GET REAL ABOUT GRIEF Real Stories of Heartbreak, Hope, and Healing

    

GET REAL ABOUT GRIEF

Real Stories of Heartbreak, Hope, and Healing

By Jennifer Barrette | Published by Blackstone Publishing | Coming January 5, 2027 Part story collection. Part survival guide. Part permission slip to feel it all. Grief. Just one syllable, yet it can rattle your entire world like an unexpected earthquake. And here's the thing about grief: it doesn't always arrive dressed in black, carrying flowers, or accompanied by a sympathy card. Sometimes it arrives with divorce papers. A devastating diagnosis. An empty chair at the dinner table. A miscarriage. A job loss. A beloved pet's final goodbye. Or the heartbreaking realization that the life you imagined is no longer the life you're living. Because grief isn't just about death. It's about loss. And if you've ever loved anything deeply, chances are you've grieved deeply, too. In GET REAL ABOUT GRIEF, bestselling author Jennifer Barrette takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the many faces of grief, drawing from more than 100 deeply personal conversations gathered over five years. From losing a parent, child, spouse, or sibling to navigating suicide, infertility, divorce, illness, aging parents, lost identity, shattered security, and even lost faith, Barrette explores the heartbreaks we recognize and the ones society rarely talks about. And she does it with something you might not expect in a book about grief: humor, honesty, and a refreshing refusal to sugarcoat life's messiest moments. Because sometimes you need a good cry. Sometimes you need a good laugh. And sometimes you need someone to tell you that you're not losing your mind; you're simply trying to find your footing in a world that suddenly looks very different. Why this book? Why now? Because grief is universal, but the way we experience it is anything but. Too often, we're told to move on, stay strong, look on the bright side, or give ourselves a little more time. As though grief comes with an expiration date and a handy instruction manual. Spoiler alert: It doesn't. GET REAL ABOUT GRIEF isn't another book telling you how to get over your loss. It's a compassionate, candid, and occasionally witty companion to help you find your way through it. Inside, readers will discover real stories of heartbreak and resilience, practical insights for navigating life's most difficult transitions, guidance for supporting grieving friends and family, and something we could all use a little more of: hope.

Available Jan. 5, 2027

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Before the Decision Reaches You: How the Terms Get Set — and What Remains Yours

Before the Decision Reaches You:

How the Terms Get Set — and What Remains Yours

 Most books about investing stop at the decision. This one starts after it. Through seventeen real-world cases — Eurotunnel's 800,000 small shareholders, Knight Capital's $460 million software deployment, a Spanish solar boom built on a government-guaranteed price that the government later rewrote — it follows what happens when the terms around you change and someone else ends up holding the pen. The core argument: owning something and being able to rely on it are two different things. 184 pages, 17 chapters of case-driven nonfiction for anyone who has ever signed something they didn't fully read.

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🔥Turn Up the Heat and the Heart with Sexy Challenges 33 Adventures🔥

  

 🔥Turn Up the Heat and the Heart with Sexy Challenges 33 Adventures🔥

Let’s be honest—keeping the flame alive in a relationship isn’t always as effortless as the movies make it look. One day you’re locked in a passionate embrace in the kitchen, and the next, you’re arguing over who left wet towels on the bed (again). Life happens. Romance sometimes… doesn’t.

But what if your next date night didn’t involve just Netflix and takeout, but instead led to a deep, soulful, sexy adventure?

💥 Cue the fireworks (just in time for the 4th of July)! Sexy Challenges 33 Adventures: Create Powerful Energy With Passion Purpose and Love!

What’s This Steamy-Spiritual Book About?

Whether you're craving deep, soulful lovemaking or hot-rip-your-clothes-off passion, this book helps you consciously connect to your spirituality, your friskiness, your heart, and—most importantly—your partner. Dr. Rob Alex, the metaphysical mischief-maker (okay, and genius), delivers 33 unique sexy challenges that are designed to spice things up while deepening your bond.

Think of it as your spiritual foreplay handbook—with a side of laughter, heart-opening exercises, and mind-blowing intimacy.

These aren’t just bedroom games. They’re mystical, metaphysical practices that:

• Awaken your playful side

• Help you and your partner open up on every level—heart, mind, body, and soul

• Strengthen your emotional, energetic, and physical connection

• Bring fun, intention, and purpose into your intimate life

It’s like couples therapy, tantric yoga, and a sexy scavenger hunt had a love child—and that child just graduated with honors.

Why You Need This Book (Like, Now)

Most couples want to keep their relationship hot and spicy… but also crave something deeper. The problem? Nobody hands you a guidebook on how to merge the sacred and the sultry.

Until now.

