Old professor Garth vanishes atop South Queen Mountain, leaving William, his cynical traveling companion, with a scrap of obscure verse and the rusty key to a magical realm. Reprint.

No Clock in the Forest

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Willis, Paul J.

Fantasy

Avon/Books

On a quest to find a healing magic in the alpine wilderness, Jennifer Howe and her fiance+a7 Ronald unsuspectingly enter the battlefield of an age-old conflict. By the author of No Clock in the Forest. Reprint.

The Stolen River

William, a young mountain climber, loses his partner near the peak of the South Queen, but when he climbs down he finds himself in another world

No Clock in the Forest (An Alpine Tale)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Good News Pub

From back cover: "The Stolen River is a timeless quest for fantasy lovers young and old, a great mountain adventure for all who have ever hoisted a pack or hefted a paddle in hand or in heart."

The Stolen River: Autumn (An Alpine Tale)

Crossway Books

"All true loves are full of quarrels, and these essays tangle through some of mine," writes Paul J. Willis. Candid, adventuresome, hilarious and soul-searching, Willis explores his conservative religious upbringing, his affinity for the Romantic poets, his lifelong avocation of mountaineering and his midlife understandings of faith and wilderness. Several of the twenty-one essays in this collection have appeared in publications such as Ascent, The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004, The Best Christian Writing 2006, Books &amp; Culture, The Climbing Art, Image, The Other Side, Redwood Coast Review, River Teeth and Summit. "Settle into the steady expectation of delight," says John Wilson, editor of Books &amp; Culture. "Such is the charm of Paul Willis's splendid essays."

Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild

Essays & Correspondence

WordFarm

Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Essays. "Building a trail--clearing away underbrush, heaving rocks, making room for meanders--was a task Paul Willis set himself in a time of personal sorrow when he needed just such strenuous solitude. But its purpose widened over time: it provided a refuge for others who needed a wild place and an hour of renewal. In this book he has accomplished something similar: a record of his own peregrinations on campus and in classrooms and in the mountains he loves that opens also for readers rich opportunities for personal reflection. The humor, humility, edgy intelligence, and deep reflection that inform the writings gathered here give scope and substance to the words he chose as titles for its four sections: curiosity, love, wonder, and gratitude. Here is a book to be savored, like a slow walk among the oaks."--Marilyn McEntyre "TO BUILD A TRAIL is the best of everything I love about Willis's writing: the richly layered essays are funny, unpredictable, self-revelatory in the best way, and, as a bonus, culturally astute. (Watch for his provocative words on education.) Lace up your shoes and hit the Trail Paul built. It's simply remarkable."--Leslie Leyland Fields "Paul Willis is one of the few writers who make me laugh out loud. And, at the same time, require me to think. With just enough feeling thrown in to move me without making me weepy. I feel myself in the illuminating presence of a kindred spirit. These essays, drawn directly from the details of his life, prove what we learn from all genres of literature, including the memoir: each person's story has the potential to be our story too."--Daniel Taylor

To Build a Trail: Essays on Curiosity, Love & Wonder

Religion & Spirituality

All in a Garden Green

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

Slant Books

Thirteen-year-old Erica Pickins does not want to play the piano--and she definitely does not want to go to England. But her father must take family and students for a fall semester abroad, and her mother insists she still practice, every day. In England, their new home becomes Hengrave Hall, a sixteenth-century manor house presided over by a group of nuns. While exploring with her new friend Pedro, Erica walks through a chamber door...into the Year of Our Lord 1578. There she is startled to find a music master in doublet and hose impatiently waiting for her. He mistakes her for Margaret, the elder daughter of the house, who is late for a lesson on the virginal--a forerunner of the piano. It seems that in a matter of days Queen Elizabeth will arrive on a formal visit, and the girl is to play for her as part of the planned entertainments. Erica has no choice but to play along and pretend that she is Margaret. With a little help from her brainy friend Pedro, and after making a few whopping social blunders in welcoming the Queen of England, Erica manages to pull off her final performance--but not before the real Margaret reappears at exactly the wrong moment....

From California coastal redwoods to giant sequoias in the Sierra, from practical jokes of adolescence to unexpected epiphanies marking an academic career, the many poems in Somewhere to Follow range through the life of a poet on the lookout for what comes next. In this his seventh volume of poetry, Paul Willis ascends the switchbacks of ordinary experience to cross paths with song-leading rangers, exhausted mothers, dirt-loving children, terrified immigrants, Arctic climbers, face-masked students, beatified counselors, rejected suitors, honest morticians, talking ferns, mourning crows, stinking fungi, vengeful rivers, raging fires, faithful brothers, the world's largest pinecones, and an innocent pair of twin grandsons. Also present in these pages are the Virgin Mary, Sir Philip Sidney, George Vancouver, David Douglas, John Muir, Ernest Hemingway, and the inimitable Ruth Kerr of the Kerr Canning Jar Company. Throughout this collection, one hears Willis's unique tone: quietly observant, worldly wise and yet still full of wonder, alert to the surprises and vistas that can only be found by striking out on your own. Take the path that each poem offers and find for yourself Somewhere to Follow.

Somewhere to Follow

Poetry

Somewhere to Follow: Poems

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No Clock in the Forest

The Stolen River

No Clock in the Forest (An Alpine Tale)

The Stolen River: Autumn (An Alpine Tale)

Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild

To Build a Trail: Essays on Curiosity, Love & Wonder

All in a Garden Green

All in a Garden Green

Somewhere to Follow

Somewhere to Follow: Poems