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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From There to Here and Beyond: Evidence of Spiritual Warfare

 

From There to Here and Beyond:

Evidence of Spiritual Warfare

By: Constance ‘Destiny’ Johnson

Some journeys are not about escaping the past, but discovering what can still be built beyond it.

A memoir can do more than recount what happened. At its most meaningful, it can give language to experiences readers may have struggled to understand and show how a life shaped by hardship can continue to change. That is the territory Destiny B. Sincere explores in From There to Here and Beyond: Evidence of Spiritual Warfare.

The book begins with memories of family, church, childhood security, and belonging before that stability gradually fractures. Alcoholism, domestic violence, abuse, damaged self-worth, difficult relationships, and destructive choices become part of a much larger journey. Rather than presenting those experiences as isolated episodes, the memoir considers how early wounds can follow a person into adulthood and influence the way that person understands love, identity, faith, and purpose. 

That perspective gives the book particular relevance today. Conversations about trauma, generational patterns, accountability, and emotional well-being have become increasingly visible. Sincere approaches these subjects through an explicitly Christian lens, interpreting the unseen struggles behind her experiences as evidence of spiritual warfare. Yet the memoir does not stop at what wounded her. Its direction steadily shifts toward what changed her.

The progression itself is telling. Chapters move through being Safe, Shattered, and Stripped. Then toward Struggle, Surrender, Salvation, Sanctification, and finally Surrender Daily. That structure turns the memoir into more than a record of survival. It becomes an examination of transformation as an ongoing process.

One of its most relatable ideas is that meaningful change requires more than simply wanting different circumstances. Sincere distinguishes outward reform from inward transformation and reflects on learning to recognize mistakes, take responsibility, change patterns, and “grow through” challenges rather than merely endure them. 

That message carries significance beyond one life story. In a society where people can be quickly defined by their worst decisions, family history, or painful experiences, this memoir offers another possibility: a person’s past can be acknowledged without being allowed to dictate the future. Within Sincere’s faith, surrender to God becomes the turning point that makes restoration, purpose, and service to others possible.

What if where someone has been is not the final measure of where that life can go?

For readers drawn to candid memoirs about faith, adversity, personal responsibility, and spiritual renewal, Constance ‘Destiny’ Johnson journey offers a story worth discovering.

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Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God's Word

   

Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God's Word

By Robert Canton

What Does It Mean to Live with God’s Power in Everyday Life?

At a time when faith-based and self-help writing often competes for attention with quick fixes and instant answers, Robert Canton’s Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living: How to Live a Power-Filled Life Through Daily Application of God’s Word takes a more grounded approach. Its central concern is not simply what Christians believe, but what those beliefs look like when practiced through prayer, trust, service, forgiveness, humility, and reliance on the Holy Spirit.

Canton writes from years of experience in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, including leading prayer meetings, giving spiritual talks, serving as a Catholic evangelist, and conducting healing and deliverance ministries in the United States and abroad. That ministry background gives the book an experiential quality. Scripture is not presented merely as something to study; it becomes a foundation for responding to uncertainty, weakness, conflict, responsibility, and spiritual struggle.

The scope is notably broad. Christian growth occupies the opening portion, with discussions of faith, surrender, trust, spiritual gifts, leadership, evangelization, forgiveness, and intercession before the book moves into spiritual warfare and healing. This structure makes Fundamentals of Power-Filled Living less like a single-topic devotional and more like a practical handbook for readers seeking consistency between faith and daily life.

That emphasis feels particularly relevant to contemporary Christian writers. Inspirational writing can encourage readers for a moment; application asks what happens after the page is turned. Canton repeatedly brings spiritual principles into human relationships and responsibilities. His discussion of leadership, for example, emphasizes love, compassion, humility, putting others ahead of personal preference, and focusing on the good of those being served. 

Those ideas also give the book significance beyond individual spirituality. A society shaped by more compassionate leadership, forgiveness instead of prolonged resentment, concern for others, and service rather than self-interest has greater room for healthier families, stronger communities, reconciliation, and responsible citizenship. Canton’s treatment of intercession similarly turns attention outward, presenting prayer as an act concerned with the needs and struggles of other people. 

