Electio Publishing: 80 books

G E T. Three simple letters that form a simple word that defines the world in which we live. We strive to GET AHEAD in our careers. We seek to GET CRACKING, GET A MOVE ON and hurry to our destinations. Sometimes, we struggle just to GET THROUGH THE DAY. Our lives are dominated by acts of GETTING....

In the 1950s, a copper-haired little girl was growing up in the hills of southern Indiana. She spent her days playing in the woods and making mud pies with her little brothers. But when her family began to crumble apart, she and her five brothers were separated from their parents and each...

Ethan was a fastidious planner; no detail escaped his keen eye. Constantly juggling his wife's schedule with his job and clandestine meetings with a "special friend" from the office, he was finally hitting his stride. His routine life was finally becoming exciting until an afternoon tryst went terribly...

Step into your virtual time machine and set the controls for 1961. Then sit back, put your feet up, and relax as you join nine-year-old Karen Schmidt in her attempts to navigate Crab Hollow Road amidst the overwhelming male majority who beleaguer her at every opportunity. Does Karen have the fortitude...

Clark is an aspiring writer that is constantly in search of a great story. But when his seemingly oppressive relationship with his girlfriend, Lex, prompts him to take drastic action, Clark realizes that he has the opportunity to make a great story. Miles away from civilization, under the cover of a...

SECRETS . . . Angry because her father, Louisiana Senator Jacob Windsor, has announced his engagement to Hollywood starlet Kara Bordeaux, Julia Windsor decides she’d rather leave home than be subjected to heightened security and a deluge of paparazzi. She travels to Singapore, severs all...

Burnt Offerings is filled with poems about life and death, family and faith, hope and despair, creativity and questions. From Billy Collins and Smokey the Bear to Jesus, from kombucha to the Eucharist, from kindling and forest fires to ash and ember, Cathy Warner employs metaphor, humility, and humor to explore the spiritual life.

The Woven Thread is a poetic maze of vivid imagery and tone that takes the reader on a journey through all the elements that make us human. It inspires feelings of both hopelessness and hope; dread as well as tranquility. More importantly, the work shows us our lost state and man's need for salvation.

Welling up from deep inside the soul of the poet Morgan, these poems are the sum of experiences, both personal and recounted by those with whom he has come into contact. Descriptive of the journey, the trials, the trevails, and the triumphs of true love, the emotions that leap from these pages ring true...

The devastation of a ruined summer. The gift of a second chance. Can Josie learn the lessons she needs in order to discover her true self? After a humiliating event and overwhelming peer pressure, 16-year-old Josie flees her home to spend the summer with her Aunt on a South...

SHE FOUND THE BLOODY BODY AND SAW THE MURDERER'S FACE WILL SHE EVER BE SAFE? U.C. Berkeley grad student Jessica Thierry walks the Fire Trail in the hills and witnesses a rapist-murderer leave the scene. Fearing for her life, she tries to focus on her doctorate about Christianity’s role in...

"With grace, humor, and sensitivity, Diana R. Zimmerman renders a traditional Mennonite farm family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as seen through a child’s eyes and spoken in the hypnotic rhythms of a young girl’s voice. The spirited speaker develops a rich sense of herself and her community as she...

Amarian is a loving son, a protective older brother, and an attentive student. One rainy day, he arrives home to find a stranger at the hearth, a man who tells him that the prophesied time of the Advocates has arrived, and that he and his brother have been chosen to complete it. Amarian is given a choice:...

Jim Landwehr and his brothers pursue their love of the outdoors by tackling some of the country's most remote terrain, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. While encountering crazed loons, widow-making portages, and temperamental automobiles, they also discover more about each other and their long deceased...