Catalyst: Sparking Light from Darkness is a powerful self-help memoir that explores how trauma, heartbreak, and life's most painful seasons can become the very foundation for healing, faith, and transformation.Through raw personal storytelling and a faith-centered lens, Brooke shares her journey through childhood trauma, family separation, mental health struggles, and rebuilding her life as a mother-revealing how even the deepest darkness can spark lasting light.At...

I was almost as hard headed as it gets while repeatedly insisting on missing and ignoring the entire point that Mom and a few others tried to get me to realize.GET YOUR EDUCATION!!!I still had some great times here and there every now and then, and I can only imagine how beautiful-my-life-would-have-been if I would have followed the The Golden Rules.Some wonderful things have happened to me even though I still feel that I truly did not deserve or even know how to si...

Recent graduate Becca Stine’s all too perfect and predictable life went spiraling out of control when her supposed childhood friend committed the ultimate betrayal. Following college, Becca attempts to bury the pain by retreating into a dangerous lifestyle with her best friend, Jamie Rae. She decides it’s time to grow up after being irresponsible, broken, and out of control. To Becca’s horror, her only option is to return to her hometown of Grand Rapids. Worried she will forever live in th...

Bait. That's all she is.Nothing more. Nothing else.And that's why she's wanted,And in danger.Lauren Owens is so much more. She's everything.Falling for her was never my intention.But, I couldn't resist,Her charm,Her vulnerability,Her spirit and drive,And her unimaginable innocence.And that's exactly why my father wants her,For his own gain.Now, it's up to me to take him down,Stop...

Grand Rapids was my saving grace. My new job and my best friend kept me grounded, and far away from my past. This was my new life. And I was safe. But then I was transferred to Miami where I began working with Mitch Conklin, the site manager. He was sexy as sin, and irritating as hell. He drove me crazy, but I couldn’t deny the chemistry. He was begging for me to take his bait, and I wanted to…Until he found me.My heart raced…My palms began to sweat…And the ai...

There was once a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called the Simpleton. He was laughed at and despised and neglected on all occasions. Now it happened one day that the eldest son wanted to go into the forest, to hew wood, and his Mother gave him a beautiful cake and a bottle of wine to take with him, so that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst. When he came to the wood he met a little old grey man, who, bidding him good-day, said: "Give me a small piece of the cake in...

[Siren Everlasting Classic: Contemporary Consensual BDSM, bondage, paddling, sex toys, HEA] The peace Beth Matthews had finally found was shattered by her new next-door neighbor. She'd been alone since her divorce and had found a strength within herself that she'd never suspected. Searching for peace, Joe Steel wanted to move from the city to the quiet town of Lakeside. He hadn't expected to meet the woman of his dreams living right next door. Beth was everything he'd spent his life search...

Next stop . . . The Magic School Bus travels back in time to learn about the rock cycle!Ms. Frizzle's class is creating a time capsule. Tim wants to add an original superhero comic book, but he doesn't know what to write about. When the Magic School Bus takes the class on an adventure across millions of years to learn about the incredible rock cycle, Tim gets an idea. It's the epic battle between Captain Rockman vs. Weatherman. Who will win?This exciting nove...

"A minor masterpiece that should usher Brooke at last into the recognized front ranks of SF writers" (Locus)The village: a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else. Here, houses can be grown out of the dirt; livestock and the sub-human mutts can be changed into something else, something other; and fleshy, drastically mutated Oracles guide humankind on the delicate path of survival.The wildlands: th...

Let's learn the alphabet!A great picture book that encourages children to learn new words.

"Anguished and unblinking . . . Accomplished poetry that will move those who have sorrowed—that is, everyone." — Library Journal"The thin knife that severed your tumor," writes Brooke Matson in these poems, "it cleaves me still." What to do when a world is split—terribly, wholly—by grief? When the loss of the beloved undermines the most stable foundations, the most sacred spaces, of that world? What else but to interrogate the very fundamental principles th...

In AD 100 John the Apostle is restored to the body of his youth and sent on a mission with a warning to never reveal his true identity.Fast-forward to modern-day Seattle, where John leads a foundation dedicated to bringing clean water to third-world nations. When a new television series threatens to reveal the truth of his identity, John struggles to keep his secret, especially as he grows close to Nicole, a young woman he recruits to lead his organization.For two thousand ...