Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England—the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion.More than 40 years before the publication of The Origin of Species, 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-...

Lily Piper and her family live in an ephemeral world, due to collapse any moment when the Lord comes to pluck His faithful from the drought-ravaged Prairie. Lily tries to be ready, but she is restless, not the daughter she feels her mother wants. As she tries to invent herself, she conjures, too, an imagined past for her beloved father in an effort to understand him and the demons he battles. In her teens, Lily is sent to England to care for her Grandmother and further explores the delicio...

Naynuk is a very special Gecko. He is a staff photographer for Crosspointe Times newspaper. An everyday Humanitarian, he loves to help people and his co-workers. Naynuk thinks of himself as being special when he prays faithfully every morning. But someone from his past wants revenge and challenges him. Meanwhile Naynuk finds a great advocate for his spiritual side. Follow this superhero and his friends on this exciting journey.

In Go a Little Further, Joan Thomas shares the life and legacy of her husband Major W. Ian Thomas, evangelical Christian writer, teacher and founder of the Torchbearer bible schools. This book is part biography, part history, and packed full of individual stories about Ian Thomas and the Torchbearers ministry.

"Scharper shines in this surprising and engaging gothic novel ...Impeccably researched and beautifully told, this is a tale that will stay with readers long after the final page is turned." —Publishers Weekly, starred review.A lighthouse. A diary. A ghost.Woven among these are the mysterious life-threads of Marged Brice. Professing to be 134 years old, she is dumped at a remote nursing home by relatives awaiting her death.But she in...

“Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work.” —Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired GirlIt’s 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospita...

A lost novel of self-discovery and love from the New York Times –bestselling and Nobel and Pulitzer prize–winning author of The Good Earth .The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Ko...

The Lord is Your Shepherd—You Shall Not WantBold peace. Constant presence. Lavish provision. Psalm 23 isn’t just poetic—it’s a living promise for every season of your faith journey.Are you weary from walking through valleys of uncertainty? Do you long for rest, but find yourself constantly striving? Does fear, lack, or confusion cloud your ability to trust God’s goodness in the chaos of life?Through years of pastoral ministry and deep study of God’s...

Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her career, Audrey Thomas has repeatedly challenged her readers to follow her into new territory. In Tattycoram, she does it again, taking readers into the distant fictional world of Charles Dickens’s England, where, in an unusual twist, Dickens interacts with his ow...

What's Left Us is a stunning fiction debut by one of the most promising new writers in Canada. The novella and stories in these pages startle and engage the reader with their humour, warmth and grace. The novella traces one week in the life of a young, unmarried Irish woman about to give birth. The heroine is a hip, independent woman who muses on memory, love, loss and inheritance in a clever, wry and moving way. The other stories are set in Dublin, the U.K., Vancouver and Ontario...

Above All Things is a heart-wrenchingly romantic historical novel by Tanis Rideout, based on British mountaineer George Mallory's fatal attempt to climb Everest, and his wife Ruth, who is left at home, waiting for him to return to her.**In the Himalayas two climbers strike out for the summit of the Earth's highest mountain - aiming to be the first to the top, and reclaim a little of Britain's lost glory.In Cambridge, a wife collects the milk, gets thre...

"The style is rich, lucid, and literate . . . Hideous creatures mass and threaten in an ending reminiscent of Stephen King . . . remarkable indeed." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)A Hugo Award FinalistIn 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act...