Joy Williams

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees,...

Have you ever had those yik-yak-yuk feelings of being lonely, abandoned, unloved and unwanted? If so, come and sit and let Teller tell you tail of Black Cat Ranch, one of the loveable, quirky resident cats. Meet young Annabelle and her seven black kitties that find themselves abandon and all alone in Prairie Country. Be encouraged by the journey of overcoming redemptive hope as they use the gifts that they have been given to help others find their...

"In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Once nature as we know it is dead, the pursuit of happiness fades into insignificance, food is scarce, and even time doesn't progress in an organized fashion. Harrow follows the picaresque journey of Khristen--a teenager...

Three teenage friends, Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, travel across a desert populated by confused adults.

Instructions for creating paper crafts such as greeting cards, festive lanterns, and sun catchers.

Instructions for creating crafts and gifts using natural materials found outdoors.