In this second book in the series, Amelia Temple's world has changed. As a test subject to a shady government entity, it is 1954 and she has finally been given limited freedom to move around after being kept captive and studied since birth.That freedom came with a price, however. She now has friends, people she cares about. People who care about her. She has a girlfriend, but she manages to hide that fact, knowing how society would respond.And she has enemies, those who want to study her, dissect her, see what she is. Amelia is not sure what they will find.Something strange is going on at the hospital where her friend Ralph is being kept. And not a normal kind of strange, either. The kind of strange that means Ralph is no longer himself, the nurses at the hospital are keeping secrets, and somehow memories are stolen.In trying to save her friends, and herself, Amelia must not only deal with the creature now living inside her, but she must learn more about who she is and what, exactly, she is capable of. Because one thing has become clear: it's not just her and her friends' lives at stake... there are worlds within worlds and a universe of extranormal activity that just might depend on her.
Genealogy and a treasure hunt can lead to... murder. The day had darkened, and when two children at the library hide under a table during a storm, they overhear something more ominous than the rumbling outside. Strangers talking about stealing treasure.What, exactly, had the children heard?Soon, people are murdered, and the connections start to become more defined between a centuries-old secret kept by a former slave and the killings happening today. But what was that secret and what are the connections between the people who were attacked?Sidney Lake knows he can help. Intrigued by research, he and Tillie James are the perfect pair to look into Lowcountry family connections and try to put the pieces of this puzzle together.But the clock is ticking and this is no simple puzzle. More people will die if they don't find answers soon. Sidney and Tillie quickly discover that family is complicated, and some connections are more dangerous than others.
From the author of Please... Tell Me More comes the highly anticipated sequel! Finally, Rose has found her soulmate, Jack, and is ready to live her best happily-ever-after life. But tragedy strikes in Alaska, where Rose's brother and family live, and soon her world is turned upside down... again. Rose and Jack do the only thing they can: they take their niece, Fern, who has suffered a tremendous loss, home to Virginia.Fern is adrift, grieving in a strange place with only her wolf-dog for a companion. Her mother is dead and her father is missing. Nothing will ever be the same again, but Rose is doing the best she can for young Fern, even as the temptation of addiction lingers at the edge of her world. Can Fern find her way in this new environment, moving from the wilds of Alaska to the wilds of suburban middle school? And will Rose and Jack survive too, or will they be casualties of an upheaval neither expected?A deeply moving novel that speaks of the strength of family and the cycle of life, Patti Gaustad Procopi has managed to weave heartfelt emotion into a sweeping family saga that reminds us all of how much we yearn for home.
With his trademark wisdom and insight, Wayne William Snellgrove brings readers his latest collection of daily meditations.Spiritual education: We do what we need to do until we can make a better decision.Providing insights into Spirit and humanity, Wayne highlights the choices we all face when we seek our spiritual truth. Mother Earth is power. Only through the connection to and application of Mother Earth's medicine is wisdom and healing gained and alignment restored.In this book, Wayne provides readers the knowledge needed to walk a sacred path with love, humility and prayer to heal ourselves and the planet.
In 2095, we are worshipping the wrong god.Raphael Aronson is not concerned with things like religion and the meaning of life. His work is to create political resumes for people running in bogus elections where the winner is determined in advance of the vote. But when his friend is found dead, and it looks a lot like murder, he no longer cares about work. He cares about finding a murderer. And maybe figuring out what the heck is going on with all the televisions.With the help of a few others, he pursues the truth. In 2095, the city has no police force, no cars, no cell phones, and is rife with hedonism. Raphael soon finds that those who profess they are trying to "Make the Republic Great" are pawns, unknowingly used by a power that was revealed in the stories of the scriptures and the textbooks of science. On a journey led by a mysterious recluse, who calls himself a Watcher, Raphael discovers that the blending of science and religion are not at all what he expected. What will he do with the knowledge that the FoxP2 gene, the Theory of Relativity and the Parable of the Mustard Seed are the answers to our current existence and the explanation of our future?
The greatest step we can take in the quest for understanding is to actively seek.This book is a guide for those who are looking to actively seek and begin to connect, on our deepest levels, to our personal truth. With this book, Mark-Nathaniel Weisman offers a life-altering perspective of what surrounds us as well as what came before us, reminding us of the possibilities along our life path.Told through the lens of information learned from his ancestors, this book conveys an ancient wisdom that comes from living close to the Earth.You should be free to explore any part of your spirituality without guilt or shame.With timeless wisdom and practical steps for the reader, Turn to Final offers readers a guide that can set us upon a new path - our own path to becoming who we are meant to be.