Drs. Rob and Janelle Alex have created a down-to-earth, practical, and actually fun way to reignite your connection. And the best part? These 33 challenges are easy to implement and don’t require a PhD in metaphysics—or contortionist skills in the bedroom.

So whether you've been together 30 days or 30 years, Sexy Challenges invites you to try something new, exciting, and powerful.

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When & Where

🗓 On Kindle:
📍 Where: Right here on Amazon 
💋 What you need: An open mind, a willing partner, and maybe a towel for afterward (things might get… heated)

Final Thoughts

Intimacy is more than just physical contact. It’s energy. It’s intention. It’s laughter and eye contact and occasionally getting caught mid-challenge by your dog.

With Sexy Challenges 33 Adventures, you’re not just adding excitement to your relationship—you’re adding magic. And for a limited time, you can do it for the price of absolutely nothing.

So mark your calendar. Set a reminder. Light a candle. And prepare to reconnect in ways that are sacred, sensual, and anything but ordinary.

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Start your sexy spiritual adventure!

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The Angry Little Cloud: Children's Book About Acceptance

  

The Angry Little Cloud:

Children's Book About Acceptance

The Angry Little Cloud is a tale about finding your place in the world. Learning what qualities you have to give to your friends. The Angry Little Cloud is sad and feels that no one likes him. When in fact he is very liked and wanted in other places. The Angry Little Cloud learns this message from his friend the Sun. The Sun shows the Angry Little Cloud places where he is more valuable then the beautiful light that the Sun produces. Places that need and desire what the Angry Little Cloud has to offer. Read this book with your child and discuss all the wonderful qualities they have within themselves. Everyone is important and everyone has different talents is the main message of this book.

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The Big Black Book of Sex Positions

   

The Big Black Book of Sex Positions

From the writers who brought you The Little Black Book of Sex Positions comes a bigger and better manual than ever before. The Big Black Book of Sex Positions is your go-to guide if you feel like your sex life has gone stale. Spice things up with these tantalizing positions that will enhance your sexual experience like never before. 

Within this accessible and approachable guide, you’ll find exciting and steamy sex positions like Bottoms Up, The Joyride, The Lotus, Spread Eagle, as well as more than twenty less-frequent, but more adventurous sexual topics and positions. You’ll also discover sections about foreplay, toys, setting the mood, exercises to improve your performance and flexibility, why size only matters when it’s wrong, and many other burning topics that are often overlooked. 

Get ready to take your sex life to a whole-new level with The Big Black Book of Sex Positions.

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Make Peace With Life

What if the meaning of life isn’t something you find…
but something you learn to make peace with?

In Making Peace With Life, Dr. Rob Alex takes you on a deeply human, refreshingly honest, and surprisingly humorous journey through the chaos, beauty, heartbreak, energy, and wonder of being alive.

This isn’t a book about chasing perfection.
It’s about embracing the full spectrum — the ups, the downs, the middle ground, the transitions, the questions, the endings, and the beginnings.

Inside these pages you’ll explore:

• Why there is no real “finish line” in life — and why that’s good news
• How life’s hardest moments often become your greatest teachers
• The metaphysical energy that connects you to every other life on the planet
• Why your life is both a tiny drop… and an entire universe
• How music, memories, impact, and love glue everything together
• Why asking better questions may matter more than finding answers
• How to stop defining yourself by age, status, or comparison
• And why your life has unlimited value — even when you forget it does

Blending psychology, personal development, metaphysical insight, and everyday humor, Dr. Rob Alex writes like the friend who hands you cosmic wisdom and a high-five at the same time.

This book will not give you all the answers.
It will give you something far more powerful:

Permission to breathe.
Permission to question.
Permission to adjust.
Permission to live fully.

And most importantly —
Permission to make peace with life exactly as it is… while still growing into what it can become.

If you’re ready to stop racing and start living —
This book is for you.

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Make Peace With Life

DIGGER THE MAGIC CAT: THE JEWEL OF THE RIVER

This exciting original "talking-animal” adventure story, ideal reading for literate grade-school age children is also the perfect story for parents to read to their kids. Containing twenty-seven pictures, each of the twenty-one chapters is followed by "Food For Thought" questions. These are designed to teach many life-situations seldom discussed at home, as well as to inspire discussion of the interesting story lines. 

This exciting talking-animal adventure story, designed to teach kids valuable life lessons, received six out of six five-star professional reviews.

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Nostalgic Variety: Puzzles for Adults and Seniors

    

Nostalgic Variety:

Puzzles for Adults and Seniors

Relive the Decades. Rediscover the Memories.

Take a nostalgic journey through five unforgettable decades—from the fabulous 1950s to the memorable 1990s—with Nostalgic Variety: Puzzles for Adults and Seniors by Adam Lawn!

