“Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel.” — --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky “Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read.” — --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls “Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is a fine book.” — Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora “A gentle story suffused with brutal truths, almost fable-like in its resonant simplicity.....a journey well worth taking.” — --Tim Farrington, author of The Monk Downstairs “In a remarkably consistent narrative voice, Morris takes us along for a moving, funny ride...” — --Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves “Slow Way Home is a journey of the human spirit and its themes... make it a novel for the ages.” — --Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas Box “Master storyteller Michael Morris has delivered another stunning novel....touching, truthful, and beautifully written. It is not to be missed!” — --Lynne Hinton, author of Friendship Cake “a compulsively readable novel with many fine passages on the importance of home and the comforts of faith.” — Booklist “[A] tour de force... told in a Southern style that invites readers in and asks them to stay awhile.” — --Gadsden Times (Northeast AL) “Michael Morris is someone to watch .. .[Slow Way Home is] courageous and heartbreaking and moving....” — --The Birmingham News “Brandon Willard may well be one of the most endearing novel narrators since Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.” — -- Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 9/28/03 “[B]oth contemporary and timeless...read the book and savor for yourself Brandon’s redemption ....” — -- Mobile Register, 9/27/03 “[E]motional and fast-paced . . . the social issues covered make this an intelligent book for debate.” — -- Southern Scribe, 9/03 “Morris excels in creating the child’s voice.... an inspiring portrait of a true survivor.” — BookPage “... echoes of Harper Lee...or of Flannery O’Connor’s Southern grotesques . . . or even of Huck Finn.... ” — Washington Post “An emotionally charged work that is as timely as it is touching.” — --Dallas Morning News “Slow Way Home is one of those rare finds....it should become a classic.” — --Tampa Tribune (Florida) “...impressive achievement...entertaining and affecting.” — --St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12/28/03 “Morris’ insightful book gives voice to the struggle millions of grandparents and the grandchildren in their care face everyday.” — --Donna M Butts, Executive Director, Generations United

How to harness the power of daily rituals to create a calmer, happier life. We live life in the fast lane. We are over-worked, over-connected and over-stressed, and we compete over how busy and important and sleep-deprived we are. But we don't have to. Brooke McAlary knows first-hand the power of simplifying and living with less. After being diagnosed with postnatal depression, she embraced a more intentional life. Then, when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, she had to review her everyday routines – and expectations. She looked for ways to adapt them to fit a life in lockdown, all the while protecting and prioritising her health, energy and passion. In this fully revised edition of Destination Simple, with an entirely new introduction and updates throughout in light of the pandemic, Brooke shows us how to harness the power of daily rituals to change the flow of our busy lives and create lasting, postive change.

A gang of socially ambitious skinheads run riot through the London art world, plotting the rebirth and violent demise of an elusive avant-garde art movement. Taking genre fiction for a ride, Slow Death uses obscenity, black humor and repetition for the sake of ironic deconstruction. The sleazy sex is always pornographic, and all traditional notions of literary taste and depth are ditched in favor of a transgressive aesthetic inspired by writers as diverse as Home, de Sade, Klaus Theweleit, and 70s cult writer Richard Allen.

Chasing Slow models HGTV star Erin Loechner's journey to help you break out of the faster-better-stronger trap and make small changes to refresh your perspective, renew your priorities, and shift your focus to what matters most. You're here, but you want to be there. So you spend your life narrowing this divide, and you call this your race, your journey, your path. You live your days tightening your boot straps, wiping the sweat from your brow, chasing undiscovered happiness just around the bend. And on and on you run. Viral sensation and HGTV.com star Erin Loechner knows about the chase. Before turning 30, she'd earned the title "The Nicest Girl Online" as she was praised for her authentic voice and effortless style. Her HGTV web show garnered over one million fans worldwide, and her client list includes Walt Disney World, IKEA, Martha Stewart and Home Depot. The New York Times applauded her, her friends and church admired her, and her husband and baby adored her. She had arrived at the ultimate destination. So why did she feel so lost? Through a series of steep climbs--her husband's brain tumor, bankruptcy, family loss, and public criticism--Erin learns just how much strength it takes to surrender it all, and to veer right into grace. In Chasing Slow, Erin upgrades her life through downsizing--her stuff, her obligations, her fears, her personal metric of "perfect." And ultimately, her invitation becomes yours: to turn away from the fast and frenzy, and find freedom in a new-fashioned lifestyle defined by grace. Life's answers are not always hidden where they seem. It's time to venture off the beaten path to see that we’ve already been given everything we need. We've already arrived. You see? You'll see.

