This collection of stories, some starring those dealing with the loss of loved ones, some starring murderers or the murdered: all have a similar thread. The darkness that waits at the edges of life. Beyond our ordinary days there is always a bad day waiting to show us the fragility of the illusion of routine. The darkness beneath the light of day that is just a traumatic moment away. The bad days shape us but the decisions we make out of that darkness define us. Do we let that darkness in or do we acknowledge it and take steps to move out of it? I hope you enjoy this selection.
The novel chronicles a love affair between a teenage Mexican American girl and a teenage African-American boy in 1930's New London, Texas, occuring right up to the 1937 New London School explosion.
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines.
Narrated by Halima, the doctor’s sharp-tongued cook, and Jacob Wainwright, his rigidly pious secretary, this is a “powerful novel, beautifully told” (Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing) that encompasses all of the hypocrisy ...
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
I had to go to city hall a number of times and talk with them. We suspected that the police were wire-tapping our phones. The undercover surveillance began after I had met this man who was a very well-known gangster.
Out from Darkness
This text looks at extent of satanic cults and asks if there is a correlation between satanism and child abuse. The authors bring together researchers in forensic psychiatry, multiple personality...
Because hanging in there during tough times is the doorway to proven character , which is God's goal for us . Incidentally , committing yourself to ... Some kids say , " My family life is hopeless . My parents don't understand me and ...
In Out of the Darkness, bestselling author Steve Taylor tells the stories of more than 30 people who have undergone permanent spiritual awakening after intense trauma and turmoil in their lives.
In Out of the Darkness, Tina tells her full story - of what life with a violent partner is really like and how she survived 12 hours of sustained and unimaginable violence in her own home.