I felt like the author had heard my own experience and had given me both a voice and a path forward. Calm, practical, and encouraging, this is a book I keep wanting to recommend to more and more people. And I want to read it again in print to reinforce what I heard in audio.
Do you, like so many of us, see anxiety as an incentive to perform? Or a proof of how much you care? Or is anxiety simply an unwelcome shadow over your days, bringing with it clenched teeth and an upset stomach?
Anxiety leads us to succumb to fear and fight peace. Anxious living is a distortion of good motives, blocking the clarity of stillness and rest.
Alan Fadling has also felt mastered by worry, but he brings counsel on how to learn a better way and who to look to for it: Jesus, "the ultimate non-anxious presence." He constructs a…
This is a delightful mystery on so many levels. Character, family dynamics, “impossible crime,” surprises, and misdirections. I appreciated the heroine's multi-ethnic family background--and the food references.
"Wildly entertaining." —The New York Times Book Review
Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted.
An impossible crime. A family legacy. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases.
After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. Though she resists, every day brings her…
"Japanese cozy cat fiction" is a new genre to me, and this book made me feel good. The author nailed the cat's point of view, and I loved the bond between cat and human. I liked how each failed attempt to find the cat a new home brought a happy ending to the household that couldn't keep him.
STUNNING HARDBACK GIFTING EDITION, INCLUDES A RIBBON
RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the feelgood story of a journey around Japan with a cat by your side. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami.
INCLUDES 6 BEAUTIFUL LINE-DRAWINGS
'Bewitching... as self-possessed and comforting as - well, a cat' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH _____________
It's not the journey that counts, but who's at your side.
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van.…
When a dear friend needs support, Landon Smith returns to her hometown. She can only pray it won't undo the healing she's found from her traumatic past. Her friend, Anna, is a key part of that healing. She's like a second mother and spiritual mentor rolled into one.
Anna Young, recently widowed, runs a country inn on Canada’s Atlantic coast. Someone's playing mind games with her: sounds in the night, simple pranks. The police think it's all in her head. But Anna's heart for misfits may have gained her an enemy, and the incidents are escalating. Landon has lost too much to lose Anna, too. Step one: prove there's a prowler. Step two: stop him. Then, go home to face the consequences of her absence.
