John Connor has been writing poetry for most of his adult life and over the past 35 years has built up an enormous collection of inspirational poems. When his parents passed away, he noticed that something about his poetry had changed. This change led to John's poetry helping to heal and console hundreds of thousands of broken hearts and grieving families all over the world. This, John's second collection, contains over 40 poems, each in John's simple and heartfelt style. Artist Jolanta Dziok has created 10 beautiful illustrations to accompany the poems. John is donating 10% of the proceeds...

Faith is a celebration of life and of the lives of loved ones lost. Some of the poems, such as Putting on a Show, Life Lives on in a Smile and Together Forever, are in free verse and chart some of life's difficult journeys. They have emerged from real events and they simply tell the story of what happened, of how solace pops up from the most surprising sources, of how our world of perpetual change constantly rolls along. The quartet of See, Hear, Speak and Do No Evil was born from observation of the damage that is done when evil is perpetuated. Some of the poems are in traditional forms. The...

Miranda arrives in an ocean paradise with husband Jim and most of the usual group for their annual dive holiday. Their daughter is grown up and living on the other side of the world. She and Jim have no special ties after a lifetime of travel. As she observes her companions she reflects on how the island is shaped to accommodate the tourist trade that is the region's life's blood. This year's Bathroom Cockroach seems particularly watchful; the low bushes rustle oddly as though they too are watching; and burgers on the breakfast buffet (beef ... out here?). She senses something incongruous...