Michael Parker

In Michael Parker's new novel, Joel Dunn Jr. tells the story of how he did everything he could to save his family after his mother left and his father's tenuous hold on sanity unraveled. On a journey from the town of Trent, North Carolina, to the coast, Joel and his little brother Tank thread their way back to their mother, fueled by potato chips, Coke, and the soundtrack of the powerful soul music that their daddy taught them to love. Always keeping...

Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure. This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident-a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling...

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. Rehearsal stories from legends and everyday heroes to inspire any performance"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately under rehearsed" Sean O'Casey. Churchill knew it. Demosthenes believed in it. Taylor Swift lives by it. The importance of rehearsal. Virtuoso violinist to Olympic gold medallist, business leaders to teachers, their fascinating stories capture the physical, and the mental rehearsal essential...

Underwater oceanographer Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lights. This unexpected event draws Marsham unwittingly into a desperate battle to expose the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern seaboard of the United States into a wasteland. Drawn into this violent world is Marsham's associate,...

Whether ferrying slowly across an eastern Naorth Carolina river or reaching out to touch a train that' s not about to stop, the wanderers in these stories yearn for what they can' t quite grasp. It might be what they' ve left behind or what lies ahead, but whatever it is, it won' t leave them alone. Regret and marvel, trouble and love- it' s Everything, Then and Since.

These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which we'll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions we'll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the above, the absolute necessity of it, no matter its consequences. Whether it's a college student undone by the boy who leaves her, or the boyfriend intent on...

Calling all Hamilton fans! Spend more time with the remarkable Theodosia Burr by reading this fascinating novel inspired by a little-known incident in her life. It's the stuff of song. Michael Parker's vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two forgotten moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia...

Hidden, Vatican gold and three murdered soldiers is the secret Captain Miles Roselli thought he'd buried during the Second World War. Twenty years later the gold is uncovered, and Roselli finds himself in a life and death battle against those who would seek to destroy him and the credibility of the Roman Catholic Church.

Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in the twentieth century had hardly changed since the first century. Consequently, he was able to reinterpret Jesus's parables and life experiences through...

"Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between the Stewart sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. The two are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie but also on their deep emotional reliance on each other. That connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of Gus McQueen. When Gust arrives in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma,...