If you had only three bags to fit your whole life into, and you knew you were never coming back home, what would you put in them? Well that's exactly what happened on a sunny morning more than twenty years ago to a sixteen year old teenage girl. This inspiring book tells the story of a runaway child who escapes a controlling father by running away to a self gained scholarship at a prestigious Jewish boarding school, Carmel College, located in the glorious Oxfordshire countryside. It's a tale of a child's courage and determination to overcome adversity, turn neglect into respect, and ultimately build a bridge to a better life. The lessons learned are as relevant in adult life as they were to her former years
MERCS ON A MISSION... The enigmatic Draconis Combine industrialist "Uncle Chandy" Kurita owns property on planet Towne. Upon hearing news of the secret Black Dragon Society's plans to invade, Uncle Chandy dispatches Cassie Suthorn and Camacho's Caballeros to protect his holdings there and organize the local militia to defend against the anticipated attack. THAT GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE. To the Caballeros' surprise, Towne has become a faction-ridden shambles. The populace rejects all outside intervention, and the Caballeros find themselves fighting the very people they were sent to help. Cassie Suthorn must use her unique woman-to-'Mech combat style to unify Towne in the face of the Black Dragon threat—or be ultimately destroyed...
War is Hell! Kaoru thought she could save everybody, but no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The Aligot Empire is on the march, and she' right in their path! Hemmed in by geography, the Empire invades neighboring Balmore, looking to secure a path for future expansion, as well as the Angel of the Goddess and her magical healing potions. But Kaoru, despite claiming to want a peaceful life, has no intention of letting this sort of thing slide. Alongside her loyal followers, she's going to use her potion powers to make this invasion a nightmare for the aggressors -- and maybe even uncover a sinister conspiracy involving the clergy of the Goddess Celestine along the way. As the Eyes of the Goddess come under fire and Francette reveals her fearsome fighting force, can our heroine potion her way to victory?
Matthew Thomas, a middle-aged man, was marked with a scar from 1966, the worst summer of his childhood. It has physically healed but still pulsates with pain in his soul and motivates his self-will for vengeance. Matthew works as an alarm technician for ABO Securities, and due to an unexpected accident, he has to cover someone else's work orders and ends up doing a service call at his own childhood home.Deeply buried memories from forty years ago bubble back up to the surface as he returns to the house. Tucked away in the attic, as he ran wires for additional protection for the current owner, Matthew finds a major puzzle piece to his father's anger and rage.Matthew also returns to the former summer camp, now in ruins, to try to find clues that started the chain reaction to that traumatic summer. Drinking heavily and trying to deal with resurrected memories, Matthew ends up sending out a test signal to the Master of the universe, and it causes him to encounter a wonderful mysterious 'tree of life' of an unknown city of bees.He ends up taking a trip into the core of his soul, to ride his train of thought, to places that he is in denial that exist within him and lead to his pain to find where his treasure is. His greatest enemy is exposed and discovers a key to win the battle from the inside out.So come enter in, and take a trip into someone's thoughts and heart to reveal the absolute simplicity that only the Word can reveal. We all have dark places within us, but our maker knows all these things and has promised so much more if only we learn to look inward. So the question is, will you enter in?
This is a story of triumph, of a life shattered beyond repair until the God of the impossible stepped in. Just a Few Feet from Hell is literally where I spent most of my life, and I share my story to encourage someone, to help someone, to tell someone there is a way out. No matter what you've been through, how deep your despair, your depression, how lost your soul is or how utterly broken you feel, God is waiting to step into your world and change your story. I pray that you let him and you don't spend one more day in the darkness.
Dead Flowers and Baited, a duo of Julie Collins novellas from two-time Shamus Award winning author Lori G Armstrong. Valentine’s Day is for suckers… In Dead Flowers, cynical PI Julie Collins trails cheating lovers, which leads to questions about her relationship with Tony Martinez. A hobby turns deadly… In Baited, it’s been a long, hot, summer for PI Julie Collins. With her partner Kevin off on assignment, she’s lured into taking a case involving a missing fisherman. Nothing about the man’s disappearance is as it seems. Although Julie is no stranger to the dark currents that churn below the surface, can she count on her friend Jimmer, and her lover Tony Martinez, to keep her from getting in too deep? BONUS! This digital edition also includes two bonus short stories, Praying to the Porcelain God, originally published in the Who Died In Here? anthology in 2004, and the never before published short piece, It Won’t Hurt.
When Arizona ranch owner, Adam Blake, falls in love with Priscilla WhiteCloud, sister of his Navajo foreman, the catalyst for the terrible consequences of their union is set in motion. Amid the historical and political background of the American Southwest in the early to mid-1900's, SpiritPath paints a fascinating picture of the world of that time, encompassing events leading to World War1, the pursuit of the Mexican bandit, Pancho Villa, after his murderous raids on American soil, the horrendous conditions of the Mission directed Indian schools, the fledgling aeronautics industry, the 1929 Stock Market Crash, coinciding with the Government mandated Stock Reduction Plan, so devastating to the herding culture of the Navajo People. Compelling love stories, interwoven with diverse yet profound values, both Anglo and Navajo, evolve as the children and grandchildren of Adam and Priscilla, seek resolutions to their personal conflicts and discover their individual paths to enduring love and spiritual harmony.
One day, the supervisor in charge of watching over Earth was taking care of a distortion, when they made a mistake that caused Kaoru Nagase to lose her physical body. Not only that, but reincarnating her into a different, less culturally-advanced world is the only thing they can offer to do for her. Not one to take this turn of events sitting down, Kaoru makes a demand: the power to create potions at any time she pleases, with whatever effect she wants it to have—and it doesn’t stop there either. She asks for a magical Item Box, the ability to understand and speak every language, and the same body she had back when she was a fifteen-year-old girl. Using her newfound powers, Kaoru has to try and make a stable life for herself in a whole new world!
A memoir by the star of the one-woman show "Tarot Reading" describes her survival of an abusive relationship, her mother's mid-life sexual proclivities, and the interference of friends and her father during a promising new romance, challenges that prompted her visit to an atypical tarot card reader. Reprint.
