band and their English setter have already taken up a temporary residence there. As he comes to know the group and its leader's songs and philosophies on the meaning of existence, Peter believes he has finally found his Revolution and the kindred spirits he longed for back in high school. He soon discovers, however, that even The Revolution has a price, and it's quite a bit more than that of an apple. Bill Golembeski is a teacher and author of the forthcoming novel THE GOSPEL OF DARA. THE ENGLISH SETTER DANCE was his first novel. His winking, familiar prose provides the framework for a story that is all about the search for a universal meaning of life. From Peter Barooke's helpless role as observer to Rock 'n' Roll Randy's peculiar dialogue and Richard Lamm's gentle, revolutionary leadership, Golembeski has created a world that anyone who remembers the early 1970s will recognize. It is a world full of rock music, love, war, and soul-searching; and a dancing English setter named Lola.

The English Setter Dance

Golembeski, Bill

Literary

The discovery of two bodies inside of a car uncovered by the spring melt is a hell of a way to start a Saturday morning, but that is only the beginning of a bad day. First one, then the second deputy goes missing - and to make matters worse, one of those deputies happens to be the new lady in the sheriff's life.

McKenzie Affair

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The Gospel According to Dara

Contemporary

Betsey Royce knows better than to say anything on that day in 1862 when she peeks around the upstairs bedroom door to discover her mother staring out the window with a pair of field glasses. Martha Royce sits watching and counting as men in blue uniforms march up Columbia Turnpike and into Franklin, Tennessee. The Mysterious "It" Martha had been warning her husband Moses about for a year has finally arrived. For Betsey, that can mean only one thing: the war has come to her doorstep. Soon after, her idyllic life is shattered. First, Moses enlists as a scout for Confederate General John Bell Hood's army. Then Martha, Betsey, and Betsey's little sister Sally are forced into exile from Franklin as a result of Martha's spying on Union forces. Alone and facing an uncertain future, the Royce women begin an arduous two-year journey through the tattered Southern landscape of the American Civil War. A Genteel Spy is Betsey Royce's remarkable, true memoir of those times. Written ten years after the events, while Betsey was in college, this story chronicles Martha's courage and determination to see her family through the trials and devastation of the war, even after Moses is captured by the Union army and sentenced to die. Sometimes funny, sometimes nostalgic, but always honest, Betsey's memoir offers a unique insight into civilian life during America's bloodiest conflict. It serves as a reminder that sometimes, in the darkest hours, faith and determination are all that stand between life and death.

A Genteel Spy

Biographies & Memoirs

Royce, Betsey

Historical

A major heist gone bad, one crew blaming the other, a hit man sent to settle the score and somehow all this is about to play out in Sheriff Tom Monason's town, which just happens to be right in the middle of a blinding snow storm. Uncle Denny: the third and final installment in the Sheriff Tom Monason trilogy.

Uncle Denny

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