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Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love

Book 2 of the Porch Talk series series

Wisdom and Humor from the Front Porch

Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.

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When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch.

Genre
christian fiction
Themes
religionchristianspirituality
Setting
1990s
Mood
inspirational
Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages
Form
essaysshort stories

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