A personal testimony of overcoming life's challenges, this book written by Dee Stephens is written to her grandson Ryan, to empower him in facing the challenges of overcoming dysfunctions in the family. The story is very powerful, and takes the reader on a journey from despair to hope, brokenness to wholeness.

Plant me on the River is a collection of Bible inspired prose and poetry.

"The Whistle of Boatmen" is the first collection of free verses by Santos Castillo, a Roman Catholic priest in suburban Chicago. The book explores the human condition as an encounter with people, little things, divine realities, and seasons, and speaks of the vicissitudes of human life, especially to experiences of departures. The preface also a phenomenology of the poetic experience. The poetic subjects are diverse, all products of individual encounters and reflections with the most mundane things to the most profound realities of life. It also paints some images of the background of the author, who is born and raised in the Philippines and has become a diocesan missionary to America.