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This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you.
Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her solitude through her summer school algebra class, her wandering in the city, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults—particularly men—fail her again and again, with devastating consequences.
Dreamlike and beautifully paced, this lyrical debut memoir traces the events of one harrowing summer and its repercussions throughout Stephanie's life, including her work with families in crisis and as a caregiver for the mother who abandoned her all those years ago. Through a mosaic of trauma and transcendence, memory and metaphor, scarcity and neglect, Stephanie reveals how she built connections in and to a world that had largely left her behind. Her hard-won survival echoes that of countless other survivors whose stories are never told, and her strength stands as a testament to the power of creativity.
Sabina Wurmbrand's husband, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, was abducted off the streets of Bucharest, Romania, as he walked to church on February 29, 1948. With her husband's whereabouts and condition still unknown, Sabina was soon arrested because of her faith and Christian witness. In The Pastor's Wife, Sabina tells the story of how she and Richard, both atheistic Jews, came to faith in Christ and served as His powerful witnesses while imprisoned by Communist Romanian authorities.
No more hiding. I will bring the fight to Nexis . . . and destroy the last ruby. Once and for all.
I'm done playing nice. I am the Seer. It's time to play the role I was made for.
My mission is clear. Now it's about gathering the resources I need to take down the world's biggest, baddest, secret society.
I'm not alone this time.
With all three of the Chosen Ones on the same side, we've got one last shot to make history.
And destroy all of the Nexis Society's hopes and dreams.
Are you with me?
I'm on a quest with my brother and my boyfriend to destroy the last two remaining rubies. Who will join the Seer's Army?
I just rebelled against the Guardians in an act they'd consider treasonous. But not me. I'm finally standing up for myself and doing the right thing. And I've never felt so vulnerable. What can one girl do against the Three Societies? Who in the world would be stupid enough to join the army of a seventeen-year-old girl?
I guess there are a few perks to going off the grid in a rogue operation:
1. You get to travel all across Europe visiting off-the-beaten path sites.
2. You get to be the guinea pig for me and my boyfriend as we attempt to learn new powers.
3. You get to meet lots of new people who may or may not be on your side.
Sounds like loads of fun right? Did I mention that you'll probably be running for your life? What can I say? The Seer's Army is only for the brave, the dedicated, and the truly insane. Sign up at your own risk.
There's a war in Europe. Everyone in the Three Societies must choose sides. I know whoses side I'm on. My own.
Joining forces with the Guardians might be a huge mistake. But I'll do anything to find the last three rubies . . . And destroy them.
The moment my plane touches down in Vienna, I'm in for a world of trouble. The Three Societies are divided into two factions, and you must choose a side. Just when I finally find love, my boyfriend and I are separated by our affiliations. And my ex keeps hanging around like there's something still between us.
At least this time I get to fight alongside my long lost brother. Joining my brother's squad is a dream come true. I develop some cool Seer powers along the way, and figure out how to harness them to my advantage. Finally.
When new players emerge and the final Chosen One surfaces, it's hard to tell who to trust.
I already lost my best friend the last time I obliterated one of the precious Nexis stones. Now's the time to find all three of the remaining rubies . . . And vaporize them before Nexis kills any more of my friends. Or family.
I have one mission-destroy the Nexis rubies at all costs. I just hope the price isn't too high.
Mid-Century Glam Meets Murder Mayhem Get swept away to the glamor of a 1950's department store where four women's loyalties, vanity, friendship, and detective skills are put to the test.
Audrey Penault once led a glamorous life as a model but now works as devoted secretary to Mr. Wynton. To her fellow employees, she is too vain and uppity.
Mary Jo Johnson, a wife and mother, longs to find her worth in the cosmetics department, but it may take a while for the shy housewife to discover her voice.
Vivian Sheffield owns and runs the bridal salon within Wynton's. She is proud of her accomplishments and won't let anyone take them away.
Gigi Woodard dislikes her job as waitress in the store's lunchroom, but she is determined not to let her secret shortcomings cause her to lose the position.
These four women have much to dislike about each other, but they unanimously agree that Mr. Wynton is the best of employers and must be protected at all costs from someone who seems determined to see him gone for good. When other employee deaths occur, can the women band together to solve the murders, or will they discover it is one of their own bent on destroying Wynton's from within?
