Books with author Thomas Bell

Pete Thompson returns again to tell another story, a powerful and personal one. Join his grandson in experiencing an exciting baseball season in Silar City. Enjoy the thrill of the pennant race as the Silar City Merchants battle to make the playoffs. The action is not only on the field, though. A family crisis arises and threatens to shake Pete’s confidence in himself and his faith in God. Laugh, cry and celebrate with Pete as he tries to get The Last Out.

"In the 1950s, during his first lectures at the University of Virginia, Faulkner mentioned that in the days when he read the Saturday Evening Post at his Oxford postmaster's job instead of delivering the magazine, he had admired Thomas Beer's (1889-1940) stories and had learned something of characterization and plot from them. He asked if any of the students had read Beer; there was silence. He asked if any had heard of him. One student had heard of Beer's biography of Stephen Crane and of his bestseller of '26, The Mauve Decade. Others who've admired Beer's work include Lewis Mumford, historian Frank Friedel and Carl Van Vechten (with whom Beer had some aspects of style and sensibility in common). The Fair Rewards is a portrait in novel form of the American theater from 1890 to 1920, and well illustrates Beer's gift for delineating pre-World War I America in a somewhat melancholy, elliptical fashion." -- Robert Nedelkoff, The Neglected Books Page

When Cormoran, the leader of the giants, brings fifteen years of peace to a murderous end in the magical land of Essmor, the wife of the human king and their infant son, Jack, must go into hiding in the non-magical, dead-end town of Byth. Alone, the one-time queen and the former heir to Essmor’s throne live in difficult circumstances and struggle from day to day to make ends meet. Nearly seventeen years later, following a terrible argument one night with his mother, Jack climbs a mysterious beanstalk that sprouts overnight to discover a world he never could have imagined. There, he learns his ancestral land of Essmor is now in ruin, its people in dire need, and how his father, the former king, was murdered. Faced with the possibility of the Giant-King catching him at any moment he struggles with what to do: Save his father’s people being held in captivity or save himself by escaping back to Byth with the riches only a fabled Golden Goose can offer? With its mystical creatures, vicious swordplay, and wondrous worlds filled with real people facing real problems, only one thing is for certain: This is not your parents' Jack and the Beanstalk story.

In the Town of Comfortability is a first novel from the author, Thomas. As the story unfolds, Thomas weaves a complex and compelling tale about coming of age in the heartland of America. At the age of 18, Thomas wrestles with issues of love and loss of relationships, family struggles, friendships, addiction and societal pressures from a youthful yet introspective viewpoint. Thomas exhibits a unique writing style, blending both poetry and prose, as he leads his readers through a spell binding journey encompassing the full range of emotions and experiences. Written in a reader friendly style, In the Town of Comfortability is a book that will be hard for both teens and adults to put down.