Glass Heart of an Innocent is that of a young woman who went out into the world at the tender age of eighteen, filled with wild hopes and dreams, who soon found out that not everything was fairy tales and romance.
When my partner Catherine and I were in our fifties, we found out in short order that I needed a heart-valve replacement, and she had early-onset Alzheimer's.
In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of "e;thin places"e; in her life-places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before.
He Was There was written to give glory, honor, and praise to God, who is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the Author and Finisher of our lives.
A study of the life, work, and extraordinary influence of an innovative architectAlbert Simons came of age during the vibrant years of the Charleston Renaissance in the early twentieth century.
Vision of Hope is an important contribution in the growing number of stories by recovering addicts, for its well-written account in terms that are touching yet honest, in both the low points and high points of her story.
In this highly unusual role for a lawyer, the author found himself in 1998 having to learn on his feet at a frightening pace as the newly promoted senior legal advisor to the charismatic General Sir Mike Jackson, the commander who led the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps into strife-torn Kosovo the following year to restore some sort of normality in the aftermath of the NATO bombing campaign.
2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist * A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book * A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racismChild is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her-the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love.
The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a “gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world” and our place in it (Vancouver Sun).
It was the summer of 1967; I was seventeen years old, and decided to test myself by riding a bicycle 860 miles from Houston, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia, alone.
Njeri had come to think of the sadness as part of who she was, even though she didn't understand it or understand why others in her life appeared untouched by it.
One More Mountain is the story of the life changing decision made by Caroline and her husband Allister to put everything they owned into storage, buy some rucksacks, and take a trip around the world for a year.
All the furniture in the house got wrecked except this one old wooden china cabinet in my grandmother's kitchen, which somehow remained standing despite all odds.
Angels of Time: Rise of the Legendary Son-Sun is an epistle unto the churches of our lord and Father in which the gospel of the kingdom and also of endurance can be made manifest and edify the church unto any supplications that can be given or made.