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Elizabeth Fane is on the cusp of 50, but instead of celebrating with her family, she is on a plane to Italy alone, leaving behind her husband, three adult sons, and the profound rift between them. In Italy Liz plans to prune olive trees at a convent, explore the city of Florence, and visit its ancient cathedrals. There she meets four womenfive if you count the large painting of the Virgin Marywith whom she converses regularly. While at first these conversations with the painting are ironic (and are always one-sided), eventually they turn to become another way for Liz to consider the rift between her and her family. Liz gradually reveals why she left home and sorts out what it will take for her to return. Renaissance is a story about a woman of a certain age a novel about the end of motherhood as Liz steps out of longstanding domestic roles to find her own place in the world.

"Garrett creates characters who are whole and complex." Library JournalBastille Day: A Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption in the City of LightHaunted by the past, can he find hope in a city that has seen it all?Veteran journalist Calvin Jones has spent the last decade keeping his head down, reporting local news in Texas and trying to forget the devastating losses he suffered in the Iraq war. But when an old friend offers him a chance to work in Paris, he seizes the opportunityonly to find that the ghosts of war are not so easily left behind.In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, Cal meets Nadia, a brilliant but heartbroken Saudi woman caught in the grip of an arranged marriage. Their unexpected connection offers them both a glimmer of hopeuntil the world intrudes once more. When a terror attack in Nice forces Cal back into the chaos he thought hed escaped, he must confront the traumas of his past and decide if hes willing to risk everything for a future he never thought possible.Told with breathtaking prose and emotional depth, Bastille Day is a powerful novel of love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit. Perfect for fans of literary fiction that explores the complexities of war, faith, and second chances, Greg Garretts latest work is a compelling testament to the enduring power of hope.Watch the Book Trailer HERE!

This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of the seasons and of the liturgical year, create the pace and the song. But in the biblical voices of Magdalene, Mary, Abel, and Eve, and in the grim historical and political realities of war and suffering, one also hears lament and finds the poets clear-eyed gaze straight into lifes challenges. Memory is at work here, too, in personal reminiscences and in theological reflection. As one philosopher has said, "All truth is Gods truth." From Shade to Shine is published under Paraclete Presss 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 Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

Winner of the 2023 Illumination Book Awards Winner of the 2022 International Book Awards Third Place 2023 Catholic Media Associations Book AwardsBegin 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 journeyoften in stops and startstoward 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 Presss "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 Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

"The word angel means messenger and the title poem of this book, Angels Everywhere, presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker of glancing light, as if a heavenly being is darting in and out of my viewing, allowing me entry into a realm beyond my physical, experiential worldbrief revelatory messages from somewhere beyond. Im hoping that as you read these poems, (more than once, aloud if possible) something like Wordsworths intimations of immortality will enliven your own perceptions of the world as you experience it. Maybe your own fleet of angels will show up!" Luci Shaw, from the Introduction Angels Everywhere is published under Paraclete Presss 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 Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallaces sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raising the sparks, tikkun olam, comes from 16th century mystical Judaismthe belief that, if people worked to "gather or raise the sparks" from the sacred vessels that shattered at the moment of creation, a repair of the world from its initial splitting would be complete. It is the duty of each one of us to raise the sparks from wherever they are imprisoned and to elevate them to holiness. Also informing this work is the Jesuit idea of finding God in all things and conversing (without clerical intervention) directly with Jesus. The poems in this collection engage with these theological traditions by witnessing the human joys and challenges of attending to their mandates.Raising the Sparks is published under Paraclete Presss 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 Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.

"Cornered by the Dark is a triumph." —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao W. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Julia Equivel, Thomas Merton, Langston Hughes, Pedr

