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Tess Hernandez knew her promotion to manager of Calendar’s Town Museum was in the bag…right up until the moment the board appointed one of their member’s spoiled nephew, Lance, the position instead. Despite her shock, Tess is determined to show she’s still the best person for the job. After all, Lance did steal her ideas! So when Lance is found dead on the opening night of the new exhibition Tess curated, all signs point to Tess as the culprit. After all, she badly wanted him gone. But was she the only one? Tess is determined to bring the real killer to justice.

A serial killer is roaming the streets of Crystal Falls. Heather Moody has spent seven years on the Crystal Falls Police Department in a quaint mountain town in North Carolina. She never expected to be made lead detective, tasked to investigate cold case murders that rocked their picturesque small town. Even though she took down the notorious serial killer Marcus Pew, nothing could ever prepare her for what was about to come.

Annie Logan's last case left her future as a homicide detective in jeopardy. When a robbery suspect turns up dead, Annie is faced with a bigger mystery, and it will test her skill, her belief in herself, and the faith of everyone around her. Follow Annie as she strives to gather the BODY OF EVIDENCE necessary to stop a killer.

With both parents working all hours and four younger brothers at home, the care and keeping of the household is squarely on her shoulders. When her father forces her to find a job in addition to everything else, it proves to be too much. Desperate for a way out, Mandy agrees to become a mail-order bride and marry a man she’s never met—a ranch hand named Matthew Bostwick, in Mine’s Place, Colorado. But traveling from Boston to Colorado is just the beginning of Mandy’s journey.

Is your life story characterized by pain, suffering, and brokenness? We're all on a journey; no one is exempt from experiencing trauma. Hope Ignited by Grace Pat affirms that your personal story of suffering is unique, important, and valid to God. Grace Pat goes into detail about her journey from Islam to identity in Jesus Christ. She tells of the broken and harsh world in which she grew up. She was born Muslim in the Middle East, was placed in an arranged marriage at 14, and found herself more curious than her culture allowed. But God was planting seeds of hope in her heart.

A short, seven-day self-help book for moms (in churchy-speak, we call that a devotional). Some days, motherhood is like having a handful of fire ants dumped down the back of your shirt on a hot, sticky day. This book is for moms who want to find a smidgen of peace amid the chaos. It's for the moms who are tired, the moms who could love themselves a little more, and the moms who have ambitions but are tied down by life. This book is for the moms who dream.

A frantic female voice calls 911. Just one chilling playback of the girl's screams tells Detective Annie Logan a clock has started ticking. The young detective doesn't know the girl's name, she doesn't know where she called from, and most of all, she doesn't know if the girl is still alive. But Annie will stop at nothing to find her before it's too late.

This Splash Read collection includes six historical fiction short stories about musicians in history. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

This Splash Read collection includes 15 historical fiction short stories about women in history. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent, or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

This Splash Read collection includes three historical fiction short stories about women in Utah history. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

This Splash Read collection includes three historical fiction short stories about women in sports. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

Have you ever felt like you just aren’t good enough as a mom? Have you ever struggled to live up to someone else’s standards of perfection? Unfortunately, in today’s society, being perfect is still very highly valued. Yet the reality is that keeping up such appearances can be almost impossible. No matter your personality type, your past, or your experiences, in one way or another, we all have our struggles. We battle with feeling overwhelmed, striving for an unattainable standard of perfection, and constantly comparing ourselves with others.

Angie Bale has reason to be bitter. With a disinterested father determined to marry her off to an unscrupulous, dangerous businessman, she feels entirely alone in the world. But it was the tragic loss of her mother years before that caused her to turn from her faith. Desperate for a new start in life, Angie responds to a letter in the Matrimonial Times. A marriage of convenience is all she expects from the union. But things suddenly get complicated when she falls for the man she’s agreed to marry—and even more complicated when her past tracks her down.

Firefighters battling a blaze in a remote part of Santa Fe make a horrific discovery. Detective Maria Estrada is called out in the middle of the night and arrives to find an eerily familiar scene. When the victim is identified, Maria fears she's hunting a serial killer.

In 1753, Catherine Wasson and her extended family depart placid New Hampshire to settle in the raucous Mohawk Valley of New York, in search of fertile land and a better life. It doesn’t come easy. Catherine must adapt to a multicultural frontier society of wealthy Dutch settlers, hardscrabble Germans, Scots-Irish, African slaves and the original inhabitants; the fiercely independent Iroquois confederation. Within months of their arrival, conflict with their age-old enemy, the French, erupts into a war that threatens their homes and lives.

A freak accident, a mysterious portrait and an imaginary friendship take Magda O’Toole on a journey of self-discovery. Her search for answers leads her to Toluca, Mexico, where she meets a handsome Professor, Miguel Villatoro, and encounters the ghostly apparition of a woman long dead. Her desire to reconnect with a childhood friend pulls Magda into the past—it’s 1836 and the Texas Revolution gathers momentum. Trapped and unable to return home, she travels with the Mexican Army deep into enemy territory, witnessing the events of the war.

This well-researched historical literary fiction illumines struggles meant to stay shrouded in a time when patience was a virtue, a lighthouse saved lives, and an earthquake was the furthest notion in the minds of those living in South Carolina's lowcountry.

A brutal early morning murder has Detective Annie Logan searching for clues among the woman's friends, but she can't determine if one of them is a killer, or will soon be the next victim.