This is at root the same story and style as in the twin previous (prize-winning) novels Black Inked Pearl and its fairytale prequel Voyage of Pearl of the Seas. But this time it is told from a different perspective - that of the garrulous, sounding, wine-dark homeric one, the Sea. It is thus companion and complement (but not sequel) to Black Inked Pearl, with the same number of Parts and (sometimes identically titled) chapters. As with the earlier novels this too...

Pearl of the Wind: This is at root the same story and style as in my novels Black Inked Pearl and its fairytale prequel Pearl of the Seas and the more recent Helix Pearl, But this time it is told from a different perspective - that of our call to the fleeting flighting breathing air, the soul, the fluttering butterfly-psyche.This book was written in three magical days on a sea journey, looking out on the enchantment of cl...

Step into a world where every wildflower tells a secret story with this illustrated botanical and cultural guide to 75+ wildflower species.The Folklore of Wildflowers invites you to rediscover the magic hidden in nature’s most unassuming blooms. This book goes well beyond a traditional field guide; it is an immersive exploration of the intricate interplay between botanical beauty, medicinal lore, and centuries-old folklore. Alongside charming, vint...

Most budget travel advice is a pile of disconnected tips: fly on Tuesdays, eat street food, pack light. None of it tells you how to actually think about money on the road, so you end up either overspending without noticing or cutting the wrong things and regretting it later.Worth the Trip is different. Instead of another list of hacks that will feel dated in a year, it gives you a durable framework for making smart trade-offs anywhere, at any budget, on any trip. You'll le...

Find hope and healing as you walk through grief and navigate life after loss. This yearlong devotional journal offers Scripture-based comfort in a lonely and difficult season.If you've experienced loss, then you've had days when sorrow overshadows every step, nights when the pain seems all-consuming, and moments when you feel utterly alone in your grief. What if, in the midst of your sorrow, you found something sacred? Hope for the Heartbroken reaches into...

When Phoebe Durbin answers a mail-order bride ad, she doesn't realize the groom-to-be didn't post it. Worse, the day she arrives at her destination, she learns he doesn't even want to get married. Having nowhere else to go, she convinces him to give her a chance to prove having a woman cook and clean for him will be the best thing that ever happened to him.Abe Thomas reluctantly agrees to take Phoebe in, though he doubts they will make a good match. They're much too different. Whil...

Some secrets stay hidden because we're afraid to look. Others stay hidden because they're waiting.In this collection from The Red Herrings Society, you'll find stories that reach into the dark corners we usually walk past. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a killer. A old woman can no longer hold back the ghosts that haunt her home. A property manager disappears, and the only one qualified to search for her is a vampire who doesn't want to get involved.The...

Our world feels like it's being pulled deeper into crisis - climate and ecological destruction, wars, political and community breakdown, social media overload...It can be easy to disengage, to despair of ever being able to make a difference and give up. But now more than ever we need to stay resilient and keep responding to the call of our Christian faith to work for justice, peace, social cohesion and the flourishing of the natural world. How do we take on board t...

"AFTER THE LAST GOODBYE"'A Marriage-Betrayal Romance Novel'"She married a man who told her the truth about his past. She just didn't know it wasn't the whole truth."When Wren Sinclair finds an old ID card bearing a name that isn't her husband's, Callan gives her a story of devastating loss — a fiancée who drowned near Edinburgh eleven years before they met. It's a true story. It just isn't the whole one.No death certificate was ever filed. No body was ever f...

First in a new women's fiction series from the author of Auld Acquaintance!Mavis and Hilary have a common problem. Both retired widows, they've reached the point in their lives where it would make most sense to move into a retirement community. Neither want that for their future, however, and they devise a plan to solve all their problems and provide a residence designed exactly to their requirements. But it won't work for just two women--and so the search is on for the perfect com...

Auld Acquaintance is the story of a woman in her 60s who has lost her confidence through life events, including a divorce. Anna has a part-time job in a library, and a group of good friends, but her hopes for a brighter future are growing dim.Unexpectedly, she receives a legal letter informing her that she has inherited a piece of property in Scotland. Her first instinct is to ignore this letter as she has no knowledge of the person named as the owner.Anna's friends persuad...

Renowned journalist Ruth Margalit revisits 10 profiles of Israeli politicians, cultural figures, and iconoclasts spanning a decade of her reporting for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine to create a powerful mosaic of the clashing forces that have led to Israel's current state.To live in Israel today, Margalit writes, is to be either a whale or a Jonah-trying to make do in the belly of the whale. The profiles in this collection represent both: outsider...