Robert Canton’s work is worth discovering for readers seeking a faith-centered book that does not stop at inspiration but challenges Christian belief to become visible in everyday life. 

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Bid Whist at Midnight

  

 Bid Whist at Midnight

By Marva Washington

History does not only live-in textbooks—it lives in the people who had to survive it.

A card table, an empty chair, and nearly twenty years of silence provide the deceptively intimate setting for Marva Washington’s Bid Whist at Midnight. What begins as a late-night reunion among former college friends Sardis, Grace, and Dorcus gradually becomes something far more revealing: an examination of friendship, memory, identity, and the history people carry long after the defining moment has passed.

The novel opens in February 1988, when the women reunite for the game that once helped bind them together in college. Their familiar rhythm cannot completely disguise what has changed. Four chairs surround the table, but Taletha will not be joining them, and the absence immediately gives the gathering emotional weight. 

From there, Washington reaches back into their college years, placing personal stories alongside the social unrest of 1968. Student demonstrations against segregation, debates over Black identity, changing attitudes toward beauty and belonging, and the pressures surrounding the Civil Rights era become part of the characters’ everyday lives rather than distant historical footnotes. The friends themselves do not always agree on how change should happen. Taletha embraces activism, while Grace weighs the fight for equality against the possibility of losing the education her family sacrificed to provide. 

That tension gives Bid Whist at Midnight particular relevance for contemporary readers and writers. Washington demonstrates how historical fiction can make large social movements personal. History is not presented only through famous names, protests, or political ideas; it is felt through friendships, family expectations, romantic relationships, ambitions, prejudice, grief, and the decisions ordinary people make when society itself is changing.

The card game becomes especially meaningful in that context. Bid whist is more than recreation. During college, the foursome grows from an uneasy grouping into friends who share personal trials, changing beliefs, and the complications of becoming adults. Their story suggests that meaningful relationships are not necessarily built on complete agreement, but on the willingness to listen, challenge assumptions, and recognize experiences beyond one’s own.

That idea carries considerable weight today. In a society still wrestling with questions of race, identity, inequality, belonging, gender, and generational trauma, fiction can create room for conversations that statistics and headlines alone cannot provide. Stories such as Washington’s remind contemporary writers of the value of preserving lived perspectives while giving readers the opportunity to encounter history through human consequences.

Bid Whist at Midnight offers readers something to carry beyond its final page: the understanding that the past rarely stays neatly in the past—and sometimes healing begins when people finally return to the table.

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The Third Estate: Devil's Tango (The Third Estate Series Book 2)

  

The Third Estate: Devil's Tango

(The Third Estate Series Book 2)

When Sophie Allard is accused of murder, her only chance of surviving is to trust the last man on earth she should. Trying to bury her past and build a future, medical student and military officer Sophie Allard lives by precision, discipline, and instinct—until a dying gunshot victim whispers a message in her ear meant for someone else. By sunrise, she is suspended, framed for murder, and hunted by people who don't leave witnesses. Evidence vanishes. Someone is tying off loose ends—and Sophie just became one of them. Three years off the grid hasn't erased Kai Lovac’s name from the kill lists. Cold, disciplined, and lethal, he knows exactly what happens to people who uncover the wrong secret. His friend died protecting Dossier 1627—a file powerful enough to expose the Third Estate, a covert syndicate that kills to remain invisible. Lovac once worked in their shadows. Now they want him erased. Driven together by a shared threat and a past neither can escape, Sophie and Lovac are pulled into a labyrinth where assassins close in, hidden labs bury the truth, and betrayal waits at every turn. Each clue pulls them deeper. Alliances fracture without warning. Every step demands perfect timing. A single misstep carries a body count. And when the music stops, one wrong move will end everything. Relentless, cinematic, and razor-sharp, Devil's Tango is a high-stakes thriller of precision, power, and survival—where every turn is calculated, every secret is lethal, and trusting the wrong person can be your last mistake.

