Author Linda Hale Bucklin made a pact with her husband, Bill, to communicate after death. She shares her personal experience along with others' of love and faith in the afterlife. We all deal with our grief in different ways. Bill, my beloved husband of forty years, died unexpectedly after a short illness. During our years together, we made a pact that whoever passed first would communicate with the other. As shocked and devastated as I was by Bill's...

An unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenges of care-giving, father-daughter relationships, and facing death. It is a story of family: of angst and comfort, misconception and understanding. Readers everywhere will know they are not alone in their struggle to both love and let go.

These poems explore the distance between the head and the heart-and all of the pain, beauty, and hope in between. This book is one woman's account of her longing to know herself fully. Her mind, body, and soul. This book might make you cry, fill you with nostalgia, empower you, or even give you hope. You might not see eye to eye with every idea inside, but with any luck you'll see your soul reflected in its pages. You will question things. You will...

Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why, Samantha King Holmes's second solo poetry collection following her bestselling Born to Love, Cursed to Feel, is a mirror that reflects our honest truths. Holmes's poems are like little stories, hooking readers while navigating issues like body image, family relationships, loneliness, failed relationships, and finding belonging. Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why is a call to introspection, a demand for honesty, and an affirmation...

When an accident leaves teenage cousins Meline and Jocelyn parentless, they come to live with their unknown and eccentric Uncle Marten on his private island. They soon discover that the island has a history as tragic as their own: it was once an air force training camp, led by a mad commander whose crazed plan to train pilots to fly airplanes without instruments sent eleven pilots to their deaths. Jocelyn, Meline, and Uncle Marten are soon joined...

Soul Conversations reveals how you can tap into your soul's wisdom, connect with the universe, and communicate with loved ones and guides in the spirit world. Drawing on the author's extensive training and experience, you'll learn how to develop intuition, cultivate your "soul senses," and create a personal spirituality that interweaves the invisible world with the everyday fabric of your life. We are all connected-to each other and to an infinite...

Can one summer change your life? When her sister passes away in a tragic drunk driving accident, eighteen-year-old Summer Mason is sent to spend her summer with her busybody grandparents in Maui. In order to escape her trauma, Summer throws herself into the island life: making new friends, working a part-time job, and going for early morning jogs on the peaceful beaches. But just when life starts to feel ok again, her grandparents take in...

Contrary to popular belief, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse aren't just harbingers of doom-they actually keep life in balance. But what happens when their leader and creator, Death, becomes suicidal? Before the first living thing drew its first gasping breath, he was there. He has watched humanity for millennia. And he has finally decided that humanity is not worth the price he has paid time and again. When Death himself gives up on life, a teenager...

Un recueil de poèmes engagés sur la condition des femmes et l'injustice. Zoubida Belkacem écrit de la poésie engagée. Elle aborde des thèmes sur la protection de la planète et de l'environnement et dénonce les multiples agressions contre cette nature bienfaitrice dont dépend notre survie. Elle aborde aussi un thème cher à son cœur : la liberté de la femme, soumise, violée,excisée. La femme qui donne la vie, qui est le symbole de...

A selection of the very best from one of America's most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. As The New York Times said, "likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life's most important questions." Thomas Lynch-like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams are poets who writes about real things with language rooted in the everyday yet masterfully infused with...