Inspirational Fiction

Three generations of women come together in this page-turning debut full of family secrets, heart-wrenching drama, and the promise of second chances. Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger—of far greater threat is the opposing needs of her heart and her...

They were "only friends" . . . but they wanted so much more. Crystal Glick is grateful to live with her brother's family since her father died and her fiancé, Owen, broke their engagement. Crystal loves her bruderskinner and cheerfully helps her sister-in-law through a difficult pregnancy with...

Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Rumí es posiblemente el erudito y poeta del mundo musulmán más conocido en Occidente. Con sus metáforas de la embriaguez, el jardín y el Amado, despliega ante nosotros la riqueza de la vida del místico que busca el amor y la unión con Divino. Su mensaje no podría estar más vigente. El poder evocador de sus poemas y las profundas enseñanzas morales y espirituales que contienen han hecho que actualmente sea el poeta místico más leído. Cada uno de nosotros está en un viaje interno, y este libro es una guía para ese viaje...

Maravillosa fábula acerca del sentido de la vida y el insospechado valor de nuestros actos diarios. ¿Qué nos espera en el paraíso? ¿Algo que nos permita...

Bathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king's wars for many months at a time, discontent and loneliness dog her steps - and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David's charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king, the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear. Can she find forgiveness at the feet of the Almighty? Or has her sin separated her from God - and David - forever?

Moving. Soul searching. Timely. In This Mountain is Jan Karon's newest and best. Father Tim and Cynthia have been at home in Mitford for three years since returning from Whitecap Island. In the little town that's home-away-from-home to millions of readers, life hums along as usual. Dooley looks...

The 97 free-verse poems in No Way are incredibly funny, but for seekers they may also seem paradoxical, heretical, penetrating, and insightful. If you’re lucky, you’ll recognize yourself in its words–it’s good to see when you’ve been taking yourself a little too seriously. One minute you’ll howl with laughter at people's pretenses, and the next you’ll squirm self-consciously as Ram Tzu gleefully points out that you, like the fabled emperor, also wear no clothes.

El sacerdote Luis Córdoba está a la espera de un trasplante de corazón. Es un cura amable, alto, gordo, pero su mismo tamaño hace que no sea fácil encontrar un donante. Como los médicos le aconsejan reposo y su residencia tiene muchas escaleras, recibe hospedaje en una casa donde viven dos mujeres, una de ellas recién separada, y tres niños.

In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographical. In 2010, she expanded the work into a full-length book, R’s Boat. During the pandemic, she was drawn back into decades of journals to shape Boat. These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertson’s ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism, the male-dominated philosophical tradition, the daily forms of discourse, and the possibilities of language itself.

With her father’s plummeting business and health, 21-year-old Josephine Hayden is urged to ease her parents' burden and accept an invitation to join hands with an unknown Western man in Cowtown, Kansas. Her first sight of blue-eyed Clae McKinley is encouraging, but when she is presented with a contract outlining her responsibilities as a Mail Order wife, fears of a loveless marriage besiege her tender heart.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER In love for the first time, a son’s decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Baxter Family novels—now a TV series. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter...

"Moving, touching, wonderfully written, inspiring to read." -Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the RainAt an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain with them. To...

New York Timesbestselling author Ted Dekker brings an exotic tale of adventure and creates his most memorable character ever. The story of how I, Julian Carter, and my precious two-year old son, Stephen, left Atlanta Georgia and found ourselves on a white sailboat, tossed about like a cork on a...

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In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose...and rocks. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help.

From Eileen Garvin, nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees and Crow Talk, a heartwarming new story that returns to the vibrant world of beekeeping in a small Oregon town Beekeeper Jake Stevenson should be celebrating. His fledgling honey farm has been inundated with orders. Instead...

Katie was born into a cult. Her family lived there for generations. As she got older, she realized the Elders were keeping secrets from the community. Risking everything, she leaves the cult and searches for the truth. With the help of outsiders, Katie and her young husband David are put in touch with an organization called Purple Haven, which provides medical care, shelter, counseling and job training to individuals who have escaped from cults. She soon discovers she’s pregnant.

Découvrez, grâce à l'extraordinaire talent de Jean Faubert et de Ghislaine Paradis la richesse de l'expression de la langue des écrivains et poètes du Québec. Un trésor inoubliable de la Francophonie internationale. Lauréat du Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, en France, cet enregistrement vous touchera l'âme, à travers sa musique et sa poésie. Un petit bonheur à partager ou à garder pour soi.

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE A remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing—the story of three generations of women on an unlikely journey to a Croatian island and a secret that needs to be told—from the internationally best-selling author of To the End of the Land “A...