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Three Nails: A Story of Loss, Redemption, and Small-Town Suspense
Your Child is Gone. Who Are You Now?
Unimaginable tragedy find a husband, father, and teacher struggling to cope with life while dealing with immeasurable grief.
Three Nails is a journey through the pain, healing and redemption.
Is life more than just marriage, parenting and career?
Can a teacher learn from his students?
Can his own child’s faith act as a magnifying glass to his troubled soul.
Join him as he discovers the answer to forgiveness, healing, and redemption.
Sometimes all of our hurts can be as simple as finding Three Nails.
Micheal Maxwell steps away from his Bestselling Cole Sage Mystery Series and gives us a new way to look at life, death and the American teacher.
Unimaginable tragedy find a husband, father, and teacher struggling to cope with life while dealing with immeasurable grief.
Three Nails is a journey through the pain, healing and redemption.
Is life more than just marriage, parenting and career?
Can a teacher learn from his students?
Can his own child’s faith act as a magnifying glass to his troubled soul.
Join him as he discovers the answer to forgiveness, healing, and redemption.
Sometimes all of our hurts can be as simple as finding Three Nails.
Micheal Maxwell steps away from his Bestselling Cole Sage Mystery Series and gives us a new way to look at life, death and the American teacher.
136 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 26, 2013
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About the author
Micheal Maxwell
65 books75 followersMicheal Maxwell has traveled the globe on the lookout for strange sights, sounds, and people. His adventures have taken him from the Jungles of Ecuador and the Philippines to the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge, and from the cave dwellings of Native Americans to The Kehlsteinhaus, Hitler’s Eagles Nest! He’s always looking for a story to tell and interesting people to meet.
Micheal Maxwell was taught the beauty and majesty of the English language by Bob Dylan, Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, and Leonard Cohen.
Mr. Maxwell has traveled the globe, dined with politicians, rock stars, and beggars. He has rubbed shoulders with priests and murderers, surgeons and drug dealers, each one giving him a part of themselves that will live again in the pages of his books.
Micheal Maxwell has found a niche in the mystery, suspense, genre with The Cole Sage Series that gives readers an everyman hero, short on vices, long on compassion, and a sense of fair play, and the willingness to risk everything to right wrongs. The Cole Sage Series departs from the usual, heavily sexual, profanity-laced norm and gives readers character-driven stories, with twists, turns, and page-turning plot lines.
Micheal Maxwell writes from a life of love, music, film, and literature. Along with his lovely wife and travel partner, Janet, he lives in a small town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Micheal Maxwell was taught the beauty and majesty of the English language by Bob Dylan, Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, and Leonard Cohen.
Mr. Maxwell has traveled the globe, dined with politicians, rock stars, and beggars. He has rubbed shoulders with priests and murderers, surgeons and drug dealers, each one giving him a part of themselves that will live again in the pages of his books.
Micheal Maxwell has found a niche in the mystery, suspense, genre with The Cole Sage Series that gives readers an everyman hero, short on vices, long on compassion, and a sense of fair play, and the willingness to risk everything to right wrongs. The Cole Sage Series departs from the usual, heavily sexual, profanity-laced norm and gives readers character-driven stories, with twists, turns, and page-turning plot lines.
Micheal Maxwell writes from a life of love, music, film, and literature. Along with his lovely wife and travel partner, Janet, he lives in a small town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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July 24, 2017
A very well-written story. It's hard to rate this book; the main character was very likeable but the teaching aspect was depressing. I guess it all comes down to the integrity and humanity of the man. I rated this 4.5 stars.
April 12, 2015
This was definitely worth a read. A really interesting theme and a great ending which sometimes is missing for me in these short stories.
June 24, 2022
The narrator is a high school teacher. From the context I’m assuming he’s male. He loves his job most days but here he tells snippets of the bad days. I don’t remember reading his name.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
--Thoreau
No parent should have to outlive their child.
Observation of the hundredth school day is a new one on me.
“I thought I would pontificate on the frequency and proliferation of irrelevant and meaningless holidays and observances in Western Society”
Poignant is the story of the quietly efficient teacher who retires after 30 years, drives home, parks in his garage and leaves the engine running.
The writer’s assessment of the high school experience pretty well summarizes my own.
As another writer has said, the high school jocks enjoy the best 4 years of their lives in Letterman’s Jackets. The rest of the population just endure.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
--Thoreau
No parent should have to outlive their child.
Observation of the hundredth school day is a new one on me.
