For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins left the world of broadcasting and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for and the catalyst to Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening. For thirteen years they endured (and learned to enjoy) snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and the strength of their marriage, and discovering the rewards and glories of a close-to-nature life. Which is to say, the rewards and glories of a close-to-God life. As far as the public was aware, Jack Perkins had vanished. In fact, he was doing research; not, for a change, about the unknown private life of a movie star or celebrated artist, but about the unknown sides of himself. Jack’s personal account in Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells a relatable story of one man drawn to cast off a shallow and unsatisfying lifestyle in order to seek out a deeper, more meaningful and spiritual life. Within the course of explaining how their lives were blessedly transformed especially during the cycle of their first year of island living, Jack draws in stories from his long career in an impressionistic, associative way that invites the reader to connect the dots. One finds―as he finally did―that there’d been many hints along the way of a greater plan at work. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.

Finding Moosewood, Finding God: What Happened When a TV Newsman Abandoned His Career for Life on an Island

Biographies & Memoirs

Perkins, Jack

Arts & Literature

Zondervan

For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass.
Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast ofMaine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening.
In the busy years of Jack’s career in Los Angeles he hadn’t felt the need for God. In their new, quiet, and difficult life, though, he began to rethink everything he thought he knew. For thirteen years they endured―and learned to enjoy―snowbound winters, shuttling supplies from the mainland, testing themselves and their marriage, and discovering the rewards of a close-to-nature life, acknowledging that the hand guiding their blessed new lives was the hand of a gracious God who knew them long before they acknowledged him. This rich memoir also contains a photo insert.

GOD’S BRIDGE: A Novel, by Jack Perkins From Emmy Award-winning journalist and author Jack Perkins comes a lyrical novel about the value of family, friends, and history, and the two loves of one man’s life - God and wife. How can an iron truss bridge, valiantly built generations ago by entrepreneurial American builders, bring together a young man and the young woman who will bring him to the love of God and a life together? In his new novel, God’s Bridge, Perkins has created a searching, intense main character who travels a broad canvas of our country’s events, from the Civil Rights movement to Vietnam, from the fevered bustle of New York City to a bucolic stone house by the small but mighty rural bridge where he heals and finds his faith in the love of friends and his future wife and through them, the life-saving words of The Bible. Over a bridge of time, from a deadly church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama to a healing gathering months later in a Birmingham stadium filled with the followers of Billy Graham, the protagonist is continuously directed in almost mysterious ways—by the kindness of strangers and colleagues, believers and non-believers— towards the ancestral home near a family-owned bridge over the Delaware River (which still exists in real life today) and a father and daughter whose land near that bridge was swallowed up by foolish government intervention. Through a delicate courtship and the gift of a bible, our lovers establish a lifelong commitment to each other and to the word of God.

God's Bridge: A Novel of Believing

Moosewood Editions

In a Page Inpatient Medicine provides a quick overview of diseases, "on call" complaints, and diagnostic procedures encountered in the inpatient setting. Section One is organized by disease; Section Two is organized by complaint (signs and symptoms); and Section Three is organized by diagnostic test or procedure. Each disease, complaint, or test/procedure is covered in an easy-to-follow two-page spread with key points bolded. This pocket-sized book is ideal for interns, medical students in internal medicine or family medicine rotations, or USMLE review. It will also appeal to physician assistant and nurse practitioner students.

In a Page Inpatient Medicine

Medical Books

Kahan, Scott

McCue, Jack D.

Allied Health Professions

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

Black and white photographs reflect the landscapes of Acadia National Park along with poems that reveal its natural beauty.

Acadia: Visions and Verse

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Down East Books

Bar Island, Maine, is a place -- and a metaphor. The merry memories of a girl romping that island a century ago are a delight -- and an inspiration. When NBC newsman Jack Perkins, after 30 years in television, moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to Bar Island in 1986, they became its first human residents in many years. What and who had preceded them, they wondered? What previous walkers had its flower-spattered meadow enticed? For what other eager mouths had it ripened wild cherries? To reward what climbers of its peak had it spread sublime panoramas of sunglint seas? Their search to understand today led them deep into yesterday where they discovered a remarkable 10-year-old girl named Eugenia who would speak to them across generations of the simple joys which a child finds but adutls forget to seek. Like gathering fistfuls of violets. Like settling down to a serene summer sunset. Like promenading beneath parasols of fern. She spoke to the two of them. Now, through this evocative book, may Eugenia, after all these years, speak to you.

Parasols of Ferns: A Book About Wonder

History

Perkins, Mary Jo

Rodick, Eugenia

Americas

Acadia Pub. Co

Ranging the world, Perkins explores nature not as a naturalist but as a seeker. Seeking understanding, seeking greater meaning . . . Ultimately, always, seeking God. Come with him to a small island to consider the value of living small lives. Or, partake in a modern day search for Moby Dick. Watch a brutal seal slaughter and force yourself to understand why it had to be. Pet a whale, coddle a trembling dolphin, bury your face in the only flowers that have a color named after them. Agree with or argue an impassioned rant against big cities. Debate Thoreau; realize that what he said was often not at all what he did. Perch atop a glacial erratic and confess that you too are one. Puzzle why a priest would be in the business of selling animal penis bones. Remember the man whose award-winning, audience-winning TV show was nothing but him before a blackboard talking God. Let Hopi Indians lead you down into their most sacred space at the oldest settlement in America. Seek out the unlikely lifeform that is likely the oldest extant on our continent. Consider two Harry Trumans and suffer their heroic losses. Meet the man who created the Tufted Guzzard and the Stuffed Ormie and was the greatest nature writer readers never thought as a nature writer. Attend a Camp for Overprivileged Kids for whom Stephen King wasn't scary enough. Learn the perils of life at minus 55 degrees. Stare down the most dangerous beast in our land, eye to eye. Then become him. Do a worldwide telecast of an event that terrorizes natives while thrilling scientists. Watch a hurricane destroy your house by a dam site. Walk miles along a beach of death, not knowing why. Walk then a beach of erupting life, reveling in birth. Live through the mind-numbing tremors of an historic earthquake. Witness a courtroom case where the defendant on trial is The Dark. Meet a girl too young to be so old, too beautiful to be so cursed. A passing acquaintance who could never be anything more. And, finally, an Epigram on Epitaphs. May all this seeking and consequent finding -- voiced in both present and past, prose and poetry -- carry a reader ever closer to Ultimate Answers. (And, along the way, great enjoyment.)

Nature of God: Exploring Creation to Meet the Creator

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Acadia: Visions & Verse Cd

Travel

Pictorial

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