Download or read book Make Mother Proud written by Thomas Parker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make Mother Proud, the second Adam Graham adventure, takes us into the mind of a cunning, diabolical serial killer. Adam, a local school superintendent, is drawn into police efforts to stop this killer. His background in education, intelligence and anger over the death of several young female teachers drives him in his efforts to find the psychopath responsible. A stunning tale of murder and romance, rich with the local color of the American Southwest, this is a story as mysterious, varied and opulent as the desert in which it is set.

Download or read book The Warning I written by C. Sawusch-Pytlik and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young man from Patmos, John Metcalf, has a vivid, prophetic dream of the future, the town bully goes after him, accusing John of trying to scare him. The small, quaint town is riddled with fear, and John and his friends must escape from the hounding press. Is this really a glimpse into the future preparing the way for Jesus return? Will the townspeople back off and leave John alone? If they dont, there could be serious consequences.

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Download or read book The Warning written by Kristy Acevedo and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end is coming. What would you do? The first in a fast-paced and gripping YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life—their world—is on the brink of destruction. Like most high school seniors, Alexandra Lucas is caught between living in the moment and an unknown future. Her anxiety disorder doesn't make that any easier. But she's coping—until her train stops on the way home from a concert with her boyfriend. At first, she's worried about breaking curfew. Then terror echoes through their train car. A mysterious doorway has appeared beside the tracks, and a hologram claiming to be a human from the future shares a sinister warning. A comet is on a collision course with earth. All life there will end in six months' time. To survive, people must step through one of the many portals that have opened around the world. The holograms claim to offer safety. But how can anyone be sure? Stay or go—everyone must make their own choice. Alex's family, her friends, her boyfriend all have different ideas. Alex is only sure of one thing: she wants to decide for herself. But every decision comes at a price. Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Award Winner of the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award

Download or read book Pride written by RJ Scott and published by Love Lane Books Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blazing connection between single dads from opposite sides of the tracks is fraught with secrets and lies, and a happily ever after is impossible, unless they take a chance on love. Saved a long time ago by a man who saw a diamond in the rough, Logan is a single dad and the owner of Redcars Automotive, a haven for those in need. With custody of his daughter under scrutiny, his life is upended when a journalist looking for a story slips into his life without him realizing. Logan doesn’t want Gray more than once, but when sharing the secrets of his past won’t get the journalist to leave, what else can he do? After blaming himself for missing signs that his son was ill, Gray feels Ben is safer with his ex-wife and her new pediatrician husband. With a heart heavy with guilt, and his documentary company failing to find a story, he’s searching for some spark in his life to fix everything. When a series of arson attempts draws him to Los Angeles, he meets the secretive, scarred, and tattooed Logan, who makes him an offer that Gray knows he should refuse. This opposites-attract love story features two single dads reaching a crossroads in life, angst, secrets, arson, intimidation, and a found family so tightly connected that nothing can break it apart.

Download or read book The House of Six Doors written by Patricia Selbert and published by Publishing by the Seas. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st Runner Up-Eric Hoffer Award-General Fiction 2011 1st Runner Up-San Francisco Book Festival-Teenage Category 2011 Mama takes thirteen-year-old Serena and her sister to the US in search of fortune, leaving behind their multicultural family, stability, and the colors of the Caribbean. After driving from Miami to Hollywood, their money and luck run out and a 1963 Ford Galaxie becomes their first American home. Guided by the memory of her native Cura ao and the words of her wise grandmother, Serena confronts unimagined challenges and grows up quickly. What gifts will this new country bring, and at what price? "Intimate, at times lyrical, charged with pain and wonder, laughter and perennial hope, The House of Six Doors is terrific storytelling." Olga Rojer, Associate Professor, American University, Washington DC "An honest tale of love, acceptance, and American dreams." --El Mundo If you feel as though the circumstances of your life are against you and you wonder whether this will ever change, this is a story that will fill you with hope. --David Robert Ord, author, "Lessons in Loving, A Journey into the Heart" The book is about affairs of the heart, clashing cultures, courage and how we each deal differently with love and pain. ...there is a Hemingwayesque type of reportage to it it 's satisfying. --Michael Bowker, author, Winning the Battle Within

