Religious Adventure

When a winter flood in Fresno closes school temporarily, Andi is outraged when she's sent to live with a spinster aunt in San Francisco, doomed to finish the winter term of school at Miss Whitaker's Academy for Young Ladies. But her new roommate, the equally untamable Jenny, and the timid but tenderhearted Lin Mei, a young girl who works at the school, expose her to a whole new world. Soon these three new friends find themselves in more trouble than they can handle.

As Hillaire Belloc explains it, one fine day while walking about the town in northern France where he was born, he suddenly decided to take a pilgrimage to Rome. Not just any pilgrimage, mind you. He not only decided to walk the whole way, but he decided to make a beeline for the Holy City, doing everything possible to avoid leaving the straight path.

Teach your child patience !!! "You forgot the mail?!?!" The king yelled at the snail. But the snail stayed as calm as could be. He was not afraid of the king, you see. He knew where the gift was; he knew what to do. The monsters learned that patience pays off too. We are all familiar with the phenomenon of children wanting everything "here and now". This story describes just such a situation. I hope you and your children will enjoy it and learn from it. The forest monsters woke up & there was a sign on the tree. They had been invited to the Monster King’s birthday party. Everyone would ...

Americans can’t get along anymore. That’s what everybody said. Better to separate than to burn. Or is it? Political parties took the law into their own hands, to solve our problems for us. Only they didn’t solve them, they encouraged the very behavior that tore us apart. They played referee for a fight they started, a fight they wanted. It was too late to turn back. Anderson poured his soul onto the page, trying to put into words what happened to his beloved America. Kelso just wanted to run his store in peace. Jackson learned how victimhood worked, and no longer wanted any part of it...

Books 7-9 in the bestselling Nick Caine adventures series of treasure-hunting thrillers, including: MAP OF THE MASONS (Book 7) Nick Caine and Ishi receive an assignment they can’t refuse from their mysterious employer, Project GoldenEye. They must use their dubious talents to steal something from the Illuminati. The infamous and much whispered-about, Map of the Masons... A blueprint for establishing the New World Order. Just talking about this thing could get a person killed, Much less stealing it. With a beautiful local named Cat joining their hunt, the race is on to recover the map. All...

The Veritas Project team has a new assignment: to find the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of two runaways. When one runaway turns up totally out of his mind and a government agent steps in to take over the case, the Springfields continue their own investigation. The twins—Elijah and Elisha—go undercover, posing as runaways. What happens next will keep listeners on the edges of their seats as the twins end up in a strange academy where truth is continually challenged.

The spirit of a warrior lies deep inside a bard. Deep down. Way, way down. Jonas wakes up each day regretting his position as the king’s bard. He dreams of escaping the kingdom and returning to life as a traveling musician with his best friend Elrick. But when his love Bree is taken prisoner in the castle, he and Elrick must act. Their attempts at rescue go horribly wrong, and the king marks them for death. Now they must flee the kingdom with a hefty reward on their heads. Meanwhile, the king’s soldiers march to war, placing Bree’s hometown in their path of destruction. Jonas must go ...

This is a story of the days of chivalry in England and of young Myles Falworth, son of a lord unjustly disgraced for treason, who was forced to make his fortune as best he might in the days when men seemed made of iron. How he entered the service of a powerful lord, rose to knighthood, defeated his father's old enemy in thrilling combat, and at last won the friendship of the king is told against a background of the dangerous times of the 14th century that makes them live again.

"Circus" Brown's father makes a life-changing decision at a revival meeting. Will he be able to stay on the narrow path? Back in the woods, the mean Till boys and the Sugar Creek Gang wrestle over a patch of wild strawberries. This leads to an encounter with an angry black bear. Join the gang as they learn to apply the lesson of forgiving 70 times seven in the face of great danger.

