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It's Christmas in Hopeless and the Christmas Cookie Tournament has made its way to town. But Hope Walker, the local investigative reporter, learns there's something much bigger at stake than a top cookie prize. This cookie competition has turned serious. Deadly serious! Join Hope, Katie, Granny, and Alex as they sift through recipes and motives to find the killer. And along the way, find out if Hope is going to finally get her dream job. Or learn if sometimes, dreams really do change.

While Hope Walker is recovering from the events of Christmas Eve... a funny thing happens. A strange photograph appears. And a curious investigative reporter like Hope Walker smells a story. This time, the story leads her and her best friend Katie to Nebraska.

The Hopeless Tigers just won the biggest football game in school history! But as often happens in the quirky yet snakebitten town of Hopeless, Idaho...there's a bit of a problem. A dead body has shown up. That's right. Another one. As usual, investigative reporter Hope Walker is on the scene. But this time, the mystery is particularly thorny. Hope has to sort through various motives and suspects in her most confusing mystery yet. Plus, she has to figure out where she stands with the handsome sheriff in town.

Few Hollywood films have had the impact of the original version of A Star Is Born. Released in 1937 and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two (for best original story and best cinematography). Since then, the movie has been remade three times, attesting to its continued allure. But none have matched the genius and wit of the original.

Joshua Chatraw and Jack Carson help listeners rediscover a deeper faith in the midst of a confusing world. They invite skeptics and doubters to explore the ancient faith for a new perspective on contemporary Christianity. Chatraw and Carson build on C. S. Lewis's metaphor that envisions Christianity as a house with many rooms, suggesting that listeners move beyond the cramped attic of reactionary versions of the faith to explore the larger, more ancient main floors of the house.

Una de las grandes maestras de la literatura norteamericana, un clásico indiscutible. Escrita en 1940 con tan sólo veintitrés años, "El corazón es un cazador solitario" fue la primera novela de Carson McCullers y dio a conocer la magnitud de su talento. Un clásico de la narrativa contemporánea que revolucionó el panorama literario norteamericano y se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las obras capitales de la narrativa. Con prólogo de Elvira Lindo.

Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create fantastical creatures, realize a dastardly villain, or make your characters leap off the page? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Gail Carson Levine can help you achieve your goals. This companion to the popular Writing Magic teaches you how to become a world-class author. Drawing from her popular blog, the Newbery Honor author answers readers' questions and dives into how to make a story come alive.

In 1877, the US Government opened the Nez Perce lands in Oregon to settlers and ordered the tribe to move to a reservation in Idaho Territory. Although reluctant to leave their homeland, the Nez Perce began the long trek eastward. A small band of young warriors vented their frustration, however, in two days of deadly attacks on settlements along the Salmon River. Realizing that the US response would be overwhelming—particularly in light of Custer's defeat the year before—the Nez Perce leaders, including Chiefs Joseph, Looking Glass, and White Bird, prepared their people for war.

Do you feel anxious, frazzled, or fatigued? Are you struggling with addiction, attention deficits, depression, or compulsive behaviors? Could your mind or memory be sharper? If so, these are tell-tale signs that your brain could use a tune-up. Fortunately, as author Ralph Carson explains, the brain is a very forgiving organ, and in this compelling guide, he reveals the many ways we can heal our brains from the assaults of everyday life and avoid specific situations that injure brain health.

Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age 33. Filled with fascinating case histories, Gifted Hands will transplant you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others.

Inspired by his nearly-deaf mother and a father who developed a "visible alphabet" of all the possible sounds a human being can make, Alexander Graham Bell spent the greater part of his life trying to improve the way people communicated with one another. It was this desire that led him to create his most famous invention, the telephone, and turned him into one of the most well-known names of all time.

In this Gospel Coalition booklet, D. A. Carson and Timothy Keller recount the origins of the Gospel Coalition and the purpose for which it was formed: to propagate a robust understanding of the gospel's content and to encourage gospel-centered ministry. Carson and Keller, founders of the coalition and editors of the booklet series, form a theological foundation for the organization's mission and detail a vision for ministry in a changing world.

November 22nd, 1963..... The President of the United States has just been killed by a sniper in an open-top motorcade. An hour or so later, the authorities caught the assassin....an assassin who was not only unable to commit the crime, he had not fired a gun in the past 24 hours, loved the President......and didn’t exist. Join your host, Carson Wagner, as he unravels the huge mess of data and mystery that is the assassination of John F. Kennedy; and possibly even exonerates an innocent man. You can send questions, comments, suggestions, or anything else to theoswaldfiles@gmail.com :)

Katrina knew this day would come. She had been preparing for it all her life. The end of the world was here, and it looked nothing like she had imagined. Now she was trapped in an underground fallout shelter with a group of teenagers who had been selected as the last hope for humanity. The idea of surviving the nuclear apocalypse alone blurs as she makes friends, and finds love, while buried beneath the earth.

What is the gospel? Bryan Chapell explains that the gospel is the message that God sent a savior to rescue broken people, restore creation’s glory, and rule over all with compassion and justice. This new booklet from the Gospel Coalition examines the gospel’s proclamation that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ provides for those who believe all that God requires and leads to eternal life. But this ancient, unfolding story of salvation is not limited to personal spiritual realities....

Welcome to Ditch the Ick, a podcast about navigating single life in these unprecedented times. Each week, your host Katie Carson (perpetually single and avid dater) is diving into every aspect of being single: from hacks to save you money on your grocery bill to dating app red flags, what to look out for, and even navigating your career and entrepreneurship. Join this supportive, inclusive community to feel a little less alone in this wild, wild world we live in.

These 12 moving speeches voiced by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are original recordings collected here for the first time ever.

DoGoody’s doghouse may look ordinary to his family, the Buttons. But inside there is an elevator that leads down to a secret underground mansion with all kinds of fantastic rooms in it. And it has just the thing to make the rooms even more fantastic—DoGoody’s best friend, Fleabins. That sneaky, fun-loving, fabulously-dressed pest skips around the mansion, causing trouble from the Ballroom to the Amusement Park Room.

In a war-torn landscape where death and destruction are the order of the day, Charlie and her elite team are tasked with protecting priceless golden treasures hidden for centuries. With the very fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Charlie must navigate a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals, all against the backdrop of the unforgiving Iraqi desert. As alliances are forged and bonds are shattered, the crucible of chaos becomes white-hot, testing the limits of her resolve and strength.

Walter Pimsey was distinguished, gruff, sophisticated, and a bit of a bully. He was all of those things. And by Saturday morning, he was also quite dead. After a 12-year absence, investigative reporter Hope Walker has been back home in Hopeless, Idaho, for two weeks. Her scorecard? Lost a job. Gained a job. Got hit by a car. Made up with an old friend. Reunited with an old enemy. Made herself a new enemy. And met one seriously handsome Sheriff.