She wanted out. She didn't expect the truth to follow her.Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1958. Sixteen-year-old Ivy Jean Munroe is desperate to escape the rigid confines of Catholic school. St. Teresa's will never nurture her dream of becoming a detective-and her parents refuse to let her leave.When Ivy stumbles upon a secret about the school's domineering head nun, she believes she's finally found her ticket out. Teaming up with Stella, the clas...

An adventure story series filled with suspense, mystery, and fantasy - for kids ages 9-12 and teensFall is changing to winter in Clearville, mere months after Peter and his friends went up against their second supernatural adversary.The positives in Peter’s life are adding up: He and Nicola have never been happier. Classes at school are far more interesting than he had anticipated. And Christmas, his favorite time of year, is just around the corner...

Discover the keys to unlocking God's blessings and obtaining freedom from curses in this powerful book. With Blessings And Curses, you can deepen your knowledge of God and enhance your Christian walk. Robert Woeger's book is an excellent resource for both new believers and seasoned Christians, brimming with prayers, confessions, and Bible verses to help you experience healing, freedom, favor, success, peace, deliverance, and blessings from God.This book will help y...

An adventure story filled with suspense, mystery, and fantasy - for kids ages 9-12 and teensPeter, an exceptionally clever junior high school kid, is pulled into an adventure where he and a few friends have to solve a series of very challenging riddles and puzzles. Peter's mind, which has an amazing talent for problem-solving, is needed to save the world.This adventure sure is a big change from what Peter typically deals with in life: He gets calle...

Someone was setting fire to the Commonwealth Rim, nurturing a storm to drag humanity through the horrors of colonial warfare and thereby hasten the rise of Empire. Their plan had just one fatal flaw: it didn't count on an ex-Marine pathfinder with a grudge, a dagger and a deadly partner. Zack Decker had seen enough of war to know this one had to be stopped before it turned into an all-out bloodbath, even if that meant ignoring orders and risking his mission as well as his ...

A fun-packed space adventure – with lots of funny details for little readers to spot, and a BIG fold-out rocket ending!Buckle up and blast into space with Ivy the inventor, and her trusty canine sidekick, Eddie...But when Ivy meets some very messy aliens, can she help them clean up their planet?And, of course, help them fix their super-duper hundred decker rocket?!A brilliantly inventive story with a subtle message about keeping our p...

THE POWER OF LOVE is an award-winning chronicle of the soul's quest. Dr. Fran Grace, a professor of religion, narrates her life journey and describes her personal encounters with some of the century's most memorable spiritual figures. Reviewers say it "is a masterpiece," "splendid and moving narrative," "reveals love in its many facets," "feeds the heart and soul," "awakens the mind." At age 15, the author had a mystical experience that nearly shattered her. She joined a fundamentalist sec...

“No one working in the crime genre is better.”—Baltimore SunL.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangman—an electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindman’s Bluff, The Mercedes Coffin, The Burnt House, and many other masterful thrillers. A stunning tale of crime and detection featuring the brutal death of a “party girl” health care wo...

From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes the first book in the Decker Brother’s duet, Wanted, a romantic suspense novel.Small town, big dreams, a nightmare I never expected.I grew up with stars in my eyes and dreams beating a soft staccato in my heart.Career, marriage, then family.I knew what I wanted. How I wanted it.I never expected him.Mason Miller.Charming, arrogant, sadistic.He ruined everything.He ruined me.

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series.Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it’s been almost a year since the las...

In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association decided to publish a revised edition of their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). There was great hope that a new manual would display psychiatry as a scientific field and aid in combating the attacks of an aggressive anti-psychiatry movement that had persisted for more than a decade. The Making of DSM-III® is a book about the manual that resulted in 1980-DSM-III-a far-reaching revisionist work that created a revolution in America...

The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral development and corruption to religious faith and pragmatism, forgiveness and redemption, and many others.The essays in this volume tackle the philosophical questions from these blockbuster films including: Was Anakin predestined to...