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Unpredictable: The walk in and out of darkness

 

Unpredictable:

The walk in and out of darkness

Honey Kasper's life was far from predictable. From malnourishment to enduring 89 surgeries, from facing the dark depths of abuse to battling cancer, the odds seemed insurmountably stacked against her. But Honey's story isn't one of defeat. It's a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

Unpredictable: The walk in and out of darkness chronicles Honey’s turbulent journey, marked by pain but highlighted by triumph. With a relentless faith in God, she overcame not only the physical and emotional challenges thrown her way but also managed to build a successful, fulfilling life. Along the way, she provides uplifting insights, showing that it's possible not only to survive but to thrive.
This isn’t just Honey’s story. It's a beacon for anyone who's experienced trauma, a guiding light for survivors searching for hope, and a resource for professionals in mental health. Embark on this moving journey and discover inspiration and healing for your own wounds.

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Make Peace With Life shirts now come with FREE SHIPPING

   

Free Shipping, Good Vibes & Looking Cool: The Make Peace With Life Shirt Movement

Let’s be honest…

There are few things in life more disappointing than finding the perfect shirt online, adding it to your cart, emotionally committing to it, and then suddenly getting attacked by shipping costs at checkout like:

“Surprise! That’ll be another $12.95 for the privilege of fabric transportation.”

Not anymore.

The Make Peace With Life shirts now come with FREE SHIPPING, because we believe getting something that spreads positivity, purpose, and good energy throughout the universe shouldn’t also require taking out a small loan to cover delivery fees.

That’s right.
You now get to pay less… for a shirt that actually gives you more.

More comfort.
More positivity.
More connection.
More style.
More energetic awesomeness.

And honestly?
That feels like a pretty solid life decision.

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But these shirts are more than just soft fabric and cool designs. They’re part of something bigger. Every time someone wears a Make Peace With Life shirt, they’re putting a message into the world that people genuinely need right now. In a world where stress, negativity, division, and doom-scrolling seem to compete for Olympic gold medals every single day, a simple positive message can actually shift someone’s energy. You never know who might see your shirt while standing in line for coffee, walking through the grocery store, or surviving another painfully awkward family gathering. One person reads “Make Peace With Life” and suddenly pauses for a moment. Maybe they smile. Maybe they breathe easier. Maybe they realize they’ve been way too hard on themselves lately. That’s real energy. That’s impact.

Because positivity spreads.

Energy spreads.

And yes… apparently cool shirts spread too.

There’s something powerful about wearing a message that reminds people life doesn’t have to be perfect to still be meaningful. These shirts quietly say:

“Hey… maybe we can all chill out a little, breathe deeper, and stop acting like every inconvenience is a full-scale spiritual emergency.”

And honestly, the world could use more of that.

Plus, let’s not ignore an important scientific fact:
These shirts also make you look cool.

Not just “nice shirt” cool.
We’re talking:

• grounded-but-fun cool
• peaceful-with-good-energy cool
• probably-gives-great-life-advice cool
• somehow-both-spiritual-and-hilarious cool

That kind of cool.

And the best part is these shirts are for everyone.

It doesn’t matter:

• who you are
• what you believe
• what music you listen to
• whether you meditate daily or just aggressively overthink in silence
• whether you hike mountains or simply climb out of bed after hitting snooze four times

The Make Peace With Life message belongs to all of us.

Because peace is universal.
Growth is universal.
Human struggle is universal.
And wanting a comfortable shirt with free shipping is definitely universal.

At the end of the day, this movement has always been about more than clothing. It’s about connection, positivity, humor, perspective, and reminding people that even in the middle of life’s chaos, there’s still room for peace, laughter, kindness, and growth. Every shirt shared in the world becomes another small ripple of good energy moving outward into the collective human experience.

So yes…
You’re getting free shipping.

But you’re also helping spread a message the world desperately needs.

And honestly?
That’s a pretty good deal.

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