Wannasea Island is a universe almost unto itself. A small independent island, 45 minutes from the mainland. Abe Stolz has spent the entire 70 years of his life lost within the history of his family and the island. Abe knows that he should move forward but fears doing so will disconnect him from his wife and daughter, who were lost at sea 23 years before. Abe’s primary goal has become seeing that his granddaughter, Beth, the only surviving member of his immediate family, does not have her life consumed by the island and family history in the same manner. Neither the progress of the island nor his granddaughter are in tune with Abe’s efforts.

How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i.

True stories from my eighty seven + years of experience. Especially carrying the message of my faith in God and the miracles He has done in my life. I was inspired by the inquisitiveness of my great granddaughter Kyla Epple, and realized there was much that I knew in my life that these dear ones of mine would never know if I didn’t find a way to inform them and entertain them at the same time.

Faith Is on Trial in an Ohio Amish Community Into a quiet Ohio Amish community a mysterious threat has risen up against one family. The three Hostettler sisters are reaching womanhood at this crucial time. Can they find a path to faith, hope, and love that is not laden with fear? A Sister’s Secret Grace, the oldest sister, has put her rumschpringe (running around years) behind her and has returned to her family, joined the Amish church, and begun a new life. But will she ever confess—even to her fiancé—the secrets that torment her day and night? A Sister’s Test Ruth, the second oldest sister in the Hostettler family, has one burning desire—to marry and fill her home with children. Life seems to be falling into place until tragedy steals her hope. Can she find the strength and love on which to build new dreams? A Sister’s Hope Martha Hostettler, the youngest sister, is concerned about the continuous attacks being made on her Amish family. When the one she loves appears to have the motive and opportunity, she decides to play detective and clear his name. What will the search for truth cost her? Enjoy a heartfelt look into the lives of an unshakable Amish family from New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter.

A riveting and frequently hilarious insider account of one of the twentieth century’s most outrageous capers. On the evening of January 17, 1950, armed robbers wearing Captain Marvel masks entered the Brink’s Armored Car building in Boston, Massachusetts. They walked out less than an hour later with more than $2.7 million in cash and securities. It was a brazen and expertly executed theft that captured the imaginations of millions of Americans and baffled the FBI and local law enforcement officials. But what appeared on the surface to be the perfect crime was, in fact, the end result of a mind-boggling series of mistakes, miscalculations, and missteps. The men behind the masks were not expert bank robbers but a motley crew of small-time crooks who bumbled their way into a record-breaking payday and managed to elude the long arm of the law for six years. New York Times–bestselling author Noel Behn tape-recorded nearly one thousand hours of interviews with the surviving robbers, including motormouthed mastermind Tony Pino, a character so colorful he might have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter, to tell the uncensored story of the heist forever known as “the Great Brink’s Robbery.” Fun and suspenseful from first page to last, Behn’s true-crime classic was the basis for The Brink’s Job (1978), the Academy Award–nominated film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk and Peter Boyle.

"The Fruit of the Earth" is a prose poem by André Gide, a French author, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book written under the intellectual influence of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" reflects the true genesis was the author's own journey from the deforming influence of his puritanical religious upbringing to liberation.

Enrique and the demon inside him didn't kill a man in New Mexico. No. No way. Did they? His possessed autistic girlfriend, Elkie, doesn't think so either. Probably. Even with all that evidence. Guidry the Technomancer isn't so sure, but he'll do what he can to help Enrique reveal the truth before Memphis "Witchkiller" Aldrain, the Shotgun Sorcerer, catches up. It’s going to take help from their friends, demonic and otherwise, to unravel the mystery of how Enrique didn't or did commit murder. On the run, they’ll find hidden Riftsider towns, demonic night clubs, and unworldly ways to get around--a necessary precaution once a hellhound gets on their trail. The clock is ticking. Will they find the truth before bounty hunters - or worse - find them?