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Ashlee doesn’t feel sane. Just about to start the 11th grade, she feels like her life is coming apart at the seams. A dream leads her to believe someone close to her needs her help - but that’s impossible! And how can a dream be real? With the help of her friends, Ashlee must learn to trust in the unbelievable, to prove not only that she’s not insane, but that her worth lies beyond her own concept of reality.

Calli learns about Chris's motives and tries to understand his dilemmas. Given no choice, the two of them travel with a mysterious companion back to General Harding's facility. They make an effort to dismantle the programs that are exterminating people with powers and wiping Diamond Bearers from the face of the Earth.

In 1894, a mystical vision of an airship appears to 15-year-old Juanita. The ethereal captain commands her to prevent California’s thrown-away people - including young children - from boarding trains to an asylum. That institution’s director plots murder to reduce the inmate population. Yet to save innocent lives, Juanita must take lives of the corrupt. How can she reconcile her assignment with her belief in the sacredness of all human life? And will she survive to marry her betrothed?

As her search draws closer to uncovering the twisted truth, she begins receiving ominous warnings to stay quiet and drop the story. The young journalist is in danger. Her cameraman and best friend, a person with his own secret past, says he wants to protect her. But Shelby is headstrong, dodging anything that could lead to love. She can't allow anyone to distract her as she fights for the two women who deserve justice. She never expects that, along the way, she'll have to stop and save herself.

Bekk cannot seem to stay awake. As a sophomore in high school, it doesn't bode well for his education or the social services agent breathing down his older brother - and guardian's - neck. But Bekk can't help it. He's being plagued by dreams - dreams from his childhood, about a land called Iyah. If he doesn't snap out of it soon, he'll be taken away from the only family he has left. But when the school psychologist insists it's a childhood reaction to the trauma of his parent's death, Bekk's only recourse is to figure out the meaning of his dreams, before it's too late.

Ness Opute will not fail again. The woman who murdered his wife, who has eluded him for many years, has killed again. To bring her to his own personal justice, Opute must give up his identity as a notorious smuggler and work his way up the ranks of her empire. If he can climb to her inner circle, he will claim victory over her lifeless body. But Opute isn’t the only one on the hunt.

Daith Tocc has discovered some incredible things about herself while aboard the spaceship the Horizon: She is smart and charming and has psionic powers that allow her to sense emotions, melt physical objects, even heal or injure with a thought. The problem is, she doesn't have any memory of who she used to be.

The Diamond of Freedom, book three in The Unaltered series, melds together history, geology, metaphysics, science, and fantasy in this non-stop nail biter. Calli and Chris race against the clock to identify the power-neutralizing stone that prevents Calli from healing her life-threatening injuries. She must also learn how to counter its effects before she can fight against the rogue Diamond Bearer named Freedom to save the boy she loves and the world of her friends.

A Diamond in My Heart, audiobook two in the Unaltered series, follows teenaged Calli Courtnae as she learns how to control her new cosmic superpowers. She's afraid she's no match for some of the other people who are showing up with different paranormal powers, including a time-rewinding teen who apparently has some romantic fantasy about her going on in his head. She faces more challenges with him as he attempts to save the day.

Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and deadbeat father, Lucy unravels. They run to their grandparents’ place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy’s barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They’ve joined a gang called VC. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns.

We believed our government was of the people, by the people, and for the people. We were wrong. A terrorist's last words lead a team of special agents to the discovery of an unimaginable global conspiracy. But time is running out. The numbers are converging. Can a group of fugitive FBI and CIA operatives prevent the coming catastrophe before the world crosses The Nash Criterion?

The global financial system is in chaos. World leaders have been compromised. An unstoppable computer virus eats through the Internet. Join an elite team of FBI and CIA agents, and the shadowy figures they must work with, as they try to stop a global catastrophe and act of digital terrorism, unlike anything ever witnessed. Can they stop the virus from devouring the world's digital mind before it releases The Anonymous Signal?

A Western terrorist organization targets Muslims around the world, and FBI agent John Savas must put aside the loss of his son and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to stop the plot of an American bin Laden and prevent a global catastrophe.

Lead Council member Christoph is dead by Elyse's hand, and Descendants have begun to emerge, exposing their secret to the world. Some see this as the prophecy come to fruition, but the prophecy caries a heavy consequence. It was never meant to be as peaceful as most had hoped. Humans and Descendants struggle to live together in a world that isn't ready for such a change. Those who glorify the supernatural race believe Descendants truly are the gods they claim relation to.

Uprising continues the story of Elyse, William and the descendants. Elyse has been in hiding for most of her life. Only now she's hiding with William, and she knows who she's hiding from. The Council want a child Elyse and William have yet to conceive, a child who will be the next oracle, and who will provide the final piece to a plan Christoph has been organizing for years.

Elyse knows what it means to keep a secret. She's been keeping secrets her whole life. Two, actually. First, that she ages five times slower than average people, so that while she looks 18 years old, she's closer to 80. The second is that her blood has a mysterious power to heal. For Elyse, these things don't make her special. They make life dangerous.

Until all is lost, nothing is found. Conclude the epic story of Ambra Dawn in the final installment of the trilogy. A story in which the one that was lost will be found. Where a thief will guide through chaos and time. Where all that was held dear will perish. And in that final and utter destruction - there will be a Creation.

December in Cottageville should be filled with holiday cheer, but for dog groomer Sarah Carter, it's anything but merry. When a tragic accident involving an out-of-control big rig crashes into the Cottageville Library—leaving her friend and love interest Jared Greene injured—Sarah's peaceful holiday season takes a gut-wrenching turn. While tending to Jared's recovery and keeping her dog grooming business, Carter's Canine Coiffure, afloat, Sarah and her loyal Australian cattle dog, Whiskey, find themselves caught up in two unsettling mysteries.

Mandy Holloway never expected to return to her crumbling childhood home on Stillwater Lane, a place haunted by painful memories of neglect, betrayal, and long-buried secrets. But with her family on the brink of financial collapse, she finds herself with no other options. Now, back in the decaying house she once swore to leave behind, Amanda confronts the specters of her past, and something far darker that lurks within the shadows.

An Unforgettable Journey to Mt. Everest Base Camp. Elizabeth Williams, her brother Hank, and their close friend Luke embark on an exhilarating expedition to reach Mt. Everest Base Camp. What begins as a challenge to fulfil a promise quickly evolves into an adventure far beyond their expectations. Guided by their tour leader Priya, the ascent to their goal proves to be increasingly difficult, with harsh weather conditions, a strenuous climb, and the physical toll weighing heavily on their bodies. However, local legends whisper of a mysterious creature that roams these lofty ranges.