A popular misconception about prayer, writes Jones, is that its worth is “measured in how many of our prayers God answers just as we want.” He suggests that prayer’s real value is the “treasure of talking with God,” who gives us “unfettered access and open invitation.” After an introductory chapter that provides a broad overview …
The fourth book in Weigley’s Abuse & Energy series aims to help readers recognize the ways in which abuse—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—can leave lasting impressions on the soul and provide them with steps that can help them heal. The handbook is divided into three parts; the first tackles the terrible consequences of abuse, largely …
This informative book starts with the basics. First, what is an amphibian? The opening spread doesn’t present the full definition, though readers can infer the rest from the pages that follow: These cold-blooded vertebrates mainly begin life in water with gills and metamorphose to live on land with lungs. De la Bédoyère moves on to …
Ben and Andreas struggle to sustain friendships with their peers and each other. Formerly close, they’ve drifted apart over the past two years. Ben’s girlfriend, Clara, recognizes that she became the third wheel, but noticing the tension between the boys, she tried hard not to “come across as the big divider.” But then Ben and …
As 17-year-old Maura Ellard is leaving the women’s clinic where she terminated her pregnancy, she’s spotted by Maxine, a classmate she barely knows, who later violates her privacy by revealing this information on social media. Maura is comfortable with the choice she made—she’s relieved, knowing she did the right thing for herself—but she wanted to …
Zara Persil-Pendleton is a private investigator in Alameda, California, who mostly takes employment-related cases with a sideline involving the museum world, particularly regarding Judaica-related works and their provenance. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who hid her Jewishness after the war, Zara finds this heritage connection becoming important to her later in life. That …
Blair didn’t expect her life on Earth to end face to face with a venomous snake—and she certainly couldn’t have predicted that the Biwbans, a race of penguinlike creatures, would swoop her up onto their spaceship just before tragedy struck. Now she’s stranded on a faraway planet with Osid, a king who’s just as alien …
The six Marigold Cottages in Santa Barbara, California, are owned by the good-hearted yenta Golda Bakofsky—fondly known as Mrs. B—who’ll do anything for the people she loves. That includes confessing to murder, as she did six months ago, bringing the diverse but equally eccentric residents together to find the real killer. Now that Sophie, the …
Renée Richards made a splash in 1977 when she sued to be allowed to compete in the U.S. Women’s Open and won her case. The former Richard Raskind, an ophthalmologist and fervent amateur tennis player from New York, underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1975 and then, taking on the name of Renée Richards, at age 41, …
Marvin, a shy, self-conscious merchild, spends his days playing with his best friend, Pearl, a big, round, shiny pearl. While playing hide-and-seek, Pearl rolls away, and Marvin, distraught, swims deep into the reef to find her. He discovers something shiny, but it isn’t Pearl—it’s a little fish called Pinky. Marvin blushes with embarrassment, but Pinky …