Amelia Temple always knew she was different. Other. But that never stopped her from wanting more-especially her freedom.The Bureau of Extranormal Investigations, the shadowy government agency that has controlled her since birth, is finally allowing Amelia a pass to explore the small surrounding town where she is housed. It's 1954, and she quickly makes friends and begins to learn the rules of this strange society. Apparently, race matters. And girls aren't supposed to date girls. Yet the government looks the other way when it comes to locking kids up from birth and performing experiments on them because they have extra powers-kids like Amelia.Amelia and her new friends soon discover a conspiracy of so-called scientists running a bizarre experiment that threatens to unleash something terrible on her adopted hometown. As they begin to investigate, it becomes clear they must somehow stop the experiment before people die. But to do so, Amelia is forced to rely on what makes her different and decide just how human she wants to be.
When is truth nothing more than an illusion?Dwight returns to his hometown after a divorce, determined to pick up the pieces of his life and finish writing his second book. After all, the first one was a bestseller. Instead, he gets pulled into a bizarre conspiracy involving a shadowy group trying to spread misinformation through a series of videos detailing odd stories of Vikings, mermaids, and space aliens. Who are these people, and why do so many actually believe the lies they are spreading? When it becomes clear that Dwight must try to do something before the group spreads their lies further, he and his girlfriend team up with a reporter to uncover the truth about who is pulling the strings. From watching the videos online to attending rallies filled with thousands of supporters, it soon becomes clear that many people believe the Vikings and mermaids stories. Dwight knows some of their plans and the kind of future they are trying to encourage, a future that can turn out to be very dangerous for anyone who disagrees.Can one former college professor and his girlfriend stop this group, or will the body count continue to rise?
When readers first met John as a young boy in the book Baltimore Catechism: Clean Slate, he had just begun attending Catholic school and spent much of his time trying to discern exactly what the nuns were teaching him and what it really meant to follow the rules.Now, John and his family face major life obstacles: housing, health and finances. When John's parents decide their only option is to move West, John has no choice but to go. But the Arizona desert is very different from the Irish-Catholic Massachusetts town he came from, and he soon learns what it means to survive in the barren land he is forced to call home.At times flippant but always thoughtful, this coming-of-age novel defines a year's journey that takes John from crime to confirmation.
Starting over means figuring out where you are, how you got there, and where to go from here.When Jane's life falls apart in a most spectacular fashion, she questions how she got to this point. How did she manage to choose a best friend who would do the most cliched thing ever and run off with her husband? What blinded her to the abuse her husband, Frank, heaped upon her over decades of marriage?The answers to her life's questions might be found in the generations before her. From her grandmother, Mamere, who threw away her family heritage to marry a baseball player, to her mother, Evangeline, who knew within moments of meeting John during WWII that he was the love of her life. The choices the women in her family made alter Jane's outlook on love and life, but she learns that ultimately, strong women survive and love is cultivated in unexpected places.
A place where families came. Homes were built. Children grew, left for war, and returned. Through it all, the river runs, as it always has.But people change and dreams shift and towns grow, and nothing good ever lasts... For years, Jack and Keira Sullivan discussed a future where they escaped the harsh urban realities in Boston. Instead, they would turn to running a bed and breakfast in New Hampshire. When Keira's mother dies, they use her inheritance to purchase a historically significant old house in Bennett Falls to pursue their dream.What was once an ideal future soon becomes rife with problems: the isolation Keira experiences as Jack divides his time between Boston and Bennett Falls; the withdrawn attitude of the townspeople who do not want change; and the choices Keira must face in order to move forward with her life.Can friendship and one small kitten turn things around for Keira and Jack, or will they find that their dreams are not what they once thought them to be?
Moving was a constant, and often necessary, way of life for John. By the age of thirteen, his family had moved ten times. And now, as a freshman in high school, they would move again. To a place called Hopedale, a predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant town, a place where he was looked at as nothing more than an Irish punk.He promised his mother he'd try, really try, to make things right with the kids at school. And the teachers. But some promises are harder to keep than others.When his family loses faith in his ability to turn over a new leaf, John realizes things had to change. The year was 1965 and religion had turned its back on him, his friends suddenly declared themselves mortal enemies of all law enforcement, and Hopedale High School had shown itself to be nothing more than a place that existed in order to determine who would succeed in life, who would succeed in business, and who would work in the inferno known as Draper's foundry. After graduation, John has one thing left in front of him that might help him find out who he was, where he came from, and where he would be going.
