Wealthy, fundamentalist, mid-eastern Sheik Ali Hasheeshee believes it his religious duty to go to the USA and convert it to Islam. However, as a lookalike for U.S. Public Enemy Number One, the terrorist Abdullah Al Rashidi, he has a serious image problem. His westernized daughter convinces him to visit a top New York advertising executive who advises the Sheik that the only way to make him acceptable to Americans is to adapt the image of that American icon, the King of Rock, Elvis himself....

From the bestselling author of A Widow's Hope and Never Far from Home comes a brand-new Amish novella that will add joy to the Christmas season.Sarah Beachy has plenty to be joyous about as autumn leaves start to fall. She loves her job at the English bed-and-breakfast where she cooks and refreshes rooms between guests. She has a serious beau, and everyone expects an engagement soon. Why, then, would she jeopardize everything by suddenly deciding to take a trip to Cleveland to track down a...

This Christmas, experience learning to trust alongside the Plain folk of Apple Ridge, Pennsylvania in this heart-warming tale of second chances.Sadie enjoys her freedom away from home and her mission trips to Peru, but after four years, her Old Order Amish family insists it’s time to come home and settle down. Levi, a bachelor who distrusts women after a family heartbreak, also has no desire for romance. To keep their families from meddling in their lives, Sadie and Levi devise a p...

When a big city writer's small-town sister is diagnosed with cancer, her untimely death teaches him about life, faith and community.When she was diagnosed at age forty with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Philadelphia journalist Rod Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ru...

Journalist Jess has always followed the rules when it comes to her career:Never say no! Trying to extract a tell-all interview from bad boy of the art world Xander Heaton might be her own worst nightmare, but she’s just going to have to grin and bear it!Absolutely no flirting on the job –professionalism is key to a journalist’s success. Even if Xander does have her imagining the most unprofessional scenarios…If resistance proves impossible, remember the go...

A heart full of love for the orphaned boy he saved from a war-torn country? Check. Adoption forms filled out? Check.Yet M.A.S.H. surgeon Mike Montgomery is barely back on U.S. soil when his plans are squashed. Someone else has already petitioned to adopt little Ali: Sarah Alpert, the boy's foster mother–and Mike's former fiancée.Sarah broke his heart, but he won't break hers by sticking around. Until a little boy puts his holiday wish–for the mom and dad of...

Things Grace Mathison did her sophomore year of high school that she never expected to do in her lifetime:1.) Run away with her brother to New York City2.) Tattoo a unicorn on a pop stars back3.) Fall in love with a Russian graffiti artistAt the age of 15, Grace Mathison has been sheltered most of her life. Her father is a successful television evangelist, famous for starting headline-grabbing feuds with the fathers of Graces classmates at the Treadwell Academy over lyrics in rap music and ri...

A love to last a lifetime?The odd couple: April and Taj were opposites in so many ways. He was the cute, athletic, boy genius on campus that everybody wanted to be friends with. She was the overweight, shy and withdrawn girl who the bullies teased mercilessly.But they were friends and the older they got the deeper their friendship became. As friendship turns into something more, do April and Taj have a love that can last a lifetime? Or will time and separate paths rip them ...

No, no one asked, but Holly Kim will tell you what she thinks anyway. Fifteen-year-old Holly Kim is the copyeditor for her high school's newspaper. When she accidentally submits an article that rips everyone to shreds, she gets her own column and rants her way through the school year. Can she survive homecoming, mean-girl cliques, jocks, secret admirers, Valentine's Day, and other high school embarrassments, all while struggling to balance her family's traditional Korean values? In this hi...

This book contains ten Uzbek short stories which have been translated into English. Each story is unique in its own way in that it portrays the cultural life of the Uzbek nation as well as the social and political events of Uzbekistan. These stories are translated to provide the English reader with information about Uzbekistan and its society. Some of the included stories were written by such famous writers as Abdulla Qahhar, Ghafur Ghulom, Sayed Ahmad, and Khayriddin Sultonov.

VL. Virgin Lips. You may not have heard of it, but where I live, it's a thing with a card, even if it is a figurative card. I was Brooklyn Hill, certified virgin lips, and I planned on clinging to that figurative card with all I had—while dating as many of the hottest guys at school as I could.Maybe that's a bit strange. I mean, what teenage girl isn't interested in kissing? Locking lips definitely interested me, but the drama that came with it didn't. No kissing, no drama. Simple.

When Uncle Scamp tells his teenaged nephew Craig about the man down the street who drives a DeLorean, they are determined to have a look at it, but that innocent look sets a series of events in motion that will change their lives forever.