Her niece-taken. Her best friend-gone.
There's only one mission that matters now-rescuing her loved ones from enemy hands.
Forced to embark on a dangerous journey, Kira will need every one of her allies as she prepares for the greatest battle of her life. With her mind and body failing, it's a race against time to locate the homeworld of the Tsavitee. The alien race intent on dominating the universe.
A shadowy force stalks her every move. Their motives unclear. As secrets come to light and the danger deepens, the Phoenix will be forced to rise.
One thing is clear-not everyone will make it out of this unbroken.
The price for failure has never been so high.
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned to college radio to defy the mainstream-and they ended up disrupting popular music and commercial radio in the process. In this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power to the politics of higher education as much as they did to upstart bohemian music scenes coast to coast.
Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music-they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlooked contributions to popular culture that students, DJs, and listeners never anticipated. More than an ode to beloved stations, this book will resonate with both music fans and observers of the politics of culture.
A family forever changed by the tragedies of WWII.
Hannah Elfenbein, a young, pregnant Jewish woman, is arrested in 1942 and sent to the Camp de Rivesaltes transit camp in Southwest France. Drawn to helping other young women escape, she seeks refuge for herself and others at a maternity hospital. But nothing is simple in occupied France, and she finds herself doing the unimaginable to save one precious life.
Eighty years later, Caitlyn Laurant takes a break from training to be a missionary nurse in Spain to visit nearby France, hoping to find her grandfather's birthplace. But what she uncovers are secrets long buried by WWII atrocities.
Don't miss the Echoes of the Past Series
Book 1 - What I Would Tell You
A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night.
Confronted by a policeman, Halina Goldberg unexplainably runs away from her father and begins her long journey of survival. When tired of fleeing, she volunteers to go into a work camp. That decision buys her some time because the Germans need labor for the war effort. Halina works in three different camps from the Fall of 1943 to January 1945. At first, the camps are bearable, even though the prisoners are worked hard and fed very little. But as the Germans begin to lose the war, the conditions turn deathly. The Jews become overrun with disease and their captors grow crueler and crueler.
As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the SS empty the camps and set over 2,000 women on a four-month long march that would cover over 800 kilometers during one of Europe's coldest winters on record. Halina was one of the only 300 who survived the Volary Death March and finally felt the need to record her hellish story of survival.
Hi, I'm Lucy. And I just found out I'm not normal.
Three years ago, my brother went missing in Europe without a word. I just have to play nice with the Three Societies long enough to dig up some dirt. Before they figure out who I really am . . .
When two secret society leaders fight for my attention, it becomes harder to keep my supernatural talents under the radar.
Even though I'm drawn to the oh-so-dreamy captain of the Guardians, can I really trust him? He strictly adheres to the rules of the Guardians, but will he break his 'good guy' code for me?
Big surprise, the charming, bad-boy president of the Nexis Society just won't leave me alone. He seems to know about all the skeletons in my family's closet. But has he figured out that I have hidden powers? And if so, who will he tell?
I didn't bargain for this strange new world and my own crazy abilities. Am I really the Seer the Three Societies have been looking for? Can I find my brother and master my surprise powers without getting caught?
I guess we're about to find out.
Montrose Paranormal Academy better watch out-it's time for Seer Training. I've got some new angel powers to play with. And I'm only getting started.
If there's one thing I've learned since last semester, you never know what the Three Societies are going to do next. First, they invite you into their midst and call it Seer Training. Yeah, right. Like they have any idea what to do with the likes of me. Then they say, 'Go fend for yourself.' I don't think they're going to like the way I fend for myself. Because I'm tired of bowing to the whims of the Guardians, Nexis . . . or anybody else for that matter. I'm the Seer. I'm the one with super-cool angel powers. And I'm the one who pays the price when I use them.
Whether the Guardians want to teach me or not, I need to master my new powers before they turn on me. And I need to decide a few things for myself: Whose side do I want to be on in this tug-of-war between the Three Societies? Which one of my two guys is ready to fight for me? How can I turn the tables to get what I want for a change? I still want to find my brother. Maybe even fight by his side. But first, I need to learn how to become my own Seer. Just because I have awesome powers, doesn't mean I'm anybody's property.
