Volume I - BiographyRowena Granice Steele (1824-1901)-actress, author, newspaper publisher, suffragist, lecturer on social issues-began her career on stage at Barnum's American Museum in New York and performed with companies around the U.S. and in Gold Rush California and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). In 1859 she became the West Coast's first female novelist and over the next 35 years produced more than sixty short stories and four novels. From 1862 to 1890 Rowena and her husband ...

Seventeen-year-old Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.How does Olivia handle being the girl with the ghost hand? Well, she's a little bit morbid and a whole lot snarky.Her mother thinks her obsession with death, black clothing, and the local cemetery is a bid for attention. But when Marcus, the new guy in Olivia's calculus class, stares at h...

Olivia Black is back.Only this time she's not the one in need of rescue.Samantha James, rich, popular, and an award-winning composer at age seventeen, is the next target on the CAMFers' list. In order to convince Samantha to come with them, Olivia and Passion must pose as cousins, blend into the most affluent high school in Indianapolis, and infiltrate a mysterious cult known as The Hold.Olivia doesn't expect it to be easy, even with the PSS guys backing them up. Bu...

In the aftermath of a brutal tragedy, Jason and Passion are on the run. Marcus is lost beyond reach, and The Hold is in shambles. If that weren't enough, Olivia Black has been taken by the CAMFers to be used as Dr. Fineman's personal lab rat in his merciless quest to uncover the mysteries of Psyche Sans Soma once and for all. But only if he can break her.They are scattered.They are devastated.They are ruined.Their only hope is Olivia's stubborn determination t...

Olivia Black does not feel safe. Nightmares plague her sleep and haunt her days. If she has to endure one more minute stuck in a safe house in rainy Portland, she's going to lose it. When Mike Palmer sneaks off to find her sister Kaylee without her, it's the last straw. She has to do something.Then Palmer's hackers find the Dome on a satellite feed: dark, abandoned and smack in the middle of the Oregon desert three hundred miles from where it started. If they can reach it before an...

Olivia Black has a rare birth defect known as Psyche Sans Soma, or PSS. Instead of a right hand made of flesh and blood, she was born with a hand made of ethereal energy.How does Olivia handle being the girl with the ghost hand? Well, she's a little bit morbid and a whole lot snarky.Her mother thinks her obsession with death, black clothing, and the local cemetery is a bid for attention. But when Marcus, the new guy in Olivia's calculus class, stares at her like she's a fre...

The world is weird. Horror can be funny. You decide.Great stories don’t always have to be long stories. Thrills and chills are not beholden to word counts. A tale that leaves you wanting more is the best kind of frustration.Aliens, killers, and neighbors share their secrets, plots, and riddles in this unique collection of short stories. From the apocalypse to apathy, humor and horror go skipping hand-in-hand through the pages. If the fantastical can be comical, then the ord...

Percy Jackson meets Star TrekPSS 118 is just your typical school—except that it's a rickety old spaceship orbiting Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter. Jack's dad used to be the science teacher, until he got fired for tinkering with the ship. Now Jack just wants to get through the last day of school without anything else going wrong.But when the school is mysteriously attacked, Jack discovers that his dad has built humanity's first light-speed engine—and g...

Olivia Black tiene diecisiete años y una rara malformación congénita conocida como Psique Sans Soma, o PSS. En vez de una mano derecha de carne y hueso, nació con una mano hecha de pura energía. ¿Cómo lleva Olivia el ser “la chica de la mano fantasma”? Bueno, ella es un poco siniestra y bastante sarcástica. Su madre piensa que su obsesión por la muerte, la ropa negra y el cementerio de su ciudad son solo cosas para llamar la atención; pero cuando Marcus, el nuevo chico en la clase de matem...

The recent Year for Priests focused considerable attention on the priesthood, resulting in many books, articles, retreats, conferences, and symposia. In Gold Tested in Fire, Ronald D. Witherup, SS, makes an important new contribution. Intersecting scriptural and theological context with lived pastoral insight, Witherup explores both classic and contemporary understandings of the priesthood, offers insights into the four pillars" suggested for priestly formation, and looks at the c...

Seventh grade didn’t end especially well for Jack, thanks to some hostile aliens.After the entire population of Earth's solar system is whisked away by alien technology, Jack and his classmates and teachers aboard the PSS 118 are the only humans left. But it’s a new school year aboard the new and improved PSS 118, and the public school spaceship is on a mission to find and rescue the rest of humanity from the evil Minister’s plans. If they can avoid the aliens hunt...

Jack's eighth-grade year aboard the PSS 118 is coming to an end. And the students and faculty of the best public schoolship in the galaxy (if it does say so itself) are on the verge of completing their mission. If all goes well, they'll soon foil the sinister alien plot that's put all of humanity in danger.But this is still middle school. So all does not go well.When the original plan backfires, it's up to Jack, Ari, and Becka to take on the evil Minister one more time and ...