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Tilley and Faith Hall are living with their grandmother Agnes Grasdon on the plantation they now owned near Smith Mountain in Bedford County, Virginia. Agnes had obtained the massive mansion and over a thousand acres for back taxes, giving her granddaughters the love and security they had never had in their young lives. As Marcie Hall is dying, she is taking a secret to her grave: She had signed over guardianship of her twins to Judge Joe and Beth Blackwell, the last people Agnes Grasdon would want her grandchildren raised by. Once again, Marcie's bad decision will cost her daughters.

First published as Journal of the Gallery London in 1993 with revised editions in 1998 and 2001, more than 400 entries chronicle the life of the city; a powerfully driven arena of dysfunctional experience. Episodes record incidents and encounters; in the streets, with shoppers and travelers, in the landscape, and in scenes of social and internal life. As the journal develops, fact and fiction blend into a filmic sequence of events.

Teresa Gomez did what it took to leave the game behind, but did the game leave her? Blood in, blood out! And that is regardless of the reason! A maze of urban drama continues for the girls of the 187-Fresh Girls Crew. Love, life, and relationships don't show favors because you get it going on—as the saying goes!

Seventeen-year-old Aten the Knight has been waiting his entire life to slay Vesta the Dragon, a monster who has been terrorizing his village for years. But when he finally meets Vesta, he discovers the dragon is nothing like he imagined. Thrown off and in shock, Aten fails to kill it. After this encounter, he faces a new struggle: Can he keep the vow to his village and slay the so-called dragon that has been hurting the people of his hometown, or refuse and take the consequences of his revenge-hungry village?

The train ride was going to be the first trip the twins had ever taken. Tilley and Faith Hall had just met their absentee father, Tillis Grasdon, a few weeks before; now they are going to live with him and his mother, Agnes. They have their new clothes in new suitcases, for their life of extreme poverty had never afforded them anything new until now. With promises of the finest schools and a better life in Roanoke, Virginia, they leave their mother, Marcie Hall, and Wilmington, NC, behind them.

Aten the Knight and his comrades are exhausted, yet determined. Pallas has burned down, many loved ones have passed, and they still don’t have enough information to defeat Apophis the Dragon. But they do know where to find it—in The Dragon War, a book said to be in the catacombs of Torn’s capital. While Vesta haunts Aten’s dreams and Apophis puts a bounty on Aten’s head, the travelers take on a treacherous journey to find answers. Will they get the information they need to defeat Apophis? How will they escape the bounty hunters desperate to turn Aten in?

D. N. Grace tells her story as a cancer survivor. Still in her 20s, Grace sees her life goals unfolding just as she planned. With a passion to serve God, her dream school within reach, and the love of her life at her side, she suddenly finds her life out of control and turned upside down taking a very different path. In Your Pain Is Not a Waste, Grace tells her story of being diagnosed with stage three soft tissue sarcoma and given two years to live—if the chemotherapy drugs work. Through her journey and after facing cancer, Grace learns how God creates beauty out of ashes.

One minute everything is good; your child is calm and focused. But then, in the blink of an eye, something changes—now they’re hysterical, screaming, and getting them to sit still for even half a second is suddenly impossible. Do you often sit there and worry about your child's temper, wishing there was something you could do to help them calm down a bit but not knowing where to start? Is their frustration leaving you frustrated, causing you both to spiral out of control? You’re not alone. There are over 6.4 million parents feeling exactly what you are feeling right now.

Stecken Sie in der Vergewisserungsfalle? "Woher weiß ich, ob ich die richtige Entscheidung getroffen habe?" "Was ist, wenn etwas Schlimmes passiert?" "Ich muss mir unbedingt sicher sein!" Kommen Ihnen solche Gedanken? Gedanken, mit denen Sie sich selbst infrage stellen, die Angst, Stress und Sorgen verursachen? Checken Sie immer wieder Ihre Mails, bitten Sie andere wiederholt um deren Meinung oder liegen Sie nachts wach, weil sie in aussichtslosen Beruhigungsversuchen alles haarklein analysieren und vorausplanen?

It would be just another beautiful day in the Deep South, if you were not a slave. Off in the distance, the Whip-poor-will is softly singing, lying to everyone, like all is right with the world. How can it be so happy when a child is lying naked in the hay, while its very young mother, covered in blood, is worried she will be killed for having him? What if Madam Tibbs found her child, the very blonde heir to Tibb's Plantation? The hanging trees in the woods are calling her name, "Lucinda, come float from my branches, sweetmeat, for you girl, have blasphemed God and your Master Tibbs."

This book provides young listeners with exciting information on the most modern U.S. military ships.

Even when I’m not chasing kidnappers, I don’t keep normal hours. I’m a journalist; late nights, burnt coffee, and energy potions come with the territory. When I get lost in a story or deep in pre-publication crunch time, I can’t quit just because the sun’s been down for eight hours. So when my best friend called me well after midnight to say she was being followed, I was already halfway out the door before the call could be hexed. I wasn’t fast enough. By the time I arrived she was gone--vanished from within an impenetrable magical ward.

He will rise a powerful dragon. Through the tears of an innocent. The Dragon King will command. The dragon in his power. By his side, the Dragon Queen will raise an army of worshipers. They will fight to protect their Dragon Queen of Beauty and Love. Only the tears of an innocent can save Solapin from the Dragon King and the Dragon Queen.

Rose Kender travels to Waden with the royal family to be safe from Filia Broxen. Her friendship with Prince Jenkin kindles a relationship, and then she meets his two best friends, Edwin Burrows and Marc Donnie, and their lives and destinies are forever entwined.

Dark corners, hidden stills, and fast cars linger in the shadow of Devils Ridge. While God rules rural Appalachia, it is soon man's law that is challenged when notorious rum runner Connor Ridge takes on a local deputy who may outpace the moonshiner's illicit enterprise. With the help of the new editor in chief, Deputy Walter Irwin works to bring Ridge and his gang to justice. Can Irwin stop the shadows of Devils Ridge from swallowing his town whole? Or will they overrule the law, once and for all?

In this inspirational book, Michelle N. Cameron relates how her whirlwind of health crises coupled with being homeless and dealing with family curses changed the trajectory of her life and sparked its transformation to one of purpose and new beginnings and freedom to a spiritual path.

Michael is one of San Francisco's most notorious VR gamers in a world of uninhibited debauchery. Now at the turn of the 22nd century, the effects of cultural collapse compel the gaming aficionado to leave his sedated existence and venture on a quest for virtual utopia. But first, he must traverse nine levels inside a computer-brain interface or pay the ultimate price. The promise of living the rest of one's days in a computer simulated paradise may be too enticing to resist, but for Michael Tillman and his girlfriend Valerie, reality is hardly what it seems.

Over a century ago, I left my homeland and my people. I’ve never gone back. I’ve deprived myself of the community for a variety of reasons, both good and bad. I made the decision, regardless of the consequences, and never looked back.

I investigate a murder at a paranormal prison and end up behind bars with four psycho inmates. They will use me in ways I never thought possible. But, they don't know who I really am. What I really am. My family has danced with the devil, and I inherited the darkness. When in danger, when my family is in danger, I don't just bite, I don't just kill, I'm more psycho than all of you, and I won't hesitate to bring the world upside down.