Celebrate the music, movies, television, fashion, classic cars, technology, and everyday memories that made each decade special.

SIX DIFFERENT TYPES OF PUZZLES!

Enjoy an entertaining mix of:

• Word Search – Discover familiar words from decades past.
• Crossword Puzzles – Test your knowledge of classic pop culture.
• Trivia – See how much you remember about the good old days.
• Word Scrambles – Unscramble nostalgic words and phrases.
• Cryptograms – Decode hidden messages.
• Word Links – Connect words and challenge your vocabulary.

DESIGNED FOR ADULTS AND SENIORS

• Large, easy-to-read text
• Nostalgic themes spanning the 1950s through the 1990s
• Fun “Do You Remember?” facts and memories
• A variety of engaging activities
• Solutions included for checking your answers

Whether you're relaxing at home, enjoying a quiet afternoon, or looking for a thoughtful gift for a parent, grandparent, or puzzle enthusiast, this book offers a delightful trip down memory lane.

Turn back the clock, challenge your mind, and rediscover the moments that made every decade unforgettable!

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SHADOW MAN: THE AWAKENING

When the system fails to deliver justice, one man decides to take matters into his own hands. London is a city of shadows, where danger lurks in the streets and criminals believe they can get away with anything. James Walsh was once an elite soldier in the British Special Air Service (SAS), a man trained to face the most dangerous situations imaginable. But after years of military service, traumatic experiences and a devastating struggle with his mental health, he has lost everything. Discharged from the military and living rough on London's streets, Walsh has become a ghost in the city he once served. Until one night changes everything. When he witnesses a brutal attack on a young woman and realises that the perpetrators may never face justice, something inside him awakens. The soldier he thought he had lost returns, bringing with him the skills, discipline and lethal instincts of his former life. A new identity emerges: the Shadow Man. Operating in the darkness, Walsh begins a personal war against London's criminal underworld. But what starts as a campaign against street criminals soon exposes something far more dangerous: an international criminal network stretching from South London to Istanbul. As the stakes rise and powerful enemies emerge, Walsh finds himself confronting ruthless crime bosses, organised violence and forces with connections reaching into the highest levels of power. Yet the greatest danger may not come from his enemies. As Walsh pushes further into his violent mission, he must confront the consequences of his actions and the question of how far a man can go in pursuit of justice before he becomes something he once fought against.

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ETHAN'S PRESENCE: How One Child Changed A Forgotten Life

 

ETHAN'S PRESENCE:

How One Child Changed A Forgotten Life

Some people spend their whole lives waiting to be seen. Anna Miller stopped waiting a long time ago.

For more than fifty years, Anna has lived in the shadow of a Christmas Eve tragedy that changed her small southern town forever. Forgotten by her neighbors and worn down by loss, she has quietly accepted that she will spend the rest of her days alone.

Then a five-year-old boy named Ethan rides his fire truck down Willow Street and notices the one person everyone else overlooked.

This is not just another entry in the world of Christian fiction books. Ethan's Presence is a heartwarming work of Christian fiction, based on a true story, and unlike most books about grief, it doesn't leave you in the dark, it gently carries you toward hope.

Inside, you'll discover:

• A woman carrying the weight of a Christmas Eve tragedy for over fifty years
• A five-year-old boy who sees the person an entire town forgot
• An unlikely friendship that bridges generations and softens old wounds
• A quiet southern town slowly changed by simple, unwavering compassion
• A journey from isolation toward hope, purpose, and second chances

Set in a close-knit town at Christmastime, this is Christian Christmas fiction with real emotional weight, one of those rare Christmas fiction books that feels less like reading and more like remembering something true.

Written with the tenderness of the best inspirational books, Chaplain Tom McQueen tells a moving story of faith, friendship, forgiveness, and grace.

It's perfect for readers who love heartfelt southern fiction, uplifting feel good books, and moving true story books.

And it belongs beside the finest religious fiction, inspirational and religious books, and Christian inspirational books, stories that remind us the greatest gift we can offer another person is simply our presence.

If you loved The Shack or The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Ethan's Presence will stay with you long after the final page.

Ethan's Presence isn't just a book you read. It's a story that quietly reminds you what matters.

Begin reading today. Sometimes hope arrives when you least expect it.

