Inspirational Fiction

Psicóloga experiente, Gabriela sempre tratou a religião como crendice ou truque da mente. Quando sua mãe fica doente, ela acaba se aproximando do capelão do hospital, padre José, mais em busca de apoio do que por uma questão de fé. Após o falecimento da mãe, Gabriela mantém contato com o sacerdote, confortável pelo fato de ele não procurar convertê-la. Porém, depois de pouco mais de um mês, a psicóloga tem uma notícia devastadora: uma grave doença se alastra por seu corpo. Como lidar com a mente dos pacientes se a sua própria já não parece funcionar mais?

Step into a lyrical odyssey that blends soul-searching prose with transformative power. In Awaken to Your Dream, author and poet Sir Q shares a deeply personal and universal journey through poetry, reflection, and conscious awakening. With chapters titled "Stepping into Consciousness" and "Conscious Living Within Higher Realms," this book invites listeners to explore the realms of pain, triumph, self-realization, and divine purpose.

As my randomness begins, heartbreaking stories will leave you with open-ended possibilities. But ultimately remaining is but one solution. However, the choice is up to you, depending on how deep and observant you choose to get. Your emotions will be pulled in every direction giving you a new perspective on life's value and God's power.

These poems offer little insights on how to thrive in the middle of chaos, find humor in dumbstruck problems, and see joy in everyday details that typically go unnoticed. This collection offers a spectrum of enlightenment, with over a dozen poems about different colors of white paint. And a cover theme poem about mosaic floor tiles discovered in far away Italy. Let your imagination be filled with wonder. Come along for the ride.

In Young Words, I expose many of the tough issues young people are facing, drawing from my own experiences. I discuss everything from education, finances, and occupation choices, to family life, relationships, and accomplishing goals. Young Words is a book of poetry highlighting the reality of the critical concerns that frame every young person’s life.

Following on his bestselling collections, The Truth of You and The Secret of You, Thomas’s latest volume of over two hundred poems examines how we find the faith to carry on when everything has been stripped away and all that remains is the core of who we are. The Heart of You explores fear, bravery, intimacy, what we keep, and what we leave behind.

After the loss of my wife, Michele, in April of 2020 (we were together for fifty-six years), my heartache overwhelmed me. While in a hospice therapy session, I learned one method of healing was to write poetry and to date each one to show the progression of your healing. These poems are a result of that. I hope they help you possibly as much as they helped me.

Grieving but feisty widow Vivian Laurent is at a late-in-life crossroads. The man she loved is gone. Their only daughter is estranged and missing. And the assisted-living facility where her husband died is going into quarantine. Living in lockdown with only heartache and memories is something Vivian can’t bear. Then comes a saving grace.

After Raine’s dad walked out, Ginevieve Lightly never lived in one place too long, a rambling lifestyle that defined her daughter’s youth. When their car dies in Banister Falls, Wisconsin, Gin promises Raine they can stay until she finishes her senior year of high school. Gin will do anything to make sure her daughter has a bright future...a future that’s compromised when Raine reveals she’s pregnant.

Para invocar la nostalgia y hacer las paces con ella. Para evaluar las grietas y al final viajar hasta los cimientos. Para comprender por qué las ciudades hacen llorar y qué hacen con las lágrimas. Para reconciliarnos con el tiempo y acurrucarnos en la herida. Para reconocer que en los sentimientos está toda la fuerza. Para comprender que no hay una última palabra cuando todos los versos te encuentran.

Katie (23) is dreaming of a better life for herself. She's a single shy girl who is embarrassed about her appearance and lacks confidence. Following the death of her grandmother, she has to move away from her home town. Late for an interview, her last hope for work in the area throws her mind and emotions into turmoil.

Wisconsin, present day. Audra March’s adult life is haunted by a teenage misstep. Taking an assumed name and enjoying simple things, the thirty-something comes upon a vintage recipe box while thrift shopping and hunts down the owner’s daughter. So when a longtime adversary threatens her with blackmail, she jumps at the invitation to escape to the dead lady’s estate and avoid an old enemy.

For Heather Gordon, life in her small North Carolina town has always been simple and uneventful . . . until one night when a rowdy food fight breaks out in her family's restaurant where she works as a waitress. The culprits? The internationally famous rock band, Kirwan. And when Alex Kirwan, the charming and enigmatic lead singer, wants to make amends for his brothers' (and bandmates') behavior and invites her to attend one of their concerts as a guest of the band, Heather's world is turned upside down . . . and sparks fly.

Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king.

Charley Austin searched for truth in all the wrong places. Along the way he learned all that glitters isn’t gold. Glitter is death. Then, one March day he heard something inside the lighthouse that changed everything. In the small coastal town of Reef Bay, Washington, Charley Austin has no way of knowing that his privileged life will be hell for the next nine months because his view of the world and faith will be turned upside down. All because he is a pet project of Phobley, whose goal is to destroy the boy’s faith. And for that purpose, Phobley has a sinister and seductive plan.

Jasmine Taylor, a survivor of sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and the foster care system, worked hard and diligently to overcome her past. On the surface she seems perfect. She's beautiful, confident, poised, and educated with a successful, high-powered career. Emotionally, she's far from perfect. Haunted by memories of her past, she struggles to navigate life and relationships through her fog of pain and skepticism.

While most visionaries see into the future, Taylor sees the past. But only as it pertains to her work. Hailed by her peers as “a visionary with an instinct for beauty and an eye for the unique” Taylor is undoubtedly a brilliant architect and gifted designer. But she and twin brother, Trevor, share more than a successful business.

With this book, I wanted to give at least a glimmer of joy to my eternally tormented country, which, for decades, has been so preciously owed by the freedom gained through its blood. I wanted to introduce to the English-speaking world how a Georgian person thinks, primarily a Georgian poet, who are so numerous in Georgia.

What if the man destined to become the Buddha was born in modern America? How could he possibly find enlightenment? Well, it might go something like this....

This exciting, and dark novel by Andrew Blazsanyik explores the impact of power, religion, ambition, revenge, sexual desire, trust, and betrayal on the lives of a small Lake County, Illinois church congregation. A young woman is reported missing from her church in Lake County, Illinois. What happened to her? Where is she? Someone knows, but whom? Bloom and Perry are contracted to help solve the mystery of her disappearance.