Someone once told me that groupings of objects should be displayed in threes. Three provides both tension and balance among items of varying size and heft. My sister’s accident made me an only child; my husband’s accident made me a widow. Part of me will always believe that Angel was the third, the one that left me with hope. After her husband’s unexpected death at the age of thirty-six, Gina Melrose becomes a “live-aboard” on his boat, docked at a marina in coastal South Carolina, near the home she and Ben once shared. In this temporary, borrowed existence on the water, she settles into numb survival. But Gina finds her life taking yet another dramatic turn late one night when a woman named Reese disrupts her quiet world. With Reese comes a daughter: a charming girl named Angel. After a rough start, Gina realizes that, strange as it may seem, she’s drawn to both Reese and Angel. Their sudden appearance shatters the stillness–and Gina is remade. She is fascinated by Reese, who seems both invincible and vulnerable–and whose past may hold the key to Gina’s future. Gina begins to realize that for the first time since Ben’s death, she’s getting her senses back. As both pain and joy reenter her world, Gina discovers that she is able to accept feeling in order to live fully once more. But the biggest surprise for Gina is her relationship with Angel. After the painful loss of her sister during childhood, Gina had decided that she would never have children of her own. Struggling through conflicted emotions, Gina’s finds her life unexpectedly transformed by the precocious little girl who may be Ben’s daughter. This tender, poignant novel movingly explores the bonds of family and the resilience of hope. In the accomplished tradition of the novels of Elizabeth Berg and Anita Shreve, Jean Reynolds Page’s Accidental Happiness is a lyrical, enthralling drama unafraid to examine complex relationships with a clear eye and an honest heart.

To secure the happiness of her most beloved sister, Elizabeth Bennet has been forced to make a scandalous agreement with the most disagreeable gentleman of her acquaintance. His demands are small, but if anyone were to discover what passed between them, her reputation, and that of her entire family would be ruined. But just as Jane’s happiness seems secure, Mr. Bingley and his sisters depart Hertfordshire—with a promise never to return. Desperate to discover the truth behind the gentleman's departure, Elizabeth must journey to London to plead for Mr. Darcy to intervene, but the price of his intervention may be too high, and Elizabeth cannot be certain that her trust in the gentleman will be honored. Will Mr. Darcy follow through with his promises? Or will he leave her to ruin when he has had his way… An Accidental Happiness is a sensual and steamy Pride and Prejudice duology that is best enjoyed by readers over 18 years of age.

Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven treats four apparent problems concerning eternal life in order to clarify our thinking about perfect human happiness in heaven. The teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas provide the basis for solutions to these four problems about eternal life insofar as his teachings call into question common contemporary theological or philosophical presuppositions about God, human persons, and the nature of heaven itself. Indeed, these Thomistic solutions often require us to think very differently from our contemporaries. But thinking differently with St. Thomas is worth it: for the Thomistic solutions to these apparent problems are more satisfying, on both theological and philosophical grounds, than a number of contemporary theological and philosophical approaches. Christopher Brown deploys his argument in four sections. The first section lays out, in three chapters, four apparent problems concerning eternal life—Is heaven a mystical or social reality? Is heaven other-worldly or this-worldly? Is heaven static or dynamic? Won’t human persons eventually get bored in heaven? Brown then explains how and why some important contemporary Christian theologians and philosophers resolve these problems, and notes serious problems with each of these contemporary solutions. The second section explains, in five chapters, St. Thomas’ significant distinction between the essential reward of the saints in heaven and the accidental reward, and treats in detail his account of that in which the essential reward consists, namely, the beatific vision and the proper accidents of the vision (delight, joy, and charity). The third section treats, in five chapters, St. Thomas’ views on the multifaceted accidental reward in heaven, where the accidental reward includes, among other things, glorified human embodiment, participation in the communion of the saints, and the joy experienced by the saints in sensing God’s “new heavens and new earth.” Finally, section four argues, in four chapters, that St. Thomas’ views allow for powerful solutions to the four apparent problems about eternal life examined in the first section. These solutions are powerful because, not only are they consistent with authoritative, Catholic Christian Tradition, but they do not raise any of the significant theological or philosophical problems that attend the contemporary theological and philosophical solutions examined in the first section.

Jake Tyson was on top of a cliff ready to do the unthinkable when it happened. All at once, he was talking to someone—or something—that was talking him off the cliff and back to life. That night, he went from wanting to jump off a cliff to wanting and understanding life. The experience he had, and continues to have, has altered the way he thinks, lives life, and looks at the world. After the experience, he made a deal with the universe to share what he was given with anyone who wanted to know. What he was shown has the potential to change your life in a profound way. In this account, he shares how he overcame a horrific motorbike accident at age twenty-one, how thought energy transformed his life, how he changed his thoughts, how he learned from his mistakes, and more. Join an accidental guru on a practical, funny, and honest trip that reveals how to find happiness and live the life you want to live.

This is a deeply beautiful book on history as thinking and thinking as history or thinking history. Thinking spreads deep into time on all themes thinkable, including scientific analyses, self-reflections, dilemmas, paradoxes, and life-essential prudence. Besides, history involves historical process; likewise, this book historically involves its writing process in its own content reflected on. Reading this book reads thinking history as such.

What if your life changed overnight? For Brian and Becky, the late hours of an early August night brought on irrevocable tragedy. In a story that declares the strength and resilience of those on the cusp of adulthood and represents all that young love can be; Accidental Happiness takes its readers on an emotional journey which explores every facet of love and loss. The start of Brian's senior year meant life was just as it should be for an eighteen year old about to realize his dreams. Yet only moments into his first soccer practice, despite barely catching a glimpse of the girl running through his peripheral, his world as he knew it stopped. What he never expected was for a new student to change his outlook on commitment, family, and finding the strength to fight for what you want from the people around you. Becky's past year in Memphis was a roller coaster ride she had no recollection of boarding but never regretted riding. Now on the brink of a college soccer career, at her dream school hundreds of miles away from family and the love of her life, freedom feels empowering. That is until the fateful night her world gets ripped from her side. Beaten down repeatedly as she attempts to heal the heart broken on a dark night when two teenagers felt they could take on the world as long as they had the other by their side, Becky now has the ultimate questions to answer. Can anything be forgiven through love? How do you carry on when your foundation is continuously knocking you off your feet? What if it was all a lie? Accidental Happiness is a fictional coming of age novel that ties young love with parental angst and the never ending need to protect the ones you love.