Sensitive and heartwarming, Mr. Nicholas is a magical Christmas story in which lives and hearts are changed by a small boy and the power of his relentless love. Every town has its secrets. When it becomes known that Mr. Nicholas, the eccentric owner of the local hardware store, is somehow involved with reindeer, toys, and children, the town becomes more and more suspicious that this man is more than just a clerk on Main Street.JB, a clever, open ten-year-old boy with Down syndrome, is able to figure out the secret from the first time Mr. Nicholas gives him a chocolate deer wrapped in gold foil. JBs father and mother, both cynical and on the brink of divorce, follow the adventures of JB as he flies on the back of a reindeer, feeds Mister Rogerss fish, and defines what can be forgotten by those who are too busy to remember the magic of Christmas, cuckoo-clocks, and love."In Christopher de Vincks novel Mr. Nicholas, a hardened newspapermans life is rocked by a small boys love and an encounter with a mysterious old man.On his way to interview a beekeeper, Jim sees Annas car clinging to the edge of the road. He stops to help, and they connectas if each were tapped into the same current. But once married, their differences open a gap between them. Anna suggests that a baby could bridge that gap.But when JB is born with Down syndrome, Jims rejection of his son leads Anna to file for separation. Jim feels disappointed in his career; he faces a sad and lonely Christmas. Gradually, though, the time he spends with his son opens his eyes to a world in which magic is real and everyone is worth loving.Anna cannot see the changes in Jim, and when JB goes missing, she blames him. She suspects that JBs friend, Mr. Nicholas, a scavenger and owner of a hardware store that hides a mystery, is responsible, too.Told in Jims voice, this is a story about the power of a boys relentless love. Tense and stressful at first, it makes the changes in Jim palpable through his inner reflections, his conversations with others, and through small actions that reveal his growing love for his son.Suspense grows as Mr. Nicholas comes under investigation for JBs disappearance. Jim questions the old man, who asks him some probing questions in return. In the books satisfying conclusion, Jim realizes the importance and beauty of the ordinariness that makes life worth living and gives Christmas its true meaning. Sensitive and heartwarming, Mr. Nicholas is a magical Christmas story in which lives and hearts are changed by a small boys unconditional love."Foreword Reviews (September / October 2021)

These poems map a private pilgrimage to nowherefrom the chair to the couch, the couch to the chair. These poems also map a public pilgrimage through the landscape of pandemic, from dire disaster to the hope for healing. They chronicle a year spent in lockdown in a small village just outside New York City.Living amid the Coronavirus catastrophe has occasioned extraordinary outpourings of love over the past year. These poems recognize the public love of healthcare workers, front-line essential workers, people helping their sick and elderly neighbors and family members, school teachers ministering to students and their parentsall signs of our belief in the common good, as well as the many forms of private and personal love we practiceamong them the uncountable emails, texts, social media posts, phone calls, and Zoom calls we share with our beloveds whom we are separated from, making ourselves present to them virtually when we cannot be present physically. These are but a few of the many forms love has takenand continues to takeduring these late days of pandemic.The title of the book, Love in the Time of Coronavirus, is borrowed from Gabriel Garcia Marquezs luminous novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, about the enduring power of love in the face of time and deadly circumstance. This book of poems goes beyond Marquezs primary focus on romantic attachment to consider love in its many forms. As with Marquezs novel, the poems remind us that love flourishes even, and perhaps especially, during times of extremity, when the reality of mortality becomes palpable to us and we begin to see life in the context of eternity. It is then that love becomes the most powerful antidote we have to human suffering.

"Steven has an Irish monks attentiveness to the fragility, mystery, and hidden beauties of things." Peter Leithart, First Things The book is a gathering together of all of Kenneth Stevens poems concerning the island of Iona through the years. These comprise poems that have been published in journals both at home and abroad, and broadcast on BBC Radio. A lengthy introduction tells the story of the forging of those first links with Iona, and those that have come through adult years. This is a book both for those who know and love the island, and for those who may yearn to visit but have not yet had the chance. Its essentially a love song to a precious and an extraordinary place that has been the authors spiritual home from earliest childhood days.

The poems in Flying Yellow cry out for the day just out of reach, the day which unaccountably may in a moment or a season let down a joyful light into the obscurity of human trial. A hopeful belief in heaven and the end of suffering colors these profoundly spiritual, often uneasy, poems. Carried by musical currents that shape her work, Rhodes ventures into what she calls "the good dark stuff" of experiencegood because the dark is where Christ went, willingly, to take it captive. Whether probing the meaning of her own personal traumas or those of historical figures like Mary Rowlandson and Dorothy Bradford; whether peeling back layers of habitual sight to see the natural world of robins and ghost crabs and shorelines more truly, she brings the reader alongside in each surprising encounter to see the possibilities of light.

Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readingsto honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the authors own lifeemerging at years end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the texts enduring questions continue to ring.

"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaws 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects Gods generosity at work such as "springs impossible news of green." These poems confirm that in poetry as in faith "ripeness is all." Like Wordsworth, Luci is celebrated for being a highly gifted landscape poet whose works are rich in imagery from the physical worldmeadows filled with seeds, flowers, and also poems which are like "shoots" in Lucis writing life. Animals, too, great and small (beetles, cricket, and voles to bears and whales) play a major role in Lucis poetics of creation; God is likened to a great bear who leaves paw tracks for us to follow. In their deep faith and vibrant colors and designs, the poems in Generosity might be considered Lucis Book of Kells. We need to be like Lucis father who carried her poems in his briefcase to show his friends." Philip C. Kolin, Author, Reaching Forever: Poems; Distinguished Professor of English (Emeritus), University of Southern Mississippi

This collection of poems engages in new and animating ways with one of the profoundest texts of our past, the Book of Psalms. These poems are Clarkes response to his experience of reading the Psalter through once every month according to Cranmers divisions in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.

Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery OConnor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery OConnor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo ODonnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her familys farm named "Andalusia." Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from OConnors essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannerys thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into OConnors private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannerys loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours OConnor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.

Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes her dedication to this art as a burden to "speak into a culture that finds it hard to listen." This collection of new poemsall composed over the last two yearsis in many ways the culmination of a stunning career.The joy and responsibility of the poet is to focus on particulars within the universe, finding fragments of meaning that speak to the imagination. Ordinary things may reveal the extraordinary for those willing to take time to investigate and ponder. In this fresh collection of poems, Luci Shaw practices the art of seeing, and then writing what she sees, realizing that beauty is often focused in the Eye of the Beholder.Eye of the Beholder is meant to awaken in readers awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary. They will find in this collection a focus for meditation and be excited into their own imaginative writing.

Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her familys three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family for land she does not own. A sudden, inexplicable event leaves the daughter of her childhood friend in her care. Pressured by her community to allow her former fiance to raise the child, Dottie must face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget. Spanning a decade, This Heavy Silence explores the power of the vows we make to others, and, more binding, those we make to ourselves. Evoking the hardship, spring-fed beauty, and the complexities of community in the rural Midwest, this award-winning, beautifully observed novel leads us to question our ideas about motherhood, faith, and the debts we owe."Like the land she inhabits and the people she attends, Nicole Mazzarella offers a subtle and enduring beauty, born of intense interiority, and vision both broad and deep." -Scott Cairns, author of Philokalia: New & Selected Poems

With poems by Phyllis Tickle, Scott Cairns, Paul Mariani, Anna Kamienska, Fr. John-Julian, SAID, Bonnie Thurston, Greg Miller, William Woolfitt, Rami Shapiro, Thomas Lynch, Paul Quenon, and Rainer Maria Rilke, this anthology spans the first ten years of the poetry series at Paraclete Press. "Paraclete is a house firmly rooted in presending and curating religious poetry as part of the verbal experience that, being couched more deeply in the aesthetic than the didactic, has deep resonance and potent significance for the shaping of the surrounding culture itself. It means the on-going giving away and sharing of God with humility through mystery." Phyllis Tickle (1934-2015)

¿Y si la única salida para la humanidad estuviera en el diálogo con una inteligencia no humana?En este libro apasionante y profundo, Pedro Pozas Terrados conversa con una inteligencia artificial sobre los desafios mas urgentes de nuestro tiempo: la crisis climatica, la extincion de especies, la injusticia social, el poder de las corporaciones, el olvido de los pueblos indigenas, la energia del futuro, el sentido de la vida... y la posibilidad de un mañana mas justo y consciente.Desde la experiencia vital del autor y su incansable activismo en defensa de los grandes simios y de la Tierra, surge una obra unica que invita a reflexionar, a cuestionarse, y a actuar."Guardianes del Mañana: Humanidad 3.0" no es solo un libro.Es una llamada.Un dialogo valiente entre lo humano y lo artificial.Un manual de supervivencia para quienes aun creen en la esperanza.El futuro no se espera... se construye. Y este libro es una piedra en ese camino.

El mundo está luchando en una Tercera Guerra Mundial que no parece tener fin. Tanto un bando como otro, tratando de acabar con la guerra, liberaron una lluvia de misiles nucleares por todo el planeta, devastandolo y llenandolo de radioactividad que impediria a los seres humanos poder vivir.Antes de que eso sucediese, desde hacia decadas, Industrias End habia creado unos refugios en los que acoger a miles de marines por todo el mundo bajo criogenizacion.Por otro lado, habia creado otras ciudades, protegidas del peligro que conllevaria vivir en el planeta si llegase a haber una gran catastrofe.Muchos años mas tarde, mientras que uno de los marines despertaba, bajo tierra, una ciudad prosperaba y vivia gracias a la energia solar y eolica que venia de algun lugar del exterior, enviando constantemente a un grupo de exploradores por las grutas que antes eran tuneles de metro o cuevas, para que trataran de hallar una salida y asegurarse de que el aire volvia a ser puro y sin radioactividad, y asi poder expandir a la humanidad nuevamente.