Sometime ago, Autumn Leaves Braxter learned the hard way not to look for love in all the wrong places. Yet, she now finds herself jumping back into a serious relationship with the father of her unborn childStephen Prescott III, a wealthy man to whom worldly rules do not apply. Then Autumn faces another challenge. Terrence, her true love and the man of her dreams, re-enters her life. Terrences return makes Autumn happier than she ever thought possible. It also casts a cloud of shame and embarrassment on the Prescott family, an act that sets in motion a series of vendettas. Now, Autumn must endure the wrath of Mother Prescott; she hates Autumn and intends to make her pay. Instead of living happily ever after, Autumn deals with one issue after another. She is thrown into mayhem for the sake of vengeance and wonders if she will ever be able to escape the cycle of revenge.

For years, Autumn Braxter has wondered what happened to her best friend, Lem. The two grew up together in Brooklyn and were rarely apart. She last saw him the night Lem's family was killed. One day, while in church, Autumn spots him sitting in one of the pews. They pick up where they left off, and Lem soon asks her to marry him. What Autumn thought might be the life with the love of her dreams quickly turns to ashes. Lem lied to her about his job, and dangerous lifestyle; he does anything to make money. Reluctantly, Autumn tries to fit in with the new lifestyle, yet eventually gives into the inevitable and leaves Lem. On her own and desperate to find love, Autumn enters into a series of bad relationships, putting her trust in men that don't deserve it. The more she continues, the more she loses her identity. Breaking the cycle of self-abuse will take courage, strength, and incredible faith. Can Autumn turn her life around and find the man she deserves?

A puppy goes on a walk outside in the fall and sees leaves, birds, and squirrels.

This tale of an awkward Israeli widower and his misadventures with women is an “extraordinary novel . . . a masterpiece” (Los Angeles Times). After seven long years of illness, Molkho’s wife passes, leaving him in mourning, but also with an unexpected sense of freedom. No longer is he bound to being a caretaker for a woman too sick to even bear his touch. His future—and his desires—are his own. As the seasons of his life propel the hapless middle-aged accountant through a series of journeys and a string of infatuations—with an unwanted wife, an aggressive bureaucrat, a young girl, and a Russian émigré—Molkho begins to find the real element that was missing in his life was not romance, but his own will. An absurd, tragic, humorous, and hopeful meditation on love, marriage, and the quiet struggles of average Israeli lives, Five Seasons “reconfirms [A. B. Yehoshua’s] status as a shrewd analyst of domestic ordeals” (Publishers Weekly).

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On the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery church at Clairvaux, Saint Bernard spoke to the community to explain the meaning of the feast: “What sanctity can these stones have that we should celebrate their festival? They do indeed have sanctity, but it is because of your bodies. . . . Your bodies are holy because of your souls, and this house is holy because of your bodies.”The thirty-eight sermons in this volume carry forth this theme, revealing the holiness of the monastic life as monks alternate through the rhythm of the day and the year between the opus Dei and manual labor, journeying faithfully through life to death and the transitus to glory. The twelfth-century Ecclesiastica Officia of the Cistercian Order required abbots to speak formally to their communities in chapter on seventeen fixed days, mostly liturgical feasts. This volume witnesses to Bernard’s fulfillment of this requirement and includes sermons for the Assumption and Nativity of the Virgin and the Feast of All Saints, sermons devoted to the feasts of particular saints celebrated during the autumn months, sermons for the time of harvest, and funeral sermons that look forward to the eternal joy in the communion of saints.

The early schooling years in a child’s life are of extreme importance. These are the times when he focuses his eyes and mind on everything that is new and appealing. His mind is untrained and he has learned only the basics of communication. His vocabulary is limited but he is eager to learn.Whatever is presented to him, he absorbs like a sponge. His attention span is short and he requires constant reinforcement. What interests him most is things and events around him. This is the golden opportunity to inculcate in him a spirit of adventure and inquiry, to teach him to ask, to reason and to pick up healthy habits. With this in mind our publisher decided to bring out a science series for the junior classes.