When 11-year-old Olivia meets an old woman walking on the beach who claims to be God, her first doubts arise simply because she has always been told that God is a man. But when ''Miss God'' asks for h
In our old house, Ma told me there was nothing to be scared of. No monsters hiding behind doors, or in wardrobes, or under beds. She said there were no dark places at all. But in the new house, under
Imagine someone gave you a sackful of money and told you to build a bike. You'd definitely want it to be the best bike in the world. But how do you go about designing THAT? Armed with your own imagina
I was once told that the woman you have to work the hardest for would be the one worth working for by far—and Taylor Mathews has turned the expression into a mantra for me. Here I am, Maclain Stone, c
The past filled her mind even as her heart yearned for stories yet to be told…The mother of ten and a widow of seven years, Mary Katherine is a bundle of energy, always willing to step in and h
Art needs a sense of lack to bring about its own effects; where there is no feeling of need to make up a shortfall, there will be no work. The story of falling in love is the greatest tale ever told,
Imagine someone gave you a sackful of money and told you to build a robot. You'd definitely want it to be the best robot in the world. But how do you go about designing THAT? Armed with your own imagi
“What you could change and alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, and what I had tried very hard to believe in since.” Beside a lake in the norther
‘A story that, for too long, has been crying out to be told’ Henry Lincoln, author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail ‘The heights that the climb may lead you to are in proportion to the depths to which you ar
?I was an orphan then, I am an orphan now, and I will always be an orphan.” For years, people have told Shelby Adams Lloyd that she should write about her life growing up in the Oxford Orphanage in Ox
"'Okay listen up everyone,' I said, zipping up my high visibility jacket. 'It will be most effective to comb the local area by taking a village each.' I told my team as I traced m
Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize `The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true
As a young girl, Hillary Diane Rodham’s parents told her she could be whatever she wanted--as long as she was willing to work for it. Hillary took those words and ran. In a life on the front row of
"If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would have named me Laura / I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her." --"The Ocean,"
Jennifer Fulwiler told herself she was happy. Why wouldn't she be? She made good money as a programmer at a hot tech start-up, had just married a guy with a stack of Ivy League degrees, and lived in a
What would you have left if you awoke and were told you would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of your life? After an almost fatal car crash and a botched surgery to repair nerve damage, t
The first thing the Lord Jesus told His disciples when they asked Him, "What shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?" was "Take heed (beware) that no m
Tuk the bighorn sheep is told he will be the one to save his herd, but he is young and would rather play with his bandmates than figure out why the herd needs saving. As humans encroach further and fu
2015 QBR Wheatley Book Award Finalist for First Fiction.If you had told Deka in 2005, as she sat on a plane bound for America, that she would one day wish to be in Nigeria, she would have spat in your
Every child who’s ever been told Be quiet! will relate to this story about too much noise. Andy wants to blow his horn, but his family thinks his tooting is just too loud. Will he find a place to play
When Suzie met Tony Robbins at a party in 2012, she told him her story. The story was about how she was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 52, and uterine cancer aged 60. And how she then went on to be
No one ever said life was easy. But I thought that, you know, after losing a loved one, things might start letting up for once. I couldn't be more wrong.If someone had told me that two of the most mas
If your life story was re-told would you be able to piece together the meaning that had always been there?Rosie O'Dea, 31, was born to make a difference. She knows it; she feels it. Yet now on a count
If your life story was re-told would you be able to piece together the meaning that had always been there?Rosie O'Dea, 31, was born to make a difference. She knows it; she feels it. Yet now on a count
This is a moving and personal story of teacher's life told from her side of the desk. Teachers build a nation by touching the lives of the youth and you will be there, too, as the stories touch your l
This is a moving and personal story of teacher's life told from her side of the desk. Teachers build a nation by touching the lives of the youth and you will be there, too, as the stories touch your l
Every story has a beginning. It is time for this one to be told. Ivy and Sprout follow their curiosity about the shard of stained glass they discovered in the woods. What they find is a clue to the ve
What happens if you see twin witches?You won't be able to tell which witch is witch What did the skeleton say when his brother told a lie? You can't fool me, I can see right through youWill: 'Mum, all
What if God told you to be a better person but the world wouldn’t allow it?Such is the dilemma facing Joe Smith, a run-of-the-mill white-collar businessman who survives an office shooting and i
Wars may end. But vengeance is forever. Roudette's story was a simple one. A red cape. A wolf. A hunter. Her mother told her she would be safe, so long as she kept to the path. But sometimes the pa
To Whom It May Concern—I was The Green Ray. Now it can be told—the story which many tried to silence, many refused to believe, and many did not want to hear. In the depths of the Great
Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Ba
Sunako was once a typical junior high school girl until the guy she had a crush on told her she was ugly. Sunako then turned her back on the world. Now there's going to be a reunion at school--and gue
This is the story no one should have to tell, about the nightmare no one wants to live, told by the parent no one wants to be. In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent c
"I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being..." Ever since he can remember, Animal has
You don’t need coddling; you don’t need to be told what you already know. What you need is a book that uses your experience as a Java or C++ programmer to give you a leg up into the challenges and rew
Eternal Life and How to Enjoy It is a real-life tour of what awaits us in the afterlife, as told by a guide Henry, who just happens to be dead. Author Gordon Phinn has been in communication with Henry
Everybody wants to be famous, or so they say. Some people are more famous than others and that goes for the Bible too. There are many people who God has told us about in his book but they haven't been
Everybody wants to be famous, or so they say. Some people are more famous than others and that goes for the Bible too. There are many people who God has told us about in his book but they haven't been
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself
