See the God of grace clearly.One crisp fall morning, a beautiful snow-capped Mt. Fuji stands out against the clear blue sky. As you drive closer, the shape and color becomes even more distinguishable and awe-inspiring. Then suddenly, something takes your enjoyment away. A line of trees completely block your view of the mountain. You try to look around, over, and through the trees, but you cannot see the mountain even though you know it is still there.What if the beautiful m...

An in-depth look at the 1974 releases of Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein that will leave cinephiles enthralled.1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after a series of failed projects threatened his career, he pulled off a one-two punch that saw the release of two of the most beloved American comedies ever made: Blazing Saddles a...

Fear…Fear of the unknown.Fear of feeling.Fear of losing.I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m just one scared girl in a world where there’s a lot to be afraid of.Cade, Lex, and Reid helped. They pulled me out of my own head, helped me feel a sliver of happiness again. But with that, I gained a new set of worries.What if I lost another person I love?I’m not perfect. I’ve made mistakes. R...

Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived – a land of cultivated farming areas, produc...

My brother’s best friend thinks he owns me…Mr. All-Star Quarterback won’t let me heal in peace. His perfectly chiseled features are always there, suffocating me, refusing to let me wallow in my own misery.Reid is the epitome of “hard-headed jock”…and he has his sights set on me.If he wasn’t so stubborn…If he wasn’t so captivatingly handsome…Maybe then I’d be able to keep my defenses up.Will these new feelings tai...

My brother’s best friend thinks he owns me…Mr. All-Star Quarterback won’t let me heal in peace. His perfectly chiseled features are always there, suffocating me, refusing to let me wallow in my own misery.Reid is the epitome of “hard-headed jock”…and he has his sights set on me.If he wasn’t so stubborn…If he wasn’t so captivatingly handsome…Maybe then I’d be able to keep my defenses up.Will these new feelings tai...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.It is the greatest Viking invasion of England in Alfred's lifetime. Will the last independent Saxon country fall before the massive onslaught? It will take three years of hard fighting to force the Vikings to leave. Alfred and his son are the last chance for Saxon England. A bastard prince and a Byzantine scholar will make the difference.

The women of Rosemary Beach continue to navigate the trials of love, family, and self-discovery, and each must face what lies ahead... and what they are willing to leave behind.Gloria's life is upended when her son, once a promising college athlete, returns home to Florida after dropping out of school in Boston. Desperate to get his life back on track, he's a shell of the confident young man he once was. As Gloria works to rebuild their relationship and help him he...

All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Scribners in February 1926. Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda was romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure. The book was dedicated to Ring and Ellis Lardner, who were neighbors at th...

This is not a sob story. It's a story about the difficulties of growing into manhood and my own particular struggle with disabling anxiety that came along with it, and how I managed to find my way. That was more than fifty years ago. American life was more comfortable and comprehensible than it is now as we face the discords of what I call the long emergency. I still had a hard time. I observe that boys today are up against a whole lot more in their quest to become fully functional adult m...

An unholy alliance of Viking raiders and kings sends the largest Viking armies seen in Alfred the Great's time into the last remaining Saxon kingdom. Can Christian Wessex survive the barbarian onslaught? With Alfred away in the west fighting two invading forces, His son, young Edward, must face a huge Vikingy army rampaging through the heart of Wessex, without his father's help. Can the young and inexperienced Prince Edward lead a Saxon army to victory? How are they going to handle the tra...

Bob Brugmann, 17, was enjoying the adventure of his life: A summer-long hike down the Appalachian Trail from Maine. Then came two weeks of disastrous rain.Under internalized pressure to keep hiking, Bob attempted to cross a normally placid Vermont river where a bridge had washed away just days earlier. Brugmann, a decorated student and skilled backpacker, fell and was swept to death in the floodwaters. Bob's accident shocked family and schoolmates back home; much later, it would in...