Heart to Heart: Stories of Friendship

by Joe L. Wheeler (Editor)

Heart to Stories of Friendship is a touching collection of timeless tales that will tug at the heart and uplift the soul. For anyone who has ever experienced or longed for the true joy of friendship, this engaging short story collection is sure to inspire laughter, tears, and tender remembrances. Featuring strong Christian values, these stories demonstrate what life and a daily ministry is all about. A "must read" for young and old alike, these encouraging stories will live in the heart.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Joe Wheeler has been labeled many things: as Father Christmas because of his editing/compiling America’s longest-running Christmas of story series — Christmas in My Heart (now in its 18th season); as one of America’s leading story anthologists (56 story collections by twelve publishing houses); as the world’s foremost authority on life and times of the frontier writer Zane Grey (he is co-founder and executive director of the international Zane Grey’s West Society); as a biographer, having written full-length biographies of Abraham Lincoln and St. Nicholas and shorter biographies of Louisa May Alcott, Abbie Farwell Brown, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, Grace Richmond, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Lew Wallace; and as a Renaissance Man because of his encyclopedic interest in everything (popular culture as well as the academic); and his master’s degree in the teaching of History, his master’s degree in English (thesis on Utopian and Dystopian literature), and his Vanderbilt doctorate in English (History of Ideas emphasis).

Because of all these variables, and stirring in his 71 books (and counting), this blog series promises to be unlike any other — and that’s why he titles the series, “UNCHARTED WATERS.”

Reviews

[Jacqueline Arechiga · Rating 4 out of 5]

All in all I loved this book. The stories are quite moving and a few even brought a tear to my eye. Among my favorites are: “the stranger who taught magic”, “the tail of the lobo”, “what’s yo name?”, “the girl at the telephone”, “when muddy creek overflowed”.

I very much enjoyed that some of the stories are on the shorter side with some longer more hearty ones thrown in. A few of the stories were completely enthralling while a couple others I found I did have to drag through a bit.