Books with author Ellen Troy

With the unexpected death of his father during his senior year in high school, Tucker McQueen was adrift in life without a compass to guide him. Spending a year at a dull factory where each day became indistinguishable from the next, Tucker desired to escape the monotony of a time-punching future for which he seemed destined. Perhaps, being led more by providence than by talent, he lands a junior staff position at a local newspaper. After a year of hard work, his fear of merely trading time for dollars reemerges when he realizes that his articles, sprinkled among the more noteworthy stories, are only fillers for leftover spots. Finally, fate finds him when what appears to be an ordinary assignment sets in motion a series of events that alters the very course of his life. While taking a flight aboard a vintage World War II B-24 bomber, he discovers a hidden journal of a young man who had served his country as a navigator. Intrigue and adventure, with an unknown outcome, await as Tucker is swept up in the life story of a man of his age who had been promised death and destruction but instead discovered love, friendship, and beauty among the ugliest aspects of humanity. Tucker's search to return the journal to its owner leads him to distant cities and ultimately across the Atlantic Ocean as he attempts to unravel a decade's old mystery.

Every day is the same for Mr. Beasley – day after day after day – until one night, helped by his furry and feathered friends, his world changes. He wakes up and nothing is the same! What will he do? What would you do? Will Mr. Beasley take a chance on a brand new day??? This is a warm and gentle story about a loved neighbor who has let his life get him down so that he does not see the friends or the beauty around him. One morning he learns that it is never too late to live a brand new day.

Peter Puppy can't sleep. He is lying in a basket under the light of the moon, with his two sisters and two brothers. Big sister pup can run fast. Frankie is smart. Little pup is brave. Polly is cute and roly-poly. "I'm just ordinary!" thinks Peter. So he decides to go into the wide world to have an adventure. He travels by foot, truck, train and plane to Paris, France. There he meets new friends. They take him to the Eiffel Tower, to the Louvre Museum. He meets the president, he paints on the Left Bank. Every morning he munches croissants with writers in the café. "I am having a fine adventure!" he exclaims. Meanwhile back on the farm in the basket in the barn, his two sisters and two brothers can't sleep. Big Sister can't run fast. Frankie gets stuck in the pigpen. Little runs away from Big Dog. Polly wakes up with wrinkled ears. They miss Peter! One night as Peter lies on his big bed with fluffy white pillows he looks out the window and sees the familiar moon. "It is time to come home Peter Puppy," it seems to say. And he does. Back to the basket full of brothers and sisters under the light of the moon. Peter, just an ordinary pup, is home where he belongs.