Durbin: 60 books

In the 1930s, some 6,000 Finnish Americans traveled to Karelia, a province in northwestern Russia, hoping to leave the Depression behind and to establish a workers’ paradise. Based on these true events, The Darkest Evening chronicles the story of Jake Maki, whose father, caught up in the socialist...

Captain Harry Richardson, who survived the Civil War, imprisonment, and the Indian Wars, is now serving as a circuit-riding preacher in the North Georgia mountains. As the story opens, his biggest worry is the impending birth of a child. Little does he know that a man from his past has come to Choestoe...

Meet Jamie. A young woman who has lost almost everything dear to her. Now she must find the strength to fight for the last things that are still precious to her. Will she be able to reach down inside and find the strength and courage or will she lose again? Read to find out just what waits in store for Jamie.

ìThis latest installment in the Psych 101 series is a reader-friendly discussion of one of the most common mental health disorders -- depression. With the advent of the DSM-5, this book is not only timely, but it also provides a life-span approach to understanding depression.î--Doody's Medical Reviews Depression,...

Has your life ever resembled a chaotic web around you? Have you ever made what seemed like one wrong choice after another, which ultimately made you a permanent citizen of rock bottom? If so, you werent there alone. I was probably your next door neighbor. I struggled for years through what seemed...

Angry Monster is about a little boy who feels like an angry monster. He doesn't know how to deal with it so he says and does mean things to his sister and wrecks the house. The boy's mother uses understanding and kindness to defeat the angry monster and help the boy find "himself"...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A twenty-seven year old unsolved murder has covered its tracks almost perfectly. What was done in the dark will come to light, is what the old saying says. But what comes to light may be damaging to those affected by what is revealed. Ronald Durbins debut novel will keep you up at night waiting to...

This is a novel of old Kentucky, set in the late 1700s and early 1800s, at about the time that Daniel Boone was making his reputation. It was a time when people from the eastern states were moving into the Kentucky territory and staking a claim on land, providing that they built a shelter, cleared...

Five years have passed since the defeat of the Boss, and life has become almost peaceful. Almost. A menace has returned and he has shattered that peace by taking something very special.

Sarah Franklin, a young teacher escaping an arranged marriage to a corrupt man, runs straight into the arms of Captain Harry Richardson as he prepares to board a train leaving Macon, Georgia, in 1875. She begs him to help her, and the captain soon finds himself in the midst of a ruse to hide her identity...

According to thirteen-year-old Ben Ward’s father, lumberjacks look forward to two things: mealtime and springtime. In the winter of 1898, Ben leaves school for a job as a cook’s assistant to his father at the Blackwater Logging Camp. As Ben spends long hours peeling potatoes and frying flapjacks,...

The Captain Finds the Key is the exciting conclusion to a trilogy that began with The Captain Takes a Wife and continued with The Captain Seeks the Lost. As the story opens, Captain Harry Richardson and his friends and family are still reeling from events that occurred when a stranger came...

Three teens from New York City take a break in Cancun right before starting their first year of college, only Sara didnt return. Jack is a successful Wall Street investor, and Sara is the eldest of his two children. He begins a search for his daughter that very night, returning on the flight back...