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Daris Howard

    Daris Howard je autorem, jehož bohaté životní zkušenosti, od farmářského života v Idahu přes práci kovboje a mechanika až po akademickou dráhu, pronikají do jeho psaní. Jeho literární dílo čerpá z pestré škály pozoruhodných postav, s nimiž se setkal, a přetváří je do poutavých příběhů. Howardův osobitý styl a témata rezonují napříč různými kulturami, což dokládá překlad jeho her do němčiny a francouzštiny a jejich uvádění po celém světě. Jeho týdenní sloupky, plné krátkých příběhů, si získaly oblibu v Severní Americe a představují jeho jedinečný pohled na život.

    Looking on the Heart: Life's Outtakes Year 12
    Save the Last Dance for Me
    The Last Gift
    Life As a Cowboy - Life's Outtakes 9: Humorous/Inspirational Short Stories
    • 2020

      Save the Last Dance for Me

      • 218 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení

      Tom Johnson is in college. He has struggled in his dating, partly because he is shy and partly because he is not a good dancer. A girl convinces him to sign up for a dance class, telling him it is first-semester dance and she will help him. But in the first class, they learn it is fourth-semester competitive dance, that there are 54 girls and 8 boys, and Tom wreaks havoc in his attempt at dancing. They decide to sign out of the class, but the teacher won’t sign Tom’s card. That is when a kind girl and her friends start to work with Tom to compete in the International Ballroom Competition.This is a fun story filled with struggles of dating and feeling socially unaccepted. It is also one of determination, hard work, and friendship.

      Save the Last Dance for Me
    • 2020

      Fifty-two humorous and inspirational short stories from year twelve of Life's Outtakes, a nationally syndicated column by Daris Howard. From the inspiration of a high school councilor's love for his students in Looking on the Heart to the humor of a Halloween prank in A Halloween Cat Attack, this book is a fun look at family and community life.

      Looking on the Heart: Life's Outtakes Year 12
    • 2015

      The Last Gift

      • 250 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      When Rachel married, her life became a nightmare filled with abuse from her husband and a struggle to take care of her children. Now divorced, her exhusband still haunts her life with threats and demands for the little money she has. But when a stranger stands up for her against the abuse, her life begins to change in ways she could only dream of as she finds new courage, strength, and different, deeper challenges at the same time. The Last Gift is a book of clean romance, a journey of understanding and forgiveness, and a story that, at times, might bite painfully into the reader's own memories of missed opportunities and foolish decisions, while at the same time giving hope from the depths of what life is all about.

      The Last Gift