Dolores

The secret of how Gaia can go home has been unlocked, but nothing in her life has ever been easy, so why should this? Gaia finds herself at the center of a conflict between gods. Death, War and Love all have her in their sights, and the support she's never had to question from her daughter and counsel, Cassi and Prime, wavers. Mighty personalities clash, darkness rises, loyalties are tested, and love is challenged.

The trauma that our world experienced in recent years—as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us—has been unprecedented and is not going away anytime soon. It is clear that existing political and economic systems are not enough to bring the change that the world needs. In this book, Rainn Wilson explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution, a “Soul Boom” in order to address today’s greatest issues—mental health, racism and sexism, climate change, and economic injustice.

Cassi needed to prove to herself that she had what it took to be a goddess, and there was no better proving ground than a world truly on the brink. Cassi selected her instruments: Thistle, an oppositional orphan from the lower caste, and Wynn, heir to the throne. The two young women were on a collision course but shared one thing... They were both dying.

Death was a constant presence in Mya Makade’s life, just like air–invisible, ever-present, assumed. Growing up in the shadow of an impending apocalypse will do that to a person, never mind that everyone she cares about leaves. Mya channels her feelings of loss and abandonment into a singular talent for reimagining life.

As the ship's archivist, Anna stumbles across hints that the story they've been told about the fate of Earth was a fabrication. Tantalizing clues require unraveling that connect her to Ella Deveros, from six centuries before her time, and Mya Makade, another six before that. Love is the thread that binds them and promises salvation.

Ella was reborn in a wash of light and all-consuming rage. Something terrible had happened to her, she knew with a certainty. Her sole purpose for continuing to exist in this material plane was to exact revenge. But on whom? Dylan had a gift for seeing things others couldn't. He never expected that to include the unspeakably beautiful Ella Deveros, dead a full year. Despite trying to kill him, she truly was a gift, he concluded.

Death was a constant presence in Mya Makade’s life, just like air—invisible, ever-present, assumed. Growing up in the shadow of an impending Apocalypse was like that, never mind that everyone she cares about leaves. Mya channels her feelings of loss and abandonment into a singular talent for reimagining life.

The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet.