Truth. In mainland China from 1949 to 1976, truth is all but eradicated, suppressed and supplanted by the iron will of Mao Tse-tung. Millions of people suffer untold anguish as their history, their culture, and their lives are brought under communist rule. Many flee to Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a child, Chen Wen-shan was taken from her family home in mainland China and sent […]
When Kate Bennett survived the car accident that claimed her parents’ lives, she knew her world would be forever changed. But her life is more dramatically altered than she first realized. Not only is she able to see “mood auras” on the people around her, she’s even started seeing invisible people with no colors at all. And no matter how attractive the new addition to […]
Myra is used to keeping her feet firmly on the ground. She’s got four younger brothers, overworked parents, and a pregnant older sister, and if Myra wasn’t there to take care of everyone, they’d probably fall apart. But when her boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her, Myra feels like she’s lost her footing. Suddenly she’s doing things she never would’ve a few months earlier: quitting her job, […]
Two children of Pakistani immigrants, Delisha and Lufti Ahmed, have been conditioned by Al Qaeda to despise America as an infidel nation. They, along with five other sibling pairs, have been raised as potential suicide bombers with targets to major US cities in hopes to be exalted into Allah’s presence in the hereafter. Everything changes when they encounter two young Mormon missionaries. Read excerpt […]
“I don’t want him to love me because of a potion,” she said. Izzie loves Mark, and why shouldn’t she? As the captain of the basketball team, he is kind and loving and he’s everything she’s ever wanted in a boyfriend. Her BFF loves . . . somebody, but she won’t say who. So when a hot new guy, Tristan, shows up at school, who […]
Fragile, twelve-year-old Yolisha is afraid thinking about her first ride on a brightly painted tap-tap. The city is much farther than she has ever been from her small village of Makak, but Yolisha must go. Tomorrow she has an appointment in Port-au-Prince with the doctor who understands her special illness. But she is terrified that she might lose the grasp of her mother’s hand on […]
Huber Hill wishes he could exchange lives with somebody—anybody! He endures each day of junior high, tormented by his long-time adversary, Scott McCormick. And at home, his parents bicker endlessly. His only escape from all the madness is Grandpa Nick. But tragedy strikes when Grandpa Nick dies, and Huber Hill is devastated… until he opens a mysterious box left behind just for him. An old […]
Oh No! Principal Green says Santa can’t come to the school Christmas party. Monkey needs a plan to get Santa to come. Too bad Monkey’s ideas get him on Santa’s Naughty List. It looks like all he’ll get for Christmas is a bucket of coal. But when a blizzard knocks out the power lines and buries the roads, it’s up to Monkey and the Smartboys […]
Young Adult Romance Novella. 102 pages. Print, e-Book. When Samara Oldroyd takes a break from her somewhat insane family to browse a music store, she meets the funniest, most attractive and awesome guy ever. A phone call interrupts their conversation, and she has to leave before she can find out anything about him—what his name is, where he’s from, and why his smile is so […]
Leigh Tressman has been known as a lot of things – the girl who sings, the girl who sews, Jaron’s little sister, and last year, the girl with cancer. With her body still recovering from the cancer treatments, she’s determined to be independent and convinces her parents to let her follow her overprotective brother, Jaron, to BYU. With an ever expanding line of young men […]