Inspirational Fiction

Since the recent death of her husband, Maisie’s world has been bleak and grey. Now a widow, her two young daughters are the only things that still bring joy to her life. But with winter approaching, Maisie knows she must make a change to her situation if her family is to have a chance of surviving the harsh months ahead.

Sierra Robbins, single mother and interior design assistant, wants to provide a stable home for her teenage son and become a successful interior designer. She’s well on her way to both goals when she agrees to house sit a home in Sunriver, Oregon. It couldn’t be more perfect. She’ll be close to her job at Belafonte Designs while living rent-free. But things don’t go as expected beginning on day one when a police officer responds to the alarm they set off at the house. Was that alarm a sign of trouble to come?

For single mother Kayla Brady life is hectic raising a rebellious teenage daughter and running her own business. Longing to date again, and perhaps find love, she prays for the right man to come into her life. What she did not expect was a man on a motorcycle with tattoos, a charming smile, and a mysterious past. James Cole knows what it is like to have chaos in one’s life, but now he is looking at starting over in the picturesque mountain town of Hopes Crest, Colorado.

Q, a powerful alien held prisoner in Area 51. Mel, a young woman with telepathic powers. One chance to save the world from ruin. "Power to the people!" the protesters shout. A Rise Up & Resist movement is in full swing, threatening to take down the establishment. But there is far more to this revolution than just protest. A sinister force has an even darker agenda. It may come down to Q, just now fully understanding his powers on earth, and Mel, an adventurous clairvoyant. Can an alien and human work together to stop the world from collapsing?

Over 50 years ago, I was born to a family that ostracized me due to my father’s occupation as a criminal. Although my parents were married, had it not been for my grandfather, we would have been put in orphanages due to the dysfunctional nature of my family. I still have memories of the neglect and abandonment that I experienced.

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors.

Cynthia Kent is a burden. She's tried to help her sister and brother-in-law, but most of her efforts have ended up in disasters of varying degrees. She's depended on their charity for too long and it was high time she started taking care of herself. But how? Tyler Shelton is a widower with two young children. As the sheriff, raising two children alone while handling his important job has pushed him to the breaking point. He's taken everything one day at a time, but his family is suffering and they need help. Tyler is used to giving help to others, but not asking for it.

A book of love poems which includes love of family, emotions of love, lost love & enduring love.

Jetzt wenn die Glöckerln und d'Markln klingerln, de staadn Weisn vom Lautsprecher dringerln, Reklamechöre weihnachlich singerln, die silbernen Kugerln und glänzerten Engerln, inmitten der duftenden Wurstwaren hängerln, se d'Leut in d'volle U-Bahn neizwängerln, se auf der Straßn halbert derdrängerln, konns sei, daß mia oft nimmer vor Geschenkerln and Geschenk von jener Heil'gen Nacht denkerln. Eine Sammlung neuer und bereits veröffentlichter Mundartgedichte, Erzählungen und Betrachtungen zum Thema Weihnachten von dem Münchner Poeten Helmut Zöpfl.

The New Mexico Territory is a long way from home, but when Grace Belle receives a one way train ticket to travel there for an arranged marriage, she takes the trip hoping to find her brother, Calvin, so the two of them may return to their life in Philadelphia. What she didn't expect was to fall in love with the sheriff she was sent to marry.

Tiffany has never met a man like David, and as she gets to know him better, his strength and good qualities arouse feelings of passion in her. She begins fantasizing about David and what it would be like to really be with a man like him. Tiffany soon finds herself faced with one of the largest obstacles of her life: desire.

Christina is unfortunately used to dealing with monumental challenges. First, her father abandoned her at birth and then her mother died entirely too soon, leaving her with just a few months of rent money. Now the woman who took her in and provided her with a job has also passed away. As Christina hopelessly watches her world seemingly crumble and contemplates why God has placed her in these circumstances, she has no idea that something magical is about to happen that will change her life forever.

Dawn and Autumn are young adults out on their own and making their own decisions, but can they be sure they are the right ones? Growing up with an addict for a father, their source of strength came from their mother; however, all that has changed now. Their dad is sober with a new family, while they watch their mother spiraling out of control. Meanwhile, they both are in relationships where the risks are high.

Fed up with "politics as usual", American voters elect a charismatic independent as president. Too late they find he is also rabidly anti-Christian, and sets out eliminating all overt expressions of Christianity. Churches are disbanded, pastors are brainwashed, addicted to drugs or alcohol and given phony identities. Where can help possibly come from?

Jay Farrell, a crippled priest, has begun housing homeless boys in his rectory. Once a street kid himself, he was riding the rocket-train to a lifetime in prison until the day he drove over a land mine in Iraq. Today he works at an inner-city parish, running a soup kitchen and struggling to manage an impoverished church.

Selected and written by one of the world’s leading, modern funeral poets - whose poems have already touched tens of millions of lives in over 172 countries through his website and facebook pages.

One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as “Little Siberia” with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei.

As I walked around on this gorgeous day, I reflected on my life and then prayed, “Father God, thank you for being You. Thank you too for the many blessings.... I would try to count them, but they are countless. Thank you for being holy.... All good things in life reflect you.” At that moment I realized.... You and I, we were made to praise his name. You and I, we were made to love and be loved.

English rose Eleanor Rigby has stared into the cold eyes of death more than once. To escape its icy grip, she flees as a mail-order bride to a new future with Samuel Johnson, a Western cowboy. But when a lost love returns from the grave to claim his broken bride, a fearful fight for Ellie's own life and sanity ensues. Can the bonds of true love bring her home, or will she be lost forever?

"There I go doing it again," she said to herself, referring to the way that she periodically smiled at the thought of how her hard work had paid off. "After all, I deserve to toot my own horn. And if I don’t, who will?" As Spicy sat caressing the seating, she smiled once again in a vain attempt to shield those in the room from the narcissism with which she’s so heavily fragranced.