Healy, Marti
Marti Healy
Marti Healy has been a writer for most of her professional life, including many years as the multi-award winning senior writer for the Design Group. She currently contributes a regular column to The Aiken Standard, her hometown newspaper, and is also the author of The God-Dog Connection. She speaks regularly to organizations, book clubs, and book festivals on the topics of her books and her writing career. This is her first novel.
A gentle look at the faith lessons we can learn by simply watching the behavior of our pets, The God-Dog Connection shows the ways that God works through animals. Readers will be delighted by Healy’s 25 true stories of pets, and the connection between her dual passions: animals and God.
A great gift idea for the animal lover, believer, or seeker. The parallels Healy draws between animal and human behavior are thought provoking and moving, and will give readers—especially those with strong bonds to their dogs or cats—a new way of picking up the pieces of faith-based wisdom these animals impart, just by being themselves. This slim, attractive book also features photographs of many of Healy’s canine and feline friends.
Stories that illuminate spiritual truth and speak to people of many different faiths. A devoted animal lover, Healy finds meaning in her pets’ exploits, whether it’s Pookey the dog “babysitting” a cocker spaniel puppy, Kate the cat becoming a ventriloquist, or Trouble getting loose from the safety of the backyard. While based primarily on Christian principles, people with many types of religious backgrounds will appreciate the lessons Healy learns from animals.
This enthralling contemporary southern novel tells of long-buried secrets and a tangled, multigenerational mystery that eventually requires an entire town to decipher.
The Rhythm of Selby is set in the fictitious small town of Selby, South Carolina, where writer Macy Harris moves in search of mild winters and a culture known for its equally warm hospitality. Here, she finds a place to write in rhythm with a slower pace of life, and soon becomes enchanted with the town’s gentle residents, its generations of history, its tradition of horses and dogs, magnificent old homes and gardens, superb art and music, and excellent cuisine.
The Rhythm of Selby is set in the fictitious small town of Selby, South Carolina, where writer Macy Harris moves in search of mild winters and a culture known for its equally warm hospitality. Here, she finds a place to write in rhythm with a slower pace of life, and soon becomes enchanted with the town’s gentle residents, its generations of history, its tradition of horses and dogs, magnificent old homes and gardens, superb art and music, and excellent cuisine.
But Selby also has its share of eccentric neighbors and family secrets. Secrets that have haunted their caretakers for more than a century, and still whisper from their graves. A tragic train derailment, the dying words of one of its victims, a fabled ruby necklace, a strained childhood friendship, an attempted murder, and a terrifying storm that washes a 150-year-old secret to the surface all come together in this engrossing novel.
The Rhythm of Selby is beautifully crafted with sensitivity to paper, inks, and typefaces, and it is punctuated throughout with numerous original sepia-toned photographs.