Have you ever blamed God when your life was turned upside down? Our heroin Kristen does after her parents are burned at the stake, leaving her lost and abandoned in a Massachusetts forest in 1692. Doubt crawled into her heart and mind. Was God really such a merciless being as to kill people just like that, for no reason at all? Or was something else behind their murders? These and more questions haunt Kristin Malach Elohim everyday in "An Angel's Sorrow." The more Kristin questions, the faster she turns away from God and watched her salvation slowly withers away. Will she be able to save her soul in the end? Or will the controlling powers of evil bind her to a fiery fate? And what does it mean to be a Malach Elohim? Melquisedec Araiza's "An Angel's Sorrow" takes us on a spiritual journey where faith is shaken and friendships decide where our souls will spend eternity. Share the joys and pains of Kristin as she is thrust in a spiritual battle for her soul. "An Angel's Sorrow" will leave you mesmerized and frightened as you picture yourself in Kristen's shoes.

It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain-the poetry Bárour died for. Three weeks, but already Bárour's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless and powerful story that evokes the struggle of man against the ferocious majesty of nature. Asked by The Independent what inspired him to write these three novels, Stefánsson named his first visit to the landscape of Iceland's West Fjords. "It was like a punch in the solar plexus . . . The mountains seemed to be saying, 'Why aren't you writing about us?"

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has the sense of being brought back from the grave. But this is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame-haired Álfheiður, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheiður, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village to which he must now inexorably return. Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north, The Heart of Man is a profound exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime simplicity. In this conclusion to an audacious trilogy, Stefánsson brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old.

Wolf describes her emergence from an abusive marriage and her decision to move on with revitalized hope and spirit. Finding strength in the acceptance of her former self, she reaches out to all spiritual seekers. No Canadian Rights

Book Three of'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn'

New translations of the poems left behind at the Angel Island Immigration Station.