Download or read book When Your Kids Push Your Buttons written by Bonnie Harris and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?" It's a given-kids push their parents buttons like nobody else can. Too many parents can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns. WHEN YOUR KIDS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the "road rage of parenting." When parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their child's behavior is telling them, the child becomes the teacher to the parent. Filled with anecdotes from real families, this book is quickly joining the list of parenting classics.

Download or read book Weapons of Ruin written by C. L. Scheel and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With both the traitorous Kazan and the hated White Sister Malgora now dead, Kitarisa and High Prince Assur begin their new life together. However, once they return home to Daeamon Keep, trouble begins again. One by one, the Sacred Weapons, the holiest symbols of the three dominant tribes in Talesia, have been stolen. Evidence points to the Qualani People, savage nomads of the north, who, so far, have kept a tenuous peace with the Talesians. But Prince Assur and his uncle, the Swordmaster, Ramelek, begin to suspect something far more sinister. After investigating the Qualani, they return to chaos and destruction within the fortress of Daeamon Keep: Kitarisa, Princess Sethra, - Assur's sister - and Lady Davieta, have been abducted. The great Keep is in ruins. Assur, Rame, and the faithfill Raldan Mar'Kess race to find the treasured Weapons as well as the three women before the Narusuba, a mind-altering cult devoted to worshiping the dark Beast from the Aforetimes, can carry out their own sinister plans and offer three living sacrifices to their hideous dragon-god...

Download or read book The Dolphin Princess written by Sylva Kelegian and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Book Excellence Finalist Award - Children's Fiction 2015 Global Ebook Award Wi1nner - Children's Literature Fiction 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner - Children's Fiction 2015 Cipa Evvy Merit Award - Children's Story books When eight-year-old Saroya loses her mother, her usually absent father takes her on a cruise for her birthday, which he forgets to celebrate. Devastated and very seasick, the little girl falls off the ship, trying to catch a locket that belonged to her beloved mother. Saroya is then rescued by a dolphin who takes her to the magical Animia Island, where she meets Josephine, a stuffed puppet; her son, Little Joe; Calista the conch; Jonbl the baseball glove; and the adorable Spoon. They, among others, were all unwanted and are now animate-alive. Through her new friends, the birthday girl learns she is not alone and that where there is life, there is love. Illustrations by: Lynnda Rakos

Download or read book Stroke of Love written by Kevin M. Bill and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stroke of Love is a story about years of love Michael kept hidden from Elaine. She had her own secrets about Michael, but her mothers fears insulated her from a relationship with anyone. She became exposed to Michaels true character at a very emotional and crucial time in her life. In the Greek language, three words are translated into English as love. Agape is the highest form of love, distinguished by a deliberate choice, not just a feeling. Agape love is everlasting, sacrificial, and enduring to the end. Can Michael enter into the isolated world Elaines mother created and expose Elaine to a true everlasting love?

Download or read book The Wild Robot written by Peter Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

Download or read book With No Warning written by Robert A.V. Jacobs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of an unarmed merchant vessel, with no warning, shocked everyone, and Vice Admiral Gale Harkness, is sent to investigate. What she finds is a single dust cloud that is all that remains of the EV Harmonica. Then two more ships, but this time of military origin, disappear in the same way, and Humanity, together with their Shi-az-ee allies, prepare for war. A deserted colony, a mysterious empty building, a strange ion trail, ships that leave no jump signature, and another unwanted promotion, are just some of the problems that Gale has to face before the mystery can be solved.

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Download or read book Why Is My Child in Charge written by Claire Lerner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.

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