Aimee Lilly
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If we're being honest, most of us live comfortable, safe, and relatively easy lives. We enjoy a quality and ease of living that most of the world could not even imagine, let alone pursue. After all, even the poorest people in America are amongst the top five percent of the wealthiest people in the world, and the faces of those who suffer the most across the globe are distant and unfamiliar to us. As we busily navigate the path towards the American...
42) The Betrayal
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Detective Boone Drake has just masterminded the most massive sting in Chicago history, bringing down the heads of not only the biggest street gangs in the city but also the old crime syndicate. The story is the biggest in decades, and the Chicago Police Department must protect the key witness at all costs. Despite top secret plans to transfer the witness ahead of his testimony before the grand jury, an attempt is made on his life. And the person suspected...
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Will they uncover the secrets between them before it becomes deadly?
After fending off a would-be abductor, 27-year-old singer-songwriter Hannah Cassidy hides behind a car in the half-empty parking lot behind Pancake Pantry in Nashville. From there, she watches in horror as her attacker grabs another woman and pushes her into a nearby car. Within seconds, the vehicle speeds away.
TBI Special Agent Jake Matheson may have planned a quiet day off and...
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The workplace is stressful these days. When people are stressed, they have a harder time learning and applying helpful information. Fortunately, stories are one of the most powerful ways to communicate truths effectively.Fables cut through complexity to reveal simple, crucial wisdom.Sync or Swimis a refreshing, illustrated story of a sheepdog and a puffin, that helps us to solve a frustrating mystery:Why do morale-building programs often hurt morale...
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Liora Fontaine wants nothing more than to help mistreated women escape from brothel owner, John Hunt. She understands the desperation and manipulation that force many women into his employ. But when she rescues a young girl, she is shocked by Hunt's ruthless reprisal. Now as she cowers in her cabin, hiding from Hunt's men, who are determined to kill her, she can't help but think how much this day is a picture of her whole life. Ashes. Nothing but...
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When Jacinda Callahan lost her husband to an outlaw's bullet years ago, she realized she simply couldn't trust God to protect those she loves. So, though Marshal Zane Holloway has gently pushed his suit, she's kept him at arm's length. The last thing she needs is another man to worry about. But now the dratted marshal has been shot! He's bleeding on her kitchen floor, and she realizes she might not have guarded her heart quite as well as she thought.
Zane...
47) One More Sunrise
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Joe Daleys life is spiraling out of control. In more ways than oneHis dreams of WWII glory died along with his plans to serve his country. Fifteen years later, Joe Daley flies a crop duster and struggles through life, with his marriage to high-school-sweetheart Meg running on fumes. Until one morning when Joes daily routine turns into the ride of a lifetime as his beat-up biplane begins a heart-stopping spiral toward earth.What did he hit? An enormous...
48) The Mystery Cave
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A late night hunting trip for the Sugar Creek Gang leads to a surprising discovery. Later, Old Man Paddler invites them to his cabin for a sassafras tea party. An urgent knock on the door interrupts the party. Soon they find themselves knee-deep in a quicksand rescue. Explore with the gang the effects of sin in one's life and the benefits of following Jesus. The Sugar Creek Gang series chronicles the faith-building adventures of a group of fun-loving,...
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The sweeping oral saga surrounds the birth of Christianity and the very personal story of Leah, a woman compelled into a betrothal she never wanted yet drawn by a faith she never expected.When her family's wealth and power are lost forever, Leah is sent to Pontius Pilate in hopes that he might arrange a strategic marriage for her. When she finds herself betrothed to a centurion named Alban, she views it as a fate worse than death. Alban, head of the...
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Camping in the north woods, fishing, boating and hiking all suddenly become commonplace experiences to the members of the Sugar Creek Gang as they learn about the rites of Chippewa burial ceremonies from a real live Indian. But that is not all that happens as they visit the Indian cemetery. The mysterious white man wandering among the Indian grave-houses, his hiding behind the medicine man's grave-house and sudden departure in a motorboat, the sound...
51) Derwood Inc
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Pull on your boots! It's winter in Peabody, Wisconsin, and there is plenty of excitement afoot at the Derwood household. Wise-cracking siblings Jack and Penny become entangled in an international smuggling operation and the nonstop adventure of cracking a dangerous case. At times, however, it is hard to decide which is a greater threat: seasoned criminals or neighborhood bullies. Pull on your boots! It's winter in Peabody, Wisconsin, and there is...
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The tales and travels of the Sugar Creek Gang have passed the test of time, delighting young readers for more than fifty years. Great mysteries with a message for kids, The Sugar Creek Gang series chronicles the faith-building adventures of a group of fun-loving, courageous Christian boys. Your kids will be thrilled, chilled, and inspired to grow as they follow the legendary escapades of Bill Collins, Dragonfly, and the rest of the gang as they struggle...
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Charlotte Callahan doesn't know what to get her husband for Christmas! And then she stumbles over his shoddy boots in the half-light of morning. New boots would be the perfect gift! But she doesn't have enough money. Nor does she know the right size. Undaunted, she takes Kin Davis's advice and decides to use her cache of apples to make pies to sell in Dixie's Boardinghouse. Reagan is so busy tracking down the town's latest petty thief that he likely...
54) Santa's Puppy
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When Santa's best friend, Peppermint Bark, gets left in a chimney on Christmas Day, it's up to Chris, Holly, and Ivy to return the pup to the North Pole before it's too late.
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Jessie always manages to find a scoop―even when she's in the woods.
When Jessie and her friends decide to go camping as part of the Weekend in the Woods event, it doesn't take long for them to start discovering strange clues that could have something to do with a hiker who went missing years ago. Soon after they begin their investigation, they start receiving threatening messages from someone who wants them out of the woods―immediately. Could...
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Zoe Kastain wakes on the morning she's to leave to take her teaching exam, with one goal in mind-arrive early for every step of the journey! Thankfully a glance at the clock shows that Washington Nolan should arrive in just a few minutes to escort her and Ma to the station, and they are right on time-half an hour early just like she planned. However, when her little brother, Aidan, insists he can't be parted from Ma and must accompany them, things...
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The tales and travels of the Sugar Creek Gang have passed the test of time, delighting young readers for more than fifty years. Great mysteries with a message for kids, The Sugar Creek Gang series chronicles the faith-building adventures of a group of fun-loving, courageous Christian boys. Your kids will be thrilled, chilled, and inspired to grow as they follow the legendary escapades of Bill Collins, Dragonfly, and the rest of the gang as they struggle...
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The 1620 storm-tossed voyage of the Mayflower is the worst experience of Mercy Cliftons sixteen years. She and her parents are Pilgrims, bound for the New World, where they can worship God in peace. Relying on her friends, Elizabeth and Priscilla, and the affection of an English Springer Spaniel named Loyal, Mercy survives the crossing and their first perilous months in America. But she is tested through painful loss, her attraction to the handsome...
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Jessie Alden thinks her days of solving mysteries are over. With her new role at the student newspaper, as well as classes, friends, and boys, there's a lot to keep up with. And Jessie always likes to be prepared. But when a new boy at school comes to her with information about strange things taking place at his parent's business, and she also finds out the club she's writing her first feature on seems to know something about it, Jessie realizes her...
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Her invention could save thousands of lives...if she can survive long enough to share it. Jacqui's research could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease, and she's determined to ensure the technology goes to the company with the best shot at creating life-saving products, not just the highest bidder. When her lab is broken into, she realizes her partner is desperate to get his hands on her research and the money it'll bring. Jacqui goes into hiding,...