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What is an enigma? According to the dictionary definition it is, a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Santa Claus fits into all three parts of this definition.He is certainly mysterious, popping in and out of homes at Christmastime without people knowing he has been there and gone.Santa is puzzling. Precisely why does he bring toys and gifts to the Christian world, and ask nothing in return except good be...

A heartwarming Christian fantasy that will have the reader laughing, crying with joy, and mesmerized in the land of Santa Claus and his helpers. The second book in The Santa Claus Trilogy is an inspirational story that puts a significant emphasis on the true meaning of Christmas and how the North Pole relates its events to the birth of Jesus. Everyone loses faith and hope from time to time. This is the story about good-hearted families who hav...

This is the first in The Santa Claus Trilogy. It begins with the history before Santa's first delivery in 1799, and covers the time up to modern day, including handing the reins to his son, Nicholas XI. Believe Again, The North Pole Chronicles is more than a Christmas story, it is an inspirational journey into a magical world of wonder and faith. Learn how Santa came to use reindeer and make them fly and how he visits the entire Christian lovi...

Calamity! Disaster! Santa Claus' beloved world is crashing down around him. The North Pole is melting, and the buildings of his magical workshop are punching through the last remnants of ice, plunging into the Arctic Ocean. Santa has to save the operation and its inhabitants, including his wife and sons.Making things worse, Santa faces a cyber bullying attack, and he must deal with this at the same time as moving the North Pole Workshops. Sant...

Return of the BirdsTerror from the sky. What if I told you all the beautiful birds that we love and feed suddenly changed and began to feed on us?It happened once in a sleepy resort town in Northern California called Bodega Bay. Now more than 55 years later, it begins again. But it is far worse this time. Species of birds including not just crows and sea gulls, but hawks, eagles and vultures have joined the invasion.What caused this? Why is it...

When fourteen-year-old Rene stepped off the streetcar in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1949, he entered a situation he could never have imagined. His mother had taken a position as head nurse at the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Home and Hospital where they would live on campus. For the next year he would be surrounded by ten women who had dedicated their lives to God, and fifty young girls -- all pregnant -- all unmarried. To hide that embarrassin...

A tryst of bondage. A lover's murder. Investigator Jon Frederick returns in a search to uncover the identity of a killer creeping through communities along I-94 in Minnesota, targeting couples who store their fetish photos online. The killer taunts Jon with hidden messages embedded in local media that lead him to Sonia, a young woman with a terrible secret. A fast-paced thriller based on the profile of a true-life serial murderer which guides ...

With this volume, twelve distinguished scholars from Europe, Iceland, and North America honor the memory of Frederic Amory with contributions to the field of Old Norse-Icelandic studies. Topics treated include, inter alia, several in which Amory did important work, such as skaldic poetics, the locutions of poetry, and saga narrative techniques. CONTRIBUTIONS BY RICHARD PERKINS, RUSSELL POOLE, JOHN LINDOW, MARVIN TAYLOR, ÁSDÍS EGILSDÓTTIR, THEO...

Nordic mythology-with its remarkable stories of gods, giants and the catastrophic end of the world-has captured the imaginations of scholars and the public alike for centuries, keeping the Medieval North front and center in the popular imagination. In this volume, the world's leading scholars of Nordic mythology interrogate the complexities of this realm, bringing expertise from folkloristics, anthropology, religious studies, cultural history,...

The contributors to this volume took their inspiration from Ross Shideler's extensive and diverse body of work, and particularly from Professor Shideler's volume, Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg and Hardy (Stanford University Press, 1999). The essays in this collection deal with father figures-biological, literary, intellectual, and cultural-as well as the gender challenges that they invoke and the gender identit...

A series of essays on Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in honor of John Lindow. Edited by Merrill Kaplan and Timothy R. Tangherlini, contributors also include Margaret Clunies Ross, Gísli Sigurðsson, Jens Peter Schjødt, Anders Andrén, Lars Lönnroth, Carol J. Clover, Úlfar Bragason, Kendra Willson, Ulf Palmenfelt, Thomas A. Dubois, Terry Gunnell, JoAnn Conrad, Hanne Pico Larsen, Tok Thompson, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, and Kirsten Thisted.

This memoir braids together stories about ordinary people who had extraordinary experiences following the death of a loved one. Each recounts a confluence of events or series of coincidences that seemed to come from "out of the blue." What makes these stories important is the profound effect of each experience. Each person felt an overwhelming sense that death is not the end, that the deceased continue to exist in some form, apart from and bey...

murder book (n): a new term for a cold case where a homicide is suspected. Jon Frederick spent his adolescence protecting his mentally ill brother and worrying about his parents' farm as it headed toward bankruptcy. So when Mandy Baker, the alluring new girl in town, pursued him, he was easily enamored. But on the day he ended their tryst, Mandy vanished. There is no doubt in the small Minnesota town of Pierz that the flirtatious girl is dead,...

This is the first in The Santa Claus Trilogy. It begins with the history before Santa's first delivery in 1799, and covers the time up to modern day, including handing the reins to his son, Nicholas XI. Believe Again, The North Pole Chronicles is more than a Christmas story, it is an inspirational journey into a magical world of wonder and faith. Learn how Santa came to use reindeer and make them fly and how he visits the entire Christian lovi...

Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading." --"The "Christian Science Monitor "A Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects" Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive, and he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vi...

Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill are on the case again. This time, paintings are missing and the famous local painters are less than forthcoming.

Two worlds living beside each, one filled with myth and legend and one of science. Many years ago a great Divide was put in place to protect both worlds, but the Divide will not last forever. Together Jane Timbrill and Jacob have taken the first steps in a great adventure, but suddenly Jacob's life hangs in the balance. Poisoned by the black-robed Adherents and fleeing for their lives, Jane must find a way to save Jacob and her long-lost siste...

After writing seven books of short fiction, a novel, and a book of poetry, all with Finnish themes and characters, Lauri Anderson has finally written his memoir. In it, he tells stories of growing up in rural Maine, life in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, Truk Lagoon, and Turkey, and teaching at Finlandia University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. With his typical humor and common-sense approach to life, Lauri expertly weaves together the stor...

Second in the Home Sweet Murder series, Meggie goes to Florida to house-sit and hijinks ensue.

When the town drunk's truck is found in a ditch, most people assume he's simply off on a bender. But when a local high school student goes missing, too, Lake County Sheriff Deidre Johnson is convinced the two disappearances are related. When a couple of hunters find what appear to be graves in the Northwoods, Deidre and her deputies uncover more than just bodiesâthey also discover a meth ring that reaches all the way to Chicago. Can they stop ...