Doornkraal is a farm near De Rust where Swepie and Anne le Roux have farmed for decades. This is where they taught their children all seven of them to live off the bounty of the land.

If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

God desires for us to live every moment in this type of wonder. But for many of us, the wide-eyed astonishment we once experienced in God's presence has all but vanished. We may genuinely worship God on Sunday mornings, but then we spend the rest of the week yearning to rediscover that sense of awe. --back cover.

From a bestselling author, a touching story of a prodigal daughter who learns it's never too late to come home, but will she find acceptance?

Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that’s exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author François Mai shares how and why he ventured into psychiatry, the lure of academia, and his professional triumphs and troubles along the way. Educated in Apartheid-era South Africa, Mai takes his clinical practice across five countries: South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, the US, and Canada. Inspired by his time and adventures in these places, as well as his greatest influences, psychiatrists William Sargant and George Engel, this memoir is for a diverse audience. Readers eager to learn more about the history of psychiatry and its contemporary problems will enjoy Mai’s commentary and professional anecdotes. Lovers of religion and spirituality contextualized in a secular society will appreciate the ways these intersect with Mai’s professional and personal lives. With Hope in My Heart is more than a psychiatrist’s memoir. It’s a deeply intimate look into the life of a man who endures the death of a brother who had life-long schizophrenia, and himself had two life-threatening medical diagnoses. With themes of hope, Mai navigates readers through tumultuous terrain of spirituality, morality, politics, life, and death.

Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.

The story of a woman of the Kentucky gentility named Theodosia, driven to the brink of madness and courageously facing the decay of life about her, relinquishing life herself and then recovering it in closer touch with nature. Despite the subject matter, it is a lovely, lyrical treatment of that region's rural life. In the process of the story, Theodosia discovers her mullato relatives and shares in their hatred of their white oppressors. In the end she becomes a schoolteacher, finds peace in her bucolic locale, and comes to love a simple farmer. --www.enotes.com et al.