Lucinda Grey grew up in a small Scottish village, feeling at odds with her family and surroundings. Rebelling against her strictly religious parents, she falls in love with music and a few men along the way! As she travels the world, Lucinda will experience some of the best and worst it has to offer. Will she be able to find her voice, or will her travels and romances lead her to darker places when she is forced to finally return home?

Just when life bloomed full of promise, multiple sclerosis attacked Jo's body. How would she cope with this erratic disease? How could she overcome her husband's betrayal? Unveiling her struggles to understand-not merely survive-MS and her painful unwanted divorce, transforming them into meaningful life experiences, author Jo Franz leads readers through her story of perseverance and continually growing faith. Not only learning who she is, but to whom she belongs, Jo finds love and triumphant victories despite abuse, abandonment and physical injury, showing the world how she can "Soar Unafraid." After reading "Soar Unafraid" I got to know another Jo-one who has been through more than I had ever known. Her deep faith, courage and perseverance are a lesson for us all. Katie Croskrey Executive Director, American Diabetes Association, San Diego, CA (former vice president, National MS Society, Orange County, CA) It's the tale of a life faithfully lived. What a vulnerable, powerful testimony In persevering and growing toward God even in difficulties and disappointments, Jo gives inspiration, pointing us toward the grace, redemption, and hope found in Christ. Gary Thomas author of "Sacred Marriage and Sacred Influence" With tender vulnerability and biblical wisdom, Jo shares her journey of physical and emotional healing. Her faith challenges and inspires me. I enthusiastically recommend this book. Sandra D. Wilson, PhD. seminary professor, spiritual director, and retired family therapist author of "Released From Shame and Into Abba's Arms"

Ghosts of Makara: Growing up Down-Under in a lost world of yesteryears, is the moving memoir of a son of an Irish-German immigrant family growing up during the 1920s and the Depression-wracked '30s in a wind-blasted, yet picturesque, Pacific corner of colonial New Zealand. Makara Beach could have been Middle-Earth of the Lord of the Rings, the Academy Award-winning movie which 70 years later used Makara as one of its filming locations. In this sepia-tinted, nostalgic, first-person family album, the author evokes a lost era Down Under, one without television, the Internet, or (early on) even radio, when he and his younger brothers and sisters acted out their own stories and dreamed their own dreams. It was truly a different world, where barefoot Bobbits grew up with a deep love of nature and respect for family--a world we can learn much from today.

The first book in the instant New York Times bestselling gothic fantasy series; a modern paranormal romance set against the gothic backdrop of an isolated southern town. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

A fascinating exploration of the historic city of Acworth, Georgia, as documented in historical newspaper accounts of the past and information discovered through internet research, as well as stories that have been told and passed down about the city of Acworth and its people, with an emphasis on ghost stories and hauntings throughout Acworth and its surrounding areas.

The adventures of two girls growing up in a mid-Victorian English family.