Publisher: Babelcube
Three short stories that share a theme of introspective journeys through the inextricable twists and turns of the main characters.
Winner of the 2023 Illumination Book Awards Winner of the 2022 International Book Awards Third Place 2023 Catholic Media Association's Book Awards Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey—often in stops and starts—toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery. Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, "Who do you say that I am?" A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God. Begin with a Question is published under Paraclete Press's "Iron Pen" imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.Show book
Jayne is newly retired and disappointed with her life. She's in danger of becoming her daughter's babysitting service, and is desperate to make a change. When she meets a handsome stranger in the park – and an opportunity to do something for herself arises – can Jayne allow herself a second chance at happiness? Matt Hartley's play The Wife of Cyncoed is a charming and open-hearted play about self-discovery later in life. It premiered at Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, in 2024, and provides gloriously entertaining opportunities for a mature solo performer.Show book
a man gets lost in the mountains and end up in a strange town that doesn't really exist. What happens after that is even weirder..Show book
A magical wintery book for all ages. This 24-page eBook takes you and your loved ones on a snowy adventure. Navigate through your feelings of winter and connect to nature in a way that enlivens and reframes a gray winter day.Show book
This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Experience Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy translated directly from the original Italian. Journey through the terrifying depths of Inferno, the hopeful ascent of Purgatorio, and the transcendent glory of Paradiso in a translation that honors Dante's medieval vision while speaking in clear, contemporary language. This translation captures the full emotional and philosophical power of Dante's masterpiece—the moral weight of divine justice, the psychological complexity of sin and redemption, the mystical beauty of paradise—making this fourteenth-century epic newly accessible without diminishing its richness. This is Dante's original architecture of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven rendered for modern readers: immediate, vivid, and philosophically intact. For first-time readers and devoted Dante scholars alike, this edition offers an encounter with one of Western literature's supreme achievements in language that resonates with contemporary audiences while remaining faithful to the poet's original intent.Show book
You open the chat. No name. No history. Just "He" and "She."Typing… Then nothing. Then everything.And suddenly, you're not reading a book—you're stepping into a hidden world that feels like your own. Virtual Sentiments is a spellbinding mosaic of lives connecting in the glow of a screen. Each page introduces new characters, new conversations, and a fresh emotional battlefield. Every texting thread is a love story, a farewell, a whispered prayer, or a scream between the lines—so intimate, they slip under your skin and pluck the strings of your emotions.Love begins and ends. Marriages unravel. Trust is betrayed. Hope flickers through the shadows of loss, depression, and haunting memories. Secrets are confessed, fears confronted, destinies reshaped. And when despair nears, "He" and "She" find refuge in God, anchoring their every step.Strangers become soulmates and soulmates become ghosts. In the spaces between "sent" and "seen," wisdom waits.This book doesn't tell you everything.It dares you to feel everything.Who are they?Why does it hurt so beautifully to listen to them?And what if every message you read… was actually a reflection of your own story?Turn the page. The next message is for you.But once you open this chat, you may never see life the same way again.Show book
