Ann Richardson

"Somewhere in the middle of my seventies, I realised that I liked being old." So begins this set of engaging stories and thoughts on growing older by someone with a vast range of life experience to share. Part memoir and part reflection on the joys and challenges of modern life, this book explores the nature of old age and how it compares to what came before. The author argues that being older does not have to be feared. Even better, it can be fun. This...

Convertirte en abuela es tanto emocionante como desafiante. En Celebrando a las Abuelas, 27 mujeres describen, en sus propias palabras, cómo ellas han respondido a los muchos placeres y demandas de su papel. Ellas también analizan cómo ha cambiado la imagen de sí mismas y la estructura de sus vidas. ¿Cómo te sentiste al cargar a tu primer nieto? ¿El tiempo con tus nietos se pasa volando? ¿Hay una nueva intensidad o una nueva complejidad en...

Vera and Mamma are headed out for a march, but it's not just any march: it's October 24 in ReykjavÃk, and on this day in 1975, the women of Iceland took the day off, walked out of their homes and away from their jobs, as farmworkers, butchers, and fisherwomen; wives, daughters, and children, and marched to demand equality and change, chanting: I dare! I can! I will! And they did, inspiring and empowering girls and women to make change, not just in...

The song bids her rise to battle. Reeling from her disastrous foray into the Pit, Birdie, the young Songkeeper, retreats into the mountains. But in the war-torn north, kneeling on bloodstained battlefields to sing the souls of the dying to rest, her resolve to accept her calling is strengthened. Such evil cannot go unchallenged. Torn between oaths to protect the Underground runners and rescue his friend from the slave camps, Ky Huntyr enlists Birdie's...

Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins believes in gracious manners, sweet tea, and justice-library justice. For more than forty years, Cleo has tried every trick in the book to get delinquent patron Dixie Huddleston to return the most overdue volume in Catalpa Springs, Georgia. When Dixie says she'll finally relinquish the book, Cleo is shocked. She's even more startled by the reason: superstitious Dixie says she's seen the signs: she's about to die...

Living Wisely contains a lifetime of tested insight and guidance from mentor, Bible-study writer, and best-selling author Cynthia Heald. Cynthia shares foundational biblical truths that will help you live a wise life and discern godly choices to make at every crossroads. Living Wisely points you toward the truths of Scripture so you can live well in the midst of a world that doesn't understand true wisdom. The book includes compelling stories from...

2011 Carol Award winner for Debut Author from ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers)Jenny Lucas swore she'd never go home again. But being told you're dying has a way of changing things. Years after she left, she and her five-year-old daughter, Isabella, must return to her sleepy North Carolina town to face the ghosts she left behind. They welcome her in the form of her oxygen tank–toting grandmother, her stoic and distant father, and David,...

Word has it that every awkward young lady, sent to Mrs. Hester Poitevant's Mayfair Academy inevitably becomes marriage material. With her students going on to have any eligible bachelor they wish, Hester is able, to live comfortably and in the background. And, no one knows that under the guise of a stuffy widow, she is a beautiful woman, who has never been, married. Although Adrian Hawke is a dashing and successful businessman, his scandalous birth...

A picture book inspired by the Long Friday-a real event in Iceland that inspired women around the world to stand up, walk out, and march together for women's rights Vera and Mamma are headed out for a march, but it's not just any march: It's October 24 in Reykjavík, and on this day in 1975, the women of Iceland took the day off, walked out of their homes and away from their jobs-as farmworkers, butchers, and fisherwomen; wives, daughters, and...

A rake seeks to mend his ways, but his new governess could quickly unravel that plan, in this Regency romance by the bestselling author of The Bridemaker. After returning home from adventures in the Orient, James Lindford, Viscount Farley, causes quite a stir in London society. The viscount's womanizing past has caught up with him, and he decides he must take his illegitimate children into his household to raise. Doing the right thing, unfortunately,...