"The House of Whispers is a captivating, spine-chilling page-turner, with plenty of shocks and surprises right up until the last page. I loved it."- Charlotte Stevenson, author of The Family Next DoorSome houses keep secrets. This one whispers them.After the death of his estranged mother, Jimmy Manning returns to his hometown of Broadoaks for the first time in twenty years. He hasn't come back to pay his respects, but to m...

Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings through his marriage with Tammy Wynette to his latest acclaim as a solid citizen and "high-tech red-neck," Americans have been fascinated with Jones, never even knowing whether he's going ...

A-Tishoo, A-Tishoo... You'll all fall down.Katie Cooper has lived in the sleepy seaside town of Crescent Hill her whole life, but for the past twelve years she has lived under a shroud of guilt and regret. You see, back at school, Katie and her friends played a prank on classmate Scott Martin...a prank that went horribly wrong.Now, over a decade later, Scott has returned to Crescent Hill, and Katie sees this as a chance to put things right. To apologize. But bodies...

When I was 12 an incredible thing happened. My dad dropped everything and took me, my three younger brothers and our pregnant mom to India.At first, we lived on the side of a mountain in the foothills of the Himalayas. Then, two days after sister Liz arrived, Dad walked my brothers and me down the mountainside to boarding school and he, Mom and baby Liz took a 24-hour train ride to their new home.Dad became “Doctor Sahib” at a remote mission hospital. He built a TB ward. Bu...

SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PREVENT HELL ON EARTH.Abigail Lewis can't remember a thing about the horrific car accident that killed her mother and landed her in the care of her uncle Tom when she was six years old. Eleven years later, and Abby's life is a living hell. She's physically abused by her alcoholic uncle and bullied at school. Since she and Tom moved to the farm six months ago, her nightmares have worsened. They somehow feel real. Like something evil is on ...

They'll never grow up…For over forty years, a nightmare has terrorized the quiet countryside in southeast England. Children vanish. Always six years old. Always in the dead of night. Nothing left behind except a chilling note from "The Never Man." The children are never found…until their bodies turn up a decade later, aged sixteen, lifeless. Like forgotten dolls.Then the abductions stopped. Local parents dared to believe the horror was over. But fifteen years later, when a ...

With the same straightforward honesty that made her one of country’s top-selling female recording artists, Reba McEntire tells her phenomenal story.From her childhood in Oklahoma working cattle with her ranching family to her days on the rodeo competition circuit, from her early days as a performer in honky-tonks to her many awards and a sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall, Reba relates her experiences with heartfelt emotion and down-to-earth humor. With the same ...

Choral Charisma presents an accessible yet comprehensive approach to singing with expression. Written for directors, singers, and teachers at all levels, the book presents techniques and insights empowering the reader to bring even more humanity to their craft. The heart, mind, body, and spirit can play together to make singing even more fulfilling— for you and your audience.

Westerners are flocking to China in increasing numbers to chase their dreams even as Chinese emigrants seek their own dreams abroad. Life as an outsider in China has many sides to it - weird, fascinating and appalling, or sometimes all together. We asked foreigners who live or have lived in China for a significant period to tell us a story of their experiences and these 28 contributions resulted. It's all about living, learning and loving in a land unlike any other in the world.

Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his Chinese Dream. With all the makings of a classic folk tale, his curiosity became an epic five-year adventure that would find him homeless, stateless, posing as a professor, imprisoned, deported, and caught in the middle of the 2014 Hong Kong protests.Though it has all the form of great fiction, An American Bum in China is a true stor...

As a teenager, Maci Willis fled the poverty and sexual abuse of her Louisiana childhood with the hope of finding a new life as a Nashville recording star or greasy spoon waitress. Despite the odds, the former fate unfolded, and Maci recorded hit songs for two decades while indulging a pampered lifestyle void of risks and regrets.But all of that changed during one fateful performance.While Maci sang a fourth encore to a crowd of 18,0...

World War II naval history has been discussed and examined from almost every possible angle. One story that has never been told in detail, however, is that of the U.S. Navy's vessel designated the landing craft, tank (LCT). Even though they are known for ferrying troops and supplies to the beaches of Normandy, LCTs were more than mere transports. In fact, the little craft had permanently assigned crews and participated in nearly all forms of naval warfare. Beachhead Normandy combines t...