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One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot. So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin? Investigators suspect Jane’s husband. A criminal defense attorney, Dan Larkin would surely be an expert in outfoxing the police.

"The Year of Birmingham", 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young Black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with Black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative....

Paradise, Idaho, may not be the largest town, but for newly minted professor Zoe Santangelo, it's the first step on the path to her big break. After teaching in a small Idaho school, her next stop is the Ivy League, and no one is going to stand in her way. She'll do what it takes to move up, to protect her students from a creepy campus stalker - and to protect her heart from Cal Jackson, the hot, hunky cowboy who keeps coming to her rescue.

The love of family. The heartbreak of war. The triumph of coming home. 1940. Rural Wisconsin. Sixteen-year-old Earl “Earwig” Gunderman is not like other boys his age. Fiercely protected by his older brother, Earwig sees his town and the world around him through the prism of his own unique...

Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and deadbeat father, Lucy unravels. They run to their grandparents’ place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy’s barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They’ve joined a gang called VC. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns.

“A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” —Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secret in this tender middle grade novel that’s perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and...

When Una meets Aidan, she is swept off her feet. He is solid and dependable, a sexy and attentive lover, and he's in love with her. But Aidan, to Una's endless sorrow, is not the man she thinks he is.

For Carrie Destin, a biracial military brat growing up around the world, home is never where you left it. When she learns the injuries she sustained in a car accident will prove fatal before she reaches adulthood, she faces her abbreviated life with a brash attitude and a biting, sometimes morbid sense of humor, racing to experience life before it ends.

Man kann sich nicht aussuchen, an wen man sein Herz verliert... Auf einem Stipendiaten-Empfang der Berkeley Universität trifft Autumn auf Ryan. Seine geheimnisvolle Art zieht sie magisch an – obwohl ihre oberste Regel lautet: Verschenke nie dein Herz, denn Gefühle machen angreifbar. Trotzdem flirtet sie mit Ryan. Trotzdem kommen sie sich immer näher. Was unverbindlich beginnt, wird schnell eine emotionale Achterbahnfahrt. Bis Ryan von einem Tag auf den anderen spurlos aus Autumns Leben verschwindet und ihr damit das Herz bricht.

“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal...

In a surprising and shocking narrative, one woman tells the astonishing true story of her mysterious ailment, two harrowing nights in Mexico, and the life-altering experience that would change her life forever. An unbelievable story that nearly cost a vibrant, vital young woman her life, Carry Me Home is an exploration of radical trust and relinquishing control. A profoundly compelling tale of survival. What happens when a control freak loses control? Either faith steps in, or fear overcomes.

Amanda became a nurse to save as many lives as possible. After her mother died while being swindled by a church leader, Amanda swore off religion and turned to medical science to solve all of life's problems. But when she loses her home and job, and struggles to make a new life in a new town, Amanda's feeble beliefs can't withstand the pressure.

Welcome to Carry Me Home, the podcast that goes behind the scenes of public service, to find out what works and what doesn't, and how city leadership is spending our tax dollars - I'm your host Carrie Nowocin, and I have a passion for public service. Directing my efforts toward helping homeless, veterans, addicts, kids who have aged out of the foster system, there are many people who find themselves up against a wall that they can't get over. That's where Carry Me Home Productions comes in. Our charity identifies the gaps and advocates for health and safety. Basically, we help people who can't...

With a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family, singer-songwriter Annie Walsh seeks refuge at her secluded home, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove and the company of her old dog Detour. But a crime connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart, and Annie is forced to shore up her loyalties and question some profound disappointments of her past. From the ever-changing present, where each hour brings an unforeseen piece of news, to the poignant childhood days of first allegiances and life-changing losses, circumstances converge and Annie steps out....

In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness. Hailed as the most masterful...

This book is a hands-on summary on how to fight and win in spiritual warfare. There is an ongoing battle between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, so we must be prepared for combat. This guide will help you discover the truth about who you are in God and the authority you have because of him.