Showing results by narrator "Danielle" in All Categories

Does the past really matter when you hold the future of humanity in your hands? With just days of its thousand year journey remaining, the starship Renaissance 3 is on course to deliver its precious cargo—the last living humans—to their new planetary home. But a message from beyond the grave from their now-dead home planet challenges everything that pilot Maya has been taught about her kind, and threatens the future of the entire mission.

Discover crochet and learn it in just one day with this easy-to-use guide. This is a proven, step-by-step method to learning the craft of crochet.

Welcome to the amazing world of sewing! As some of you know from my other books, this has been a passion of mine for more than 15 years, and I'm thrilled that you will allow me to help you learn this beautiful art form. Sewing is such a part of our everyday life, that we take it for granted! This book for beginners is designed to give you an introduction to several different forms of sewing, both basic and more decorative.

A young woman on the run from her ex accidentally rents a haunted motel room . . .

Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognized dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life. This collection of essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum.

Stella Marigold traded her suburban life to live on the road for a reason. But getting offered an innocent-sounding job as a motherly figure to a young girl seems like a rewarding role that’s hard to pass up. And the paycheck will allow Stella to pay for repairs and get back to van life.

Stormy Spooner is at her wits' end. Careening towards bitter after a nasty divorce, she sometimes wonders what her life is becoming. After unearthing a cryptic set of lines from a dusty album cover, Stormy tries the impossible: to resurrect Phillip Deville, enigmatic former frontman of the Bloomer Demons. Stormy's love for her favorite dead rockstar knows no bounds...but it was all supposed to be a joke.

Ellie Nelson gets persuaded to audition for a reality TV show about Confederate gold hidden in the Lake of the Ozarks. Hollywood, the FBI, Civil War reenactors, and a salvage team are all thrown together in the search for stolen treasure. When Ellie discovers a dead body on the set, her life is in jeopardy until she solves not only the murder but a 150-year-old mystery as well.

Ellie Nelson has left her legal career in Denver behind and opened an art gallery and studio in Lake of the Ozarks. After Ellie witnesses the murder of a beloved studio artist, she finds herself right in the middle of the search for a stolen Van Gogh that brings thieves, assassins, the FBI, and the Interpol to her gallery.

When a band of shadowy fanatics abducts Javin Wollstone’s sister, Bella, from his care, his family’s only hope to bring her home is turning to a hard-bitten band of mercenaries, the Black Furies, led by Commander Rusk. Javin follows Rusk and his men through a maze of political intrigues, religious fanaticism, and centuries of distrust.

A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV’s hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen - stabbed to death with Chef Kimo’s sashimi knife - the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous.

Astral projection or astral travel is an out-of-body experience (OBE) which is achieved either in an awake state or by way of lucid dreaming or deep meditation. Some people can astral project naturally. Others are afraid to remove their consciousness from the physical body and never learn to astral project. This book will explain techniques, benefits, and how to control your astral body.

After everything that happened at Campbell's Cove, the boys are no longer just kids on a summer holiday — and the secrets they uncovered have made them targets. The training is brutal, the enemies are faster, and the Master has unleashed their most terrifying forces yet: the Tolldruck, a monstrous servant bound to the Master's will, and a summoned shape-shifter known only as the Shifter — a creature that could be anyone, anywhere.

In a world of turmoil, following the king’s death, the traitor Vasic is struggling to secure his rule over the combined Peninsular Kingdoms whilst the exiled queen, Alwenna, has taken refuge with freemerchant community whose elders fear her dark power. Mistrust rules the day with bribery, drugs, trafficking of children, and murder rife throughout the kingdom. As the priestess’ plot for revenge continues, Alwenn a leaves to seek the outcast group of loyal kinsman.

Two families escape the rat race to holiday at a remote coastal retreat, but what lies are they telling themselves and each other? The new family drama by beloved Australian storyteller Fiona Palmer Ashley has recently lost her husband. Daughter Emily is being bullied online. Best friend Nikki...

When Marnie, Tina and Lee share a house in famous Bondi Beach they are young, driven, ambitious. Yet below the surface each has her own agenda. Marnie, strong, confident and privileged, is escaping the stifling conservatism of her hometown - and a father who will forever mark her relationships with men. Tina, driven to overcome her impoverished background, promises herself a home on Sydney harbour by the time she’s 30 - no matter what she has to do to get it. Lee dreams of showbiz success far from a suffocating life in the suburbs.

Eighth grade started out as any typical school year for Genevieve "Vivvy" Benson and her friends Joanie and Ronnie. That was until the day Vivvy received a mysterious message on her computer warning her about new faces. Now all she needs to do is figure out if it was referring to the new art teacher, the new student, or something else entirely!

There's a movie marathon happening at the Miller Cinema. Everyone is there, including young Georgie Prince. Georgie is a horror fan, and he's excited to see some flicks he's never heard of. He doesn't realize that there is something wrong with the movies. It was an old tradition. A mix of cinema and stage show, where actors playing monsters leapt out of the screen and rampaged through the audience. The only problem is that this time ... they aren't acting!

Step into a captivating poetic conversation that spans centuries. The Role of the Moon explores the timeless themes of faith, loss, transcendence, human struggle, and renewal, echoing John Donne, George Herbert, and other 17th-century metaphysical poets. In vivid dialogue with John Milton, William Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others, D.S. Martin engages them in our modern world.

A phone call made from a fifty-year-old phone booth is never simpleA phone call in the night finds its way to Nash. But when it's as simple as whispered messages around a campfire, the message isn't the words but the message itself. Terrorism takes on a larger threat when the words come in radioactive. When Nash and Muna land in San Francisco, the phone calls have already woken the other alphabets, and they have fueled and readied the bus. This time, they are going to the heart of the uranium territory.