Comfort zones are a thing of the past when a stranger knocks on the door of new parents Ann and Kyle Mendez and turns Ann's world upside down. Join Ann, Kyle, Henry, Aunt Gertrude, Aunt Leona and the rest of the gang as they absorb devastating news and, together, try to figure out how to turn it into a blessing in the third book of the Ann and Henry series.

Nine year old Beautiful Sayers wants nothing more than to be liked and accepted, and never stops trying to unlock the secret of finding her way into the hearts of others. Do unto others and love your enemies is what she has been taught, but it doesn't seem to work with her classmates who can't see past her bright red hair and two different colored eyes. She and her faithful dog Colby might just crack the code during one memorable summer in a small village along the banks of the Erie Canal ...

27 year old Andalusia Bixby is still reeling from the sudden death of her father, with whom she had lived all of her life. The young Mormon woman decides to go back home, to the small town of her childhood in Western New York on the banks of the Erie Canal.Being reunited with old friends and meeting new ones is just the injection of hope for a real future she needed. One thing she did not expect was that she would encounter a very special orphan, or that she would adopt him. He is t...

Kyle Mendez never wanted any attention from anyone, but after he nearly kills a would-be child abductor in a mall with his bare hands, he gets plenty of it. His vigilante actions quickly elevate him to hero status once his mug shot and the mall security video hit the news, but even worse, his dormant PTSD has been awakened, affecting his marriage and the lives of everyone around him. His ultimate solution is a spiritual journey that leads him to some extraordinary people who will change ev...

Since the death of her husband, diner owner Alice Gregg has just been going through life's motions, but it all changes when she and her cat, Porkbelly, start seeing the ghost of a little girl named Fanny who needs their help before she can rest.Alice hopes she's just seeing things and wants Fanny to go away, but she isn't left with much choice when ghostly pranks are pulled at the diner.Can Alice, Porkbelly and their friend Della solve the mystery of what happened to a little...

Ann, Kyle and Henry are getting ready for both big days-the wedding and the Grand Opening of Ann's pet store. But a gang of car burglars is throwing a monkey wrench in the works and some of the victims are Ann's friends. To make things more complicated, relatives from far and wide are coming for the wedding and not all of them play well with others. Even peace loving Henry has his paws full getting along with Aunt Gert's horrible little dog Molly, and Kyle has to remember his commitment to...

Alice, Della and their cat Porkbelly have a new ghost, but this time, their ghost-assisting skills are vastly improved and they think they're totally ready. They find out pretty fast that their latest spirit is a little different from their past experiences. She's a powerful spirit of the Victorian era who was a long term resident of an insane asylum. She is not happy, and she scares the pants off of them.

A powerful new Lent course for Bible study groups and individuals, based on the Oscar-nominated 2021 film West Side Story. Popular author, and former Catholic nun, Lavinia Byrne and Jane McBride, a Northern Irish Protestant, present an interactive course that reflects on the Lenten experience of the Gospels alongside some of the key themes of this much-loved musical tale of immigration, segregation, love found and lost, betrayal, repentance, and tragedy leading to new resolve. Includes poe...

Bringing together international research and perspectives on bias, prejudice, and hatred towards transgender communities, this collection explores the ways in which transphobia manifests across different times and spaces, addressing an important contemporary issue and filling the current gap in hate studies literature.This book comes at a crucial time, in which gender identity has become a divisive political tool, contributing to a social climate in which transgender people have be...

The three-day 'The Folio Prize Fiction Festival 2014' brought together some great writers and audiences and gave them a real opportunitey to talk in depth about their work and similar subjects.The festival included interviews and discussions with top writers, novelists, poets, critics and publishers, including Eimear McBride, Paul Baggaley, Sergio De La Pava, Rachel Kushner, Sarah Hall, Pankaj Mishra, Stephanie Merritt, Jane Gardam, Mark Haddon

Join us on a pumpkin spiced, ghost-riddled, spooky journey amongst the imaginations of fifteen horrifyingly excellent indie authors. Let them take you on a candle-lit journey through the minds of the depraved, departed and desperate as they treat you to their haunting tales. Lock the doors, close the curtains and don’t turn off the light!

Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on...