Join Mary Lea Carroll on her latest adventure
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Take a journey through the neighborhood
Go with this world traveler, restless and off-kilter during the 2020 lockdown, as she thinks—can’t travel the world? Then let’s travel the block! At turns inspiring, touching, and funny, she helps us realize that wherever your neighborhood happens to be, it is possible to find home right outside your front door.
Mary Lea Caroll
Across the Street, Around the Corner: A Road Home is an inspiring, wisdom-packed, funny collection of neighborhood life set during the pandemic, when everyone, everywhere, was forced to stay home. As a world traveler and now not able to go anywhere, the author thinks, “Well, I can't travel the world? Why not travel the block—see who and what's right under my own nose?”
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PRAISE FOR ACROSS THE STREET AROUND THE CORNER…A ROAD HOME
"Mary Lea Carroll creates a neighborhood we’d all like to live in.”
— Lian Dolan, Author and Speaker
“…a balm for these times.”
“This book comes at a time when we could all use a reminder on the importance of finding and building community. After reading you may find yourself wanting to reach out to an old friend or meet one of your neighbors. This book, and the stories in it, will be a bright spot to your day.”
"I find Across the Street very moving, beautiful, even, in its gentle insistence on the practice of the love of neighbors.”
— Robert Savino Oventile, Local News Pasadena
"a sweet reminder of what it means to create community in a neighborhood -- How doing small gestures of kindness can build lasting friendships, or just make someone's day when they might need it most. Mary Lea Carroll is a charming storyteller about what it means to be a neighbor in today's disconnected world, as well as during her early childhood, growing up in different times. A heartwarming read..”
PRAISE FOR SAINT EVERYWHERE
“A delightful piece of narrative nonfiction… Writing in an utterly unaffected tone and bringing a resonant universality to her musings, she invites readers to come along with her… readers will be all in for this journey―learning, enjoying, and pondering in equal measure.”
— Booklist
“Charming, funny, informative, moving and spiritually profound, this little book delights the soul."
— Michelle Huneven, author of Blame (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Jamesland, and Round Rock
“What would it mean to live with the faith of a saint—either on a grand scale or in our own modest lives? With the effortless, heartfelt wit of Annie Lamott, Mary Lea Carroll whisks us along on a series of lively, serendipitous pilgrimages that leave us laughing, amazed, and ready to set off on our own miraculous adventures.”
— Perdita Finn, co-author of The Way of the Rose
“Faith is a journey, and as Mary Lea Carroll shows in her delightful, insightful book, that journey can be both external and internal all at once.”
— Rick Hamlin, executive editor of Guideposts and author of Pray for Me
PRAISE FOR SOMEHOW SAINTS
"Mary Lea Carroll’s Somehow Saints sets sail from where her last book, Saint Everywhere, came to shore, embarking on another wondrous journey visiting real saints and lay saints—folks all around us living heroically large and small lives. I was blessed with hope when reading St. Hildegard of Bingen's advice: ‘Even in a world that is shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.’ Somehow Saints is a pocketbook of miracles for these times.”
— Jane Kaczmarek, actress and star of Malcolm in the Middle
“Wit, warmth, and heart.”
— Heather King, author of Holy Desperation
"Carroll travels throughout North America and Europe in search of ‘more saints [and] more fun stories’ in this enjoyable follow-up to 2019’s Saint Everywhere... these insightful, enjoyable profiles work as a breezy survey of modern history of sainthood.”
— Publishers Weekly
"You won’t even realize how much you’re learning because you’ll be having such a good time.”
— Chris Erskine, author of Daditude