First pens a celebration of the mystery and allure of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the daily discipline of immersing himself in the discoveries to be found there.

From the acclaimed author of the “wonderfully funny and openhearted” (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful book—equal parts memoir and social history—that follows the author, after a series of tragic losses, to Northern Ireland, where she finds a path toward healing. Rosie Schaap had a solid career as a journalist and a life that looked to others like nonstop fun: all drinking and dining and traveling to beautiful places—and getting paid to write about it. But under the surface she was reeling from the loss of her husband and her mother—who died just one year apart. Caring for them had claimed much of her daily life in her late thirties. Mourning them would take longer. It wasn’t until a reporting trip took her to the Northern Irish countryside that Rosie found a partner to heal with: Glenarm, a quiet, seaside village in County Antrim. That first visit made such an impression she returned to make a life. This unlikely place—in a small, tough country mainly associated with sectarian strife—gave her a measure of peace that had seemed impossible elsewhere. Weaving personal narrative and social history, The Slow Road North is a moving and wise look at how a community can offer the key to healing. It’s a portrait of a complicated place at a pivotal time—through Brexit, a historic school integration, and a pandemic—and a love letter to a village and a culture.

"When Paula Constant and her husband, Gary, attempt to break away from the conventional 9-to-5 routine, a few weeks lazing in a resort or packed in a tour bus is not what they have in mind. What starts out as an idle daydream to embark on 'a travel to end all travels' turns into something far greater: an epic year-long 5000-kilometre walk from Trafalgar Square in London to Morocco and the threshold of the Sahara Desert"--Publisher.

He's a cowboy who's lost his way. She's a daughter who's lost her home. Joshua Goddard has lived in the shadow of his father and brother all his life. He wants more from life than simply taking tourists on overnight cattle drives. Stella Martin has done her best to keep her family's cattle station afloat, but the bank has had enough and her parents have given up. However, Indigo Downs is her home and she'll do what she can to get it back. Even if it means taking a job at Goddard Downs. She won't lose her heart to Joshua Goddard, the good-looking cowboy she met at the rodeo. He's no good for her. He doesn't share her faith. It can't work. But maybe it can... if he would only allow God to heal his deep-seated hurts, maybe they can both find the love they've been searching for. Slow Ride Home is Book Four in the Sunburned Land Series, a contemporary Christian romance set in the beautiful, rugged and remote Kimberley area of northern Australia. Grab your copy now and be blessed.

A stunning visual journey through the homes of people from around the world who have taken steps to simplify their lives and embrace the principles of slow living. Still is an interiors book that invites readers to take on the philosophy of the SLOW movement. Living Sustainably; Local; Organic; and Whole. It talks not just to the question of the physical structures we choose, but also the surrounding environment, and what effect that can have on general happiness and wellbeing. Still includes about a dozen case studies featuring escape homes and owners who live according to these aforementioned principles, enlightening readers as to why they chose this path and how it has benefitted their lives. It is the follow-up to Natalie Walton's successful first title This is Home, and once again features location photography by Chris Warnes.

Ten years after her family was torn apart by the disappearance of her older sister, one of four teenage girls to vanish mysteriously, Rory Connelly returns to her hometown in upstate New York, but her summer vacation is soon threatened by family upheaval and the disappearance of another young girl. Reissue.