What do you remember, what is important, what do you simply let go, sand piling on sand, until only the important events and memories are left?

Much to the delight and good fortune of Arthur and Mary Bell, they were the proud parents of four strapping sons. Such a stroke of luck was vital to their survival on the Idaho plain, where every able-bodied young man was desperately needed to work the land. So when Mary gave birth to a baby girl,

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Told from the delightful viewpoint of a seasoned seventy-one-year-old high priest, this novel is certain to ring true with generations of Latter-day Saints as the narrator relives his life while watching a true and faithful friend slip to the other side. This novel is warm, wise, funny, lyrical, and tender all at once. Author Donald Smurthwaite has woven a short masterpiece in this revealing work that will definitely strike a chord with readers young...

'I see stories in the young woman at the grocery store holding ground beef in one hand, a roast, perfect for Sunday dinner, in the other. I see stories in the man, my age or more, who waits for the bus at twilight on a busy city street. I see stories when our bishop, bundled against the chill of a winter night, walks alone toward the door of a family that is troubled. I see these stories, and they become my truth.' With this prelude, Marcus Hathaway,...

When his beloved wife dies without warning, John's life takes a turn he could never have predicted, and never would have made of his own choosing, as he struggles to survive a loss so suffocating that he can't even define it. Why was she taken so suddenly? What more should he have learned from his vibrant Callie? And how will he fill the seemingly endless days ahead? Unsure of his direction, John begins what appears to be a common journey but one...