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Once in a Blue Moon, intended for all ages, is the magically realistic story of the Rainwater family and their island in the middle of Good Bear Lake below Shadow Mountain in Colorado. Gabriel Rainwater is the family patriarch and Chris is his 20-year-old grandson. The Rainwaters are members of a clan of superhumans known as Rangers, whose mission is to escort human spirits into and out of this world, and Gabriel is their head man.

Smart executives who want to reach virtually any business goal - from raising capital to finding sales leads to finding the perfect job - know that networking is the key to their success. But traditional networking approaches - meet as many people as possible, amass huge numbers of "connections" and "friends" in your LinkedIn and Facebook networks - rarely produce more than a handful of relationships that pay off.

Follow the adventures of the Cats of Laughing Thunder as they face an attack by nasty gray and his evil minions. Pumpkin invents a new martial art with tailspikes. Sven builds a trebuchet to launch socks with rocks. Yolanda creates the stench of 100 cats. Fritz flies his blimp during the battle. But they face many challenges along the way. Will they survive?

This book is a resource created in response to numerous pleas for help from young girls and women alike regarding their struggle with sexual addictions. Although it is one of the largest issues facing today's Church, pornography addiction is also one of the largest secrets in the Church, especially among women. We aim to open the door to confession and conversation among women in the Body of Christ who feel as though they are alone in this struggle.

Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right. Stories include "The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots", by George Pope Morris; "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Schoolmasters’s Progress", by Caroline M.S. Kirkland; "The Watkinson Evening", by Eliza Leslie; "Titbottom’s Spectacles", by George William Curtis; "My Double and "How He Undid Me", by Edward Everett Hale; "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters", by Oliver Wendell; and more.

Christmas Angel is a collection of memories of three events in the life of a retired surgeon, a man who is self-admittedly not perfect and who has not always been religious. A grumpy sort of a fellow who blames his personality defects on his genetics, as do most of us who are well-educated enough to appreciate the value using DNA as an alibi.

A young ranger recon sergeant major, Danny McCarty, returns home following the apparent suicide death of his father. What Danny doesn’t know is that he’s being recruited by his aunt’s Forty Two club for his military and outdoorsman skills to root out his dad’s real killer and bring them to justice. A series of encounters follows wherein Danny goes to jail, breaks out, goes back in, and breaks out again. Between escapes, he wins a football game, blows up the mine with a homemade bomb, and has several confrontations with his brother, his girlfriend, and three persistent thugs.

Set in the racially turbulent '60s, Davids Valley is a drama overlain with magical realism. A self-isolated, disaffected young resident surgeon, Dr. John David III, is pushed by Esther Freeman, an African American ghost, to visit his stroke-crippled and dying mother, Alice David, in Davids Valley, Oklahoma, John’s hometown, which was founded by his grandfather. After a prolonged absence, at home John discovers he has a son, Sonny, by the strong-willed, independent Native American woman, Betsy Guy, whom he has left behind.

Restoration of Wood is a comedy set in Austin. Howard Goodson Woodley, whom everybody calls Wood, is a self-absorbed Anglo divorce lawyer in a law firm started by his grandfather, a three-time governor of Texas.

A Football Story, set in football-crazed Dallas, Texas, is an action-filled drama told with dark humor. The story begins on Christmas Eve, 1988, with Burl Ives singing “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas” and immediately flashes back six weeks as Matt Story, a young, undermotivated NCAA infractions officer, accompanies his boss, Dick Brotherman, to view a routine post-probation compliance signing at a football powerhouse, Texas Methodist University.

In the opening flashback, an imaginary African American actor named Albert (Bert) Brown, dressed as a railroad porter, sets up the story. The twin protagonists are a famous New York actress, Anna Carroll (prefers Annie), who is dedicated to seeking revenge for the civil war death of her father, and the man who caused that death, a railroad construction engineer from Georgia named Wade Clay.

David’s mother discusses David’s emotional alienation with his history teacher (an African American woman with special abilities and a magical cat, Halloween) and wishes that he would go back to being the loving, giving boy he once was. She makes that wish come true using a wooden button ring (a wishing ring) and Halloween. That afternoon during the ball game, David gets knocked out. He wakes up in the powder magazine at Fort Sumter and learns the year is now 1861. He’s been wished back in time.