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After her widowed mother marries a widower from Lancaster County, PA, Abby inherits her mom's thriving quilt shop in rural Ohio. When she learns her 47-year old mom is pregnant, however, she leaves her store in capable hands, bids her longsuffering fiancé goodbye, and goes to help. But as pregnancy complications threaten to delay Abby's wedding, she receives a double blast of devastating news. In her dispair, Abby can't understand how God could possibly take the shredded fabrick of her life and weave it into a seamless masterpiece.

Anna Marquette has everything to live for. Her daughters are in college and, with the support of Paul, her loving husband, she is pursuing her dream of a career in counseling. Then one night, while on a trip to Orlando, the unimaginable happens. She takes a shortcut to an evening out with Paul and is brutally assaulted. When Anna suspects the attack has left her pregnant, her faith is put to the test.

Reserved contractor Wade Sullivan never expected to fall in love with Starr Parnell or to love her three small kids as if they were his own. But that's exactly what happened. As their wedding draws near, however, tragedy strikes, and Wade must put aside his own grief in order to help Starr's children cope.

With a unique take on their charms and foibles, Carrère follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding. An expansive meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion and the quest to find a place within it through this sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world.

Mother Anqelique runs a shelter for homeless mothers and their children in a run-down inner-city area, where drug addiction, prostitution and random acts of violence are facts of life. One day, newly orphaned Jamal and his sister Chantay arrive at the shelter, hungry and scared. As Angelique tries to find a new home for them, she develops a fascination with seven-year-old Jamal, who seems to inhabit a world of his own. Jamal tells her fantastic stories of a man named Jacky Wacky, who protects the poor children of the city and punishes the adults who harm them.

When Mia, a Jewish teenager from Ontario, goes to Israel to spend the summer studying at a yeshiva, or seminary, she wants to connect with the land and deepen her understanding of Judaism. However, Mia's summer plans go astray when she falls in love with a non-Jewish tourist, Andrew. Through him, Mia learns about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and starts to questions her Zionist aspirations. In particular, Mia is disturbed by the Palestinian's loss of their olive trees, and the state of Israel's planting of pine trees, symbolizing the setting down of new roots.

In the isolated rural community of Unity, the people of The Movement live a simple life guided by a set of religious principles and laws that are unique to them. Polygamy is the norm, strict obedience is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands. Celeste was born and raised in Unity, yet she struggles to fit in.

Ellie Gold is an orthodox Jewish teenager living in Toronto in the late eighties. Ellie has no doubts about her strict religious upbringing until she falls in love with another girl at her grandmother's cottage. Aware that homosexuality clashes with Jewish observance, Ellie feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her community. Meanwhile, Ellie's mother, Chana, becomes convinced she has a messianic role to play, and her sister, Neshama, chafes against the restrictions of her faith.

El viaje de Ayrus es un cuento filosófico para todos. Relata la historia de un hombre joven quien efectúa una búsqueda iniciática con miras a obtener los secretos del elixir de la vida y de la píldora de la inmortalidad. En el transcurso de su periplo, Ayrus tratará de encontrar sus remotos orígenes al contacto con ciertas tradiciones ancestrales. Su recorrido lo llevará hasta varias regiones del mundo, incluyendo la América, el continente Negro, Villapayaso y Asia.

The Voyage of Ayrus is a philosophical tale for everyone. It relates the story of a young man on an initiation quest, seeking the secrets of the elixir of life and the pill of immortality. During his travels, Ayrus will come in contact with various ancestral traditions as he attempts to retrace his distant origins. His quest will take him to different parts of the world, including America, the Black Continent, Clownville and Asia.