It Wasn't All for Nothing

It Wasn't All for Nothing
Author: Bill Hill
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2023-06-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1666765937

Jump aboard this emotional roller-coaster ride through a painful past. A life full of suffering, rejection, loneliness, hatred, and heartbreaking memories of the author and his three sisters. The ways in which they were traumatized, abandoned, and made to fend for themselves. The author’s experience of dealing with an alcoholic mother, being bullied, and turning to drugs, alcohol, and violence to cope with harsh reality. He shares his experiences of going in and out of jail and the hospital due to street fighting. He describes the joy of having a son and the pain of losing his mother, getting married, having a daughter, and being cast in the overwhelming role of being a parent without any experience of knowing what a normal family looks like. He shares with you the things that led him to God and how he experienced true healing. His hope is for others to find peace with their painful past too. God is your heavenly Father and will forgive you of your sin, but there are consequences; he will discipline his children. The author found this out the hard way when he wrote this book, facing ninety-one years in prison.

It Ain't All for Nothin'

It Ain't All for Nothin'
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061975001

Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely knows -- unless, that is, Tippy is willing to walk the far side of the fine line between right and wrong. Grandma Carrie always said if he had Jesus in his heart there wasn't anything to worry about, but sometimes it's not that simple. When the chips are down, will Tippy be able to call for help -- and is there anyone out there who will listen?

All for Nothing

All for Nothing
Author: Walter Kempowski
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681372061

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.

Top of the Feud Chain

Top of the Feud Chain
Author: Lisi Harrison
Publisher: Poppy
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316126152

Alpha Academy: Where betas get booted. Eccentric billionaire Shira Brazille founded the super-exclusive Alpha Academy on exotic Alpha Island to nurture the next generation of exceptional dancers, writes, musicians, and inventors. It' s a dream come true for one hundred lucky girls, but those not measuring up can be sent home at any time, for any reason. The one left standing will win worldwide fame. Who will it be? Skye Hamilton Is stepping up her game as Shira sheds Alpha Academy girls faster than skin from a will-pumiced foot. There's just one thing standing in her way: island bad boy Taz Brazille. Can Skye keep a dancer's poise, or will Taz throw her off the music once and for all? Allie A. Abbott Finally knows who she really is, and nothing is going to bring her down. Not even AJ, who just can't let go of the past. But she can Bring. It. On. Allie's come too far to be sent home without a fight. Charlie Deery After bouncing like a dashboard hula doll between Allie and Darwin, Charlie finally has her BFF and Brazille beau by her side. But as the competition on Alpha Island reaches its boiling point, will her drive to win make her lose what matters most? If at first you don't succeed, you're not an alpha.

Waiting for the Other Shoe

Waiting for the Other Shoe
Author: Maggie Handsley
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1906510555

A story of a family turned upside-down by the adoption of a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Pieces of Eight

Pieces of Eight
Author: Hope Anika
Publisher: Hope Anika
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2022-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Book Four of The Guardians Series When the young boy Thea Marlie is mentoring goes missing, she knows there’s only one man for the job: FBI Special Agent Max Prescott. But Thea and Max have history, and asking him for help means confronting the darkest time of her life. FBI Agent Max Prescott has been waiting years for the only woman he ever loved to need him. He’s ready to face the past and accept its consequences, to do whatever it takes to win Thea back…even if he fears some things are too terrible to forgive. Thea wants only to move forward, while Max is determined to look back. But when they learn the boy has been taken by people hunting the lost treasure el Tesoro del Corazon, they will have to get beyond their stalemate. Because the race to unearth the hidden chest of cursed Spanish silver is on, and to save him they will have to work together to find it…before the curse of el Tesoro finds them. Don’t miss the fourth installment of this intense, suspenseful romance series!

Dawn's Light

Dawn's Light
Author: Terri Blackstock
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2008-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0310296218

As the electronic pulses that caused the power outage finally come to an end, thirteen-year-old Beth Branning witnesses two brutal murders. She narrowly escapes the killer and runs away in terror. But he knows who she is, and it’s just a matter of time before he comes after her. Torn between fear and compassion, Beth tries to help the grieving wife of one of the victims. But will her bravery cost Beth her life? As the power begins to be restored, the Brannings face their toughest crisis yet. Will God require more of them this time than they’re prepared to give? New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock weaves a masterful what-if novel in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts—and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world. “Blackstock is absolutely masterful at bringing spiritual dilemmas to the surface and allowing readers to wrestle with them alongside her characters.” —RT Book Reviews, 4.5 stars (of Dawn’s Light)

The Footnotes

The Footnotes
Author: Ray Stickle
Publisher: FeetMustFollow Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1311712577

There was the thin man up the beach walking with a noticeable limp, pinched eyeglasses perched on his nose, a pair of white slacks and a billowing white shirt, his Korean face further hidden by a low-worn white sun hat. Galden had been following the man for more than a week. An easy job for a beach bum. But a trip to South Korea soon changes things. Because the thin man on the beach has a history steeped in the shadows of the country he served, the country he fled: North Korea. Galden soon finds himself involved with a sociopathic gangster hell-bent on uncertain ends, an ex-military elite on a mission of vengeance spurred on by his traumatized wife, a beautiful woman who hides her identity behind a slowly crumbling façade, and, perhaps most threatening of all, his own alcohol-addled conscience’s attempt to grapple with hard decisions. How Galden navigates the kidnappings, explosions, and betrayals will determine whether he has an impact on the outcome or becomes nothing more than just a footnote to the affair.

Stripped

Stripped
Author: Brian Freeman
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429900806

In this stunning follow-up to Brian Freeman's remarkable debut novel, Immoral, Detective Jonathan Stride discovers that there are only two ways to go in Las Vegas. You can hit the jackpot. Or you can get Stripped... They looked like isolated cases: a hit-and-run and a celebrity murdered during a fling with a prostitute. No one could ever imagine they'd be linked to a brutal crime in Las Vegas's steamy past—and that the race against the clock to corner a determined serial killer would stir up secrets long thought buried with the dead. As detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are called separately to investigate, they have no idea what they're stepping into: a world where desperate ambition rules and loyalties know no bounds, and where their own uncharted emotions and sexual desires will reach an explosive conclusion. Shocking, twisted, with edge-of-your-seat suspense, Stripped pushes the limits of its heroes and keeps the reader turning ever page until the last plot twist.

Blood: Dark Riders Motorcycle Club

Blood: Dark Riders Motorcycle Club
Author: Elsa Day
Publisher: Tsuki no Usagi Press
Total Pages: 46
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

It's now, or never. There's no one and nowhere left for Lilly to run to. Trapped by Tarantula MC President, Venom, Lilly only has two choices. Betray her love and the Dark Riders MC. Or Die. Lilly is willing to give up for life for Asher. She wants justice. She wants revenge. And she'll do anything to make sure that happens. But will she be able to get what she wants? Lilly's plan goes horribly wrong and bullets fly. Will her story end in happiness? Or will there be nothing but tears?