After being stretched to their limits, the four heroic young Forest Guard recruits - Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal - face new dangers on their mission to secure the seven lost Books of History. Celebrated as a hero, Johnis's world is shattered when he learns that his mother may not be dead as presumed but could be living as a slave to the Horde. Throwing caution to the wind, he rushes to her rescue. But this is precisely what the Horde has planned. Now he will face a choice between Silvie, whom he is quickly falling for, and his sworn duty to protect the Forest Dwellers.

In Stolen Secrets, Bryce and Ashley Timberline wonder what their stepdad is hiding. As they discover more about his past, the twins fear all is not as it seems. What isn't their stepdad telling them?

Pero Moshe’s mom vanished from their Oregon home, and the prophecy says it will happen to Pero, too. But when it does—and Pero is transported to an older universe, life gets more than a little nuts.

When four recent high school graduates return home from a weekend of camping, they expect to go back to life as usual. Instead, the boys discover empty streets, abandoned cars, and utter silence - everyone has disappeared. As the friends attempt to solve the mystery, they stumble upon more questions than answers. Why won’t the electronics work? Where did the wind go? What do the notebooks full of gibberish mean? With each new discovery, they learn that nothing was ever quite what it seemed on Echo Island and that a deep secret is drawing them in - if only they'd surrender to it.

New Zealand: A Novel spans almost 500 years and covers the respective discoveries of New Zealand by Pacific Islanders and Europeans. From the outset the two stories are interposed. It starts in the 1300’s with the departure of Islanders from Hawaiki in search of land far to the south. The hardy, brown-skinned people who arrive here first call themselves Maori and they call their new home Aotearoa – land of the long, white cloud. The fascinating, eventful and sometimes violent lives of descendants of those first arrivals are traced through the centuries until the arrival of Europeans ...

Running Toward Mystery is the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi's profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker. At its heart is a story of striving for enlightenment, the vital importance of mentors in that search, and of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way, among them the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa.

One of the chosen has gone renegade. Turning his back on all that he once believed, Billos does the forbidden and enters into a Book of History. He lands in a reality as foreign to him as water is to oil - a place called Paradise, Colorado. He has strange new powers given to him courtesy of a mysterious figure known as Marsuvees Black. The chosen four have survived the desert, escaped the Black Forest, battled the Horde, and added a spirited refugee to their number. But nothing has prepared them for the showdown that Billos, the renegade, is luring them into.

Unlock the secrets of the past and embark on a modern-day treasure hunt. In the heart of Florence, Italy, Ethan Montgomery and Chloe Conrad cross paths for the first time. Little do they know, their encounter will set them on a journey spanning centuries and continents. The Medici family, one of history's most powerful and mysterious dynasties, left behind a trail of cryptic clues that could lead to a monumental discovery. The Medici Quest takes readers on a pulse-pounding adventure as Ethan and Chloe race against time and enemies to uncover the truth behind the ancient manuscript. From the...

Americans can’t get along anymore. That’s what everybody said. Better to separate than to burn. Or is it? The Coup of 2026 has been reversed; the segregation ended. What now? Citizens struggle to leave the corners they’ve huddled in for so long. Can they remember how to behave in a free country? Anderson is thrust into the fray, as his once-peaceful town takes the brunt of urban rage. His soul cries out in his writing, pouring onto the page. Will his new job as a Sheriff’s Deputy silence his voice? Kelso’s store is in the middle of ground zero, violence surrounding him, despair ...

Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble. But one day, Sam sees these friends harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange new one.

Americans can’t get along anymore. That’s what everybody said. Better to separate than to burn. Or is it? The Coup of 2026 has been reversed; the people are thrown together, trying to find their way. Anderson tries to settle into his career as a Deputy Sheriff, and his writing becomes more haunting, his keen sense of society’s problems torturing him. He senses impending doom. Is he right? Kelso’s store is making money again now that Martial Law has been lifted, but his neighborhood is a toxic stew of hatred, grievances, and roaming psychopaths. He knows he’s in danger, but will he...