Inspired by the Flowers of Saint Francis, Flowers of the Passion compiles the thoughts of St. Paul of the Cross, the Founder of the Passionists. A collection of devout thoughts and sentiments gathered mostly from letters of the great lover of Jesus Crucified, St. Paul of the Cross.This hardback table edition has been re-formatted to provide a sleek and accessible devotional for those lovers of Christ Crucified.Contents include "Flowers of the Passion," Appendix including meditations on the Passion, the Devotions of the Five Wounds of Jesus, the Chaplet of the Seven Dolors, the Way of the Cross, and other prayers.

Strikingly handsome the Russian Prince Ivan Volkonski leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him wherever he goes. But, when his best friend, Lord Marston, takes him one evening to the famous Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, he witnesses a spellbinding dance performance of grace and spirituality that is to change his life forever. The dancer, a beautiful young woman known only as Lokita, mesmerises and enthrals him with her dancing and brings back emotional memories of his family that he had almost forgotten. And he is determined to see her again and make her his own. Frustrated to find that she will see no admirers in her dressing room at the theatre after her dancing, the Prince stages a ‘kidnapping’ to force her to meet him. Instantly Lokita and the Prince are in love and there is an electric magic between them and the Prince believes that Fate has brought them together and that they have loved each other in many previous lives so strong are their feelings for each other. But surely a commoner, no matter how beautiful and talented, cannot marry a Russian Prince? The Czar of Russia, an absolute dictator, would never allow it and anyway Lokita’s over-protective duenna and Guardian, the redoubtable Miss Anderson, is determined to keep Lokita as far away from the Prince and his advances as she possibly can.

Detective Frank Gienna, a burnt out, ex-Vietnam veteran on the downside of a recent divorce where his wife left him for another man while he was recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted during a drug bust. He is assigned to a task force tracking down a serial killer whose only clue is an act of defiance he scrawls on the walls of all his victims: END OF the LINE/ NO VALENTINES/ NO LOITERING. During this chaotic search he meets the love of his life and in the course of their love affair she reveals she is psychically endowed and has had dreams involving the killer's identity!

In this best-selling book Elizabeth Murray discusses the development and maintenance of Claude Monet's Giverny estate as well as Monet's color theories, design elements, and use of light and shade. Richly illustrated with Murray's lush photographs of the present-day Giverny gardens, Monet's Passion also offers full-color illustrations of the gardens drawn to scale and four Giverny-based garden plans that can be executed anywhere.