Social Issues Fiction

When it comes down to life or death, how do you summon the strength you need to survive? From a small town in Pennsylvania to a city full of secrets, nothing is safe here. Hiding in the shadows are the answers that so desperately need to be found. Addie, a freshman in high school, pretended she had it all. A cool best friend, a fun mom, and a loving boyfriend. When she meets an older college guy and falls head over heels for him, all her pretenses are tested. With self-involved parents and friends, Addie gives all she has to this older man. Blindly following and trusting him, she digs ...

Petra thought working for her old high school was the worst thing that could happen to her—until a magical disease infected her son. Meanwhile, the Barbarians Breakfast Club faces creatures invading their high school and murdering their classmates and principal. Okay, so maybe the latter isn't that bad. The phenomena intensify, and soon, it is not just the high school that's infested with murderous creatures. So, our hapless heroes must seek aid from old allies and enemies.

When all hope is lost, how can you find the courage to hold on? This small rural town in Pennsylvania is leaking with secrets and lies, dying to be exposed at any moment. Addie’s freshman year of high school is not going at all as she thought it would. Meeting her older boyfriend, Brett, turned her life upside down. Keeping this dangerous love a secret, she may have just sealed her fate. With absent parents and friends she doesn’t trust, Addie feels completely alone in the world, besides this new love. But is she really alone? Can she sense the depth of the darkness that looms so close?...

When you’re blind to the danger right in front of you, who will you listen to before you get hurt? In a small town in rural Pennsylvania, nothing is as simple as it seems. Secrets lurk behind every corner, dying to be exposed. No one will make it out unscathed. Addie is a teenage girl that seems to have it all figured out. Starting high school can be hard, but not when you’re one of the popular crowd. Addie has all the boys wrapped around her finger, but what fun is there in that? All is not what it seems when her life outside of school is exposed. She makes it look easy, but dealing ...

Alex Lane is a hardened criminal. A misfit. A freak. When he is released from a juvenile detention center at the age of eighteen, he doesn’t know what he will do with his life. Alex does not want to return to a life of crime, but he is not sure how to change. A criminal is all he has ever been. And thus he begins his journey. Alex finds himself living with his brother and his family, a family he does not know. He also finds friends who eagerly accept him into their group of misfits. On the outside, everything seems to be going his way, but inside, Alex struggles to leave his criminal life...

The nightmares have returned. Something, or someone, wants to drag Julia Davidson back into a dreadful conflict she assumed was a distant memory. Was this, like before, the echo of another person's dream? Is she responsible to rescue faces she doesn't recognize but can't forget? Do the murky images suggest she has a part to play in whatever ominous events lie ahead?

When it comes to racial reconciliation, we often ask, “Where do we go from here?” But has it ever occurred to you that the real question is “Why are we still here?” In other words, until we’ve seen the problem of racism correctly—its history, its current effects, and its root causes—we aren’t equipped to head in the right direction. We’ll just keep falling into the same old patterns. The blind will lead the blind, and no one will have the vision to foster real change.

Ashton, now age twenty-eight, is working on a secret time-travel project for a covert government agency, when suddenly a portal opens into a different location, but in the present day, A Window in Time, so to speak. Through this window he sees his sister in danger and calls on their older brother Mican for help. Shayla’s life has been influenced behind the scenes, by an unknown benefactor, which has propelled her in an unexpected direction, but there are forces who don’t want her to succeed. A demonic presence and a tangle of government agencies, including local law enforcement, ...

Since the beginning of humanity, people have recognized the distinct creation of the male and female gender in God's design. But with today's gender revolution, people are increasingly questioning who they are designed to be. In our society, gender identity has been divorced from biology and rerooted in psychology. Do the core teachings of the Bible uphold these modern ideas?

Not long ago, J. Matthew Sleeth had a fantastic life and a great job as chief of the medical staff at a large hospital. He was living the American dream - until he saw an increasing number of his patients suffering from cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases. He began to suspect that the Earth and its inhabitants were in deep trouble. Turning to Jesus for guidance, Sleeth discovered how the scriptural lessons of personal responsibility, simplicity, and stewardship could be applied to modern life. The Sleeths have since sold their big home and given away more than half of what they once owned.

