Thinking of losing someone you love can be unbearable. Understandably, it is hard at times and impossible to think that your loved one's time here with you is ending. Professionally and personally, I have sat with the dying. And held a safe space for the living to grieve. My dad became very ill when I was in preschool and died when I was a teenager. His lifetime illness and other circumstances led me to work in the field of grief and loss for the past twenty-nine years.Through pers...

Love is something we have all learned to cherish. It can come in all different forms and at different times in our lives. Come on a journey with four different women, Darlene, Laura, Carizza, and Melinda as they face obstacles that test and help them find love. Melinda thought she needed someone to depend on and take care of her. How can she cope when she is forced to handle things alone? When it comes to life in Darlene's world she thought the love with her husband was over. But as he cam...

A guide to bringing comfort through knowledge when you or your loved one are facing death. Ideas to help support valuable conversations and build lasting memories between you and the people you love.

Three small words can cause trouble between friends.Snake and Lizard live together in a burrow in the desert. They are such good friends that Lizard decides to display their names above the burrow entrance.They must decide whose name should appear first. Then Lizard makes an unfortunate spelling mistake—he thinks it's very funny but Snake is not laughing. Snake finds some spelling of her own that will teach Lizard a lesson!The friends eventually fin...

Two very different creatures learn about the give-and-take of friendship in this warm and funny story set in the desert. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centered; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance and good humor, Helper and Helper captures the essence of friendship. The stories are beautifully illustrated by Gavin Bishop in warm and clear colors of the desert.

A gripping short story from the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her.A beautiful young girl was walking down the street―when suddenly…Julia Carroll knows that too many stories start that way. Beautiful, intelligent, a nineteen-year-old college freshman, she should be carefree. But instead she is frightened. Because girls are disappearing.A fellow student, Beatrice Oliver, is missing. A homeless woman called Mona-No-Name is mi...

Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber in Cedar Cove this Christmas!Come to 5-B Poppy Lane, where you’ll meet Helen Shelton, her granddaughter Ruth, and Ruth’s husband, Paul. They’ll offer you a cup of mulled cider and tell you the story of how Ruth and Paul met. And you’ll hear about Helen’s breathtaking adventures during the Second World War!Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove. A special place to live. A special place to visit. And not just at Christm...

From the New York Times bestselling author, comes a delightful story in which Miss Julia discovers the joy of giving and receiving gifts—and just in time for Valentine’s Day! Featuring the beloved stars of the Miss Julia novels—Luanne, Lillian, Hazel Marie, and of course, Miss Julia herself—Miss Julia's Gift is a funny and moving meditation on love, marriage, and the purpose of gift-giving.Miss Julia finds herself reminiscing about her first year of ...

“The story of an entire generation growing up too quickly…impossible to put down until the dramatic and realistic conclusion.” — Library Journal, starred review“A brilliant portrait of a small town teenage girl, whose secret affair…feels utterly true…a fresh and indelible book.” — Joan SilberIt's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas—a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappe...

When Justice Protects the Guilty...The law is meant to shield the innocent—but what happens when the chief of police is hiding a dark secret of his own?Social worker Billy Jo McCabe is approached by an anonymous woman with a disturbing claim: an unspeakable crime is being concealed by none other than Police Chief Tolly Shephard, and the victim is his own niece, Cheyenne Potter. Billy Jo turns to Detective Mark Friessen, but without a clear victim, he’s torn...

Katie’s friend Kevin can’t wait for his big karate match. And Kevin, who says he’s the best yellow belt in his class, thinks he’s bound to win. But when the magic wind turns Katie into Kevin just before his big match, she manages to threaten his chances of beating the competition! Will Katie be able to karate chop her way to the top?

Thirty years ago in Las Vegas, Becky Penn said goodnight to her mother to go out with friends and vanished without a trace.Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers, members of the Cold Poker Gang, take on Becky Penn's cold case.They love working with other retired detectives and playing a little poker once a week, all to solve cold cases.A puzzle mystery unraveled carefully by the retired detectives who make up the Cold Poker Ga...