The Waiting Room is a compassionate book for anyone experiencing uncertainty, unanswered prayer, delayed hopes, or life's in-between seasons. When circumstances do not change according to our plans, waiting can feel lonely, confusing, and discouraging. Yet waiting can also become a place of reflection, preparation, healing, and spiritual growth.Jacqueline Ward offers honest encouragement for readers who are learning to remain hopeful while answers remain unclear. Throu...

Five Decades of Devotion is a heartfelt reflection on faith, family, motherhood, prayer, and the quiet devotion that shapes generations. Through personal memories and meaningful observations, Jacqueline Ward explores how ordinary acts of love and faithfulness can create an extraordinary legacy.This book honors the strength found in a life devoted to God, family, perseverance, and service. It invites readers to consider the people whose prayers, sacrifices, wisdom, and exam...

Roots of Grace is a reflective journey through faith, family, identity, belonging, healing, and personal growth. Jacqueline Ward invites readers to consider the experiences, relationships, and traditions that shaped them while discovering that the past does not have to determine the future.Our roots can hold memories of love, strength, hardship, wisdom, and pain. By facing our stories honestly, we can begin to understand ourselves with greater compassion. Grace gives u...

Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore, is a 1953 novel of alternate history. The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the American Civil War. Includes an introduction by John Betancourt."An important original work... richly and realistically imagined." —Galaxy Science Fiction.

What if the South Had Won the Civil War? The landmark alternate history novel by "one of the best American writers" (Ray Bradbury).In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rura...

Governor Almon Lampley, a widowed political power on a private detour, returns to the shabby small town of his youth and finds it shrunken by time, its decaying hotel a grim emblem of lost vitality. What begins as a sentimental overnight stop becomes a descent into a world where manners, bodies, and memory all seem warped beyond recognition. Inside the hotel, a broken plumbing system, a strange clerk, and a cramped dining room full of unsettling residents lead him into an even darker hidde...

A classic Alternate History story - the first to ask 'What if the South had won the Civil War?

In "Bring the Jubilee," Moore presents a world where the Confederate States won the American Civil War, altering the course of history. The novel is set in a timeline where the South emerged victorious, leading to a vastly different United States. The protagonist, Hodge Backmaker, explores this alternate reality and its implications, reflecting on the consequences of historical events and the concept of "what if."Moore's writing style in "Bring the Jubilee" is characterized by its introspe...

Two classic science fiction stories about a California family fleeing a nuclear holocaust, written in an era when a dystopian future seemed inevitable.An atomic bomb has struck Los Angeles, and the streets are filled with cars fleeing the city. But Mr. Jimmon knows that things will be different for his family. He has meticulously prepared for such an event, and now that it has arrived, he carries out his plan almost gleefully. The Jimmons get in their station wagon,...

Two D.C. politicians discover an Appalachian man who may know the secret to immortality in this satirical science fiction fantasy classic.A United States veteran's pension of $11 a month seems highly unusual. Congressman Tully Weathernox believes the man should be earning more after serving his country. Congresswoman Lucinda Rose Habersham thinks he's a fraud leeching off the government. What kind of name is Isachar Joyleg anyway?Determined to uncover the t...

In "Greener Than You Think," Ward Moore likely presents a cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of human actions on the environment. The narrative may revolve around the discovery of a new substance or technology that promises to enhance plant growth and agricultural productivity. However, as the substance is deployed on a large scale, it leads to unforeseen and catastrophic ecological consequences, such as the rapid spread of uncontrollable plant life.As the story unfolds, rea...

The Governor, a widower in his earliest fifties, turned off the ignition, noting with satisfaction the absence of street signs limiting parking time. Governor Lampley, serving out the unexpired term of his predecessor and not entirely hopeless of nomination and election in his own right, pictured the stupid or fanatical cop who under any circumstances would write a ticket for the car with the license GOV-001. He and Marvin had made a big joke out of those zeros, Marvin showing his hostilit...