"After his miracles go viral, one man's crisis of faith puts everything in doubt, erasing the lines between memory, reality, and truth"--Provided by publisher. Raised in a poor neighborhood in Albuquerque by his mother and curandera grandmother, Gabriel Romero grows up fervently religious, privately conflicted, and consumed by what he's certain is the true will of God. A radical activist determined to enlighten the consciousness of a country losing...

Lou Hanske's having a hell of a day - he's lost his job, totaled his car, been attacked by a bear and dumped by his girlfriend. Just when it seems like life can't get any worse, an eccentric chirch informs Lou that he's "The Chosen One" - the savior from prophecy who must travel to Kansas and deliver the world into a new age.

"The Reluctant Healer tells the story of a young attorney who is torn between mounting evidence that he has the spiritual ability to heal others and his life-long skepticism of alternative views. Will Alexander is cautious and conventional. But when he meets Erica, a beautiful, intense energy healer, he becomes troubled not only by her unorthodox endeavors but also by the limitations of his own existence. Amidst this turmoil, Will is startled to discover...

"Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed "too Muslim" for citizenship,...

Twenty-fives stories on faith. In Little Miracles, Kept Promises by Sandra Cisneros, a Latino community's hopes in Texas are revealed in letters to the saints, in A Father's Story by Andre Dubus, a man covers up a deadly hit-and-run to save his daughter from jail, and Isaac Bashevis Singer's Gimpel the Fool is on a village cuckold.

"The one thing she wants is the thing most out of reach -- a place to call home. After a whiskey still explosion destroys her home and nearly her life, Rebecca Packwood and her father must leave Missouri and her dear friends behind. Crossing the Oregon Trail, she sets out to discover her family's secret history and to forge a home and community out of the raw farm land of Eagle Creek, Oregon Country, never suspecting a ruthless enemy is seeking to...

"Gran Bretaña, año 1468. El sacerdote Christopher Fairfax llega a una aldea remota enviado por el obispo de Exeter para celebrar el funeral del vicario que acababa de fallecer. El difunto, apasionado coleccionista de artefactos de otras épocas, murió accidentalmente mientras excavaba en los alrededores. Fairfaix se aloja en la vicaría y en los aposentos del religioso fallecido descubre una colección de objetos considerados heréticos, y textos...