“I thought I would pontificate on the frequency and proliferation of irrelevant and meaningless holidays and observances in Western Society”
Poignant is the story of the quietly efficient teacher who retires after 30 years, drives home, parks in his garage and leaves the engine running.
The writer’s assessment of the high school experience pretty well summarizes my own.
As another writer has said, the high school jocks enjoy the best 4 years of their lives in Letterman’s Jackets. The rest of the population just endure.
May 2, 2020
A caring teacher's life.
I liked reading this story about a teacher who shares his life at school and at home. He is a teacher who cares deeply about the students in his classes. The reader wonders for most of the story about the nails and when they will show up.
I definitely recommend this author and look forward to reading more by him.
I liked reading this story about a teacher who shares his life at school and at home. He is a teacher who cares deeply about the students in his classes. The reader wonders for most of the story about the nails and when they will show up.
I definitely recommend this author and look forward to reading more by him.
March 1, 2022
This is a story of the ups and downs, tragedies and heartbreak of a year in the life of an English teacher. The story is compelling and less preachy than expected. The religious aspects feel like a realistic introspection, not an attempt to proselytize. This novella could use a good proofreader to catch the missing or extraneous words though.
March 21, 2021
This story is worth reading.
There is a lot of emotion tied up in these pages, highs and lows. I think everyone will find themselves somewhere in these pages. I would encourage you to give this story a couple of hours- it will be time well spent.
There is a lot of emotion tied up in these pages, highs and lows. I think everyone will find themselves somewhere in these pages. I would encourage you to give this story a couple of hours- it will be time well spent.
January 9, 2018
What an amazing book. The content of this story was very realistic and makes you think about life. Superb author.
October 27, 2019
Wonderful
As usual I love the story Mr.Maxwell wrote. It was tragic, soulful and inspiring. I love everything he writes!
Thanks
As usual I love the story Mr.Maxwell wrote. It was tragic, soulful and inspiring. I love everything he writes!
Thanks
January 3, 2020
Nails
Micheal Maxwell you have done it again..This is a very good book and I will tell my friend about this book .Keep up the good work
Micheal Maxwell you have done it again..This is a very good book and I will tell my friend about this book .Keep up the good work
January 5, 2020
The first chapter was odd, so my thoughts at the beginning of the second chapter were questioning the plot, but it was worth the read to continue on. I enjoyed this book.
June 25, 2020
I enjoyed it very much. A heartfelt story. I was expecting a mystery, but was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t.
April 14, 2014
This review is from: Three Nails: A Novella (Kindle Edition)
review by Robert K. Swisher Jr.
What do we do when tragedy occurs? Do we lash out at the world and those around us? Do we go inside of ourselves searching and aching for answers and meanings when there really are none that will bring sense to the pain? Or is there always something that brings us back to a caring world if we let it. That something being what we least expected. THREE NAILS is a touching and heartfelt book that makes you think, wonder, feel sad but also warm inside. Seen through the eyes of a teacher a world enfolds with questions we seldom contemplate. Is life hoping for others? This is a great little book that reads like an epic. Enjoy.
December 19, 2014
This was great! A story that starts with a deep loss that is hard to overcome. It ends with unimaginable promise. This is the story of the trials a "normal Joe" goes through trying to deal with deep sadness. Along the way are interesting characters and interesting, funny and troubling anecdotes. The end was perfect, with expectations of happiness and life worth living. I highly recommend this novella.
This is the third book I have read by Mr. Maxwell and I will continue to read his books, they are great!
I was graciously provided with a copy of this from the author. This did not effect my review one way or the other.
This is the third book I have read by Mr. Maxwell and I will continue to read his books, they are great!
I was graciously provided with a copy of this from the author. This did not effect my review one way or the other.
February 8, 2016
Three Nails (A Tale of Tragedy, Testing and Triumph)
A view of life's trials from a high school English teacher point of view during his tenure as a teacher. Maybe fiction, maybe fact, but definitely a viewpoint worth considering. Looking back, one can understand the meaning of the three nails. Great writing and great insight into life's pathways.
A view of life's trials from a high school English teacher point of view during his tenure as a teacher. Maybe fiction, maybe fact, but definitely a viewpoint worth considering. Looking back, one can understand the meaning of the three nails. Great writing and great insight into life's pathways.
December 22, 2015
This novella drew me in with it’s interesting characters. Tragedy strikes in different places, and this book deals with an unimaginable loss. There is enough substance to the story, not usually done is a novella. Definitely worth a read!
January 9, 2018
An excellent story about the life and problems of a high school english teacher. Very well written, very realistic, held my interest from beginning to end.
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