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Mia just wants to fit in at her new school in a new city and maybe find a nice boyfriend. But her suburban life is turned upside down when she encounters three younger boys on the run from a mysterious threat. While trying to help them, Mia is drawn into a shadow world where dark, sinister shapes prowl quiet neighborhoods.

Discover the surprising literary and poetic history of the RMS Titanic! Imagine getting the inside, behind the scenes story of the Titanic tragedy written by those who did not survive - but whose poetry and short accounts of the moments leading up to the Titanic sinking did. The World Codex Planet Poetry publication encapsulates a snapshot of the era shortly after the turn of the 20th century and is a gem of historical maritime poetry.

A zany musical comedy, touching love story, and fast-paced adventure thriller combined with “Elvis Presley meets Star Wars” plot twists. Cosmic Cowboy the Musical stars the love-struck alien Prince Remo, from faraway Planet Vegas (complete with glowing blue-grey skin and personal flying saucer), and the object of his adoration, aspiring Nashville country singer Jenna Lee Jenkins.

Courageously written, Cognitive Faith challenges and disputes some of the central premises of religious faith, including most religious lore, and religious morality and behavioral dictates.

What if your home and/or office environment could help you realize your dreams? Imagine your space flowing with energy in perfect alignment with you. Picture your goals being met with surprising ease. Sybilla Lenz is certified in Western bagua BTB feng shui and is a feng shui teacher consultant, speaker, and coauthor of several books with leaders in the personal empowerment fields such as Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Neale Donald Walsch, and Brian Tracy. She is also the author of the DVD The Energy Atlas and has a degree in interior design.

When 11-year-old Elizabeth is left to babysit her four-year-old sister one rainy night, neither of them expect the adventure that unfolds. Their parents don’t return home, and by morning there is a flood that fills the first floor of their house. Elizabeth must take initiative and make an agonizing decision: whether to stay put where her parents might find them, or to be brave and leave home to go in search of their parents. Dangers loom in either scenario.

Playful, compelling, and deeply layered, What You Don’t See raises the stakes in friendship against the bittersweet backdrop of motherhood and the endlessly entertaining activities of well-heeled women’s groups. The story follows Livi, a spirited, outspoken PR executive, pivoting at 30 to full-time wife and mom. That goes better than imagined, until she gets entangled in a relationship with another mom.

In this three-part series by D.J. Bradley, we are read the life of Pamela Burroughs, an evangelizing single mother. In Part 1, we meet Pam, her fellow missionary friends, and Bibi, the boy who becomes their mission. While on a religious support trip to Africa, Pam's journey takes a surprising twist, as Pam's path crosses Bibi's. Bibi, a young, native Nigerian Christian, is on the brink of death, injured, bleeding, and without water. A detour caused by an accident on the highway changes the course of the lives of Pam and her group, along with Bibi.

In the summer of 2012, Tracy O'Malley was going through the motions of her life as a hardworking single parent. To everyone who knew her, she was the pillar of strength. But underneath that mask was a hurting, broken woman, only hanging on by a thread. One Sunday afternoon, a life-changing phone call brought her life crumbling down like a house of cards. Grace, Grit, Guts is a stirring step-by-step account of self-discovery, healing, recovery, and transformation. Follow Tracy’s journey on her relentless quest to heal from her tumultuous life.

Alexandra Destephano, a registered nurse and legal counsel for CCMC is concerned about inadequate staff and safety issues in the Pavilion and enlists former husband, dashing surgeon Robert Bonnet to assist her to battle Lester Whitset, the odd and often bizarre Pavilion administrator. In the meantime, staff and patients are being brutally beaten and killed at Crescent City Medical Center and Alex must set aside her feelings about the chronic under staffing at the hospital and work with Jack, Robert, and others to bring the perpetrators to justice.

It's Mardi Gras season in post-Katrina New Orleans. City officials expect record crowds and the biggest boost to the Crescent City economy since the big storm. Alexandra Lee Destephano, legal counsel for Crescent City Medical Center, is anticipating her third Mardi Gras season and her date with Mitch Landry to the biggest Mardi Gras ball in New Orleans. But hold on. Alex is stat-paged to the hospital and learns from her boss and former husband that the wife of the governor of Louisiana has been found unconscious and covered in blood in her hospital room.

With POTUS and members of Congress in the Big Easy for a political convention, an unidentified killer virus in the Crescent City emergency room has physicians baffled, hospital staff frightened, and the CDC on their way to assist. When the first death from the mysterious virus is a Secret Service agent guarding the president, a terrorist attack is feared. Matters get worse with the murder of a prominent politician in the French Quarter.

US WAVES Lieutenant Livvy Delacourt doesn't know just what to expect, but she knows to expect trouble. Finally free to use her clairvoyant powers, she jumps in with both feet when Uncle Sam recruits her to hunt down Nazi spies. But will a trail of trouble land her into the arms of the Grim Reaper?

It's mayhem and merriment in the forest today. Berries are being picked (and eaten), chores may be getting done, or maybe not! A fast game of tiddlywinks is a family challenge. A warm family tale of the Four Bears in their family forest home. A busy day before the Bear family settles down for a long winter's night.

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a public speaker, if you are at crossroads in your school or job search, this book will answer most basic questions which will help you realize your elevated human capacity and meet your goals. My book focuses on exponential thinking and entrepreneurship.

Pam isn’t shy about revealing that her many treks down the aisle eventually led from the altar to the divorce court. During a 13-year hiatus from saying, "I do," Pam used this time to reflect on her past relationship choices and often hasty decisions. Her discoveries about her personality type and how it influenced her actions helped her gain new knowledge and take responsibility, allowing her to finally break her multi-relationship and marriage pattern.

Myrtle Mae and her family have inherited a house on Roseberry Hill from her great aunt Gertrude, a house that is hiding an interesting secret. It's a secret that opens a doorway from our world into a world that is waiting for her just through the mirror in the attic. It is here that Myrtle and her family's journey begins. She learns that she is the only female that has been born a Mae in a long line of Mae witches.

Being 16 can be hell, and life at Liberty High is not doing Sarah Daniels any favors. Bullies, boys, an abusive mother, and now this: an old journal left to Sarah in her aunt's will. With each passing entry, she grows closer to transforming the skeletons in her mom's closet into proven facts. Everyone has a story. For Sarah, one boy's journey across Great Depression America will set her free.

The Crow's Nest is a tale of high adventure, as seen through the eyes of Will Anchor and his sister, Sara, ages 11 and 13, as they set out by canoe on a dangerous mission to find help for their ailing mother. The year is 2049 and their home is in the drowned and abandoned city of New Orleans. Water levels, worldwide, have risen to unprecedented levels. Civilization, as we know it, has been brought to its knees, yet life struggles on, with promise for the future.

I, Lisa Peterson, after surviving many years of abuse, in which I have overcome, gave me the will and determination to raise my children to be respectful and successful citizens. I teach them how to handle different challenges they may face in everyday life. Helping them to overcome and achieve their goals in life is vital.