You can look like you have it all together in your career, home, and family, and still be quietly breaking inside. This is the book that meets you where you are and shows you how to find healing and wholeness.After surviving a life-threatening bout of sepsis shock in the ICU, Carrie Ann Moore tried to return to the familiar routine but soon found herself fighting to keep her mother alive, too. With their lives complicated by shared grief and trauma, she realized that solving the ch...

This "elegantly written" trilogy follows an unforgettable Irish heroine from the potato famine through immigrating to America (Eileen Goudge)."An epic saga that sweeps you into the life of a remarkable woman," Ann Moore's trilogy of breathtaking historical novels covers Gracelin O'Malley's life from the 1845 Famine and the Young Ireland movement to the mass emigration to America, culminating in the wild frontier of 1850s California ( Romantic Times). Throu...

Set during Ireland's devastating potato famine, a spellbinding novel of a young woman torn between love for her family and duty to her English husband.Patrick O'Malley names his newborn daughter Gracelin for the light of the sea that shines in her eyes. But when young Gracelin is only six years old, her mother's untimely death drains joy and laughter from the O'Malley clan.At fifteen, Gracelin saves her family from financial ruin by marrying Bram Donnelly, t...

Like Thomas Scarborough's previous book Everything, Briefly (2022), This Town, too, is a metaphysics. However, it adopts the form of a story, which "concretizes" abstract thought. A narrator visits a pre-modern town, where he engages with various people: an old man, a young woman, the chief, and other townsfolk. The method of "concretization" brings a metaphysics down to the level of teens and up--covering core issues of language, reality, ethics, politics, science, math, meaning, holism, ...

An Irish mother must flee her beloved homeland for a new life in America, in the "gripping" second novel of the acclaimed historical trilogy ( Publishers Weekly).Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O'Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corrup...

Tabitha Mahony has always been that polite, smart, heavy girl who flies under everyone’s radar, until one day an unfortunate low-rise jeans incident brings her the kind of publicity no one is looking for. Rather than taking the challenge in stride, Tabitha begins to question the personality she has developed over the past sixteen years. What has she really gained from being who she is? She only has one crazy loudmouth friend, she has zero prospects in the guy department, her mom is too bus...

Maths does not have to be confusing or scary. It can be simple and understood by you. This book is your ‘no-nonsense’ travel guide.I am not a Mathematician. At school, I was no high-flier, not even an also ran. More a back-marker. I appreciate how it felt being the one who did not get it. Helping struggling or disillusioned students UNTANGLE doubt and become less fearful was my passion and driving force as a teacher.● To develop my own different creative approaches, to unlo...

An Irish mother faces her destiny in California as the acclaimed trilogy comes to an end—" a vibrant picture of American history in the mid-19th century" (Historical Novel Society).With her two children, Gracelin O'Malley travels to post–Gold Rush San Francisco to meet the sea captain who has proposed marriage to her. But when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. Destitute in a city filled with gangs, disillusioned soldiers, and professional gamb...

Seventeen year old Jelena Preseren has lived her entire life as a social outcast because of her mixed human and elven blood. She labors as a servant in the household of her uncle, the powerful Duke of Amsara.When her uncle tells her she is to be sold as a concubine to his wealthy neighbor, rather than submit, Jelena makes the decision to flee and strike out into the unknown on a quest to find her elven father, in the hope that he can help her to understand and control her newly awa...

Immortality and magic. A gift and a curse.Aella Saluagius is an immortal, elemental witch who is seeking redemption for the terrible destruction she caused in her hometown of Aquileia, in 15th century Italy, after the Inquisitors tortured and murdered her mother and sister. She has fled to the mountains and an ancient portal of power, with the remaining members of her mother's coven. The potency of the elements is thrumming in her veins, but she dare not unleash them again, not wit...

Nuetierra. An alien world where twin moons light the night and massive air-breathing jellyfish float through violet skies.Nue Bayona. A gaslit, steam-powered city caught between the iron fist of a despot and the bloody fist of a terrorist.Deanna is the daughter of Eduard Hernaan, former Alcalde of Nue Bayona. Six years ago, her stepmother Lourdessa led a brutal political coup against her father. She now rules as dictator while Deanna's father languishes in prison. The commo...

Fun is a young lady who started waitressing as a summer job, but is still waitressing a few years later; even though she has a college degree. While her life seems undecided, she meets and falls in love with a young police officer: Officer Joe. When Joe's training officer is hurt on the job, and faces life threatening injuries, Fun is faced with the reality of Joe's life as a police officer.As her inner turmoil continues, she meets different people who become instrumental in helpin...