Beauty is something that everybody wants, but sometimes it can be more of a curse than a blessing. That is something that Colomba and Luis discover when they meet a young woman named Shay at the county fair. Shay is taking part in a beauty contest at the fair, but not many people are happy about this. Jealousy from the other girls, as well as some crooked dealings with one of the contest’s judges, constantly hurts Shay and her chances of winning in a fair way. Luis believes that maybe she could use a little assistance from the Crow.

Systemic oppression has been the foundation of the continued uprising of white supremacy as well as white privilege. For centuries, the act of oppressing a certain group of people was by design and has been the founding contributor to PTSD within the Black race. Although some aspects of racism have shifted, many areas remain the same and are not getting any better. Dr. LaShonda M. Jackson-Dean and her book, Seed to Seeds sheds light on the PTSD epidemic suffered by the Black race and steps for conquering and not succumbing. Seed to Seeds Systemic Experiences Evoking Disruption to Succeeding...

Tim and Haze have been friends for as long as they can remember. While Tim has always been one to fight off bullies and back an underdog, Haze is a straight-A bookworm and too shy for her own good. But when Haze finds out about Tim’s abusive home environment, she discovers courage within. Will their friendship keep them together or will life’s realities tear them apart?

C2, Zondervan, and World Vision are teaming together on the most ambitious and ecumenical curriculum promoting Christian social responsibility and justice ever conceived. This is a topic that has been building a great deal of buzz within the ranks of Church leadership, but has not yet ignited as an action-based movement among North American Christians. That's 77 million potential Good Samaritans sitting in the pews. And the time is now.

The next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another. From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy.

High School Rivalry reaches a new high Friendships are threatened There's a new villain in town Luis and Alex have always hated each other, but now their hatred has reached a boiling point. The school is excited about a big football game that’s coming up, and everyone knows that Alex will be the star of the game. Luis is frustrated seeing everyone treat Alex like a hero when he knows that Alex really is a villain. What makes it worse is that Alex seems to be getting closer to Colomba as well. Maybe Luis just needs to show the world what Alex really is.

In a culture built on consumption - especially of food - it is easy to forget the poor that Jesus cared so much about. We get caught up in acquiring, buying, eating. Yet paradoxically, the more stuff we consume, the more our spirits wither and starve. A Place at the Table invites you on a journey of self-examination, discipline, and renewed focus on Jesus that will change your life forever. Author Chris Seay is giving you a challenge: eat and drink like the poor for 40 days and donate the money you save on groceries to a charity or project that serves the poor in concrete ways.

Fourteen-year old Polly Mathis is a quiet teenage girl with no friends and often teased by a rowdy group of boys at her school, Fairley High. But being teased at school isn't a big issue for her. It's what she faces once she leaves school and returns home to a mother who is too busy to be a mother. Because of her in and out male friends, Polly's mother wants Polly, who is her only child, out of the way so Polly spends most of her time living in the upstairs attic. When Polly meets Sharra, a new girl at school, they develop a close friendship. Sharra introduces Polly to her family and for ...

Character in the Darkness is filled with stories of the people who have illuminated the darkest nights. In this e-book, Sammy Tippit shares the testimony of two men, one in East Germany and the other in Romania, who lit fires that brought light to their nations. Tippit provides biblical truths that show the way from night to the dawn of a new day.

Daddy's girl Rebecca Muir has long known exactly what she wants to do after high school: attend the prestigious architecture program at Columbia University, 3,000 miles away from her home. But as the end of school nears, things are no longer so clear cut - she's just fallen in love with the perfect guy, Jackson; her dad has gotten a new job in New York, so her whole family is following her to the East Coast; and she's having trouble ignoring her premonition that something terrible is coming. And it soon becomes clear why: Shortly after the move, her father reveals that he's leaving them....