In the summer of 2012, a group of 7 friends were on their senior trip after graduation. While on their trip, a virus broke out causing a world-wide pandemic. The virus reanimated the dead as lifeless zombies. The group of friends struggle to stay alive while they search for a place to live. Eventually, they learn of a survivors' colony and finally have an oppurtunity to live a normal life. Unfortunately, things never go according to plan.

Sophie Rankin is a magnet for any kind of mishap! After a broken engagement, she goes to London to teach at an inner city school. She receives a wedding invitation from her childhood friend, Charlotte, who is marrying Sophie's former fiancé. Charlotte also invites Lucas Baird, an imaginary boyfriend Sophie has created to prevent those at home feeling sorry for her. Sophie advertises in a stage magazine for an actor to play Lucas at the wedding, and arranges to meet Henry Gibb for lunch. Owing to a mix-up over the restaurant name, Sophie ends up meeting Bennett McCullers, the star of a series of popular, macho films, believing him to be Henry. Ben, puzzled and intrigued by Sophie's freshness and sense of humor, decides to play along with her mistake. The attraction between them grows, although Sophie thinks Henry is playing the very part she hired him for, and Ben wonders if Sophie's naiveté can be genuine. The accidents and misapprehensions that arise as Sophie wrestles with everyday life lead both to the lovers' separation, and to their final reconciliation.

Second Sunrise is the first in a series of novels featuring Lee Nez, an undead hero who lives in a world where magic and monsters are all too real. The Thurlos' skill at evoking of Southwestern settings and Navajo philosophies and lifestyles combines with their ability to create strong plots and solid characters in this fast-paced, action-filled story of supernatural suspense. Sixty years ago New Mexico patrolman Lee Nez and his partner foiled the hijacking of an American military convoy transporting nuclear material. At the end of the firefight, all of the soldiers and Lee's partner were dead-and Lee's life was forever transformed. Now a nightwalker, the Navajo equivalent of a vampire, Lee lives with one foot in the human world and one in a world full of monsters. In 2002, Lee Nez is a cop again, now known as Leonard Hawk. His more-than-human abilities have made him the target of murderous Navajo witches-skinwalkers-who want his powers for themselves. When cool, capable FBI agent Diane Lopez questions Lee about an incident on the Navajo Reservation, Lee can't tell her than the people he killed that night were skinwalkers out for his blood. Lee and Diane are attacked by a wolf pack. Diane is stunned when the wolf she shoots shapeshifts into a woman before dying. On the run, Lee tells Diane of his true nature-and that he is convinced the vampire who made him one of the undead has returned to New Mexico in the guise of German Air Force pilot Wolfgang Muller. Muller has been much too close to the place where Lee hid the plutonium six decades ago-a trap for the vampire, set with the inhuman patience of a nightwalker. Using police and FBI resources as well as Navajo healing magics and his own supernatural powers, Lee and Diane hunt for Muller and his undead offspring. Muller was to sell the nuclear material to the highest bidder-what does he care if some humans blow up some other humans, as long as he can find fresh sources of blood? When Muller takes Diane captive, Lee swears he won't lose another partner to the vampire's evil. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

How many men can relate to Mitch (Billy Crystal) in the movie City Slickers, riding across the vast frontier searching for that "one thing" but having no idea what that means? They seek prosperity as the world defines it (wealth, power and short-term satisfaction) rather than prosperity as our Creator designed it (influence, significance and everlasting joy). One Thing - Player's Manual for Men redirects men's efforts from self-glory to living their life for God's glory. Using scripture, personal examples and the counsel of other wise men, the reader will learn how each area of his life - relationships, career, finances, health and recreation - can be lived in prosperity, all to God's glory.

This anthology collects the best writings by the pupils of St. Edmund's Catholic School in Portsmouth.

Life is full of new beginnings. Some chosen, some forced upon us. With no promise for tomorrow, we have to embrace today. New beginnings have become a constant for Jenna Michaels. Repeatedly abandoned when things get tough, Jenna heads back to the only place that ever felt like home, where she reconnects with her first love, Ethan Reynolds. Will they be able to pick up where they left off so many years ago, or will the cruelties of life tear them apart once again? Another sunrise, another day, another opportunity to love. This is a standalone novel, with no cliffhanger.

When librarian Lucy Maud Marshall loses her job to a younger woman, she's devastated. The Millard, Illinois, library has been more to her than a career, ever since her young fiance jilted her. But Lucy isn't about to spend her sunset years feeling sorry for herself. So she packs her bags and moves back to her hometown--and a handsome widowed businessman.