Making peace with the past and friends for a lifetime. Elly is sent by her father to stay with her Aunt Dina on Sunday Island for the whole summer. With no friends, Elly is bored. So when she receives a mysterious invitation for a midnight meeting, she sneaks out of the house, only to stumble into a bemused girl called Sierra, who is just as lost as Elly. A helpful little dog leads them into an overgrown maze . . . where a grinning girl called Tash meets them. 'I thought a midnight feast w...

We all travel on a narrow road. In fact, we are in a spiritual war, not just a battle, but a war. It is said that if you are not already in a trial, you have just come out of one or are about to enter one. Tender Whispers of Love prepares the reader for a future where mystery reigns and anything can happen. We never know what a day can bring. The book is meant to fortify him or her with profound solace and comfort that is designed to deepen his or her walk with Jesus. Ellen teaches that al...

“Poetry? Who reads poetry anymore?”Actually, poetry is more a part of our lives than we at first might think. The lyrics of songs we love that speak to us in a big way are composed of poetry. The Psalms—from which we can glean so much spiritual support—and the well-known hymns we sing are all poetry.Ellen invites you on a journey. Together, you can explore the glorious highs and the bewildering lows that life can bring in these powerfully rich poems that express freedom, jo...

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28. Perhaps you’re like me. Perhaps you originally came to Jesus and felt great freedom as He eased your load. But maybe, over the course of the journey with Him, your burdens piled up and you lost your joy. It happens so easily: we unconsciously lose our focus on Christ and begin to look to ourselves. We distractedly go through the routines of the “Christian life,” whatever that is, depending on our ow...

Elly, Tash, and Sierra are back for their most mysterious adventure yet. At a sleepover in Tash's tree house, the girls are going through all of Old Man Blake's inventions, trying to figure out what they are and what they're meant to do. When Tash pulls out a ghost detector, the three of them can't resist trying it out. At first, nothing happens, but then it starts bleeping madly, and when Elly looks out of the window and sees lights coming from the graveyard, the girls know something's up...

When billionaire Houston socialite Richard Fairchild is found dead under suspicious circumstances, his wife Mariah refuses to accept the police verdict of suicide. Desperate for answers, she recruits small-town radio owners Delilah Morgan and Norma Davis to investigate. She offers the struggling entrepreneurs compensation they can't refuse – $20,000 each, a bailout for their failing station, and an all-expenses paid trip to Mariah's Hill Country resort.At first reluctant, Delilah a...

When billionaire Houston socialite Richard Fairchild is found dead under suspicious circumstances, his wife Mariah refuses to accept the police verdict of suicide. Desperate for answers, she recruits small-town radio owners Delilah Morgan and Norma Davis to investigate. She offers the struggling entrepreneurs compensation they can’t refuse – $20,000 each, a bailout for their failing station, and an all-expenses paid trip to Mariah’s Hill Country resort.At first reluctant, Delilah a...

The essays gathered here demonstrate and justify the excitement and promise of cognitive historicism, providing a lively introduction to this new and quickly growing area of literary studies. Written by eight leading critics whose work has done much to establish the new field, they display the significant results of a largely unprecedented combination of cultural and cognitive analysis. The authors explore both narrative and dramatic genres, uncovering the tensions among presumably univers...

The 2019 Green Earth Award-Winning trilogy opener is now available in EPUB! Forty years after the earth was devastated by massive flooding, four children on one small sailboat must flee corrupt authorities and overcome the dangers of the sea that drowned their world.Twins Will and Annalie thought the hardest part about this year was going to be their separation when bookish Annalie began life at a prestigious Admiralty-run boarding school and avid sailor Will staye...

Elly, Tash, and Sierra are back for another Flip-Flop Club adventure! It's time for the Sunday Island Music Festival, and stages, tents, and ice-cream stands cover Melody Meadows. The headline act is being kept top-secret, so when the three girls discover that it's none other than their favourite girl band, they're buzzing with excitement! Especially because the band will be performing on stage with the winner of the Tomorrow's Stars competition, which Elly, Tash, and Sierra have entered! ...

This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples from the educational research and evaluation literature to illustrate the value of a scientifi...

What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the biological or “green” continuum in which the “human” is but one life form among many?