Colin MacIver Knihy

The Catechist’s Field Guide to Confirmation takes the fear and stress out of being a Confirmation catechist. The prospect of volunteering as a Confirmation catechist can be intimidating and even a little confusing. But The Catechist’s Field Guide offers a clear vision of your mission as a catechist and how to achieve it. You’ll come away understanding the who’s, what’s, and why’s of Confirmation prep, confident in your ability to witness the Faith to your candidates and help raise them up into lifelong discipleship. The Catechist’s Field Guide

For those of us who go to Mass often, it’s easy to forget just how intimidating it is for those who aren’t familiar with the liturgy. When do I sit, stand, and kneel? What do I say (and when do I say it)? If you aren’t familiar with these things, it’s easy to feel as though you stand out and don’t belong. But you do! Receiving My Guide to the Mass helps children become comfortable going to Mass by showing them not only when to sit, stand, and kneel and what to say but also why we do the things we do at Mass. They’ll learn about the roles of the different people they see at Mass, like the ushers, lectors, cantors, deacons, and priests. This is the perfect book for them to bring to Mass! As they grow in understanding, their love for Christ and for the Mass will also grow deeper . Ages 7–9

The Painted Coat is the story of an 18th century volunteer soldier, Adam Truworthy. In Lobster Back, Adam volunteers as a redcoat; he serves in Scotland, fighting at Culloden, and joins in the pacification of the Glens. Transferred to the Continent, his regiment fights at the botched battle of Laufeldt. After a successful struggle with small pox, Truworthy, now a sergeant major, does police duty in Ireland. Along the way he has several inept encounters with women. At the end of this volume, his battalion is about to embark for the American colonies to take part in General Edward Braddock's expedition into the Ohio country.

Light Bob is the story of a British regular soldier, Adam Truworthy, serving in 18th-century America. He is a Light Bob because, for forest warfare, his hair is cropped, his coat is shortened, and his equipment adapted. Before this, he fights under Braddock on the Monongahela and Abercromby at Ticonderoga.When he joins the Lights, his luck improves. After the successful relief of Fort Pitt, he is sent by Col. Henri Bouquet to take possession of French forts along the Ohio and Mississippi. After a successful river voyage, he emerges from the interior at New Orleans. The command then voyages to Virginia for further orders. Provoked into a deadly duel, Adam must leave the colony. He accepts a post in the Massachusetts Line and we leave him as he exchanges his red coat for a blue.

Struggling writer, Daniel Baker, grandson of the great Daniel Defoe, wants to make his mark by unravelling the mystery behind the disastrous collapse of plans for a second descent on Britain by Bonnie Prince Charlie following his failed 1745 campaign. This later debacle ended Stuart hopes of controlling British destiny and hastened Charles' decline into drunkenness and sexual dissipation. But was Charles' inadequacy to take back the throne due to his own shortcomings or, as rumored, was the architect of ruin a turncoat close to the Prince? Hoping to discover the truth, Baker journeys to Scotland to speak with Alasdair Ruadh, one of two people suspected of being the phantom spy, "Pickle". Many revelations await Baker and the reader.