Don't believe anything they say." Those were the last words Alice's older sister, Annie, said to her before she turned her back on their parents and left home forever. Alice spent four years waiting and wondering when the impossibly glamorous sister she idolized would return to her--and what her Hollywood-insider parents had done to drive her away. Now it's 1948 and Alice isn't a kid anymore. When she gets the phone call from the hospital, she knows it's up to her to help Annie, in a coma after being beaten and left for dead in MacArthur Park. The search for Annie's attacker leads Alice into a dark and dangerous world of tough-talking private eyes, psychopathic movie stars, and troubled starlets--and onto the trail of a young runaway who is the sole witness to an unspeakable crime. What this girl knows could shut down a criminal syndicate and put Annie's attacker behind bars--if Alice can find her first. And she isn't the only one looking. Debut novelist Mary McCoy evokes the dangerous glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, a corrupt world where the people who live in the nicest houses have the dirtiest secrets and no drive into the sunset can erase the crimes of past.
Get ready to experience the Miraculous and the Supernatural power of God as you read about three women who allowed God to change their lives. They all became Designer Originals, as Women of God who stood the test of time. Allow them to help build your faith and conqueror your fears as you read about how God used them as instruments to heal, deliver, save, and set the captives free. They will show you how to walk in the prosperity of the word of the Lord. After reading these powerful testimonies, my prayer is that you realize that you don't have to be sick, tired, broke, or discouraged! When others said it could not be done; they dared to believe God and he did it!
The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains. Each letter came with a glossy brochure with photographs of young women climbing rocks, performing Shakespeare under the stars, and spiking volleyballs. By the end of the month, twenty-five applications had been completed, signed, and mailed. Had any of these girls tried to visit the camp for themselves on that day in February, they would have discovered that there was no such mountain, and that no one within a fifty-mile radius had ever heard of Camp So-and-So . . .
Over the course of her high school years, awkward Claudia McCarthy finds herself unwittingly drawn into the dark side of her school's student government, with dire consequences"--
First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.
Eighteen-year-old Davina is an ambitious student with big hopes and dreams. But when her mother's untimely death turns her world upside down, she finds herself lured into the world of prostitution. Desperate to escape, the betrayal of the person she least suspects costs her nearly everything. And just when the chance of a romance begins to blossom between her and her knight in shining armor, she not only discovers she is pregnant with her pimps' baby, she also finds a series of her mother's secret diaries that change her world forever. With her mother's horrific secrets and web of twisted lies revealed, in a world where having money and committing crimes seem to be the only way to get what you want, sweet little Davina doesn't stay innocent for long. Her whole life is a lie, and she needs to grow up fast. But how does a girl begin to find herself, when nobody is who they say they are, and nothing is what it seems? From mafia connections, romance with role-playing, to murder and betrayal, this is the first novel of the series that started it all. Introducing, "Walk On the Wild Side.
It is the day of the championship soccer game. For Lupe, the team manager, the biggest problem is that she thinks her team doesn't like her. But her problems get a lot bigger when she discovers the team's equipment is missing. Lube has to find the thief or her team will forfeit the game."--Page 4 of cover.
Hawk McCoy: The Mutant Onion is a story about a super food, developing improved vegetables, and punishing a crime. Nyssa Pentas, the Pentas for growing things, teaches Hawk and his friends to grow vegetables, and record scientific data. Hawk is also working with the police department to return stolen bikes. He gathers his friends and they solve the crime of bike theft in Izlet Bay.
Finally, a single-volume resource that simplifies your preparation! This comprehensive guide, offering song suggestions, prayers, Scripture references and liturgical guidelines for preparing prayer services, liturgies and other celebrations with children.
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