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Lovely and winsome May Seymour graduated from college with the world at her feet...and no idea what to do with it. A spontaneous mission trip to Africa brought great surprise - love - and a strong sense of purpose. But in loving others there, she encountered a severe tragedy that left her deeply wounded. She comes to heal at the farm of Claudius Borne - a sweet, kind old man who understands plants and animals far better than people. And his farm becomes May's home. There on the farm, May renews a friendship with an old college flame named Eli whose path has taken unexpected turns too.

Being married to a saint isn't what it's cracked up to be. Beth's husband won't be joining the family on vacation at the beach this year. Or even joining them in the house. Instead, Rick has holed up alone in the backyard shed. Nobody knows exactly what he's up to. Maybe he's immersing himself in prayer. Maybe he's lost his mind. Maybe he's even the modern-day prophet or the saint the neighborhood artist imagines him to be. But while "St. Rick" waits for an epiphany, Beth will have to figure out what to do with herself and their teenage sons, possibly for the rest of her life.

Nationally renowned inspirational author Lisa Samson writes deeply moving novels of the heart. Songbird is the beautiful tale of a young woman's journey toward healing and fulfillment.

Do you know what it's like give to 100 percent and still feel like it's not, and you're not, enough for anybody? To be caught between caring for an aging parent and raising young children? Ivy Schneider lives in this place, too, and she isn't at all happy about it.

Lillie Bauer, co-owner of a Baltimore wedding planning business, is looking for romance. When she finally finds her own true love, her new outlook sheds light on her sister Tacy's increasingly destructive relationship with her deeply fundamentalist husband.

In this unabridged audio edition— Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God—Christy award-winning novelist Lisa Samson and her daughter, Ty, experience a life-changing, soul-rattling journey on a mission trip to Africa. Confronted face-to-face with the AIDS crisis, poverty, prostitution, and illness, Lisa and Ty find something else as well: Christ’s love and redemption ablaze.

At the center of it all is love. It started one fall in a 1920s log home in the Rocky Mountains. Creator knocked, and Lisa opened the door. He asked her to let all else fall away - the pain, the judgment, the intense introspection. Then he asked her to listen for love. What she heard poured into her composition notebook in the form of love poems. My Heart Belongs to You, graced first to Lisa, then to the Free to Flourish Publishing team, is now a love offering to you. While the central message is clear, the poetry speaks to each of us in unique grace. After all, that is art.

Meet Issy the she-donkey, Mary’s beloved companion. Meet Mary of Nazareth, capable and trusting in the Most High, despite a family that sometimes makes her life difficult. Meet fiery angels and a just young man named Joe who finds himself dropped in the most extraordinary of circumstances requiring all the faith he has.

Inspired by her uncle, Lisa Samson has communed with trees since her childhood. Tragically, a disease from mainland Europe now poses a very serious threat to the ash tree's survival. Epitaph for the Ash explores how barren our landscape could become without the ash's familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and chalky cliff faces.