The Voice in the Boys' Room


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A movie about alien invasion transforms into real life. A hunt in a snowy forest suddenly turns dangerous.A great-aunt comes back from the dead, just in time for a little girl's birthday party.




Room


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Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.







Frightmares


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What if you only had one hundred words to warn humanity of a deadly danger? What if your favorite sci-fi movie suddenly turned into a real-life worst nightmare? What if a girl you've never seen before keeps showing up in photos on your cell phone? What if you hear a knocking sound in the middle of the night? In each of the 27 tales in this book, people are afraid. Very afraid. Read their stories. See if you share their fears. Because if you don't now . . . you will.




Newton and Polly


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Uncover the true love story behind the famous hymn that stirs the hearts and ignites the faith of millions around the globe. Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found… Now remembered as the author of the world’s most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father—until the night he hears Polly Catlett’s enchanting voice, caroling. He’s immediately smitten and determined to win her affection. An intense connection quickly forms between the two, but John’s reckless spirit and disregard for the Christian life are concerns for the responsible, devout Polly. When an ill-fated stop at a tavern leaves John imprisoned and bound, Polly must choose to either stand by his side or walk out of his life forever. Will she forfeit her future for the man she loves?




Library Journal


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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.




THE AGENT'S WIFE


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Harvard graduate Elise O'Neil rues the day she traded in her Wall Street corner office and pinstriped suits to marry Federal Agent Dru O'Neil. Life in the shadows of a man consumed by high-profile undercover assignments, bomb raids, and surveillance missions finds the once prominent investment broker diminished to a woman desperate to reclaim her own self-worth. After seven years of living in a home where crime infiltrated every core of daily life, Elise has had enough! Had Agent Dru O'Neil not been consumed in his world of solving newsworthy crime, he may have noticed his marriage had failed beyond reconciliation. When she and their three sons fail to return from a family visit to New England, Dru realizes he forgot to ask one important question. "How long did you plan to stay?" Had the top-notch agent been paying attention he would have known, she never planned to return.




He Calleth Thee


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Life is a journey with turns and twists that have always left even the best placed in society lost for options. A pastor takes his place and with the tool best known to him to try and address the decadence in society. He discovers to his amazement it is not by might nor by power but by the spirit of God that the taste of victory is sweeter.




Hard Times in Paradise


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An account of one family's life in a redwood forest describes how the Colfax's lived without electricity, running water, or a phone, and how they educated their sons, three of whom were accepted to Harvard on full scholarships.




The Living Church


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