Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
Do we willingly sabotage opportunities for true love and happiness? MARY POSER is an exposé of self-inflicted suffering. On the surface MARY POSER is a fun and frolicking love story. Underneath this is a message of hope and inspiration for anyone who feels stuck in a vortex of anxiety and self-harm. There's troubled love in Music City, USA. Despite deeply entrenched obstacles, Mary falls for a visiting Bollywood director, Simha Das. A near-fatal car crash leads to questions about who or what intervenes to save her. There's a proposal, but Mary must reveal a dangerous secret to have any chance at happiness.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
“A Child of Arthur” is an autobiographical novel with an inspirational message. It will appeal to adult readers of all ages. The story is this: In 1980, depressed, disillusioned, and emotionally paralyzed by recent loss and betrayal, actress Grace Archer returns to a mountain village in Switzerland she once held dear. During a life-threatening event on that mountain, she is rescued by Klaus Urhaber—a mysterious man who seems to know more about her than she herself knows. With him, she embarks upon a romantic, dangerous journey. Her quest leads her to answers to questions many of us face today: What do you do when hope fades? Where do you go when you no longer believe in the future?
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
East Meets West
A scar? She felt a slight tremor in her chest. From the temple it curved to his upper jaw...it gave him a tough, rakish appearance, hardly a look associated with a minister.
Carefree socialite Sarah Whittington travels west to collect Western art before finalizing her engagement to Philadelphia attorney, Prescott Bellamy. While attending a wedding in Colorado Springs, she particularly notices the preacher, John Harding, a rugged Civil War veteran who recently lost his wife. John is attracted to Sarah's sunny personality, but thinks the social butterfly is interested only in skimming life's surface. Serious about life, Harding not only shepherds his congregation, but also aids the restless, sometimes dangerous Ute Indians. Confronted with the faith and mission of this arresting western man, Sarah is confused. Family and society sweep her back East to the life she's always envisioned. However, after experiencing both beauty and death in the West, she now wonders if her life is meant to be more than that of a highbrow, wealthy Philadelphian.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
When Angies car leaves the roadway, flips over, and hits a tree on a beautiful sunny day, its her time to leave the earthly world to fulfill her calling in the spirt world. Shes not alone; she has the archangels to guide her. In Angle Blessings: Believe, author Patty Callahan shares Angies fictional story that addresses a number of questions about life and after, such as the following: What happens when you leave this earth? Will you see a bright light? Who will you meet? What it is like on the other side? Will your kindred spirit be there, waiting for you? Will your deceased loved ones be waiting too? Would you like to communicate with your guardian angels and archangels right now? What are the specialties of the archangels? Is there hope for the planet earth? Written under the guidance of archangel Gabriel, Angel Blessings: Believe introduces fifteen colorful archangels and shares an inspirational journey to heaven and back.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
What if your whole life was a dream? And what if YOU were the dreamer? Alora is a leaf who’s fallen from the Dreaming Tree into the strange new land of Lake Sojourn where she experiences an emotional roller-coaster of fear, love and loss as she struggles to remember who she is. Along the way she meets unexpected guides who share their wisdom to help her rediscover her true self and purpose. Will she continue to drift on the surface, always at the mercy of the elements? Or will she find the courage to face her fears, dive deep and reclaim her true power? This beautifully illustrated spiritual fairy tale for grownups will show us all how we can live deeper, richer lives.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
Eight-year old Jesse Hall and his pregnant mother move to the “Eden of America,” a small rural town in Ohio, to escape an abusive father addicted to gambling and alcohol. There, Jesse is bullied by the most popular school kid, denied a church experience by a self-righteous preacher, and threatened with foster care by a well-meaning social worker. Can Jesse fulfill his dream of a normal family with his own parents and brothers and sisters? See what he does with the help of a fatherless eight-year old girl, the lovely Five and Dime clerk, and a mummified corpse.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Inspirational
The earthquake that strikes their hospital catapults three strangers into life-long friendships and exposes the fault lines in each of their characters. Dr. Jenny Gordon, Dr. Mark Stewart, and Chaplain Joseph Waters, all with troubled pasts, yearn to regain their self-esteem, and better their lives and the lives of others. Their determination to overcome obstacles results in a discovery that profoundly benefits mankind. Follow their lives and adventures as they learn to love and trust themselves and each other. Their inspirational journey exemplifies the ability of all of us to make the most of who we are.
Despite the years of bullying in school, Jewel Hart has remained sweet and kind. She has it all--a great life, a great family, and beauty--but she has never been able to obtain the one thing she wants--to belong.
When Jewel meets Kaiden Carter, a good-looking, charming new student at York Mills High, things start to look up. On the surface, he is perfect, but Jewel can't shake the feeling that everything is not as it seems.
When the devastation of the rising suicides in her school hits too close to home and drives Jewel into a deep despair, she clings to Kaiden's strength to find her way back. Through the pain and fear surrounding her, she finds hope and the will to go on. But just as she picks herself up, tragedy strikes again, threatening to steal her last glimmer of hope. How will she go on? Can she ever find her place in the world?
