Where does a journey take you? Who guides the steps? Can broken threads come together to make a beautiful tapestry? Join Brietta as she journeys from deep pain to hope and love beyond her imagination. She discovers a broken heart can be set free, to soar on the beautiful path where God leads.

Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life—two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story—told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose—of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

In a collection of personal stories and essays, award-winning and bestselling artists from Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R.L. Stine write about how hope always wins, even in the darkest of times. Where does hope live? In your family? In your community? In your school? In your heart? From a family restaurant to a hot-dog shaped car, from an empty road on a moonlight night to a classroom holiday celebration, this anthology of personal stories from award-winning and bestselling authors, shows that hope can live everywhere, even—or especially—during the darkest of times. No matter what happens: Hope wins. Contributors include: Tom Angleberger, James Bird, Max Brallier, Julie Buxbaum, Pablo Cartaya, J.C. Cervantes, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Stuart Gibbs, Adam Gidwitz, Karina Yan Glaser, Veera Hiranandani, Hena Khan, Gordon Korman, Janae Marks, Sarah Mlynowski, Rex Ogle, James Ponti, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Ronald L.Smith, Christina Soontornvat, and R.L. Stine.

A loving holiday romance that includes recipes made by the characters. When you fall at just the right moment. Greyson is the new hot firefighter in the small-town. He thought his life was perfect until the day the cutest klutz he has ever met fell at his feet. Now he wants more… no, he wants her. Annie is always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Actually, she’s usually the guest in the back row no one ever notices. That was true until her struggle with staying vertical changes that… She is finding it hard to believe the man with the most delicious beard is interested in her. Get ready to fall in love with this sweet Christmas story which is perfectly complimented with a slice of decadent hot chocolate peppermint cheesecake.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by the fireplace at his home in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, watching TV after work, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador's history, he found himself answering the call. Dr. Furey formed a team of three--himself; his wife and pediatric emergency room physician, Dr. Allison Furey; and orthopedic surgeon Will Moores--and together they travelled from to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where they spent a week volunteering. The challenge seemed overwhelming: a multitude of badly injured victims, horrendous working conditions and overstretched aid agencies. But somehow the trio did not lose hope. Instead, they redoubled their efforts. After returning from that first mission, Dr. Furey founded Team Broken Earth--an expert, unbureaucratic, fleet-footed volunteer task force of physicians, nurses and physiotherapists committed to providing aid in Haiti. The organization has continued to grow, recruiting volunteers from all over Canada. It has carried out many more missions to Port-au-Prince and has expanded its operations to other countries like Bangladesh, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Nicaragua. And its mission has expanded in other ways, with education and training for local medical professionals now at the heart of its endeavour. Dr. Andrew Furey tells the story of Team Broken Earth's founding and remarkable work with vivid immediacy and raw honesty. He shares his doubts and failures and moments of near-despair. He explores how his Newfoundland and Labrador upbringing has informed his efforts abroad. And he reaches an optimistic conclusion that will leave readers inspired to bring about positive change in their own lives.

"Marsha Gullo Frerichs (1954-2008) was a native of State College, Pennsylvania, who believed in living life to the fullest. This passion exhibited itself not only in her love for her family but also through her interactions with others and her love for poetry. She was inspired by Carol Welsh's doctoral dissertation "Writing in Colors" which served as the catalyst for the present book of poems in which she records her feelings as she travels the bumpy road of breast cancer treatments. Never one to feel sorry for herself, Marsha found solace in her writings and a joy in sharing with others The Power of Hope. Her dream, cut short by an aggressive cancer, was to use her writings as a comfort and inspiration to others"--Back cover.

My Children I Hope is a book that has been in process ever since the spring of 1977...and continues in process. "Hope deferred (put off to a later time; postponed) maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life." ""Proverbs 13:12 The front cover design, of a vine bearing grapes, depicts the success of an intervention. When you compare the same vine, of the book cover's backside, the wild and overgrown vine had been unattended for years. The process of literally drying up is at stake. After twenty-one years the author, Daniel Brian Simmons, witnesses his own personal experience of God's intervention and rescue to save his life, from the destruction and temptations, this present life, had offered him. The vine speaks of a lineage, that now has hope, but requires unwavering faith and perseverance in God to see our generation through, with real love. The written word will outlive us. What better inheritance can we leave behind? The author in this book has used a pencil and paper throughout the decades, to remedy the lack of a close friend. Inspiration came to mind; he believes by faith in God. Writing poems satisfies and succors each present situation. It leaves a sense of integrity and dignity: a worthwhileness to keep his present life clean and in order before God and others. Shall not the truth be conveyed from now on, whether by you or me and hopefully by those we leave behind? "As for me, this is my covenant (agreement) with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever." ""Isaiah 59:21