'Lucky? Don't you know by now that there's no such thing? That everything that happens in the Universe happens by design and not by chance?'Aria looked at Linen. 'You know, sometimes I forget that you're actually a Faerie when you say things like that.'Linen shrugged. 'I suppose I just find it all f...

Book Creation Chronicles Volume 5A presents botanical, butterflies, and shadows books. Creating books was first experienced as a student at Ringling College of Art and Design’s summer program class at Wildacres Retreat located deep in the Blue Ridge mountains. Over the last 25 years, various boo...

Purple . The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world. But before she was Lydia, the seller of purple, she was simply a me...

Based on historical characters and events, A Gathering of Finches tells the story of a turn-of-the-century Oregon coastal couple and the consequences of their choices, as seen through the eyes of the wife, her sister, and her Indian maid. Along the way, the reader will discover reasons to trust th...

One of Italy's leading writers recounts the sack of Otranto by the Turks in 1480. Like the film "Rashomon" or Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book," this novel relates the events in overlapping tales told by survivors and victims. As "Otranto" weaves its web of memories, it also focuses on the b...

From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman’s inexorable evolution, evoked in start...

Fill those quiet corners of your day with the Sufficient Grace Floral Lattice Notebook Set —a sweet trio of notebooks that invite you to pause, breathe, and lean into God's steady provision. Tuck one in your bag for whispered prayers on the go, keep another by your desk for to-dos that matter, an...

A celebrity makeup artist draws on the philosophies that have enabled the success of her cosmetics line throughout the past decade, in a reference that shares personal grooming techniques while addressing universal insecurities shared by women from all walks of life. A Beauty Junkie at Heart: Laura ...

Introduction: The Light in the Storm "I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." — Genesis 9:13 The rainbow has always been God's symbol of mercy after judgment—an arc of color suspended between heaven and earth, light refracted through...