Daily Bread: A Novella

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On a bright afternoon in February 1910, thirteen-year-old Tommy Dumont witnesses the most stupendous event he has ever seen-the first flight of a powered airplane in Denver history. But only months later, this enterprising son of a wealthy banker is living on the city's streets and alleys because his father is appalled by the epileptic seizures that have begun to regularly overtake him. Eventually looked after by both an Irish immigrant who earns her living as a prostitute and Denver's renowned juvenile court Judge Ben Lindsey, Tommy survives by his bountiful wits and his determination to make something of his life despite his seizures until the judge make a life-changing request of him. Tommy is a remarkable character, and his story is one of courage and the meaning friendship, tragedy and redemption. "Martin is, first and foremost, a consummate storyteller," says Kirkus Reviews. Daily Bread is a novella that will capture your heart and linger in your memory.

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Russell Martin's nonfiction book Beethoven's Hair, a United States bestseller and a Washington Post Book of the Year, has been published in twenty-one translated editions and is the subject of a Gemini-award-winning film of the same name. His highly acclaimed book Picasso's War has been published in seven international editions; Out of Silence was named by The Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication, and A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. He is currently adapting his second novel, The Sorrow of Archaeology, to the screen.He directed, produced, and wrote the documentary film Beautiful Faces, which won the Silver Palm Award of the Mexico International Film Festival. He produced and co-wrote the Monette Horwitz Prize-winning documentary film Two Spirits, and is an award-winning, internationally published author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Sorrow of Archaeology and Beautiful Islands, as well as many nonfiction books. He has written for Time, the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and National Public Radio. His books and screenplays have been optioned by Robert Redford's Wildwood Enterprises, actor Dennis Haysbert, the Denver Center Theatre Company, and New World Television, and he is a veteran script doctor and consultant. For twenty years, he taught an annual creative nonfiction course at Colorado College and served on the faculty at numerous writing conferences. He has ghostwritten many books for high-profile clients and has coached and supported a number of other writers on their paths to publishing success.

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