Denise Zen arrives in Southern Illinois for the summer term at SIU where she is approached by peaceful, highly advanced beings from another world to aid them in a search and rescue mission to retrieve two of their crewmembers that have disappeared.She is chosen for the rare powers and ability she has that have started to manifest themselves since her arrival.Denise agrees to help them, and along with her newfound friend Layla Martine, they begin a strange and action packed race against time to find the missing crewmembers and bring them back alive. Views: 28
Ancient Egypt is in trouble; evil Pharaoh Oba has captured five of the most powerful gods and now bloodthirsty monsters terrorise the people. Only one person can stop them: Akori, an orphaned farm-boy with a huge destiny...Vicious vultures and deadly beasts lie in wait for Akori as he searches the desert for the Hidden Fortress of Fire — and the Goddess imprisoned there. Will he survive or will this quest be his last...? Views: 28
A regency twist on My Fair Lady!Jack Eliot dreams of being the captain of his own ship. But then his grandfather, the Earl of Stansworth, names Jack as his heir — with a caveat. Jack must impress the aristocracy, or else his mother and sister will remain in poverty. Can a rough-and-tumble captain be transformed into a gentleman of society?Ivy Carlisle is willing to try. Employed as his tutor, she begins teaching Jack the ways of high society, but she quickly discovers that this dashing sailor is brash and bold, opinionated and passionate. If she's not careful, Jack might end up teaching her a thing or two about romance.Sparks fly when the sailor meets society, and Jack soon learns that his challenge isn't surviving the ton, but surviving the conspiracies against him — as well as keeping himself from falling madly in love with his new tutor. Views: 28
The charming Violet Mackerel must overcome self-doubt to make a new friend in this fifth illustrated chapter book of a delightful series. Violet Mackerel hopes and hopes that her new next door neighbor, Rose, might turn out to be a very good friend. But even after a nice morning at Rose's house, Violet still has quite a few worrying thoughts. Is she too messy for Rose's tidy family? Will Rose be disappointed that the ice in Violet's house comes from a plastic tray instead of a special box with fancy tongs? Will Violet wear the wrong sort of costume to Rose's flower-themed birthday party? And what if the present Violet brings is a good bit smaller than the other presents? Luckily a helpful older sister, a big imagination, and a particularly brilliant idea just might turn Violet's possible very good friend into a definite one. Views: 28
Two things happen when you graduate university: 1: You realize you'll be working for the next 40 years...which requires alcohol 2. You wonder when you're supposed to fall in love You'll also find: office friends, dimwits, an HR manager that's out to get you...and an attractive guy from an office transfer (that's when things get complicated). This short story is a prequel to Year of the Chick Views: 28
FINDING THE COURAGE TO LOVE...
Life was much safer at a remove, or at least so Julie Alexander thought. Her photojournalist job allowed her to view life through her camera lens, a job that would help her learn if a man she'd never met was a good father to her estranged late half-sister's child. But Julie's efforts to be a detached observer were challenged by firefighter Seth Flanagan and his warmhearted family, and her detachment was completely shattered by her unexpected love for three-year-old Davy.
Yet Julie wasn't the only one facing issues; the still-grieving Seth made it clear that love didn't feature in his future plans. Could God's love build a bridge to connect the two?
The Flanagans: This firefighting family must learn to stop fighting love. Views: 28
The first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of Adolf Eichmann, based on groundbreaking new information and interviews and featuring rare, neverpublished Mossad surveillance photographs When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, the operational manager of the mass murder of Europe's Jews shed his SS uniform and vanished.Bringing Adolf Eichmann to justice would require a harrowing fifteen-year chase stretching from war-ravaged Europe to the shores of Argentina.Alternating from a criminal on the run to his pursuers closing in on his trail,Hunting Eichmann follows the Nazi as he escapes two American POWcamps, hides in the mountains, slips out of Europe on the ratlines, and builds an anonymous life in Buenos Aires.Meanwhile, a persistent search for Eichmann gradually evolves into an international manhunt that includes a bulldogWest German prosecutor, a blind Argentinean Jew and his beautiful daughter, and a budding, ragtag spy agency called... Views: 28
Mark DeAvecca is a brilliant fifteen-year-old in his first year at the exclusive private academy, Windsor School. Mark, the son of noted commentator Liz Tolliver, grew up in very different circumstances and could not fit in less well. With its hundred-year-old history, Windsor is rife with tradition, nasty rumors, petty jealousies and long buried resentments. The most savage of those unpleasant undercurrents swirl around the headmaster's wife - currently rumored, with good reason, to be having an affair with Mark's roommate, a street-tough scholarship student. Mark, however, has his own problems - he feels himself slowly losing his grip on reality and the staff widely believes him to be just another prep school burnout headed for an unpleasant end. So when Mark returns from a late-winter ramble about the campus to find his roommate dead, hanging from the ceiling of their room, he's reached the end of his own metaphorical rope.Even though he's no longer sure about... Views: 28
What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Cheat? Or... kill? Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. A handsome husband, two beautiful daughters and a luxurious home in the picture-postcard town of Sandefjord. She's the type of woman people envy, and she wants to keep it that way. But then Tobias enters her life. He's a gentle, lonely eight-year-old boy. But he threatens to bring Cecilia's world crashing down. Views: 28
On the day that Obinna’s village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave, to be shaped into an agent of horror – a child soldier. Marched through minefields and forced into battle, enduring a brutal daily existence, Obinna slowly works out which parts of himself to save and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down. Views: 28
