Download or read book The Reckoning Trees written by Alicia Gilliam and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth must choose . . . . . . surrender his search or his sanity. And if he doesn't change, he might lose them both. Will his wife's murder remain unsolved in the hands of a small town sheriff's department? Praying for answers in his beloved trees hasn't gotten him anywhere. God seems to only make things worse with an old-fashioned dare. Trust Me. Can he really give it all up? Trade in searching for trusting? Maybe. But what if the runaway prostitute and the five-year-old boy wandering through his woods hold the very answers he's been searching for? Seth could offer them protection from the looming threats outside his home. But the worst enemies don't always lurk in the woods. Sometimes they're buried right inside of you. A redemptive mystery. A subtle romance. Four people struggling to outlast, outrun, or outwit their pasts. The Reckoning Trees is for anyone who's ever wrestled with God. Delve into its rich pages. When you come back up for air, your faith will be stronger for it.

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Jeff Long and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the territory of Jeff Long, where the unknown is deeply present, death is a constant shadow, and the human spirit is our final hope. Now comes The Reckoning, another superbly original thriller -- a story of predation, betrayal, and resurrection that is at once intricate, haunting, and terrifying. Armed with only a camera and iron determination, thirty-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. In this eerie wasteland pockmarked with human bones and live land mines, the people hold more secrets than the landscape, from aging archaeologist Duncan O'Brian to John Kleat, a caustic vet hunting for his long lost brother. When Molly's camera captures a flight helmet buried among Khmer Rouge victims, diplomatic powers force her and her civilian comrades off the dig. But just as a typhoon looms offshore, the outcasts learn of an even bigger find. A mysterious expatriot guides them into the ruins of an ancient city, where they begin a harrowing search for the remains of an entire patrol of GIs that strayed in combat thirty years ago. With storm winds hammering their jungle fortress, Molly discovers that a war she never knew never died. Her survival comes to depend on her journalistic skills to solve a forgotten murder among these warriors left behind. In the end, her only hope for salvation is to redeem the lost souls that surround her. As stylishly written as it is suspenseful, The Reckoning is a thriller that illuminates the fragile thread between life and death, knowledge and ignorance, hope and horror. Bringing readers ever closer to enemy territory, it is a hair-raising journey into one of modern history's darkest periods and an intense look into the hearts still haunted by it.

Download or read book The Plum Trees A Novel written by Victoria Shorr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant tale about one woman’s quest to recover her family’s history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust. Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie’s great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. This seems improbable to Consie. Did people escape from Auschwitz? Could her great-uncle have been among them? What happened to Hermann? Did anyone know? These questions are at the root of Consie’s excavation of her family’s history as she seeks, seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to discover what happened to Hermann. The Plum Trees follows Consie as she draws on oral testimonies, historical records, and more to construct a visceral account of the lives of Hermann, his wife, and their daughters from the happy days in prewar Czechoslovakia through their internment in Auschwitz and the end of World War II. The Plum Trees is a powerful, intimate reckoning with the past.

Download or read book Seven Trees of Stone written by Leo Hunt and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Manchett is coming to terms with his new life. The life where his girlfriend is a witch, he's a necromancer, and he owes a life debt to the devil. But that's just the start. An invasion is coming - led by a spirit even worse than the devil himself. And it's heading straight for Luke ..."--Amazon.

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson and published by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world as rich as Tolkien’s Middle-earth, a plot as multifaceted as Harry Potter, an adventure that rivals Eragon, and characters as memorable as the Wings of Fire dragons. The Legend of Oescienne is an epic fantasy series beloved by children and adults alike! A young woman warrior, destined to save the world, a devoted dragon guardian, refusing to leave her side, and a final epic battle against the greatest evil Ethöes has ever known. High fantasy at its best! Ever since leaving Oescienne, Jahrra has known she would one day confront the dreaded Crimson King. She just didn’t expect that day to arrive so soon. As another safe haven fades in the distance, she and Jaax travel east to make ready for battle. But there are many devious players in this deadly game, and even if Jahrra succeeds in destroying their enemy, Jaax fears it will come at too high a cost. As open war looms, both Jahrra and Jaax will be tested beyond their limits. Old friends and enemies will emerge, and secrets that have remained buried for centuries will finally be revealed. In the end, Jahrra must find the strength and courage to endure her greatest challenge yet, or risk losing all that she holds dear. ***Literary Classics Winner for Best Young Adult Series***

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Chris Howard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GenTech Corporation scours the wastelands, desperate to reclaim the last living trees from the young thieves who stole them. But Banyan no longer has the trees he and his friends smuggled south. Hunted and betrayed, he must trust in strangers as he tries to find his old friend Crow and gather feuding tribes together in preparation for war. As the battle for the trees begins, Banyan is reunited with the girl who always gave him hope, but he finds Alpha has changed in ways he'd never imagined. And when they embark upon a final journey to Vega with the goal of taking down GenTech forever, Banyan must choose between fighting for a conflicted world or saving the lives of the people he loves.

