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The Absence of Father Brown (Father Petersen Mysteries)
The Absence of Father Brown - six cozy short mystery stories featuring Father Paul Petersen, a priest at St. Patrick's in the City in Washington, D.C. Each of the stories was first published in the American Chesterton Society's Gilbert Magazine.
Mr. Puddle's Paradox
Perhaps best known for his priest-detective Father Brown, the English writer G.K. Chesterton also authored numerous stories with lesser known detectives, among them Mr. Pond, a civil servant, whose eight adventures appear in Chesterton’s final collection of detective stories, The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond.
The five stories collected in Mr. Puddle’s Paradox are a tribute to Chesterton and his character Mr. Pond. Each of these brief stories first appeared in the American Chesterton Society's Gilbert magazine.
G.K. Chesterton and Our Lady: Readings and Essays on Chesterton’s Spiritual Life
The brilliant English author G.K. Chesterton weaves Our Lady in and out of his fiction: characters are praying the rosary, going to church, fighting over the place of the Mother of God in society. He talks about her in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction as casually as if he thought about her all the time, even writing a book of Marian poetry. As he says, you cannot chip away at a statue of Mother and Child and leave only the Child; it is impossible to think of Jesus without thinking of His Mother…
The Academic Exercise (Father Petersen Mysteries)
The Academic Exercise - four cozy short mystery stories, including the winner of the 1991 Stuart Stiller Writing Competition Award.
Father Paul Petersen, a priest at St. Patrick's in the City in Washington, D.C., solves a murder in a classroom at Catholic University of America's law school and several lesser crimes.
Errant Knight: The Scandal of Prochoice Knights
Errant Knight: The Scandal of Prochoice Knights details the efforts of a group of individual Knights to sanction a brother Knight who was a publicly prochoice politician. It describes the personalities, pleadings, and internal K of C practices and procedures that led to a sentence of indefinite suspension of the Knight after a trial committee found him guilty of giving scandal, as well as the aftermath of his conviction.
Speed Bump (Tales of the Short Bow)
These five flash fiction stories were published originally in the American Chesterton Society's Gilbert Magazine. Each story stands alone, but together they also constitute a single narrative. Speed Bump is a story of neighborhood, solidarity, and struggle against oppressive government.
Speed Bump was inspired by G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill and his The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Impossible Possibilities
These five brief interlocking stories of people who accomplish the proverbially impossible were published originally in the American Chesterton Society’s Gilbert Magazine. Each story stands alone, but together they also constitute a single narrative, Impossible Possibilities. Whimsical yet serious, Impossible Possibilities is a story of family, rootedness, and struggle against big business and government…
The Christmas Stamp and Other Stories
These seven brief stories converge on Christmas from differing angles. There's romance, humor, charity, burglary, mischief, and even a corpse. All but one were published originally in the American Chesterton Society's Gilbert Magazine. The other first appeared in Culture Wars magazine.
Last Meal and other stories (Tales of the Short Bow)
Last Meal includes a half dozen flash fiction stories in which things sometimes go horribly wrong and at other times go wonderfully right, or at least they seem to. These six quick reads appeared originally in Gilbert Magazine, the journal of the American Chesterton Society.
Current Controversies - Women in the Military
This anthology series covers today's most current national and international issues and contains the most important opinions of the past and present. The purpose of the series is to introduce the reader to all sides of contemporary controversies in an objective and comprehensive way. Each anthology is composed of a wide spectrum of primary sources written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields; the authors represent leading conservative, liberal, and centrist views…
There Is No We
These eight flash fiction stories were first published in the American Chesterton Society’s Gilbert magazine. Each lists slightly to the dark side. There’s even a touch of deviltry.
