The year is 1945. The horrible war that wrapped the world in torment has come to an end-yet the torment of young Adam Shoemaker lives on. His father never came back from battle, and his mother is in the hospital with tuberculosis. Homeless, Adam seeks shelter in the Cranberry Street Church belfry ... but Adam is not alone. The belfry is inhabited by strange spirits. One spirit seems to wish good on others, while the demonic shadows mean only harm. Adam hears them both; they whisper to him and give him power. When thieves break into the church one night, Adam is the only witness, but by revealing himself, he would expose his only home. Adam has a choice. He can listen to the spirit of the belfry and get his family back, or he can side with the shadow beings, who promise justice to the thieves and power he never imagined. Adam feels as though he is being watched, but with the help of new friends, he stays hidden as he fights to decide who he will call on for help. Will he side with the light or the darkness?
When Millie and Silvia receive special assignments from their eighth-grade teacher in 1925, they panic. The family secrets the assignment will reveal will make them the butts of the other students' jokes as an Indian lover and an Indian. As they research, they find that Tecumseh's brother the Prophet was a hero of peace, but who is the young man who follows them? And, how does Old Grandfather know them?
News at Eleven - Part One appeared as a novelette in Glo Magazine: - serialized January - April 2015. Reader interest prompted an expansion to a full novel. In News at Eleven - A Novel, a cozy mystery, expanded from the novelette, Clisty Sinclair, a young Fort Wayne, Indiana TV News anchor, is stunned on camera. The picture of a childhood friend, missing for eighteen years, appears on the monitor during the early evening news. Clisty will have to overcome her own fears and nightmares to find her friend, Faith. To track down and capture Faith's kidnappers, will require all of Clisty's investigative journalism skills. If she is successful in bringing all to justice, a surprising opportunity may threaten her new and growing relationship with Detective Jake Davis. Will Clisty be set free to find her own dreams as she searches for Faith's captors?
In Just in Time, the first book in the new cozy mystery series Murder, She Blogged, Clisty Sinclair's romance with police sergeant Jake Davis is growing as fast as her career. She constantly worries how she'll keep up with everything. From being a local newscaster and the super blogger of Fort Wayne, her life suddenly explodes. The CEO of the Bryson News Network in New York discovers her blog when Clisty posts updates about Faith Sterling's escape after ten years in captivity, and the trial of her kidnapper that follows. BNN's boss is so impressed with her work he offers Clisty a contract that catapults her into the fast-paced world of network television journalism. In the beginning, it's hard for Clisty to celebrate her new gold-plated job. It involves a move to New York City, away from the family she loves and Jake whom she would love more deeply if her compulsive, in-charge nature allowed her. She thought she had to control everything around her. Remember, the abductor snatched Clisty along with Faith, when they were both nine years old, but Clisty managed to pull away and hid. She had almost a lifetime of fear to overcome. Still, she knew anyone would feel blessed if offered a fantastic job with triple points in the contract. The contract includes BNN's financial underwriting of her blog, Crime Beat from the Heartland; publication of her True Crime novels; and her own segment, Stories from the Heartland, on their popular program, American News Magazine. Clisty's Heartland stories help change broadcast journalism from a constant focus on the negative, to a positive spotlight on ordinary people doing extraordinary things to benefit others. The first Heartland Hero she schedules is actually a couple, Dr. Karl Kramer, who created a convenient medical aid with universal appeal, and his wife, Professor Karen Kramer, who programmed it. Clisty, her producer and their camera man tape an interview with the couple a few days before Karen's attack; before a stalker turns up at Clisty's front door; and before the murder of a product-tester for the device. These events create a need to hire Jake as Clisty's body guard and over-all security. Clisty calls on her blog followers to help add light to the darkness by reporting any research they find that may solve the crimes. Could the Kramers amazing new medical "Buddy" be the cause of the murder and mysterious attacks the news team encounters? Clisty must learn to move at the new rapid tempo; solve the mysteries that surround her; overcome her fears from the past; and secretly keep the new love in her life, Jake Davis, at the center of her whirlwind. Secret? Clisty's life is as complicated as yours. Just in Time continues the story of blogger and news anchor, Clisty Sinclair, first introduced in the prequel, News at Eleven - A Novel.
