Poetry Collection — Nicole Smolinski

Listed as one of Amazon’s #1 New Releases in four categories:

Inspirational Poetry, Family Poetry, Nature Poetry & Christian Poetry

"Words have not always been good to me. But I am dusting myself off. I am taking the nasty sentences that were strewn together and thrown at me all those years, breaking them apart, and rearranging their letters into something beautiful."

This collection is for anyone who has or continues to question their worth and their purpose in the world. If you’re reading this, take heart. This is tough. I don’t know who you are, if you’re young and just starting out — journeying to be okay with yourself in a harsh world—or if you’ve already spent years weighed down by the journey. From my own experience, I’ve seen people ranging all ages still asking the world if they are enough. My hope is to empower readers to take their worth into their own hands— to transition from allowing others to tell them who they are to boldly defining that for themselves. To take back their lives. People connect to honesty, to the struggle, because people can sense ingenuity— no one wants to hear about someone’s finish line without having known their race. Finding My Way Back tells of the race in excruciating detail and does not leave the losses out. It is as honest about struggle as it is about victory. It doesn’t stray away from the tough questions life demands of us. That is its greatest strength.

What readers have to say…

The poems in this book truly captures the pain, healing, and growth we go through in our adulthood. These poems truly demonstrate the connectedness we have as humans through our shared emotions. I highly recommend this book for all, no matter what age or ‘season’ you are in your life.”

“This collection of poems is sincere, vulnerable, and unapologetic. Nicole delicately breaks open her heart on these pages, allowing her readers to feel seen and understood in life’s own brokenness. What a gift it is to know we are not alone in this journey.”

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Nicole collaborates with her grandmother to craft a memoir…

My Path On This Earth:

An Immigrant’s Hope-Filled Journey Through Love, War and Other Hardships

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Rose Lopez, a Franco-American woman born in Oran, Algeria, immigrated to the United States in 1969. After surviving war and traveling through many countries with her husband, Jules, Rose has made California her home. She currently resides in Orange County, California, with her three children and three grandchildren. In her memoir, Rose writes honestly about the pain of poverty, war, trauma, and loss, just as honestly as she writes about the beauty of love, hope and laughter throughout the journey.

With English being her third language, she writes her story with the help of her youngest granddaughter. She leaves this book as a gift to her children, to pass down to future generations, and a reminder to the general public to maintain faith throughout hardship.

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Rose writes,

"Readers, thank you for taking time with my story. As you see deeper into the story of my life, I want you to know that this was my way, my experience with war. I recognize others may have other perspectives and experiences from the same events, and that theirs are as important as this one. The only story I can tell most truthfully is the one I lived. My wish is that you’ll read these pages and know that there’s hope. Even after hard times, you roll up your sleeves, pick yourself back up and find beautiful things on the other end of it."