Catholic wisdom stated in a simple, sublime, penetrating way. St. Jean-Marie Vianney's sage counsel on 36 important topics, including the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin, Prayer, Suffering, Hope, Envy, Grace, and Paradise. Probably the most persuasive exhortation ever urging us to renounce sin. Highly recommended for every Catholic!

When the body of a man is found discarded in a manure pit on the outskirts of Wakefield Falls, many are quick to look the other way. But for Detective Sergeant Ethan Black, the discovery of Gerry Brenneman strikes a jagged, personal nerve. Haunted by his brother’s unsolved death and a family history written in tragedy, Ethan refuses to let another "inconvenient" life be erased.As high-priced developers and City Hall power brokers scramble to protect a lucrative "development," Ethan ...

When Jessica wakes up from a coma, she has no memories of her life before the accident at her family’s bison ranch. As she struggles to reconnect with her family and friends, she experiences all the signs of traumatic brain injury—confusion, sadness, fear and rage. Returning to school is a nightmare—especially when she overhears someone say he thinks she is faking her amnesia. When a new friend presents an alternative to staying in her old life, Jessica must confront the reality of what it...

Ten stories. One messy, ordinary, unforgettable life.Nothing Too Fancy gathers the small moments we don’t usually put in books: the rent due notice, the text that never gets answered, the awkward favor for an ex, the midnight search history no one admits to. These short fictions are sharp, relatable, and sometimes funny in the way only real life can be.Perfect for readers who like bite sized stories with real emotional punch, this collection is about the spaces bet...

Fresh out of nursing school, Tanya Evers dives into the high pressure world of a busy Toronto hospital. The shifts are long, the stakes are high, and the line between success and disaster is razor thin.By day (and night), Tanya faces:Code blues that make her question if she’s cut out for thisPatients who break her heart, and ones who put it back togetherColleagues who test her patience and teach her survival...

When Serena’s grown daughters leave home, the quiet she once thought she wanted feels too big, too heavy. With her loyal dog Olive and her steady partner Noah beside her, she’s left facing questions she’s avoided for years: Who am I when no one needs me?As memories resurface, some tender, others painfully sharp, Serena must decide if she can step beyond the safety of her walls. From confronting a past she wishes she could forget to daring to say yes to small moments of cha...

What if the family you needed was the one you never knew existed?Emma's quiet life is turned upside down when a letter arrives from a woman named Lena claiming to be her sister. What starts as disbelief soon becomes a journey neither of them could have prepared for, unraveling their father's hidden past, uncovering decades old secrets, and finding connection in the spaces between silence.Through letters, road trips, old photographs, and a shared desire to u...

Ten modern stories about care, boundaries, and starting over. In Things We Keep Feeding, ordinary rooms hold big choices. A couple runs a practice breakup to see what survives. A tired landlord finds a letter in a wall and picks a different future. A borrowed dog decides who her person really is. A neighbor answers arguments through thin drywall and learns how to speak in the quiet.You get clean, honest prose, apartment energy, and characters who fix small things while the...

Jaime Scott is a single mother who happens to get along with ex-husband Matt Daniels and is living a relatively average life as a high school teacher. When getting ready for a party one evening, she and her best friend Molly Fields soon learn that what they have wanted the most in life is really within arm's reach. As with most things we want, though, nothing is ever that simple.

Abbess Cyriaca discovers why she found it so easy to live a sinless life. A short story from The Smith.

You or someone you know is divorcing, and you've been taught it is a sin. What do you do? The common reaction is avoidance or judgment, especially toward the one initiating a divorce. A change in this attitude is long overdue. The Bill of Divorcement in Bible times represented a clean break between partners who would otherwise be locked in a lifetime of misery, neglect, or abuse. Its original purpose was to secure provision for the woman and vindicate those who were innocent of unjustified or...

This box set contains the books Scandal: Crossing boundaries and Scandal: Family tiesSome lines should never be crossed...Thirty-year old, math teacher Keisha Johnson is tired of being used and abused by her ghetto fabulous students and being thrown shade behind her back by her scandalous ass co-workers. There is only so much hard-working Keisha can take before the shit hits the fan and she finds herself without a job.Forced to find a new teaching gig, she winds up ...