A love for books and a love for pretend playing merges for feisty and free-spirited Mazy. Will her family be able to keep up with which character she is today? Pretending to be a favourite character is a common phase for all three- to five-year-olds. Join Mazy and her family and discover how they navigate and embrace this frustrating yet amusing phase.

The King of Mazy May is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos� The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London's time in the Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health.

Their lives would be tempered by adversity, expanded by faith, polished by perseverance. Based on an actual 1852 Oregon Trail incident, All Together in One Place, Book One in the Kinship and Courage series, speaks to the strength in every woman and celebrates the promise of hope that unfailingly blooms amidst tragedy and challenge. For Madison "Mazy" Bacon, a young wife living in southern Wisconsin, the future appears every bit as promising as it is reassuringly predictable. A loving marriage, a well-organized home, the pleasure of planting an early spring garden--these are the carefully-tended dreams that sustain her heart and nourish her soul. But when her husband of two years sells the homestead and informs her that they are heading west, Mazy's life is ripped down the middle like a poorly mended sheet forgotten in a midwestern storm. Her love is tried, her boundaries stretched, and the fabric of her faith tested. At the same time, she and eleven extraordinary women are pulled toward an uncertain destiny--one that binds them together through reluctance and longing and into acceptance and renewal.

“Jane Kirkpatrick has, almost literally, created her own genre of fiction. Her books enfold…whisper, ‘Let me tell you about a woman who…’ They find a secret place in each of us and bring it gently to the surface.” –Salem Statesman Journal Suzanne felt the tears press at her eyes as the dream-state drifted away–taking with it the sight of the man she loved. Awake, she blinked back the tears. This was her life now. The sounds of the women and oxen, those were real. And the darkness–her darkness. She lay inside it, resigned. She was not a wife reaching out for her husband but a widow, a blind widow, wistful and full of desire. FACING CHALLENGES AND LOSS, A COMMUNITY OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN FIGHT TO OVERCOME THE PAIN OF THE PAST – AND EMBRACE THE FUTURE. When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done. Though she cannot see, she rejects offers of assistance, unwittingly risking her children’s safety – and her own. Her companions blindly falter as well, held hostage by their own pasts. As Suzanne attempts to control her life in Shasta City, Ruth defends against past errors, failing to see how she limits love. Meanwhile, Mazy’s vision seems to be permanently clouded by her late husband’ s betrayal. But when a young stagedriver risks all for a Wintu Indian, his life becomes entangled with the turnaround women – and together they are changed forever as they discover that No Eye Can See all the good God has in store for those who love Him.

Growing up as a pastor's daughter in small town Mason, South Carolina, Mazelle Jacobs struggles to journey through a life approved by God and man. Pastor Max Jacobs, aka Poppa, and his conservative views have Mazelle questioning right from wrong daily. The sixteen-year-old teenager uses the Ten Commandments as her biblical guideline as she encounters situations with church members, the neighbor next door, and her science teacher. Her best friend, Clover, tempts Mazelle to enjoy life by breaking her tablets of stone. A major life change occurs when Pastor Jacobs moves his family to Zimbabwe, Africa for an extended missionary assignment. This unexpected journey, to a country with different cultural and social views, has Mazelle reassessing life values through the eyes of a people who are living in the present. As Mazelle realizes God's love for his people, she finds humanity at its finest.

Mackenzie Maes Story is a real story of fallible human dreams turned to tragedy in this fictitious novel based on a true story. Many families, substantially the moms, have experienced the reality of a pregnancy, child birth, or the expectation of a healthy baby gone terribly awry. This book captured how it was lived from the initial knowledge, there were chromosome problems from the beginning, to the hope, writing and healing to the end. As a registered nurse, the author reflected on stories during a profession in the neonatal intensive care unit as she spent stretches of time at medical appointments with her supportive husband and their unborn daughter Mackenzie.

Hurricane Confessions By: D. Richard Delaney is not looking for love, despite the fact that everyone she knows is trying to set her up. She is far too busy dealing with her own life to take on someone else’s; she has her son to raise, and besides, she knows she is not an easy one to love. Ari, still grieving from his own personal loss, has just moved into town, and happens to be a stop on Delaney’s delivery route. When they meet, there is an instant spark that neither can deny. Ari becomes entranced by the way Delaney is like a hurricane, constantly leaving him in a whirlwind. Delaney senses Ari’s sincerity and refreshing honesty, and she wonders if he might just be the man to bring love back into her life. Hurricane Confessions reveals how love can burn like a fire; it can be beautiful, intoxicating, all-consuming, and dangerous, or it can just fizzle out. When the universe serves a less than desirable twist of fate, hope is all that binds.