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.

A succubus's kiss is deadly... to everyone but her.

Evie is trapped. Held captive by the vampiric Court of Night, she has experienced nothing but pain and terror for over a year. Treasured for her rare and delectable blood, Evie knows she will never see the outside of the dark estate that is her prison. She is fated to be forever ruined by cruel monsters. Her freedom is a concept lost.

Natalya is the second-in-command of the Chicago-based Court of Chains. She is among the rarest monsters-a greater fiend, a succubus. A being of pure Sin, whose touch is agony and whose kiss is a death sentence. Following a less-than-diplomatic visit to the Court of Night, Natalya finds herself responsible for a human who was so hurt during her captivity that she is believed to be broken. But there's something different about this strange woman. She suffers no pain under Natalya's touch, and she can survive the infernal kiss of a succubus.

But Sin does not invite peace. The vampire King of the Court of Night is a patient man who doesn't like when people take what he believes to be his property. Or which could be his property. And only few things are rarer or more precious than the bound powers of a greater fiend.

Kiss of Seduction is an emotionally charged, sapphic love story of healing through trauma, reclaiming yourself after tragedy, and trusting another to catch you when you fall.

With a keen eye for imagery, Veronica Kornberg brings the dearness of daily life to us from her perch on the edge of the Pacific, her newfound home: "We took it all on faith, as is. // Below us, the violent sea / broke its beautiful teeth on the rocks." Kornberg invites us into the rich sensory detail of the place and "how a person can be // changed entirely by the scent of sage and coyote mint, / by the quick tongues of painted ladies that swarm the sea daisies..." Against this backdrop, we're also led into family memories, "this conversation between the living and the long dead" and toward this conclusion: "It did not feel like loss, but a wheel turning." This is a lush debut, a narrative collection full of gift after Strange Gift.

-Ellen Bass, author of Indigo

Wondrous, dug from the earth, I trust these poems to lead me "toward the beat to follow, the flutter/ of blood, the bone."

-Danusha Laméris, author of Blade By Blade

Veronica Kornberg's gorgeous, transcendent poetry collection Strange Gift is a grounding, bountiful reaping-a landscape & seascape of memory which "peel[s] the body's waxy, rough skin / right down to the tender." These are some of the most distinctive, memorable poems on nature & memory that I've ever read. They never rush or push us into grief or joy. Instead, they offer us a sensory feast, a meditation on the tide, the garden & who we have loved & lost. Strange Gift is an elegant testament to "the hidden / marrow of days leaching thin." Alternating between vibrant & subtle images, these masterful poems remind me that being human means living in a shared world on borrowed time. And it is in that shared world that we must find ways to hold on, to let go & to bear witness to what remains.

-Joan Kwon Glass, author of Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms

From the concrete edges of a New Jersey girlhood to the long-sought home on the Pacific Coast, the poems in Veronica Kornberg's Strange Gift trace a journey through landscapes that are at once external and deeply internal, ultimately a search for notions of home: "I thought maybe there was a place for me in this world," Kornberg writes in the titular poem, "a little side street off the parade route." In these poems, nature is both sanctuary and mirror reflecting the complexities of loss and renewal, a reminder that even in the most fractured and damaged landscapes, beauty persists. Above all, Strange Gift is a love letter to a life well-lived-to the bitter and the sweet, to loved ones past and present, and to the evening primrose in its unabashedly "frank availability." This is one stunning debut.

-Sarah Freligh, author of Sad Math and Other Emergencies