Lisa Richardson is the top defense attorney in Dallas, known for her sharp mind and even sharper suits. Her world is turned upside down when her ex-boyfriend, Grady Halloway, calls her in a panic after five years of silence. His son, Brendan, has been arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Chloe, after being found unconscious in her bedroom with the murder weapon nearby. Lisa takes the case despite their messy history, enlisting her tough-as-nails private investigator, Jax DuPree, to d...

The world changes in a heartbeat on a typical Sunday morning in San Francisco. While the Whittaker family argues about going to church, and Leo Stratos drinks away his resentment toward his wife’s faith, the Rapture occurs. Millions of people vanish instantly, leaving behind piles of clothes and a planet in total chaos. Driverless cars plow into buildings, and a massive cruise ship, the Visions of the Sea, barrels toward the Golden Gate Bridge with an empty bridge. Jax and Faith Whittaker ...

Lieutenant Gregory Davis is a devoted Christian leading a squad in the heat of the Afghan war. He takes a rebellious recruit named Hector Cruz under his wing, hoping to save both the young man's life and his soul. After months of discipline and nightly Bible studies, Hector finally gives his life to Christ just before a dangerous mission. During an intense firefight in an enemy stronghold, Hector spots a sniper and leaps in front of Greg, taking a fatal bullet to the neck. With his dying b...

Samuel Whitfield is a pilot and a man of deep Christian faith who is shot down over enemy territory during a brutal conflict. He is captured and taken to a high-security prisoner-of-war camp overseen by the cynical Commandant Aris Voda. Voda believes every man has a price and sets out to break Samuel through systematic torture and psychological pressure. Despite the starvation and physical pain, Samuel responds to his captors with kindness and forgiveness. He finds an unlikely ally in Gabr...

Obadiah Lynch is an aging circuit preacher who has spent two decades traveling the harsh American West with a sacred mission. He carries a leather satchel filled with the final letters of deceased outlaws, intending to deliver these last words to their grieving families. During a stop in a desolate canyon, he tends to a dying man named Silas who entrusts him with a final letter addressed to a mother in a distant town. Unknown to Obadiah, this specific letter contains a coded map to a fortu...

In the lawless town of Gethsemane, a mysterious drifter named Jesus arrives carrying only a wooden staff and carpentry tools. He begins mending the town's broken fences and even more broken spirits, offering a message of forgiveness that challenges the frontier's code of vengeance. This peaceful influence threatens the absolute control of Jebediah Pike, a ruthless cattle baron who owns the local water rights. Jesus gathers a small group of followers, including Maggie, a cynical former salo...

Barnaby 'Barn' Bumblethorpe is the least likely lawman in Kansas, having secured his position in Latrine City purely because he was the only man without enemies. His days are spent in a series of accidental heroics, usually involving him tripping over his own spurs and inadvertently stopping a crime. He is deeply in love with Clementine 'Clem' Montgomery, the town’s sophisticated school teacher, who is the only person who sees the genuine heart beneath his clumsiness. The peace of Latrine ...

Caleb Hollingsworth, the restless younger son of a wealthy Wyoming rancher, demands his inheritance early to escape his father Josiah's religious expectations and the dust of the frontier. He travels to San Francisco, seeking a life of luxury and excitement away from his disciplined brother Thomas and his childhood sweetheart Ruthie Evans. In the city, he falls under the influence of Sly Vance, a sophisticated con man who drains Caleb's fortune through gambling and vice. After losing every...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written. Other OPL groups exist, often with diff erent models, however the SCWG has found its model has worked to the extent that we've been in "business" since the autumn of 2012. Also, despite increasing our membership levels, the OPL still has to maintain a waiting list.We are: poets, scholar...

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and black.“A powerful collection that opens the reader’s eyes to the breadth and diversity of contemporary experience in America” June Sarpong, author of DIVERSIFYBlack is male, Black is female, Black is straight, Black is gay,

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Black is…sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.Black is…three ...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...