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A deeply intimate and unflinching look at a mother’s journey through grief, The Diary of a Grieving Mother is a collection of journal entries, letters, and reflections written in the aftermath of a child’s death. Samantha J. Garcia opens her heart and her diary to the world, exploring the raw, complex, and often contradictory emotions that accompany profound loss. Through hundreds of entries spanning years, readers witness grief in its many forms: sharp anger, quiet sorrow, tender remembrance, and the small, everyday acts of living that keep love alive.

The Ones Who Stayed follows Eliza Mae Carter, an enslaved young woman in the Deep South who becomes a quiet architect of escape along the Underground Railroad. Raised to survive through silence and restraint, Eliza learns resistance through her mother’s stories, coded hymns, and a hidden network of allies. After her family is torn apart, Eliza joins a fragile resistance movement led by free Black conductors, preachers, and singers who pass information through song and faith. When an early escape attempt fails, she learns that freedom demands patience, sacrifice, and courage.

Beelzebub: The Demon Behind Decay, Power, and the Fall of the Soul is a rigorous examination of one of theology’s most enduring, and misunderstood, figures. Moving beyond superstition and literal demonology, this book reframes Beelzebub as a diagnostic symbol for corruption that persists without intent, systems that function while morally failing, and harm that becomes normalized through neglect rather than malice.