“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road - (Mark 10:52). The following are true stories that show the power of having faith in our world. They are inspirational, and each touch on lessons from the Bible. The beginning of the book includes faith journey messages from other believers as well, and shows what they have gone through to grow in their faith. It is a read that hopefully will get you exploring your own faith ...

The 20s is a strange age to be in the early 21st century. While it's very liberating to be young and have this feeling of independence, there is this conflict that we have to age fast and many of us are still fighting for that independence - many of us don't have enough money to stand on our own two feet like the generation before us. It's a transition age that's between the "best years of your life" (high school) and the entry into adulthood. So this addresses what it's like for me to gro...

Riley, a bisexual protagonist, starts a new job in a vibrant city, where they meet Jamie, a charismatic and open-minded colleague. Their connection sparks an unexpected romance that navigates workplace challenges, family prejudices, and personal insecurities. Through laughter, heartache, and soul-searching, Riley and Jamie's journey reveals the strength found in love and acceptance. As they build a future together, they face each obstacle hand-in-hand, celebrating their unique bond and the...

DIRTY DAYS is a nonfiction narrative. The Setting - the tough Irish bars of New York City in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. A place where life can change in an unforeseen instant.As a Bleecker street bouncer and musician during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s in Greenwich Village, author and narrator Kevin Patrick Corrigan relives true stories of old school New York City.Kevin Patrick Corrigan has been a fixture in the New York City Irish bar and music scene for three decades. H...

For centuries, spiritual seekers have profited from reading accounts of people’s spiritual journeys. Well-known examples include Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions, Teresa of Avila’s The Story of Her Life, Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain, and M.K. Gandhi’s The Story of my Life. Reading such spiritual autobiographies can provide us with light for our own journeys and can help us correct course when we veer off the path. Some readers of this autobiography by Kevin Patrick Joyce, Surprise...

In this riveting personal account, an authentic American hero relives the perils and triumphs of eight harrowing patrols aboard one of America’s most successful World War II submarines. Courageous deeds and terror-filled moments as well as the endless maintenance work are vividly recalled in Calvert’s candid portrait.But Silent Running is more than a masterful collection of war stories. The greatest drama takes place within Jim Calvert himself, as his values, his training,...

Florida, 1982. A nine-year-old watches as his dead father's possessions are hauled away: his clothes and tools, his faux-leather recliner. His sensei says it's a perfect time to turn his weaknesses into weapons. His PE teacher says he runs like a pregnant ostrich. His mother takes out a personal ad. Everyone is trying to teach him a lesson but he is, it seems, a slow learner. Meanwhile, with each passing day, his father recedes, growing less and less plausible, almost a myth.Twenty...

You were never meant to earn your way into God's heart. You were born into it.For too many people, God feels distant, a judge keeping score, a master demanding performance, or a father who disappointed or disappeared. So we strive, achieve, and exhaust ourselves trying to be enough. But what if everything changed when you discovered you were already beloved?Father's Heart to Beloved Identity is an intimate encounter with God as He truly is, not a d...

In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to its owner based on what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions.Behan was originally trained under the dominance theor...

“As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting”. In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise, Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne articulates how the figure of the superhero can serve as a transcendent icon.It is hard to imagine a time when superheroes have been more pervasive in our culture. Today, superheroes are intellectual property jealously guarded by media conglomerates, ic...

A “riveting, deeply compassionate” (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope**.**Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness for decades and has spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting. In The Lost and the Found, Fagan introduces us to Rita and Tyson, two unhoused people who were rescued by their families with the help of his own reporting, and chronicle...

Don't miss this thrilling book in the series based on the award-winning television show The X-Files!Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead—he's been charred to a radioactive cinder.Since this is a death on federal property, FBI agents Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases—mysteries the FBI doesn't want solved....