Follow Mike-a former burnout turned reluctant warrior-and Sarah-a foul mouthed, knife-wielding bartender as they manage to find love in chaos. Between zombie children with hollow eyes, airborne zombie birds of doom, and fascist militias clinging to broken dreams, the pair manage to forge something rare in rural, Indiana: hope, love, and a town worth dying for.When a final battle leaves two lovers stranded in a strange volcanic wilderness with a country superstar and their one-eared...

In Bloomington, Indiana, where humans and supernaturals maintain a fragile, blood-stained truce, the government's annual Cleansing is designed to keep the peace, a sanctioned purge of anything deemed too dangerous to live. But this year, the Cleansing came early. And it's spiraling into a full-blown civil war. Ash Caldwell is no hero. Just a cynical security guard working for a sleazy paranormal tabloid, trying to keep his head down in a city that wants him dead. But when a bounty is place...

Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch families, and encounters with the open range furnish memorable set pieces while revealing how p...

According to Wikipedia: "Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies. ... Many of his stories were originally published in magazines such as Redbook, Greenbook, AKC Gazette, and Ladies Home Journal. The first of his books about...

According to Wikipedia: "Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies. ... Many of his stories were originally published in magazines such as Redbook, Greenbook, AKC Gazette, and Ladies Home Journal. The first of his books about...

According to Wikipedia: "Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies. ... Many of his stories were originally published in magazines such as Redbook, Greenbook, AKC Gazette, and Ladies Home Journal. The first of his books about...

AUGUSTA REYES WAS DOING JUST FINE, THANK YOU. Supporting two kds and a mother-in-law pulling salvage from the waters off old Connecticut’s Gold Coast was no picnic. Most days she came back empty-handed. People came to Hollow Point to escape debt, war, or the law. The Coastal cops didn’t ask many questions. And that suited Augusta just fine. The last thing she wanted was questions about her age, past, her scars and where she learned to fight. One day a yacht arrived, owned by a handsome and...

Epistles: A Friendship depicts a rare divinely planned friendship between two women in the same town who wrote each other letters. This was our chosen medium of communication. The recurrence of Peggys breast cancer appeared in the fi fth year upon her arrival in Corvallis, Oregon. Her goal was survival with quality of life as long as possible to enable her daughters to survive her inevitable death and, through her deep Catholic faith, to believe, to obey, to persevere, and to live fully un...

The Autumn Night WhispersWith the Crying of Unseen ChildrenJanet, who has lost a child,, hears children crying. It seems to come from the nearby yellow house. She knows no children live there. Why is she hearing these haunting sounds?Ben can't understand why Janet insists that phantom children are crying when no one else hears them. Will this mystery tear them apart?Janet is desperate to learn the truth. The future of Gina, the little girl they has come to l...

What if the key to worldwide revival is not found in a single church, ministry, or movement-but in the supernatural unity of God's people?In Cross Pollination, Lila Terhune opens a compelling window into God's blueprint for revival, prophetic intercession, and the GREAT END-TIME HARVEST. Through powerful stories of historic awakenings, personal experiences, and biblical insight, she reveals how God works through ordinary believers...

I generally hate clichés like kids of all ages, but it just really suits this book. I first discovered Albert Payson Terhune and Lad in seventh grade, much to the chagrin of our school librarian. She had to eventually temporarily ban me from checking the book out any further so that other kids could read it. In those days I did not realize I was reading about a long dead author and the most famous of his dogs, nor did I realize that the stories actually were taking place in the early part ...

In his jiu-jutsu instructions Brice had learned a rule which he had carried into good effect in other walks of life. Namely to seem to play one's opponent's game and to be fooled by it, and then, taking the conquering adversary by surprise, to strike. Thus he had fallen in with Standish's suggestion that he come to the island, though he had thought himself fairly sure as to the reason for the request. Thus, too, he had let himself be lured into this storeroom, still smugly confident that h...