Collection: Adult

Fredricka R. Maister calls herself "a lifelong mourner."

At twelve, she lost her father suddenly-and coped by not coping. Twenty-five years later, the brutal murder of her longtime partner shattered the emotional barriers she had built. Then came the slow decline of her mother, whose final years were spent in a nursing home.

Each loss brought its own kind of grief, shaped by the relationship, the circumstances, and the stage of life in which it occurred. In Three Times a Mourner, Maister, a seasoned essayist, reflects on these deeply personal experiences. With honesty and grace, she explores how grief evolves over time and how writing became part of her healing.

This is not a how-to guide or a set of steps for getting over loss. It's a moving collection of essays about mourning, memory, and resilience-offering insight and connection to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one.

Whether you're grieving now or living with a sorrow from long ago, Three Times a Mourner is a companion through the difficult terrain of loss-and a reminder that healing, though never simple, is always possible.

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"Fredricka Maister grabs grief and puts it in a chokehold, holding it still enough so that we're able to see it up close and personal." - Charles Salzberg, author of over 40 non-fiction and fiction books, including the Henry Swann Mystery series

"A touching examination of life-changing loss and the long road toward something like closure." - Amy Brozio-Andrews, Independent Book Review

"Fredricka R. Maister's Three Times a Mourner is a really moving and thoughtful collection of essays, and she does a beautiful job of sharing her three major losses with honesty and compassion. Her writing style has a natural grace to it, even when she is talking about extraordinarily difficult events, and it is easy to connect with the author and her stories as a result." - Jamie Michele, Readers' Favorite

Pine Harbor: where hearts return and love begins.

Twelve years after a mistake that changed everything, Taylor Calderwood returns to Pine Harbor to care for her prickly ninety-four-year-old uncle. But the quiet Maine coastal town stirs up more than memories - it brings back guilt she s spent years trying to forget.

Jack Garrity isn t in Pine Harbor by choice either. Bound by guilt and a promise he can t break, he s keeping his head down and helping a friend through the hardest chapter of her life.

Then one night, under a sky full of stars, Taylor meets Jack by the water. What begins as a chance encounter turns into late-night swims and soul-deep conversations - igniting a connection neither of them expected.

With the past pulling at their heels and the future uncertain, they must decide: can they let go of what was to embrace what could be?

If you love VIRGIN RIVER, you'll fall head over heals for the first book in the new Pine Harbor series

Why readers love Tammy Robinson:

'A deeply emotional story that will remind you that life is a gift, and it's never too late for love' Kelly Rimmer, author of Me Without You

'Heart warming and heart breaking - you will need tissues!' Hello!

'Heart-wrenchingly romantic, this book will leave you wanting to hold your loved ones just that little bit closer' Emma Cooper, author of The First Time I Saw You

'How I wish I could give more than 5 stars! Reading this book will make you laugh and cry and feel every emotion in between' Goodreads reviewer

'Uplifting, bittersweet and powerful' Goodreads reviewer

Before you leave your own island, be sure to explore John Fadely's. Along the shore, your signals are jammed with true hyperbole, as in every good poem's interference against the usual. Below the ground, you interrogate the poem exactly as you read it. Navigate the shoals in order to find scraps of wisdom not from but for Confucius. The notes map the journey you've taken along with Marianne Moore, Jack Kerouac, Gustave Caillebotte, Khalil Gibran, and Shakespeare's 29th sonnet where he and we sing the outcast hymns.

-Al Filreis, Kelly Professor, University of Pennsylvania

John Fadely's debut collection is rich with inventive language, engaging forms and the realities of leaving one land and transitioning to another. These poems contain an honest believable voice from a life lived globally but studded with small intimate moments shining through. Each poem is gleaming in a varnish of light.

-Tina Schumann, author of Boneyard Heresies

In Fadely's collection, the echoes of Donne's "no man is an island" resonate as poems deeply connected to lyrical traditions, ancient and modern, navigate the flux of continents and cultures. These verses move with striking versatility, from moments of fierce, high-stakes questioning to scenes of tender, quiet reflection. Contemplative, at times experimental, and rooted in both inherited and personal myths, the poems feel pleasurable and necessary, charting a poet's honest journey to locate oneself within life's vast, shifting geographies.

-Jake Marmer, author of Cosmic Diaspora

John Fadely's poems are distilled meditations on topics as quotidian as a cycle of cicadas or as jolting as the sudden death of a woman in her prime. In reading them, I'm reminded of Dos Passos's vignettes-informative, disruptive, descriptive, charming, disturbing. Working from a cosmopolitan palette with Asian influences, Fadely toys with time, undermines death, and teases nature into revealing a secret or two, in words that delight in themselves.

-Brian Bruya, Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University and author of Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation

Heaven is ready to respond - but it's waiting for a sound.

In Seeding Heaven: Preparing for Revival, Keith Duncan invites you into a prophetic journey of transformation-where prayer, worship, and prophetic decrees become seeds that open the heavens.

Drawing from decades of ministry experience and timeless biblical revelation, Keith Duncan reveals how to:

• Host the Presence of God in your home, church, and city
• Partner with the Holy Spirit to cultivate atmospheres of revival
• Break through spiritual dryness and experience open heavens
• Release the sound that summons glory and shifts regions

With a foreword by Bishop Kevin Wallace, and a voice shaped by the leadership influence of Dr. Myles Munroe, this book carries both prophetic fire and practical wisdom. Whether you are a pastor, worship leader, intercessor, or believer hungry for more, Seeding Heaven will inspire you to align with heaven's agenda and prepare for the coming outpouring.

Get ready to seed the atmosphere. The downpour is coming.

A prophetic guide to hosting the Presence of God and cultivating revival - Discover how to prepare your atmosphere for Heaven's outpouring - Ignite your prayer life and release the sound of revival in your city - Learn how worship, prayer, and prophetic decrees open Heaven's rain - Unlock Kingdom principles for sustaining personal and corporate revival - Be equipped to carry God's glory and transform spiritual climates - Become a modern-day rainmaker who seeds Heaven for transformation.

Maeve, Hadley, and Lizzie thought they'd have it all figured out by now. But life, love, and loss have a way of rewriting even the best-laid plans. The trio were inseparable in college, and now navigating the messy years of adulthood on Boston's South Shore. Still reeling from the sudden death of her husband, Maeve is determined to rebuild-until a preppy golden boy named Pope not only swipes her promotion, but starts cracking open the heart she swore she'd sealed shut. Hadley, a Southern Belle newlywed is struggling to conceive while clinging to a vision of the perfect life that's slipping through her fingers. And Lizzie, the glamorous, divorced, high-achieving realtor, is unraveling-still obsessing over her ex and questioning every choice that's led her here.

THE MESSY YEARS is a heartfelt, humorous, and honest portrait of friendship during the painful years of adulting. It reminds us that the truest family is the one we choose.