Kamiri, a dirt-poor migrant raised in tribal culture, is drawn to the city, where he joins his brother in the illegal drugs trade. Disillusioned, Kamiri enters professional football, but his jealous brother shoots Kamiri in the knee, forcing him to begin work as a forest ranger.
Hassan, of doubtful parentage, is the youngest child in a rich and powerful Muslim family. Lonely and insecure at university, he joins Dorothy at a political protest that goes wrong, and finds himself in a terrorist organisation. Appalled by their activities, he escapes and enters the Army's officer candidate school.
Dorothy, a college graduate from a middle-class Christian family, is an idealist who is unsure whether to enter politics or medicine. Set back in both careers, she makes a decision, and faces a further romantic choice between Kamiri or Hassan.
These three East African young people are intertwined in friendship, as each seeks a fully satisfying and challenging life and career identity.
Two voices are heard throughout. One, seemingly the voice of God, and the Other, possibly Satan's voice, offer conflicting guidance on achieving superpersonhood.
In this coming of age love series, Faith, Family, Love, you will find yourself asking for more and wondering what's next in each of the character's lives. Celeste's journey leads her to a place of maturity, realizing that her faith in God, family, and love is all she needs. The themes of passion and fate is very evident in this series. As she journals, you will feel her heart as if it was beating as your own, and you will fall in love with the words that eloquently flows through each entry.
Can Celeste leave behind what was found in Cali, or will fate allow her to fall into the arms of a love that always existed?
As Celeste discovers the true meaning of love and friendship, she defines her life as being blessed. For had it not been for the loss, the challenges, and her faith being tested, she would not have ever discovered who she is, A Rare Diamond.
If you like music and romance, you'll love Nothing but a Song...the story of Rebecca Kendall who has a life any nineteen-year-old would envy: musical talent, love, romance, and a promising future. When a tragic accident erases her past, present, and future, Rebecca's life turns into turmoil and irreconcilable loss. Becca faces her new life alone, angry, depressed, and DEAF. Becca wants nothing but a song, but will her dream survive such insurmountable odds? Will she ever take another chance at love? Only a mysterious stranger can answer those questions.
How much should a wronged husband forgive? This time, Aubrey Beaumont’s wife has left for good. Though a single dad with three children to raise, Aubrey diligently searches for his drug-addicted, runaway wife. Fifteen years later, he has relocated from Vermont to Silver Spring where he serves as a respected minister and chaplain. He is caught in a quandary when he is called to a community hospital to counsel a terminally ill patient and comes face-to-face with his long-lost wife. After leaving her family, Joanna Beaumont becomes a madame for Washington’s rich and powerful. With God’s forgiveness, she desires to find purpose in her final days and negotiates a plea bargain for testimony against her drug-lord lover. She accepts God’s judgment and expects no healing miracle. Her salvation and reunion with Aubrey is grace enough. While Aubrey can understand his wife’s drug addiction, her romantic liaison with a vicious criminal seems beyond his human capacity to forgive. Does God expect him to rescue her from the bowels of degradation like the biblical Hosea? Why did God bring her back to him only to watch her die?
Confessions of a Profamateur Chef is a colorful and inventive deconstruction of necessary events that puts its heroine, Andromeda, back on the right path after disappointment and setbacks. Andromeda is a beautifully broken, hot mess of a woman who is just crazy enough to chase after a vision only she can see.
A journey back to the Appalachian Mountains and the small town of Harmony and Boone during the 1940s. The journey and trials of Alec and Sady Karastaupolis are tested. A stranger wonders into the lives of the people of Harmony. Does he do good or bring evil? Or does this stranger bring peace and joy back into this community? Willow Moone learns how to trust. Eddie and his new bride Billy Rose learn to accept a tragedy that eventually brings them closer together.
Finalist: Inspirational Fiction - 2018 American Fiction Awards
Kristin is living a life that she had never imagined. Her career has taken a wonderful turn, she has found a true love, and her days are full of mindfulness and purpose through a yoga practice. But it wasn't always this way. There was a time when Kristin's life was defined by painful issues in her tissues, poor eating habits, and negative thought patterns. She seemed stuck in a loop of bad luck and low-level energy vibrations. When her family and friends suggested that they all go to a yoga class together, Kristin was more than hesitant. After all, nothing else had helped her so far so why would yoga be any different? Soon Kristin found herself on an unexpected journey of understanding and accepting the past, finding happiness in the present, regaining trust in the universe, and transforming into a person that hardly resembles her former self. Kristin, not unlike many others, is The Accidental Yogini.
This is a metaphorical story of love, loss, reclamation, and healing. From brokenness to togetherness then returning to brokenness, this book takes the reader on a journey through hopelessness to wholeness. Darkness and light in the forest and at the sea compose the notes of An Essential Song.
