Selected as a Finalist for the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Award Quote lovers now have in one book a collection of many of the wisest things that have ever been said on such topics as family, relationships, art, spirituality, religion, politics, and psychology. Pearls of Wisdom will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, and awaken your soul. The insightful quotations and maxims contained in Pearls of Wisdom are divided into brief chapters that address such topics as family, relationships, art, spirituality, religion, politics, and psychology. These pearls of wisdom will transform your life if you...

Elena Shaughnessy, a forty-nine-year-old maternity nurse, never expected to be single again or engaged to Michael Marino, the man whose heart she had broken thirty years ago. Her twin dreads-marrying Michael and not marrying him-keep her awake at night. She calls off the engagement, rebuffs his attempts to reconcile, and disregards his threats to reveal her most intimate secrets, thinking he wouldn't defy the Sicilian code of silence his parents had ingrained in him. While coping with Michael's bullying, her empty nest, and being forced to leave her home and garden near Pittsburgh, Elena...