An historic novel, Hiawassee - Child of the Meadow by Doris Gaines Rapp, is written for middle-school and all ages. Hiawassee learned balance from the Cherokee legends of her childhood, peace and forgiveness in the Christianity of her adulthood. She was a Cherokee girl who left the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina before the army forced her people off their land and into the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma. Into the mist of time, my heart reaches back to this free and cherished child of the Cherokee Nation. Buckskin clothes and moccasin feet, she ran along the trail next to the forest. No one remembers her Indian name but her story is re-told at the annual encampment of her people. I call her Hiawassee, because it means meadow in her native language. That is where she spent her days, gathering herbs and plants that healed her people. Her husband, Jacob Meadows, named her Rachel as she hid from bounty hunters who could capture any Native Indians who were off the reservation, and turn them in for the price of a small reward. She lived to be 104 years old and never left her home without her husband or one of her son's at her side. She was spared the horrible, dangerous walk of her people along the Trail of Tears. But, once in Jacob's home of Indiana, she was shunned by his family, his community and his church. Although she was never invited to anyone's home and no one came to visit her, Hiawassee chose to live a life of balance rather than resentment, and love rather than hate. Let me tell you her story. Doris Gaines Rapp: author, Hiawassee - Child of the Meadow
Reformatted for Christmas giving and to fit into a Shoe Box Ministry container, Lincoln's Christmas Mouse is about a mouse that lives in the White House during the years of the Civil War. If you were the Christmas Mouse, like Hiram Antwhistle, what would you do to get President Lincoln to put up a tree for Christmas? Mr. Lincoln doesn't want to waste wood, so what about "recycling" the tree after the holidays? The Christmas Mouse comes up with a solution. Enjoy an entertaining Christmas story and learn about elements from our nation's past which finally come together and heal.
A Pep-talk on Self-Promotion. This small book addresses just one issue. Not, "Where do I promote?" But, "Why am I not?" What is the secret of success? After the product is completed, the degree earned, the marketing plans are all put in place, whatever the preparation has been, a new reality is still there. "Of course you know you will have to promote yourself." It doesn't matter if your produce is You, an invention, a new business, a novel, a promotion at work, or a program at church, work or school - the one who will need to convince others of its worth, is - YOU!
Prayer Therapy of Jesus is a form of prayer, in which we pray for release from the negative emotions in our lives that harm us, so God can answer our specific request. The disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray and Christ gave them The Lord's Prayer. Many of us suffer from ill health, depression, fear, anger and other symptoms of illnesses that have a physical connection. The Prayer Therapy of Jesus teaches us how to pray for release from these elements that hold us captive. To learn to pray therapeutically, prescriptively, specifically, I have suggested the meaning for each phrase of the Lord's Prayer. Knowing what each segment means, we can learn to put the prayer into our own words and bury their power in our heart. We pray for release from the negative emotions, three times a day, and then live the reminder of the day, knowing God has heard our prayers.
Waiting for Jesus in a Can't Wait World is an Amazing New Concept for our "electronically connected" teens, family and friends. There are two exciting features in this Advent book. Each day, beginning November 30, 2014, following the devotion, there is a Share and a Thought Prompt. These two "brain-rattlers" provide food to feast on each day, leading up to Christmas, rather than a steady diet of "gimme." 1: Shares: (text, tweet, post to FB, blogs, Pinterest, or anywhere.) The plan: to bring Jesus Christ into the daily thoughts of our family and friends. Rather than thinking about the presents they will get or give on Christmas Day, they will focus on the presence of God, through the Share that you will text, email, or post to them. 2: Thinking About Jesus Thought Prompts: Also: Fun, Thought Prompts can be posted, emailed and/or texted, so our family and friends can brainstorm about ideas that will fill them with Jesus as they wait for Christmas. When they get home, you can discuss the Prompt around the supper table or in a moment together. The Devotion is based on scripture and completed with a prayer, using Prayer Therapy, as taught in the book, the Prayer Therapy of Jesus. Prayer Therapy is praying specifically, as Jesus taught us, so God can answer specifically.
The year is 1945. The horrible war that wrapped the world in torment has come to an end-yet the torment of young Adam Shoemaker lives on. His father never came back from battle, and his mother is in the hospital with tuberculosis. Homeless, Adam seeks shelter in the Cranberry Street Church belfry ... but Adam is not alone. The belfry is inhabited by strange spirits. One spirit seems to wish good on others, while the demonic shadows mean only harm. Adam hears them both; they whisper to him and give him power. When thieves break into the church one night, Adam is the only witness, but by revealing himself, he would expose his only home. Adam has a choice. He can listen to the spirit of the belfry and get his family back, or he can side with the shadow beings, who promise justice to the thieves and power he never imagined. Adam feels as though he is being watched, but with the help of new friends, he stays hidden as he fights to decide who he will call on for help. Will he side with the light or the darkness?
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