Someone just stole Thanksgiving.Neighbors Feeding Neighbors promised three hundred families in need a full holiday dinner—but with the deadline closing in, more than ten thousand dollars in donations has disappeared without a trace. No money, no supplier, and no Thanksgiving for hundreds of families who are counting on it.Fortune Redding, Ida Belle, Gertie, and the uncontainable Brennan Noble are on the case, and every lead only deepens the mystery: a donation box that's ta...

In Gilded Age New York, a fierce teenage Irish girl joins forces with a notorious gangster to hunt down her sister's killer—from a New York Times bestselling author who’s worked on Gossip Girl, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and Gotham.“Reads more like a hurricane than a novel, gaining momentum, page after page. I loved it—even when I was holding my breath.”—Markus Zusak, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thi...

The final book in the bestselling Books of Beginning trilogy that began with The Emerald Atlas, which the New York Times called “a new Narnia for the tween set.”The adventures of siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma come to a stunning conclusion when they must find the last Book of Beginning—the Book of Death—before the Dire Magnus does, for when all three books are united, their combined power will be unstoppable.Soon Emma is on a journey to ...

"A strong . . . trilogy, invoking just a little Harry Potter and Series of Unfortunate Events along the way."—Realms of FantasySiblings Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastatin...

After the tumultuous events of last winter, Kate, Michael, and Emma long to continue the hunt for their missing parents. But they themselves are now in great danger, and so the wizard Stanislaus Pym hides the children at the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans. There, he says, they will be safe. How wrong he is.The children are soon discovered by their enemies, and a frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into the past, to a perilous, enchanted New York Cit...

The town is gone from every map. The light is still out there...somewhere.In October 1955, eleven-year-old Johnny Stephens rode with his father into the Pequop Mountains of northeastern Nevada to close a remote railroad telegraph station for the winter. The ghost town was called Finland.That first night, as a snow storm rolled in, Johnny built a fire so hot the stovepipe glowed red. He heard a cat meowing from inside the chimney. There wasn't a single track...

Julien Wilson survived Brookside High.But surviving the Monster inside him was only the beginning.Months after the violence that left his school shattered, Julien is still confined to Havenford Adolescent Psychiatric Institute. He barely speaks. He follows the routines. He keeps the Monster buried as deeply as he can.Then he realizes he isn't the only one carrying something in the dark.Ellie Goodman has spent her life learning how to be good—how to sit corre...

Beyond the Broad Path - Embracing the Narrow Way of Certainty in ChristIs there a single path that can reach both the lukewarm believer and the skeptical non-believer? Beyond the Broad Path argues that there is. This book speaks to believers who have grown complacent, calling them back to their role as salt and light, while also inviting non-believers into an honest exploration that assumes no prior faith or biblical knowledge.Grounded in today's fractured...

The plays in this collection reflect the variety and richness of Tudor drama, showcasing both secular and religious themes. Tudor plays often explored social, political, and moral issues relevant to the period, and these works offer unique insights into the lives, beliefs, and humor of people in Renaissance England. Farmer's collection includes morality plays, farces, historical pieces, and early romantic dramas, providing a glimpse into the evolution of English theater leading up to the w...

When children read fiction, they are exposed to the beliefs which inform and structure their society. Books encourage child readers to internalize particular ways of seeing the world and help shape their development as individuals. Although this process forms a key part of their education, it remains largely invisible. As well as a story, fictions impart a significance to readers – often without revealing its presence or ground – and therefore have considerable potential ...

How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us?Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how meaning is produced by the words on the page and how history, culture and ideology have influenced the choice of those words. Literary English changes from period to period as it reflects variat...

God Loves Addicts, This I Know: God's Word and the Road to Recovery is an examination of both classic and modern recovery literature and the role that the Judeo-Christian Bible has played in their development, and particularly regarding how its teachings apply to those struggling with addiction in its many forms. There is a common misconception regarding the term addiction in modern society, that it deals primarily, or even exclusively, with substances such as drugs and alcohol. While addi...