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It is said, that on the day Jesus died, the soldiers gambled at the foot of the cross for all of his personal effects. Among those items, was his cloak...Have you ever wondered what happened to his cloak? Or to the soldier who won it? How did it feel to wear the cloak of Jesus Christ and what sort of thoughts might he have about it? Or about Jesus? Come along on this fictional tale and discover a short story that is as thought-provoking as it is encouraging for the world we live in today.

Sophia the Christmas Eve Snow Bunny & the Real Gift is about a little white snow bunny who knows what it's like not to have parents at Christmas and to not have any presents to open. But, last year, Santa brought her a fantastic present that she loved. This year, Santa enlists her help to deliver presents to other orphaned animals. Come on her journey as she discovers the real gift of Christmas.

Spiritual Journey introduces the concept of spiritual formation and how to get started on the adventure of drawing near to God. Each chapter includes four parts - a subject, an obstacle, a spiritual discipline, and a practice - to help the listener understand different aspects of the spiritual journey, identify roadblocks, and learn how to navigate through to the other side. Dr. Wanda Walborn challenges listeners to enter into the adventure of the spiritual journey, process painful places, remove obstacles, and step into freedom and fullness.

Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism is the memoir of an African American woman who grew up privileged and educated in the restricted culture of the American South in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite Jim Crow laws that affected where she lived, how she was educated, and what civil rights she would be denied, Lloyd would become one of the first African American women to be the top editor of a mainstream daily newspaper. Her memoir is a window on the intersection of race, gender, culture, and the media’s role in our uniquely American experiment in democracy.

Bernie is having a wonderful day until he realizes that he needs to do something special with an old apple. In the end, Bernie uses his old apple to make friends and make his world a happier place.

You feed your fish daily. You love them, one and all, and met most first as eggs. You provide dutifully for their care, minding the water temperature, the pH, the pump. Some fish are destined to remain small, whereas others grow naturally larger. These larger ones need their own space - more room to swim, spawn, grow - because their pond is small and thick with other, comparatively diminutive fish.

After a horde of the living dead ravaged the town of New Haven, Eddie and his band of road-weary survivors escape only to return to the road and head up the coast. The Caulfields remain steadfast, determined more than ever to stand their ground against the living dead. Sheriff Davis and a small group of survivors sit trapped in a holding cell, facing an almost-certain doom. Ben, a serial killer left for dead on a rooftop, reanimates with a score to settle. Scientists in the Mount Weather Special Facility have discovered that there's more to the living dead than reanimated flesh.

Seventeen-year-old Tobi Mathews is frightened by her ex-Marine father's ominous predictions about the end-of-the-world. Are they true or caused by post traumatic stress disorder as her mother says? Tobi's father moves the family to an isolated farm to escape the coming calamity. When her mother leaves to get a job in town, his anxiety intensifies. Afraid her mother might not return, Tobi can no longer deal with her father's endless rants about Armageddon.

A first-time author. A hotshot book editor. A whirlwind romance and a runaway bestseller nobody saw coming. The meteoric rise and sudden collapse of a cross-platform media empire. All of this - plus a basement full of undiscovered treasures left by former tenants - is thoughtfully unpacked and dusted off in this sideways collection of small, strange fictions. SITM is a light-hearted 44-story collection of mostly free-standing stories surrounding a framed narrative that explores how these tales were created.

A day at the circus! Oh my! So many things to see! So many things to do! Clowns and Ferris wheel rides, tents and trapeze artists. A Day at the Circus takes a look at all those wonderful experiences that happen at a sunny day at the circus.

There’s a shiny red box sitting on the table. When Jenny opens it, she has a big surprise! After her father teaches her all about the tools inside, Jenny can’t wait to learn about building and fixing with her wonderful present!

Bernie and Bobcat take a chance! They hurry to a brand new place and learn all about having fun in class, meeting new friends, and having a great day. And when it is done, they want to do it all over again!

Feareater is a supernatural thriller in which Anissa Jones, wanting a better life for herself and her mother, runs away. Anissa leaves her mother to choose between a loving daughter or an abusive husband. With her best friend, Geraldine, in tow, they find shelter at a nearby abandoned housing development. They are not alone, however. In the woods is a woman who feeds on fear.

Louis stood staring in the store window. There it was! The thing that he just had to have. The thing that would change his life. Louis started there, but he didn’t stop there. Before he was finished, the world was happier place, and it all started with what he saw in that window!

Just what do cats do while no one is watching? The Cat Book exposes everything those frisky little critters do while waiting for you to come back home!

When Abbie waved good-bye to her father, she did not know that a storm was going to change everything. Her father was gone. Her mother was sick. The waters from the ocean were rising. How would Abbie keep everything together?

The cousins return to the lands beyond the Peacock Door only to discover that everything they believed has been twisted into the ultimate test of discovery, including their own identities. On this journey, loyalties will be tested as lies and treacheries reveal ultimate truths.

Child brides sold as objects, with a rite of marriage or a simple exchange of money to people of adult age, suffer real abuse, an act which aids pedophilia. The parties responsible are the families, which oblige their daughters to enter into forced marriages, and the men who "buy" a child: as a wife-slave sexual object. The stories told in this audiobook are true; they took place in Africa, India, Yemen, Niger, Pakistan, Syria, and Mexico, places where, due to poverty, war, famine, it becomes customary for parents to sell their daughters to adult suitors in exchange for money.

In a rich tale of adventure, eight cousins sneak through forbidden treehouse doors only to discover that they are separated from each other and lost in strange worlds. In their quests to return home, they must unravel mysteries, escape snares and villains, find one another, and search for the elusive Oracle.

Author Wanda Lee-Stevens was born in 1963, the same year Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech called for citizens of all colors to have the opportunity to pursue the American Dream. In 50 Years of Assimilation, she explores her own pursuit of The Dream in the form of an open letter to Dr. King. Her book chronicles her life, from her loving childhood home in Detroit during the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, all the way across the country to her adulthood in the progressive and multicultural San Francisco Bay area.