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We wake up and sip our morning cup. Appearances mean nothing because we are always hiding something. In this book (come take a look), you'll find the darkness in your mind is real. So to whom do you appeal?

Twenty-five-year-old Sofia Brenner is a determined and sassy ballerina growing up in Ukraine. She is unexpectedly torn from the comfort and security of her home and sent to live with her extended family in New York. Her father has disappeared and her mother has failed to offer her any explanations. Despite her continuing onstage fame, Sofia still struggles with feelings of insecurity, betrayal, and abandonment. That is, until she meets Rivke, and the truth comes to light.

Beatrice was three years old when her parents, William and Francis Cummings, tragically died in a car accident. Ruth Singer, Francis's older sister, was thunderstruck when she heard that she was named guardian of the minor child at the reading of her sister's will. Being a stay-at-home mom to her three girls for the past ten years, living in a shoebox-sized house, and sacrificing personal wants and needs due to living on one income, Ruth was more than ready to break out of the house and return to the workplace.

While on a Northern Minnesota Boundary Water’s canoe trip, a father and son found something that was left by Sgt. Carl Larsson eight months earlier. Why was it there? Under what circumstance was it left? The answers to those mysteries take the listener back fourteen months to the time of Carl Larsson’s and Anna ‘Loakie’s’ wedding and honeymoon. From that point forward, Carl’s life is a roller-coaster ride that includes love, rescue, death, sorrow, friendships, good fortune, and a promise that can’t be broken.

Deployment is hard. War is costly. And Recon Marine Sergeant Finn Cobalt is paying the price--overseas and at home. Courageous action jeopardizes his military career. Two rescue attempts go south, and secrets strain his family relationships. As guilt stalks his footsteps, his faith is brought into question. Is there anything left? Or has it been destroyed?

This collection came about while sitting outside, and the poems were inspired by James's brain, which often runs amok. The book contains items from cowboys to clothespins. One poem was inspired by the love of Western movies. It is amazing how once the brain begins to rhyme, themes just seem to come together in poetic form. Memories, past experiences, common objects, and random thoughts have all come together to produce the compilation of poems included in this book.

Carlos is driven to succeed in life after seeing his dad struggle to make ends meet. After trying to get a loan to attend college and needing his dad as a cosigner, who refuses, Carlos never talks to him again. Fifteen years pass, and his dad dies. Carlos had become a self-made success. After burying his father and told what his dad did since he left, Carlos begins to learn what true success really is.

Sylvia had been raised in a pastor's home, but when she went to college and met Kenneth, that all was left behind as part of her life. Many years later and a large part of her life lived, she found herself in the life of country-club luncheons and volunteering at the local woman's clinic to help low-income ladies be able to access abortions. This was her life until the day her precious granddaughter died in her arms, and it was her fault.

This work of art is a dedication of what I have gone through in life, from my military experience to returning to civilian life and restoring a normal life. Even though you have your brothers and sisters in green, they don't replace what you have at home. The experiences are a total shock no matter how many times you are deployed and think that you are used to it. PTSD is an aftereffect, and a lot of people, including family, is affected unknowingly. Only time, perseverance, and the undaunted care, affection, and understanding of your loved ones and friends can help in the situation at hand.

Athena Rumloue--daughter, fiancee, and newest leader of the Rumloue mafia in New York. When Athena's father dies unexpectedly, she's thrown into the powerful position of leading the family business. Athena's brother, Russel Rumloue, does not support the idea of a woman being in power. This brings the main antagonist of her life front and center, watching as their relationship turns sour when Russel becomes fueled with power.

Chris Cochrane never imagined abandoning school for a dangerous life in Castle Forks. He never wanted to fight immortal Demon Shadows. And he certainly didn't ask to risk his life protecting the whole world. While on a hunting trip with his father in the wooded mountains, a magical creature invites them to an invisible castle hidden in plain sight. A castle that brings with it an impossible world, lifelong secrets, and an ancient enemy that wants to destroy humanity.

When the notorious rake Viscount Alistair Upshire offers to forgive Kit’s father’s crushing debt in exchange for her hand in marriage, Kit faces a future bound to a man she despises. With her heart belonging to Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Roxboro, she is determined to forestall the marriage.

My Castle Wall was written from the perspective of going from victim to survivor of sexual abuse. Within the book are people who taught me and took away my dignity and true self. Poems and short writings guide the listener through the trauma and drama of my life, unfolded as a victim, and how I was rescued through therapy to regain my identity as a survivor.

Inspired by true events, Dirt Dollars Death is a crime mystery novel about organized corruption in a rural county located in the Texas Hill Country and what happens when love, friendship, and loyalty don’t give up the search for a missing person. Missy, Clint, and Giselle arrive from Houston with plans to meet Missy’s boyfriend and then spend a long weekend touring The Three Sisters on motorcycles. They find strange behavior from the locals, and then a mysterious man gives them startling news.

Too secular for church, too much Holy Spirit for polite conversation. If they'd lived in our times, the rich young man in the Bible and Mary Magdalene might have gone to high school together.

Sparks flew the moment Franklin and Kathleen bumped into each other. Will opposites attract and lead to a cherished love, or will her substantial wealth and his disability shatter the relationship before it even blossoms?

Jesper Hawthorne has always lived in the same community, and he loves the coastal land and the "island" lifestyle. The past is on Jesper's mind, but the present and the people in his life seem to be influencing him toward a future he never envisioned.

The present book is a fiction novel. The central character of the book is a young, accomplished human rights defense professional, Milena Bulic. She walks us through her everyday life--her work and the time spent with her next-door neighbor, an overpowering and controlling woman named Sandy. Sandy is a very well-rounded woman, but she is living a double life. She is a mystery to all her friends who have love-and-hate relationships with her.

In this second combined "In His Grace" two-book series, "Tenacity ... I Will Survive," the exciting story continues with the exact phrasing of the last two-and-a-half original five-book series. This final story continues to follow the flow of varying characters' points of view, tackling new and complex challenges of which life never seems to have a shortage.

The Path to Paradise is an inspirational story about love and friendship. It is a heartwarming, passionate story that follows the life of Julie Collins, a lonely woman who is surprisingly resuscitated following a tragic near-death experience.