328pp / Softcover / ISBN: 1893617076
DANCING WITH SAMUEL
John Slade
Book Price: $14.95
Twenty five years after the major mistake of their lives, their failure to marry each other, Samuel and Louise leave their day-to-day worlds to spend two weeks camping in the Adirondack wilderness. Louise seeks a responsible way out of her dead marriage; Samuel hopes to end his years as a lonely bachelor wandering from job to job. Both are teachers, she in their hometown high school in Illinois, he at a university in St. Petersburg, Russia. They share a genuine concern for the coming generation, in America, and in Russia.
Louise looks forward toward the personal; Samuel envisions the global. She searches for the courage to free herself from her old way of life. Equally important, she wants her son and daughter to find happiness in marriage, rather than to repeat her failure. She dreads the death of her parents, whose values seem far stronger than those of her own generation. Having lived her life in the heartland, she demands that America live up to its potential.
Samuel dreams of a global renaissance. If Russia and America are going to progress from the battlefields of the twentieth century to a stable and productive peace in the twenty-first, then both school and family need to reach beyond their traditional limits. His belief is not in one nation, nor in one system, but in the kids of the world.
The love between the two flames is finally able to kindle anew. Nurtured by the spirit of the wilderness, warmed by a late-night campfire, Samuel and Louise fulfill an ancient dream.
368 pp/ Softcover / ISBN: 1893617041
CHILDREN OF THE SUN
John Slade
Book Price: $20.00This novel is about war in the twentieth century, at the end of a long millennium of war. May we demand, and build, a better peace.
This novel is about the conflict between black people and white people in America and the Caribbean, four centuries after the first Dutch vessel emptied its cargo of African slaves onto a beach in Virginia.
This novel is about four war victims: a midwife who has been emotionally battered, a soldier who has been emotionally bludgeoned, a petrochemical engineer who seeks ways not to exist, and a Polish refugee from Hitler's war whose twig-thin fingers carve voluptuous sculptures in West Indian mahogany.
This novel, like it or not, is about us.
248 pp / Softcover / ISBN: 1893617009
A JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS
John Slade
Book Price: $12.95This unique ghost story, set above the polar circle in northern Norway, will take you into the mountain realm of eagles, and an angel.
Michael, a disillusioned misfit from Florida, moves to Norway to begin a new life. He rents a two-story log house on the shore of a fjord, and discovers that the upper floor is inhabited by the spirit of a young woman who died of consumption in 1917. Anna Sofia agrees to guide Michael, who has never seen snow in flat Florida, into the mountain wilderness which she loved as a girl. As they climb high above the timberline, as they bid farewell to the sun before months of winter darkness, then skate beneath the northern lights, and ski near a herd of reindeer, she leads him deeper into the wilderness, deeper into himself. The bitter boy is left behind; the clear-eyed man is emerging.
Anna Sofia tells Michael that in June, when they will stand together on a mountain peak and face the sun due north at midnight, she must leave him. He will lose the woman he deeply loves, and he will have to climb down that mountain alone. But, for the first time in his life, he is able to believe that he, and the Earth,
may share an extraordinary future.
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