Lloyd C Douglas

Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a family reunion in the old homestead, planned by the youngest member of the family, resisted and scoffed at by the eldest-and successfully brought off.

Green Light is the story of a young surgeon taking the blame for his mentor's fatal mistake in a surgery, and about his personal quest that follows. A lesser known gem by the author of "Magnificent Obsession", but this offering is very much worth the read.

At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ's garments after the crucifixion. Douglas immediately began working on The Robe, sending each chapter to Hazel as he finished it. It is to her that Douglas dedicated this book. A Roman soldier wins Christ's...

This is the heartwarming story of a woman who lived an ordinary life in an extraordinary way, it's the heartening story of a domestic servant who wisely molded the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as a servant or king, is a noble destiny...

Here is the journal which ultimately proved the motive force for The Magnificent Obsession, the journal as it was set down by Doctor Hudson himself. One feels that he must have been a real person (or that at any rate, in his fictional being he represented the personification of someone's experience and thought). Here we learn whence came the power-the inner strength through which he built spiritual, physical and worldly success. Here we trace the...

"The Big Fisherman" is a historical novel centered around Simon Peter, one of the twelve apostles. He is a large, strong man, who initially rejects the whisperings about Jesus. Though he had long denied religious teachings from his father, Simon is drawn to Jesus and feels changed when he meets him. When Jesus tells him to follow, he does. In "The Big Fisherman" we intimately experience the story of Jesus and go with Him into the countryside where...