An enchanting--and twisted--tale of two sisters' quest to find their parentsWhen their parents disappear in the middle of the night, young sisters Summer and Bird set off on a quest to find them. A cr
LifeLight Bible studies combine group and personal study to create a comprehensive learning experience focused on Gods word. This in-depth series provides leader and student resources to explore a spe
Justin has lost the hat his grandmother made for him, and if he is to find it in time for her visit he will have to go talk to Mr. Rumkowsky, the gruff old school custodian in charge of the Lost and F
After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in k
'There can be no doubt that special traits of character and mental make-up are found in children and adults who belong to the different ranks in the order of birth.' In this classic work, Karl Konig a
In the early 1930s, young Ace Smart is eight years old when his father, a physician, is found hung in his office, and his mother, a writer in the Harlem Renaissnce, dies soon after. He grows up bitter
Christmas is just not Christmas without the gifts of miracles and magic. In this trio of holiday tales, a mysterious stranger connects three families and illustrates how to find the joy and meaning no
A collection of fifteen vignettes, "Molecules and Women" takes a journey through the lives of women connected invisibly across time and space. The narratives carry and embody the voices and actions of
"On Halloween night, the scouts, along with their Descender allies, must battle terrifying sasquatches at their own elementary school. Little do they know, the sasquatches are merely the bait to a tra
"Song and Spectacle," the third collection by award-winning poet Rachel Rose, is composed of fierce hymns to the particular and universal struggles of birth, passion and loss, and the paradoxical ques
A compelling story about a girl in the eighteenth century, who was brought up by her absent father who gambled and was forced to sell his daughter to a mysterious rich gentleman.Vivian's life came cru
An action-packed new series set in the mysterious, dangerous Bronze AgeYoung Hylas--goatherd, Outsider, thief--is hunted by powerful warriors who want him dead and have kidnapped his sister. Hylas is
Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytell
It’s been a year since the body of seventeen-year-old Kelsey Little was found in the river outside Dark Vespers, Nebraska. Although the town may have reached an uneasy equilibrium, those who loved her
Titles in Barron's growing Art Answers series give succinct practical answers to specific questions and problems that artists often face while working on given projects. Each title speaks to a specif
"The Preacher's Toolbox" series is designed to provide guidance on the essential elements of a variety of preaching forms and preparation to those in the pulpit--professionals and laypersons alike.Boo
After his fiance dies during 9/11, the question plagues Aaron Goodman. It makes him give up his career as a doctor to become an interrogator / torturer at Guantanamo Bay. And yet, he's still no less
"[These] accumulated poems [are] a smoldering tragedy, a heady descent, songs from a pit where what glints may be gems or the moon off snake scales."?Douglas KearneySun Yung Shin's poems animate the e
Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller — an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud.The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert
Tackling the goal to walk 25,000 miles—the equivalent of the circumference of the planet—one man shares life-changing insights through his personal travel vignettes. Formerly a thrill-seeking journali
With tenderness, sensitivity, and humor, Really and Truly explores the effect that dementia has on a young boy named Charlie and his family.Charlie is very close to his grandfather, who loves to tell
The fifth book in the 13 to Life series where Pietr and Jessie will find themselves caught in a pack war with a new breed of werewolves Marlaena’s pack puts more pressure on the Rusakova family with
The Blackabys challenge every follower of Christ to explore the life-transforming, world-changing call that God gives each believer in this bold sequel to Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will
"The empire's missing links are found deep in this poet's ever-astonishing states of multiple consciousness—astutely attuned to the pressured, violent, mass conformities forced upon us—brilliantly for
This major new edition of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy of love argues that the play is ultimately Juliet’s. It’s richly illustrated introduction looks at the play’s exceptionally beautiful and compl
Even for an apprentice magician Enzo is not very good--but when Tessel the shoemaker needs to use a single piece of leather to make twelve sets of shoes, Enzo finds that when magic fails, math may sol
The Butterworth family presents the epitome of dependency on God presented in the parable Above and Beyond. From resolution to the continued development in the new community and prayer, seeking God ha
Talyn is a Hunter for the Caisah, a man responsible for the destruction of her people, the Vaerli, but she carries within her a Kindred, who may be their savior, as she is stalked by a story teller, F
As a Christian, I learned at an early age that God was very important in my life. Through the years, I have been mocked and scorned because of my faith. Yet having been through many difficult times an
'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature commu
You love your mother...You hate your mother...Mothers and daughters. In perhaps no other relationship are our hopes so high, and the dysfunction so disappointing. You feel locked into a hurtful relati
Translated for the first time into English, the history of the German autonomous anticapitalist movement is traced back to the 1970s in this firsthand account. Battling police in riot gear, the early
For Johnny Agile Walker, middle age presents a host of challenges. He is estranged from his parents, and he is in the process of watching his wife, Beth, lose her fight with cancer. The medical bills
