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The Woman Who Lived 60 Years On The Eucharist by Virtus et Veritas

About the booklet: Can faith suspend the laws of biology? 

Discover the fascinating story of Floripes Dornelas de Jesús, known as Lola, who defied science by living for six decades without consuming food or water, sustained solely by the Sacred Host.

In this book, science and theology come together to investigate one of Brazil's greatest mystical phenomena. 

Through medical reports and the insights of the great saints of the Church, delve into the enigma of a life that became a living miracle. 

An essential read for those who seek to strengthen their faith and understand the true power of the Eucharist.

Floripes Dornellas de Jesús (1913-1999) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic mystic. She is now a Servant of God after the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints issued the nihil obstat ("nothing against") in November 2005. Her home, known as Recanto Sítio de Lola in Rio Pomba, is a place of pilgrimage, welcoming the faithful from across Brazil on the first Friday and third Sunday of every month for Masses and prayer. The room where Lola lived for over 60 years remains preserved and can be viewed through a glass partition.

The Woman Who Lived 60 Years on the Eucharist was independently published on 3 January 2026.

The French Illusion by John Grisham

About the book: Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a new gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong - and the nightmare that follows.

Paul and Chelsea Tanner are riding a euphoric high after their fairytale wedding. But when they fly to Paris for their honeymoon, they are very quickly brought back down to earth. While on a day trip to the idyllic French countryside, they are suddenly and brutally kidnapped. Both of their families are in shock: who would target them - and why?

It quickly becomes clear that this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for answers soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA and French intelligence working together to solve the puzzle. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.

Propulsive and surprising, The French Illusion is an unmistakable Grisham thrill ride - gripping and impossible to put down.

The French Illusion will be on sale on 29 September 2026.

About the author: John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Widow, Framed, and Camino Ghosts. Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honoured with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction. When he is not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system. John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

Rating: 5/5

Wife Of The Chef by Courtney Febbroriello

About the book: Wife of the Chef: The True Story of a Restaurant and a Romance is at once a no-holds-barred memoir of restaurant life and a revealing look at married life. 

For Courtney Febbroriello, the two are intertwined. She and her husband own an American bistro in Connecticut. He is the chef, so naturally he gets all the credit. She has the role of keeping things running, but she is the wife, so she remains anonymous or invisible or both.

Febbroriello comes front and center here, detailing the everyday challenges she faces - taking over dish-washing duty, bailing waiters out of jail, untangling the immigration laws, cajoling lazy suppliers, handling unreasonable customers, and a host of other emergency duties. 

She pokes fun at people who take food and wine - and the chef - too seriously, with witty comments on everything from "chef envy" to the much-ballyhooed James Beard Awards.

Spiced with a healthy spoonful of feminism and enriched with a cup of humour, Wife of the Chef: The True Story of a Restaurant and a Romance (2010) is the tastiest "dish" of the season.

About the author: Courtney Febbroriello and her husband, Christopher Prosperi, opened Metro Bis in Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1998. This is her first book.

More Things In Heaven And Earth (A Novel of Watervalley) by Jeff High

About the book: Tucked away in the rolling Tennessee countryside is the charming community of Watervalley, whose inhabitants are quirky and captivating and more surprising than you might expect…

As an ambitious young doctor with a penchant for research, Luke Bradford never wanted to set up practice in a remote rural town. But to pay back his student loans and to fulfill a promise from his past, he heads for Watervalley, Tennessee - and immediately stumbles into one disaster after another.  Will he be labeled the town idiot before he is even introduced as the new doctor? 

Very quickly he faces some big challenges - from resuscitating a three-hundred-pound farmer who goes into cardiac arrest to not getting shot by a local misanthrope for trespassing. He expects the people of Watervalley to be simple, but finds his relationships with them are complicated, whether he is interacting with his bossy but devout housekeeper, the attractive schoolteacher he consistently alienates, or the mysterious kid next door who climbs trees while wearing a bike helmet. 

When a baffling flu epidemic hits Watervalley, Luke faces his ultimate test. Whether the community embraces him or not, it is his responsibility to save them. And he will soon discover that while living in a small town may not be what he wants, it may be just what he needs…

For stories, recipes, and anecdotes from your favourite Watervalley characters, visit watervalleybooks.com.

About the author: After growing up on a farm in rural Tennessee, Jeff High attained degrees in literature and nursing. He is the three-time winner, in fiction and poetry, of an annual writing contest held by Vanderbilt Medical Center. He lived in Nashville for many years, and throughout the country as a travel nurse, before returning to his original hometown, near where he now works as an operating room RN in open-heart surgery. He is the author of the first Watervalley Novel, More Things In Heaven and Earth (2013). The other books in the Watervalley novels are Each Shining Hour (2014); The Splendor of Ordinary Days (2015) and The Fullness Of Time (2019).

