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When Mary of Bethany insists on walking alone to the Gihon Spring for water, this choice proves to become a harrowing decision as she is captured and taken across the sea to serve as a concubine to a master. She tries to flee but her strength and faith are tested to the brink. Meanwhile, her neighbor Simon, a businessman, returns from his travels stricken with leprosy which challenges his faith. When both seem lost and in despair, YHWH has dee...

Maria Jane Schuyler Hatch wrote her "Centennial Journal" in 1876 for her best friend, Clara Shelley. Maria was born January 20, 1850 in or near Atlanta, Georgia. She moved from Georgia to join her father, James Schuyler and her stepmother who owned the elegant Schuyler Hotel in the coastal town of Half Moon Bay. Each entry is filled with images of Maria's daily life. Some were of sorrow and heartbreak while most were filled with humor and fu...

New Liberty weaves together the lives of Hector Miguel Navarro, a young Hispanic police officer, and members of two vicious gangs. He is assigned to a gang unit to gain plain clothes experience. He is exposed to human trafficking, drug sales, alcoholic officers, and Veterans suffering from PTSD. He struggles, makes mistakes, and must face the consequences of his decisions. Recovering from a decision leading to a disastrous incident, he grows i...

Robbers and Cops is the story of two downtrodden Steinbeckian characters, their descent into criminality, and the determined efforts of law enforcement to bring them to justice. - As reviewed by Love To Read A fascinating odyssey of complex characters-robbers and cops that spans five decades in its telling. Imagine if Elmore Leonard had written The Grapes of Wrath, tossed in a dash of The Naked and the Dead, and finished up morphing into a pur...

Goodnight Suzy is a collection of semiautobiographical short stories narrated by Fellmann's reckless alter ego, Johann Felmanstien. The stories appear in loose chronological order, documenting the author's development from a lovelorn kindergartener into a hard-drinking globetrotter. The narrative deals with crucial elements in this process, such as his childhood crush becoming a stripper, his dangerous romance with an air rifle, his crash cour...

An orphanage headmistress is snatched saving a child from a dragon, and the world believes her dead and eaten. For centuries, Gascony's top predators have treated humankind as easy prey. But Isodore's misery has only begun. On a lonely ledge high in the Pyrénées, where even the famed dragonslayers won't go, she comes to terms with the nature of dragons, her fate in her captor's hands, and her own dark secret. A child survivor of dragon's wrath...

Four teensTwo worldsOne perilous summer . . . Teen artist, Kallan MacKinnon, becomes trapped with her family in a medieval kingdom that's under attack. She and her foster brother, Matthew Webbe, tangle with magical beings and prehistoric creatures in their attempt to reach the gateway back to Earth before it closes forever. Their friendship is tested when they meet magically gifted twins from the new world. Is it worth risking their lives to s...

Mary is the seventh born child of a small-town California family with a household of colorful characters and their stories. Told with warmth, humor, and sorrow, Never a Dull Moment invites you to join Mary as she reflects on her journey from her 1960s upbringing to forming her own family and sense of self. Through it all, she pulls herself up through the losses and finds her inner joy, once again. Never a Dull Moment is Mary E. Heaton's second...

After a failed suicide attempt, Elise escapes her life as a pastor's wife by moving to the Victorian village of Ferndale, California. As she recovers from the depression that had overwhelmed her, she uses art to paint the emotional pain she suffers from her bipolar, her unsympathetic church, and her self-absorbed husband Zed. While she find support in her recovery, and causes a fit in Elise's family.Zed is devastated that Elise left him, espec...

This is the story of Maya, a show dog from Texas, who finds a new life in California. She evolves into an experienced therapy dog who travels around the San Francisco Bay Area to visit retirement homes, schools, rehab centers and many other places. Maya is joined by her brother Aiden on the therapy visits where they spread their love and caring to everyone. Together Maya and Aiden have over 500 visits, and have seen thousands of people. The st...

The search for the Red Asscher continues to its conclusion. Read further escapades of Anya Pavlovitch as she undertakes her final mission.In Living in Fear, Anya escaped capture from the Japanese in Shanghai. In Living in Turmoil, she traded a precious heirloom to save her partner, Commander Macdonald Benson. Now, she is asked to accept a new assignment. The catch is she must trek through the steamy and treacherous Chinese jungle.In meeting up...

Lura Grisham Myer lives a perfect life until her world is ripped apart. Reborn, forged of pain and misery, she battles to recapture happiness with the help of two orphans and a mysterious stranger.The Mona Lisa Sisters, a historical fiction novel of Lura Grisham Meyer, George Cramer's debut novel, will be released in the fall of 2020. Wealth cannot protect Lura from the tragedies that befall her in the late nineteenth century. She voyages to P...

A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER in Central Asia finds purpose in helping a friend escape a life of servitude.Johann Felmanstien is going nowhere in life. He has no money, no job, no girl, and a degree that would look better as a doormat than on his CV. He applies for the Peace Corps and is accepted. His country of service is the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan, which is seventy percent desert and run by a totalitarian dictator with a cult of pe...

Meydl is a strong woman but doubts her importance to God. She finds her life in disarray when her husband suddenly dies. She flees her home after hitting her husband's brother over the head. Befriended by a merchant, he helps Meydl sell her sewn garments. Perplexed when her thread continually breaks, she searches for an unbreakable thread. Her life's story is entwined with a question or whether God hears her and finding faith to believe.

Therapy Dogs In Action: Their Stories of Service and Love is the kind of book adults buy for kids and read for themselves. These charming stories, told from the dogs' point of view, show how small acts of kindness spread farther than anyone could imagine. The book is a perfect size to bring along on public transportation or an airplane.

With her husband's name on a hit list, the fight got personal.It is 1940 when World War II invades the lives of history teacher Mija Adamsons and her husband: Aleks, a Latvian colonel, has seen his name on a Soviet execution list. Aleks narrowly escapes when a black car pulls up at their house, but he fears for Mija and their two children. Germany plays the hero when it ousts the occupying Russians and ends their reign of terror, and a gratefu...

(This work is not religious.) Are his machines an irresistible trap? Or is Philip Machen offering humanity a fresh start? Because he never talked about subverting the world's elites or empowering millions of ordinary people until he'd already done it. By then, it was too late. Curse him, worship him, or ignore him, the Freemakers must figure it out now, before Tory vigilantes crush the future they desperately seek. Like those around him, Evere...

Barbara Flores, a successful designer and cookbook author vows to keep her family and her thirty-year marriage intact. When her Latin lover professor husband dumps her for a younger woman, she plots an over-my-dead-body warpath against the interloper-a thirtyish Halle-Berry-look-alike. Conflicting advice comes to her family and friends: the white suburban crowd eggs her to "forget that no-good cheater, " and her Hispanic amigas urge her to lur...

This brief book on ME will be most helpful to young people and their parents as it provides an excellent overview of what this disease is including its history and possible causes. While there is still no cure, there are coping strategies that can help patients better adjust to one of the more debilitating illnesses that affect thousands of youth in our country. Clearly, more research and educating needed for this most vulnerable population th...

Susan thought she was done with space aliens when she sent her mother Edna and daughter Cecily as ambassadors to the planet Schtatik. Instead, she must travel across the galaxy to stop a civil war that Edna started when she managed to get herself made queen of one of the clans.The Chenille Ultimatum is the third book in the Chenille series. It takes place on the exotic planet Schtatik, home to quarreling clans, and in San Francisco, where Susa...