Strange But Not a Stranger

Strange But Not a Stranger
Author: James Patrick Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Hugo Award-winning author offers fifteen tales ranging from contemporary fantasy and off-beat romance to science fiction and horror.

Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?

Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do?
Author: Linda Walvoord Girard
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 080759363X

Explains how to deal with strangers in public places, on the telephone, and in cars, emphasizing situations in which the best thing to do is run away or talk to another adult.

Used by a Stranger

Used by a Stranger
Author: Sarah Thorne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2016-11-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781519047281

Sit down, make yourself comfortable and let me tell you about the stranger I caught undressing me with his eyes. Are you ready for me paint the picture of how I lured him back into my hotel room and how I let him use me? How I let him take me and do whatever he wanted to me? Are you? I bet you are and when I'm done with my story, then it's your turn...

The Stranger

The Stranger
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395423318

The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost? "The author-illustrator has woven a thread of fantasy in and around his realistic illustrations to give the reader, once again, a story that stays in the imagination." -- Horn Book

Funeral for a Stranger

Funeral for a Stranger
Author: Becca Stevens
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426722346

I have seen water move rocks. I have seen thistles break through boulders. If water and flowers can move stones, surely love can. Becca Stevens, from Funeral for a Stranger In this meditation on living and dying, Becca Stevens shares moving and hilarious stories about her life, love, friends, and our many families. This delicately formed narrative is also a window into the soul of a priest. I loved it and will hold it in my heart with gratitude for years to come. -Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why Loneliness finds connections, depair meets celebration, and fear discovers faith. Join Becca on her journey to a funeral for a stranger. God will be there. -Don Schlitz, Hall of Fame songwriter of The Gambler With elegant simplicity Becca Stevens escorts the reader to the banks of the deepest spiritual wellspring. Surely she ranks among our most gifted teachers on the things that matter most of all. -Stephen Bauman, author of Simple Truths: On Values, Civility, and Our Common Good

Letter from a Stranger

Letter from a Stranger
Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312631697

Justine lost her beloved grandmother a decade agoNthe person who was the only source of comfort in her life. When she inadvertently opens a letter addressed to her mother, Justine discovers that her grandmother is alive and her mom has deliberately estranged the family from her. Martin's Press.

When a Stranger Loves Me

When a Stranger Loves Me
Author: Julianne MacLean
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061984914

I saved his life . . . and I had much to demand in return. When he washed up on shore, I knew my prayers had been answered, and that I, Lady Chelsea Campion, need no longer fear poverty and heartbreak. To secure my family's estate, all I needed was a child. Handsome, clearly noble-born, and with no memory of his previous life, the mysterious man was perfect. All I had to do was visit his bedchamber and seduce him. I had expected him to be a skillful, scandalously wonderful lover, but once in his arms I was overcome by something more than mere passion. I had fallen hopelessly, desperately in love. My plan has gone shockingly awry. But I will not give up a man who makes me feel such wicked ecstasy. No matter his true identity, no matter the secrets he struggles to remember, I will do anything in this world to make this stranger love me.

At the Hands of a Stranger

At the Hands of a Stranger
Author: Lee Butcher
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2011-10-24
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0786030461

I didn't kill them for any satisfaction. It was distasteful. It was dreadful. Of course, I was able to do it because of my general rage against society. Meredith Emerson was a recent college graduate who disappeared while taking her beloved dog, Ella, for a hike on Georgia's Blood Mountain on New Year's Day, 2008. Cheryl Dunlap was a nurse whose body was found in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest after she failed to show up to teach her regular Sunday School class in December 2007. Vibrant, beautiful, caring women, loved by their friends and families, with everything to live for. . .until they fell into the trap of Gary Michael Hilton, a former Green Beret paratrooper and expert outdoorsman with a twisted lust for violence. What they suffered at his hands was unspeakable. Even after two convictions, the question remains--how many innocent victims were prey to his evil designs? Includes killer's shocking confession and 16 pages of dramatic photos. Case seen on 48 Hours "Chilling true crime by a master storyteller." --Don Lasseter

Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger
Author: Morton Thompson
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Total Pages: 1394
Release: 2024-07-18T00:00:00Z
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1774648970

Powerful novel about a young doctor who lives for medicine and sacrifices everything for his career. Describes his years at medical school, his practice in a small town and his devoted self-sacrificing wife who works to make their marriage a success.