What do shamans, birds, and missing people have in common? Ava has no idea, but she's about to embark on a journey to find the truth.Ava Maria Sophia Cecilia O'Dell would like to crawl into a safe cocoon after the disaster of visiting her boyfriend's family. But there is no time to hide at home because her brother needs a favor. Fortunately, that favor does not involve joining him on his latest ghost hunt. Instead, she can stay behind at the store and play host for a shamanic workshop. How hard could that be? But soon all her ideas of sitting in the back office and taking care of paperwork (or scrolling through social media on her phone) are tossed aside. She might not know how to do a shamanic journey or why her nemesis, Debbee, has returned, but she knows a dead body when she sees one.Soon the body count piles up, and she works to figure things out. Why did a shamanic workshop result in a killing? Why did the shaman disappear, and where is he? What does the birding conference have to do with anything? In the midst of playing detective, she desperately tries to avoid a toxic family situation and determine what, and who, is in her future. Birding in Brewster Square is the second in the Brewster Square series about a delightful Connecticut shoreline town.
The year is 2050, and earth does not look the same. Surge Saturday, the day the tsunamis hit, devastated thousands of cities. Governments were toppled and lives were lost. For siblings Tom and Helene, everything changed. They didn't have the luxury of staying in their family home and learning to navigate this strange new world. A vile group has taken hold of the government, and people are being forced into intellectual subservience. Anyone who disagrees with the new leadership is sent to their death. Tom and Helene know they have to run, but where can they go? There aren't many safe places left, and even those are at risk. They decide to find their way to Blacksburg, Virginia, and are soon befriended by others who are on a mission to make things right within the world again. But can this ragtag group of philosophers and healers and everyday people actually save the world, or will the newly formed dark forces triumph?
Tina had questions, questions that only her mother could answer.Why did you leave me?Will I ever see you again?What have I done wrong for you not to want me?Why did you let me get adopted?Families are complicated, and fragmented families difficult to navigate. As a child, she tried to speak her truth, but the adults wouldn't listen. As an adolescent, she tried to express her rage, but the adults told her to be quiet. As an adult, she tried to find her way, but years of abuse and trauma made it difficult.She walked down some very dark paths, until gradually, little by little, she fought her way back to the light.This gripping memoir details a young girl's abuse, adoption, and lifelong journey for answers to her questions about God and Spirit.
In his long-awaited debut book of poetry, Christian Pascale highlights both the internal and external intricacies of life, focusing on the macrocosm of our world. From the pull of the Spirit to the complexities of grief, this collection crystallizes daily life into a transcendent experience. Providing both the tangible understanding of place and time coupled with the visceral perception of the divine, we are reminded of possibility and promise.
George isn't certain how he became a dung beetle-or scarab, as he prefers to be called. All he knows is that after he was murdered, this is his new incarnation.And since dung beetles don't have opposable thumbs, he enlists the help of Judy, a travel writer working on a piece in Africa, to help him track his killer. Her luggage tag address says she is from Cleveland, his hometown, so he grabs the opportunity to go home and fix things. Soon, George and Judy figure out a way to communicate and she agrees to help him find his murderer.But this is no simple homicide. When George was alive as a man, he worked for a detective agency. What had he uncovered that would cause someone to kill him? And will Judy and her friends have the same fate?
This heartfelt story about sisters, family and the tenuous connections we forge in life will stay with you long after you turn the last page. Rose was a child when the worst possible thing happened-her sister Lily drowned. While Rose was supposed to be watching her. From that moment, Rose knew it was all her fault. After all, that's what her mother told her. But life must go on, no matter what, and Rose and her sister, Ivy, grow up in a family without their little sister. In a family where alcoholism and arguing defines their parents. In a family that personifies dysfunction. In a family where anger forces their brother away. Was it any wonder that Rose was so excited to get to college? Was it any wonder she sometimes had a date with Mr. Merlot, the wine bottle she hid to help her get through life's tougher moments?At times whimsical, always genuine, this story looks at the bonds of sisters and how family can become our foundation even when we don't expect it.
In this second book of daily meditations, Wayne William Snellgrove offers us the opportunity to work with the Medicine Wheel, which follows the seasons and teaches us about the cycles of life. Within this transformative work, we are given the opportunity to listen, see, and move within the Universe, connecting to Creator and catching the words of our ancestors in the whispers of the wind.Acting as a Hollow Bone, Wayne has brought forward the messages we most need to hear throughout our days.
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