The Heart Takes Flight is a children's book for grownups, celebrating all those who wake into their dreams. With its inked images and text, this illustrated vignette invites you to try on your wings.

Finalist for the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards
The card from Aunt Tifi invites Melissa to France, but the contents of the attached package send her into a panic. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Melissa accepts the invitation, quits her job, and journeys to the Canal du Midi to meet her Aunt's relatives, not knowing the strange and flavorful company they keep. If she can open the eyes of her heart, Mel may see that her life, her loves-her very name-are the sweet harvests of her most bitter fear.
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What is the space between two people? Between a promise and its fulfillment? Between heaven and earth? This collection of poetry asks us these questions by weaving what is with what is dreamed. The resulting fabric is fine enough to see heaven through and thick enough keep us warm in earthly winters.

"Once upon a time, in a village at the base of a narrow river valley, the sun rose every single morning, even when people worried it wouldn't." So begins the parable of a young girl named Day who chooses to hope for more than the dim and limited world she calls home.

In this children's book for grownups, you are invited to climb with Day, past knowns and unknowns, up to a bright vantage point where choice and possibility reach farther than the eye can see. You are invited to And: The Story of More.