Alfred J Garrotto: 9 books

What can a 21st century seeker learn about life, love and spirituality from a 19th century French novel? Plenty. Alfred J. Garrotto offers Victor Hugo’s flawed protagonist as a model for anyone in search of practical wisdom for everyday living. One of fiction’s most beloved characters,...

Destiny brings Leah Barton, USA director of Prisoners of Conscience International, and Fr. Javier de Cordova together again after parting ways 14 years earlier in the Caribbean Islands nation of Santo Sangre. The tiny country’s dictator, Raúl Montenegro, has lured the priest into a sham diplomatic...

“The Soul of Art" offers a thoughtful, spiritual approach to human creativity, especially as broadly expressed in "the arts." Topics stem from the author's belief that all creative gifts spring from a higher, divine source, whom he calls "Creator-Spirit." Artists of all...

On a tip from a stranger, international supermodel Natalia McCrory travels for the first time to her native Peru to meet a woman who might be her birth mother. Not only are mother and daughter reunited, but Natalia learns that her adoptive father is also her biological father. The discovery...

Former international model Natalia Edgerly and her husband Arlo have relocated from the United States to Lima, Peru. She now works at the same Catholic orphanage from which she was adopted as an infant. Although childless, she experiences a maternal awakening when ten-year-old Marisol Lagos, is abandoned...

Adoptee Analisa Marconi loses her family—for a second time—when her parents die in a private plane crash in which she is the only survivor. The trip was to celebrate her completion of grad school and the start of her new career. Devastated and alone in the world, now, and finally recovered from...

Liberty “Libby” O’Neill has it all. A business partner-fiancé she adores. A thriving Victorian restoration business in San Francisco, a city forested with raw material sufficient to keep them employed—and comfortable—for years to come. Then, why the sense of dread stirring her from sleep...

Relief pitcher Jack Thorne stares at his catcher’s target. His single focus is to get this batter out. If he does, a coveted World Series ring will be his. But the Universe has a different plan for this Catholic priest-turned-ballplayer. There’s More is a creative imagining of the ultimate human...

Mother Marie-Thérèse is the surviving victim of one of Belgium’s most notorious crimes, involving kidnap, rape, prolonged torture, and finally murder—all of which took place in enchanting, picturesque Bruges, Venice of the North. Her co-victim, an American priest, Father Thomas Jensen, did not...