Top Elf

Top Elf
Author: Caleb Huett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338052144

The elves can't be kept on shelves in this hilarious middle-grade debut about what happens when Santa opens a contest to find his successor. These elves are off the shelves.Ollie and Celia think they know what the life of an elf is supposed to be like: Make toys. Help Santa. Make more toys. Help Santa. Try out a new ice-cream flavor. Help Santa.But then Santa rocks the North Pole with a surprise announcement! He's decided this is going to be his last year in the Big Red Suit--and instead of letting his oldest son, the unfortunately named Klaus Claus, take over, he's opening up the job to any kid who wants to apply--Claus or elf. The Santa Trials have begun!Ollie and Celia enter the contest, having no idea whatsoever that they'll soon have to squeeze through impossible chimneys, race runaway sleighs, sweet-talk a squad of rowdy reindeer, and consume cruel amounts of cookies and milk. It's both an adventure and a survival test, far beyond what any elf or Claus has been asked to do before. But whoever rises to the top will get a reward even bigger than Christmas . . .

Messy Grace

Messy Grace
Author: Caleb Kaltenbach
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601427379

Sometimes, grace gets messy. Caleb Kaltenbach was raised by LGBT parents, marched in gay pride parades as a youngster, and experienced firsthand the hatred and bitterness of some Christians toward his family. But then Caleb surprised everyone, including himself, by becoming a Christian…and a pastor. Very few issues in Christianity are as divisive as the acceptance of the LGBT community in the church. As a pastor and as a person with beloved family members living a gay lifestyle, Caleb had to face this issue with courage and grace. Messy Grace shows us that Jesus’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself” doesn’t have an exception clause for a gay “neighbor”—or for that matter, any other “neighbor” we might find it hard to relate to. Jesus was able to love these people and yet still hold on to his beliefs. So can you. Even when it’s messy. “Messy Grace is an important contribution to the conversation about sexual identity for churches and leaders. Caleb's story is surprising and unique, and he weaves it together compellingly. He states his views clearly, leaves room for disagreement, and champions love no matter where you are in this conversation.” —Jud Wilhite, Sr. Pastor, Central Christian Church

Credence

Credence
Author: Penelope Douglas
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2024-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593641973

Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. Let the hot, winter nights ensue in this steamy dark romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas, now with bonus material. Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. And when her parents suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. But she's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan. Sent to live in the mountains of Colorado with Jake and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, Tiernan quickly learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. As the men take Tiernan under their wing, she slowly finds her place among them. Because lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. One of them has her. The other one wants her. But he's going to keep her.

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins--Caleb Widogast

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins--Caleb Widogast
Author: Jody Houser
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506723748

Vox Machina Origins writer Jody Houser joins fan-favorite artist Selina Espiritu, and Matthew Mercer and Liam O'Brian to reveal Caleb's troubled past in this all-new hardcover graphic novel! Fans of Critical Role won't want to miss this newest edition to their Mighty Nein library! A fire can keep you warm...or it can consume you. When Bren Aldric Ermendrud was chosen to attend the Soltryce Academy, everyone knew he would have an important future in service to the Empire. But nobody--least of all Bren himself--could foresee the cruelty he endured, and the ways in which it would break and remake him. Witness the events that transform Bren into the Mighty Nein's Caleb Widogast, and how they'll inform the path he'll take in the future.

Caleb's Portion

Caleb's Portion
Author: Lucius Tical
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1525584057

An engaging combination of fiction, history, and biography, Caleb’s Portion provides a unique life story that reaches back through the author’s ancestral lineage and ties together two family lines. Narrated by the author’s alter ego, Lucius, the tale encourages readers to ponder the age-old question, “What is the purpose of life?” From the Roman Empire to the conquests of the Vikings to surviving the Black Death in Europe, the rich history and human passion in these stories will keep readers turning the pages! Gently woven throughout the book is the steady message of redemption in Jesus Christ, the gateway to heaven. Thought-provoking, educational, and “a rollicking good story,” Caleb’s Portion brings readers into the past and invites them to celebrate a great heritage and future.

Ida's Caleb

Ida's Caleb
Author: Everett Kelly
Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1589397657

This is the moving story of three Georgia families who, in the post Civil War 1870s, sought a better life in the then-primitive central Florida Lakes region. You will be moved by the touching love story of Ida and Caleb who chose to begin their marriage as pioneers in this new and untamed land. They enticed an unforgettable Mose and his Miz Zenobia to move to Florida with them to help their new venture. They deeded land to Mose on which to build his family a home and on which to grow his own citrus. To Mose it was an opportunity to make enough money to educate his numerous children and to free his family from the historic bonds of slavery. You will experience an 1870s Florida which vns beautiful and filled with indescribable wonders. You will laugh with these families as they encounter numerous colorful characters and as they experience their first views of their new and wondrous world. You will weep with them as they experience personal tragedies and the wrath of the elements. But try as you might, you will never forget them, or Samuel the mule.

Treeborne

Treeborne
Author: Caleb Johnson
Publisher: Picador USA
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250169089

"Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. She tells the story of its people: of Hugh--her granddaddy--determined to preserve Elberta's legacy through his art; of his wife Maybelle, who shook the town when she became its first female postmaster, then again when she died a sudden and mysterious death; of her lover Lee Malone, a black orchardist and musician harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the local legend Ricky Birdsong, who scored touchdown after touchdown, only to run headlong into tragedy"--

Deadly Reigns

Deadly Reigns
Author: Teri Woods
Publisher: Teri Woods Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is the story of the Reigns Family, a mob family that controls the streets and everything moving, it is their rise and their fight to stay on top as the world's most notorious crime family.

Harnessing Darkness

Harnessing Darkness
Author: Caleb Woods
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578531465

In Harnessing Darkness, Caleb Woods details the struggles of living with mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt through thought-provoking poetry.