Rating: 5/5

A Panoramic View Of Holy Scripture (Volume 2) by Augoustinos N Kantiōtēs, Bishop of Phlorina, Greece

About the book: A Panoramic View of Holy Scripture, Volume 2: Orthodox Homilies Introducing All the Books of the Old Testament (2001) is a special commentary on and summary of the 27 books of the New Testament, written by the preeminent clergyman and preacher of the Orthodox Church, Bishop Augustinos Kantiotes of Phlorina, Greece. 

This preacher and teacher par excellence in his long ministry in the Church has never failed to teach and expound Holy Scripture, recognizing the fact that God's Word will not return back again to God, void and without any effect. 

His marvellous knowledge, his unshakeable faith, and his appreciation of the laws of pedagogy have made him a giant among the Church's homilists. 

The present homilies are practical, inspirational, filled with instructions, and rightly helps the readers in their everyday lives. 

The author hopes that readers, after reading each homily, will then read the relevant text in the Holy Bible thoughtfully and prayerfully. The whole Bible for him is a single revelation with beginning, middle, and end. Christ is the center of the axis, around which all of Holy Scripture, both the Old and New Testaments, turns. Angels, patriarchs, kings, prophets, and all the saved speak about the Lord Jesus Christ. The author is sure that Holy Scripture, as the Orthodox Church interprets it, is a unique guide for the solution of all the problems that confront humanity today and the only way for man to find salvation.

The present edition (2019) of A Panoramic View of Holy Scripture, in two volumes, will be enjoyed by all Christians and in particular priests, preachers, Sunday School teachers, and Bible class students of the English-speaking Orthodox Church.

A Panoramic View of Holy Scripture is translated from the Greek by Asterios Gerostergios from the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Inc.

About the author: His Eminence Metropolitan Augustinos Kantiotes (Greek: Αυγουστίνος Καντιώτης)(1907-2010) was bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Florina, Prespai, and Eordaia in northern Greece, renowned as a defender of traditional Orthodoxy both in Greece and abroad, and a prolific writer of spiritual literature, publishing 82 books, several of which have appeared in English and in other languages.

A Panoramic View Of Holy Scripture (Volume 1) by Augoustinos N Kantiōtēs, Bishop of Phlorina, Greece

About the book: A Panoramic View of Holy Scripture, Volume 1: Orthodox Homilies Introducing All the Books of the Old Testament (2001) is a special commentary on and summary on the first 49 books of the Old Testament (the historical, instructive and prophetic ones), written by the preeminent clergyman and preacher of the Orthodox Church, Bishop Augustinos Kantiotes of Phlorina, Greece. 

This preacher and teacher par excellence in his long ministry in the Church has never failed to teach and expound Holy Scripture, recognizing the fact that God's Word will not return back again to God, void and without any effect. 

His marvellous knowledge, his unshakeable faith, and his appreciation of the laws of pedagogy have made him a giant among the Church's homilists. 

The present homilies are practical, inspirational, filled with instructions, and rightly helps the readers in their everyday lives. 

The author hopes that readers, after reading each homily, will then read the relevant text in the Holy Bible thoughtfully and prayerfully. The whole Bible for him is a single revelation with beginning, middle, and end. Christ is the center of the axis, around which all of Holy Scripture, both the Old and New Testaments, turns. Angels, patriarchs, kings, prophets, and all the saved speak about the Lord Jesus Christ. The author is sure that Holy Scripture, as the Orthodox Church interprets it, is a unique guide for the solution of all the problems that confront humanity today and the only way for man to find salvation.

The present edition (2019) of A Panoramic View of Holy Scripture, in two volumes, will be enjoyed by all Christians and in particular priests, preachers, Sunday School teachers, and Bible class students of the English-speaking Orthodox Church.

A Panoramic View of Holy Scripture is translated from the Greek by Asterios Gerostergios from the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Inc.

About the author: His Eminence Metropolitan Augustinos Kantiotes (Greek: Αυγουστίνος Καντιώτης)(1907-2010) was bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Florina, Prespai, and Eordaia in northern Greece, renowned as a defender of traditional Orthodoxy both in Greece and abroad, and a prolific writer of spiritual literature, publishing 82 books, several of which have appeared in English and in other languages.

Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White

About the book: In February 1981, a 19-year-old nursery teacher’s assistant overnight became globally famous. In a frenzy of excitement, jumping every barrier of language and class, a new, overwhelming icon was conjured up.

This is a guide to Dianaworld - the extraordinary hall-of-mirrors through which one young woman, the world’s media, the royal family, and everybody else stalked one another. Fashion-plate, breeder of heirs, role model, fantasy object, saint and sinner, Diana gripped the minds of millions of people in ways which were unique, complex and distressing. After her death, chased by paparazzi through a Paris traffic tunnel, an estimated 2.5 billion people watched her funeral.

Edward White examines Princess Diana as the complex figure she was: a scion of a great aristocratic house, wife of the future king, mother of his heirs, an inspiration and delight to countless people for many years. 

And yet, of course: a human being inevitably and woefully underequipped either to deal with the horrors of the House of Windsor or control, or even lightly supervise, the Dianaworld she and others had created. 

Dianaworld: An Obsession (2025) is a wonderful book, both admiring and incredulous, exuberant and melancholy.

About the author: Edward White is the author of widely praised The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock and The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. He has written for publications including the Paris Review. He lives in Kent.

Right To Life

The Miracle In Naju, Korea: Heaven Speaks To The World

About the book: The Miracle In Naju, Korea: Heaven Speaks To The World (1992) is about Mother Mary's messages to Julia Kim, a humble housewife, mother, and victim soul, from 1985 to 2002.

The Miracle In Naju, Korea: Heaven Speaks To The World is translated from the Korean by Sang M Lee.

The Miracle In Naju, Korea: Heaven Speaks To The World is consecrated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the patron saint of Korea and America, and dedicated to the ten thousand Korean martyrs who died for their Catholic Faith.

Solar Eclipse

No Contact by Noelle Mering

About the book: No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them is an incisive exposé of the widespread, politically motivated “no contact” movement that deconstructs the ideology behind this trend and equips readers to avert estrangement and repair broken relationships from the acclaimed author of Awake, Not Woke.

There is a new form of relationship estrangement afoot. While in the past, relationships tended to rupture over issues like abuse, today increasingly people are estranged because of politics. More than 68 million Americans are currently estranged from close family members. Though going “no contact” is frequently framed as an act of empowerment and self-care, behind the numbers are millions of hurting people - and an ideology that threatens not just relationships but the entire fabric of society.

In No Contact, author Noelle Mering weaves interviews and historical research to identify five major factors that have given rise to the no contact movement: 

1) identity politics 

2) demythologization of the family 

3) therapeutic culture

4) infallibility of victimhood, and 

5) cultural narcissism alongside spiritual decline. 

By laying bare the forces behind this destabilizing movement - and how they affect us on personal, familial, and social levels - Mering helps readers to see clearly what is happening, confront it, and work with their families to heal, repair, and strengthen relationships.

More than just a critique, this book is a call to action. By bringing light to an experience that is often shrouded in shame or presented far too reductively to a cheering online audience, No Contact empowers readers with a clear-eyed and compassionate perspective that rejects the pernicious ideology undermining our most intimate and necessary relationships. The stakes are high. If we cannot hold fast to one another in the face of disagreement, we risk losing not only our most intimate bonds, but the foundation of a free and humane society.

No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them will be on sale on 8 September 2026.

About the author: Noelle Mering is a fellow at the Washington DC-based Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology and co-author of the popular Theology of Home book series. She writes on culture, politics, and religion and has published in National Review, Newsweek, Daily Wire, The Federalist, The American Mind, Catholic World Report, and National Catholic Register. Noelle has been featured multiple times on Fox News (including Primetime), EWTN, in various documentaries, and numerous radio shows and podcasts. She is a highly sought-after public speaker on topics of family, human flourishing, and navigating the complexities of hot-button ideologies with grace. Noelle is a wife and mother of six children in Southern California.

Lost In The Valley Of Death by Harley Rustad

About the book: In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, Lost in The Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in The Himalayas (2022) is a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India - one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley.

For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker.

In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever restless explorer was driven to pursue ever greater challenges, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest - his own hero’s journey.

In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition yet shrouded in darkness and danger. There, he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a “spiritual journey” to a holy lake - a journey from which he would never return.

Lost in the Valley of Death is about one man’s search to find himself, in a country where for many westerners the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfilment in life.

Lost in the Valley of Death is the Winner of the 2023 Poland Mountain Literature Festival Award for Best Non-Fiction Book and Overall Grand Prix; Winner of the 2023 Religion News Association Award for Nonfiction Books; Finalist for a 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Nonfiction Crime Book; Finalist for the 2022 Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel; and CBC best Canadian Nonfiction of 2022.

Lost in the Valley of Death includes 16 pages of colour photographs.

About the author: Harley Rustad is is an award-winning and bestselling author, journalist, and magazine editor. His first book was Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees. It was named a best book of 2018 by the Globe and Mail and was nominated for several awards including the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 

His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Outside, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, and Geographical. He is a features editor and writer at The Walrus magazine (where he has worked for more than ten years), a faculty editor at the Banff Centre Mountain and Wilderness Writing residency, Canada, and the founder of the Port Renfrew Writers' Retreat in Canada. In 2024, he was awarded a gold National Magazine Award for Editor Grand Prix. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Rustad is originally from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.