THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD is a true story of how I understood my life as a child and some of the decisions and consequences that followed as an adult due to the lack of parental guidance, love, and the feeling of being accepted as an OK person. I am a true believer that if God had not shown up in my life when He did and had not intervened, I and my two children would not be alive today. I was born in East Texas in Marshall in 1947 and was the oldest of three children born to my parents. ...

Dark Reads have short chapters and very low word counts of roughly 600 each. These short, gripping stories are punctuated on every other page with bold, two-tone illustrations, which have a graphic novel feel to grab the interest of teenagers. Dark Reads are designed to appeal to readers with a very low reading age of 6 to 7, but a high interest age of 12 to 15. Liam woke. Someone was by his bed. He opened one eye... 'Woah!' It looked like Aunty Joan who he was staying with. But it wasn't....

She wants to have this baby aloneJenna Rawlins is a straitlaced kind of woman. As fate would have it, the one night she goes a little crazy and allows herself to be seduced, she becomes pregnant. It's bad timing, since she's trying to claim her independence from her overprotective family, but she's bound and determined to have this baby—alone. After all, she's successfully raising two boys by herself after kicking out her good-for-nothing husband. Another baby she c...

Mysterious deaths force an MI5 agent to investigate his missing memories in this dark psychological thriller.This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.Paul finally has his life back on track. After losing his wife, Helena in a horrific car crash, he has found love with Sally and moves into her country cottage.As a former high-ranking Naval Officer, Paul now works as Head of S...

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM BEGINS...Greed can control a mind like no other, especially those with the power to do as they please. Charlie Utinew was one of hundreds of children locked away into a dark and forsaken lab. Kids taken away or given to a cruel government by their own parents.Forced into experiments, painful torture, nothing the outside world would have ever known...until an evil agency realizes some things don't always go as planned. An experimented monster arises fro...

Snissy Snit Burger is a four-year old girl with a BIG IMAGINATION! One day, while riding in the car with her Gram, Snissy begins to wonder, If barns could talk, what would they say? Deciding to use her imagination, Snissy turns the ordinary car ride into an adventure of discovering just what fun lessons those barns could teach!

Loss brought them together. Love could tear them apart.When Elias loses his brother, he refuses to let the case go cold. Driven by grief and an unrelenting need for justice, he is determined to unmask the killer, as Gabriella battles her own devastating loss. She understands his pain in a way no one else can, and against all odds they find comfort in each other.But the more time they spend together, the closer they get to each other. As danger looms and desire ignites, they...

Middlemarch is a profound exploration of societal dynamics, moral complexity, and individual aspirations within the framework of a provincial English town. George Eliot critiques the rigid social hierarchies and examines the interplay between personal ambition and communal responsibility, portraying a society in transition during the 19th century. Through the lives of characters such as Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Tertius Lydgate, the novel delves into themes of idealism, marriage, and the con...

"I want a tribunal*. A three-judge truth and reconciliation thing. I want her to answer for everything."*In late middle age, Kate Laidlaw begins to examine her troubled relationship with her mother, now ninety-three and confined to memory care. Her tribunal ranges widely, from the Omaha of her mother's childhood to the small coastal town of Santa Maria, California, where Kate grew up in a household dominated by her stepfather. It leads through the triumphs and heartbreaks ...

This book presents, for the first time, a collection of ancient Japanese Shinto prayers in a format where English speaking readers can both understand the deep meaning of the translated text and can also pronounce the original Japanese words.Shinto is an ancient spiritual tradition, primarily practiced in Japan, which is now spreading its traditions to the western world. Its primordial rituals and traditions touch a deep chord within one's spiritual self. Shinto's focus on divinity ...

Eight Months a Lifetime is an invitation to with what is best about our lives, faith, hope, love and will fill you back up again with love, joy and inspiration and help you celebrate life.

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary citie...