Mother of God
In book three, a mission oak chair in the basement of an old state mental hospital leads Wally Winchester to take a job as a substitute voc ed teacher so he can snoop around for vintage Stickley furniture. After a rocky initiation to the world of defiant students and narrow-minded administrators, he invents an eBay class that opens a new world to the wayward youngsters but puts him at odds with the Secretary of Schools, a rigid ex-marine who has an eye for his wife.
In the endpapers of an old leather-bound atlas he finds in the old estate library Wally finds a cryptic inscription that sends him to eastern Russia in search of the Kazanskaya, the Mother of God of Kazan, known as the protectress of Russia and believed lost in a turn-of-the-century fire. With the prize of a lifetime in his possession he faces a five-day train ride to Moscow that turns into a circus of danger and deception as he rides a rumor wave spreading across the Russian homeland that something wonderful is about to occur.
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Mother of God
In book three, a mission oak chair in the basement of an old state mental hospital leads Wally Winchester to take a job as a substitute voc ed teacher so he can snoop around for vintage Stickley furniture. After a rocky initiation to the world of defiant students and narrow-minded administrators, he invents an eBay class that opens a new world to the wayward youngsters but puts him at odds with the Secretary of Schools, a rigid ex-marine who has an eye for his wife.
In the endpapers of an old leather-bound atlas he finds in the old estate library Wally finds a cryptic inscription that sends him to eastern Russia in search of the Kazanskaya, the Mother of God of Kazan, known as the protectress of Russia and believed lost in a turn-of-the-century fire. With the prize of a lifetime in his possession he faces a five-day train ride to Moscow that turns into a circus of danger and deception as he rides a rumor wave spreading across the Russian homeland that something wonderful is about to occur.
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Mother of God

Mother of God

by jack gunter
Mother of God

Mother of God

by jack gunter

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Overview

In book three, a mission oak chair in the basement of an old state mental hospital leads Wally Winchester to take a job as a substitute voc ed teacher so he can snoop around for vintage Stickley furniture. After a rocky initiation to the world of defiant students and narrow-minded administrators, he invents an eBay class that opens a new world to the wayward youngsters but puts him at odds with the Secretary of Schools, a rigid ex-marine who has an eye for his wife.
In the endpapers of an old leather-bound atlas he finds in the old estate library Wally finds a cryptic inscription that sends him to eastern Russia in search of the Kazanskaya, the Mother of God of Kazan, known as the protectress of Russia and believed lost in a turn-of-the-century fire. With the prize of a lifetime in his possession he faces a five-day train ride to Moscow that turns into a circus of danger and deception as he rides a rumor wave spreading across the Russian homeland that something wonderful is about to occur.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014443999
Publisher: flying pig publications
Publication date: 05/17/2012
Series: wally winchester series , #3
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 438
File size: 630 KB

About the Author

Jack Gunter is a prominent Pacific Northwest writer, artist, and antique dealer specializing in twentieth century decorative arts.
With a degree in biology and graduate training in organic chemistry, he was teaching school in Massachusetts in 1974 when he wrote and illustrated his first book, The Gunter Papers, Avon Books, N.Y., which he describes as a futuristic junior high school science curriculum and guide to the fourth dimension.
A self taught artist using the ancient technique of egg tempera painting, he exhibited his large format works in several New England museums and was included in an Andrew Wyeth and Family show in the Sharon, N.H. Art Center in 1979. That year a studio fire claimed all of his existing paintings and landed him in Washington State with a pick up truck, his dog, and the clothes on his back.
He settled on an island in Puget Sound when he discovered that he was the only person in a thousand mile radius who wanted mission oak objects and the Northwest was chock full of Mr. Stickley’s furniture.
Since moving to Camano Island he has created over one thousand additional paintings, three movies as a SAG indie filmmaker, and five books -- an illustrated guide to Northwest history narrated by a flying pig: A Pictorial History of the Pacific Northwest Including the Future, four novels in the Wally Winchester adventure series: Original Finish, The Egg Rocker, Mother of God, and Soft Focus, along with the science textbook published by Avon Books, NY, NY in 1974..
He lives in a cliff-side cabin with views of the Olympic Mountains, eagles, and spouting whales out his front window while he works on his first Wally Winchester zombie adventure tentatively titled: Tintoretto’s Daughter.
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