Death and Lies in Giggle Water Creek By: Tyranny Hovey Kenna McIntosh has been summoned home to Giggle Water Creek, Missouri. Her grandfather’s disappearance sends her on a journey to her hometown after being gone for fifteen years. Soon after her arrival, she learns that home isn’t what she remembers. Childhood friends are clearly keeping secrets from her. On top of dealing with her grief for her grandfather, her dead mom’s ghost is haunting her again, plumbing in the town keeps going haywire, and somewhere is a leather book written in Latin that has to be found. Kenna will need a case of Poptops and the entire 80’s hair band catalog to solve her quest. Kenna picked a bad time to quit smoking.

“Death of a River Guide makes good on a truly soaring ambition and flirts with literary greatness. . . . An indelible vision of how surely the history of a land plays its part in shaping the interior landscape of the human beings who occupy it.” —The Chicago Tribune With Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan gives us an extraordinary novel as sprawling and compelling as the land and people it describes. Beneath a waterfall on a remote Tasmanian river, Aljaz Cosini is drowning. Beset by visions, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. He sees his father, Harry, burying his own father, Boy. He sees Boy himself as a young man, and his Auntie Ellie, chased by a cow she believes is a Werowa spirit. In the waters that rush over him Aljaz finds a world where his story connects to family stories that are Aboriginal, Celtic, Italian, English, Chinese, and East European—what he ultimately discovers in the flood of the past is the soul history of his country.

A debt to the heavens. A mouthy teenaged trainee. A sorcerer-slaying cult that might be his fault. Bib’s semi-retirement from killing for the gods isn’t going so well. So when he’s asked to help an angry twelve-year-old girl with out-of-control powers, he embarks on a quest hoping for some redemption. But as Bib takes his sassy young charge under his wing, a voyage to the temple almost ends in disaster after a deadly ambush. With reports of other sorcerers going mad and the kid wreaking magical mayhem whenever she opens her mouth, Bib struggles to resist strangling the brat. And after the girl triggers a series of lethal attacks, Bib fears the only way out of this mess will be a return to his murderous ways… Can the embattled anti-hero single-handedly take on the gods and stop the growing bloodshed? Death’s Baby Sister is the second book in the witty-but-dark Death-Cursed Wizard fantasy series. If you like reluctant champions, twisted conflict, and plenty of sword-slashing action, then you’ll love Bill McCurry’s wild adventure.

The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.

Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.