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The House on Boyd Street

Some houses shelter you. Others raise you. At Boyd Street, the walls did more than protect-they remembered. They held laughter, grief, discipline, love, and the quiet lessons that shape a boy into a man.Cobby M. Williams invites you inside a home where generations lived, struggled, and grew together-where survival and strength were built day by day and where leaving was never as simple as walking out the door. Through vivid storytelling and emotional honesty, he captures the beauty and weight of family, the realities of growing up, and the moments that slowly pull you away from where you began.But leaving is never simple. No matter how far you go, some houses never let you go. The House on Boyd Street is a powerful story of memory, identity, and belonging-of what shapes us, what stays with us, and what calls us home long after we've tried to move on.

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A Country of Ash

The mountains caught fire in August. He had already seen the end of the world.

Chicago, 1903. On the coldest afternoon of the year, fireman Silas Dunne climbs the marble stairs of the Iroquois Theater and finds a wall of the dead. He carries out one small girl who is still breathing. His own daughter is not among the living.

Idaho, 1910. Seven years later, Dunne is a drifter with thirty-one cents in his pocket and a brass badge he can't bring himself to throw away. In the mining town of Wallace he signs on to a Forest Service crew for twenty-five cents an hour, cutting fire line in the Bitterroot Mountains under a hard, quiet ranger named Ed Pulaski.

It is the driest summer anyone can remember. The sun rises red and gives no warmth. Ash falls on the town like snow. On the mountain, Dunne takes a red-haired Irish boy from Butte under his wing, and he stands between the crew and a lynch rope when they turn on the immigrant they blame for the fires. Someone is setting them. Dunne begins to suspect who, and he doesn't want to know.

Then, on August 20th, hurricane winds drive three thousand fires together into a single wall of flame. In two days it will burn three million acres and destroy a third of Wallace. Cut off on both sides, forty-five men follow Pulaski into an abandoned mine tunnel, hang wet blankets across the entrance, and wait for the fire to arrive.

What happens in the Nicholson tunnel that night is history. What it costs Silas Dunne, and what he carries out, is the story.

Based on the true events of the Big Burn and the heroism of ranger Ed Pulaski, A Country of Ash is a novel of fire and faith, guilt and mercy, and the terrible arithmetic of survival. It asks what a man owes the dead, and what he still owes the living.

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Struggles of Surreal Experiences

 

Struggles of Surreal Experiences

Neena " is an inspiring, courageous hispanic woman, who's life endured a lifetime of struggles. She had to hit rock bottom to finally learn her life needed to change. She had to learn how to accept love by learning of herself first. When you are raised in a hispanic culture there are certain beliefs. One of them is NOT recognizing or accepting molestation, depression. & mental disorders. The world we live in today is not the same we lived decades ago. Today the acknowledgment and understanding of these illnesses have a great impact on survivors. "Neena" many will relate, while others will hate. It is a story of an individual's ups and downs. Neena has a way of capturing your heart with ways you want to fight for her and with her. She is a fighter, a hidden spiritual warrior who just needed to find this of herself in order to stand where she does today.

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50 YEARS IN A SECT:

My Life with a Radical 'Sex Cult'!

50 Years in a Sect: My Life with a Sex Cult! tells the story of life within one of recent history’s most controversial religious sects: The Children of God! Later changing its name to the Family of Love, or simply ‘The Family’ -- the fast-growing and highly unorthodox Christian movement gained notoriety as a ‘sex cult’ due to its practice of using sex to win converts! It also believed in sexual ‘sharing’ with other adults within one’s communal group.

Following a firebrand maverick preacher, members left their old lives behind and dropped out of society to begin new lives in idealistic communes, made up mostly of ex-hippies and society rejects who now lived together and shared everything. Members quickly learned that the end of the world was not far away, with Jesus expected to come back in 1993!

David Berg, nicknamed Moses David, the founder and self-styled prophet of this ‘spiritual revolution’, had warning dreams of God’s impending judgments falling on the wicked nations of the western world. In his messages, known as Mo letters, Berg strongly encouraged his followers to leave the West and go to poorer, undeveloped countries to be missionaries.

With no financial support whatsoever, members dutifully obeyed, travelling to far-flung parts of the globe. Thus it was that this author spent the next 50 years in India, Nepal, southern Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific islands! All through this incredible life journey, the Family’s numerous ‘revolutions’ brought tremendous social upheaval and 180 degree changes in direction, making life exciting and eventful, but also bringing some personal heartbreak as families sometimes found themselves separated due to being on different status levels. In the case of the author’s second family, the children were ‘kidnapped’ and taken away by the Social Services.

Although this book has some mild sexual content, it is not intended to be a scandal-filled, lurid account of sexual excesses. It is meant to be a real account of what life was really like within the groups’ closed communities -- both good and bad. And how, 50 years later, after changing its form and reinventing itself several times, the group is still going strong…

The fireworks & the prophet have long gone, along with sexually permissive communal living; however a small band of aging but dedicated believers still remains...

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