Wishes for the Heart: Love and Be Loved is the second of the four e-books in the Wishes series. This collection of original prose and poetry, reflections, and pragmatic suggestions looks at love’s many aspects, highlighting all of the emotions associated with it and their unique importance in our lives. By exploring themes ranging from romantic love to the love of self, author Tricia LaVoice gives us a clear view into the way we love and a deeper understanding on how open we truly are to receiving it. With beautiful poetry and insightful conversation, this quick read is for anyone wishing to enhance their world with love in all the shades it has to offer.

Friends, co-workers, and acquaintances touch your life in many wonderful spoken and unspoken ways. Show appreciation by letting each woman know how much she makes your heart smile.

Three friends with wildly different lives-but the same heart-come together to celebrate hopes, dreams, and the wishes that fuel them. A trio of mothers: TV journalist/author Leeza Gibbons, author Tricia LaVoice, and designer/restaurateur Barbara Lazaroff, have created a timeless collection of original reflections and pragmatic suggestions for a more fulfilling and purposeful life. A tribute to women of all ages, this book honors the significant connections that women share with their mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, and friends--and the bonds of sisterhood that permates their lives with support, devotion and wisdom.

The life and times of a celebrated Roman Catholic priest, archbishop, and author.

At the age of 41 after a lifetime spent attempting to please others, Jill Altman embarked on a journey to honor her own feelings and desires by hiking the entire 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail in one year (called thru-hiking). The story of her adventure not only illustrates her roller coaster ride through love, fear, and everything in between, but also chronicles the daily trials and tribulations in the life of a thru-hiker. Ultimately she uncovered how her commitment to her goal of reaching and summiting the final mountain, Mount Katahdin in Maine, actually stood between her and her real purpose in hiking the trail.

An arresting, poetic journey and a moving reflection on immigration, family, and home, from an acclaimed creative team. Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on the littlest member of the family. Inspired by actual events in the author's life, this is a narrative that is both timely and timeless. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the story chronicles a family's difficult and powerful journey to pack up what they can carry and to leave their world behind, traveling to a new and unknown place in a crowded boat. With sparse, poetic, and lyrical text from acclaimed author Muon Thi Van, thoughtful back matter about the author's connection to the story, and luminous, stunning illustrations from Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree Victo Ngai, Wishes tells a powerful and timely story in a gentle and approachable way for young children and their families.With themes of kindness, bravery, hope, and love running throughout, Wishes is a must-have book for every child's bookshelf.

A slice-of-life rom-com about pizza and first crushes that readers will gobble up! Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that same rude -- and, okay, cute -- boy shows up at her school, Maya's convinced nothing can go right. But she may be in for some surprises. Could good friends, secret crushes, and creative pizza toppings turn Maya's new home into her own slice of heaven?