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Jana DeLeon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl goes missing and a sheriff will do anything to bring her home—even confront evil—in this classic tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon. In a tiny bayou town with far too many wicked secrets, the sudden disappearance of a six-year-old girl is a mystery Sheriff Holt Chamberlain is determined to solve. But teaming up with Alexandria Bastin is a complication he didn’t expect. Nor is he prepared to collide with the dark side of Cajun culture—and his own troubled past. The frantic search leads them to a place said to hold magic, an eerie island where Alex is also working her charm on him. At one time, he’d been forced to leave her brokenhearted. And now, dangerously close to the truth, he’ll do anything to protect her from the evil that surrounds them—an evil that might hold the key to sending a little girl home.… Previously published For fans of thrillers with: New Orleans Bayou voodoo witches cold case mysteries Gothic vibes Mystere Parish Book 1: The Reckoning Book 2: The Vanishing Book 3: The Awakening Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Book 1: The Accused Book 2: The Betrayed Book 3: The Reunion

Download or read book Far From the Tree written by Andrew Solomon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of people affected by physical, developmental or cultural factors that divide families. 150,000 first printing.

Download or read book I Am Not Sidney Poitier written by Percival Everett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: "What's your name?" a kid would ask. "Not Sidney," I would say. "Okay, then what is it?"

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Sheila Parrett and published by Sheila Parrett. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen years have passed since the horde of zombies went as quickly as it had come. With Humans on the brink of extinction, they stepped into a world new to them entirely. The Fae welcomed them with open arms, and peace fell in place. So it appeared. Follow the heartbreaking journey of a young werewolf finding her place in the world one step at a time. With little knowledge of the outside, she finds herself on the receiving end of an undead gaze. Yet the world is not as cold as she was lead to believe. That is until it comes for her. Crawling. Slithering. Ticking.

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Thomas F. Monteleone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the convocation of the new millennium, the Pope dies in the arms of Peter Carenza, a young priest who has the ability to perform miracles. Peter is soon selected as the new pope. But is he the Second Coming, or something far worse? Reissue.

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Andrew Solomon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in The New Yorker, “Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read it—it’s moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There aren’t any answers. And that’s what makes this all so impossible, and Solomon’s journalism so essential” (Salon.com). “Both parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their child’s horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanza’s story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killer—and reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence” (Time).

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Ruby Jean Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youths began appearing across town one evening. They seemed to exactly match descriptions of missing children, some gone for 30 years, several more recently. When a dog was killed, the threat could not be ignored. After the tent revival, Reverend Walsh was called to sit and pray with Matt Reed, a trapper who had been accidentally caught in one of his own steel traps. Matt had freed himself and staggered home before collapsing. Now he seemed possessed, with sounds of children's voices coming out of him. Could the appearance of the strange kids, the voices, be somehow related to the missing kids? Reverend Dalton didn't know why the children had picked this moment to materialize, but he did know one thing; now was the time for a terrible truth to be finally revealed. Now was the time for ? THE RECKONING

Download or read book The Reckoning written by T. M. Simonson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reckoning By: T. M. Simonson In the early 1800s, when the Mexican Government had control of the Texas territory, a family living in the territory is murdered by the Mexican Army, all but one—Morgan Flynn. Upon discovering the dead bodies of his family, Morgan vows to take revenge. He befriends a local Indian boy, returning with his local tribe. There he learns new skills and how to fight his enemies. Through this learning Morgan will learn, not only how to take care of himself, but of everyone around him. Beyond revenge, The Reckoning is a story of community, and one in particular comes together to grow in the shadow of hatred.

Download or read book Rootless written by Chris Howard and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling eco-thriller set in a terrifying world with some chilling similarities to our own . . .17-year-old Banyan is a tree builder. Using salvaged scrap metal, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape. Although Banyan's never seen a real tree--they were destroyed more than a century ago--his missing father used to tell him stories about the Old World. Everything changes when Banyan meets a mysterious woman with a strange tattoo, a map to the last living trees on earth, and he sets off across a wasteland from which few return. Those who make it past the pirates and poachers can't escape the locusts . . . the locusts that now feed on human flesh.But Banyan isn't the only one looking for the trees, and he's running out of time. Unsure of whom to trust, he's forced to make an alliance with Alpha, a beautiful, dangerous pirate with an agenda of her own. As they race towards a promised land that might only be a myth, Banyan makes shocking discoveries about his family, his past, and how far people will go to bring back the trees.

Download or read book The Reckoning written by Jim Gleeson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pfeiffer, a man with a name and no memory wakes up in a rustic farmhouse tied to a bed and surrounded by people who urge him that he must help them. Unable to understand how and wanting to ask, he is assaulted by unseen voices that cry out in his mind and threaten to fracture the integrity of his sanity. To escape these voices, he travels to different times in the checkered history of Debouton "Boonetown" Alabama. He follows the Boones and an entity referred to as "The Piper" and finds himself confronted by elements of the supernatural. He also discovers that these "travels" are not dreams in the traditional sense and that he has the power to change that particular part of the past he inhabits. As each new piece is uncovered he comes to the realization that the Piper has an agenda, and time is wasting. Will Thomas Pfeiffer be able to put the pieces together and find what he has to do before the Time of Reckoning is at hand? Time, existence, and his sanity hang in the balance.

Download or read book I Can t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood written by Tiana Clark and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.