Spring break. Love. Tequila. Sunshine. Boys. Girls. Sand. Fearless. Freedom. Carrie Dawson is back for seconds in this feisty sequel that takes her to Panama City Beach. With her impending high school graduation rapidly approaching, Carrie and Jess come to the realization that they could possibly be separated for good, depending on Carrie's college admission. So in order to have one last adventure, they jet off to the beach for spring break. Carrie's relationship with Ben has been growing, bringing her, yet again, to the brink of confusion. Shall she refrain from stepping into a relationship that will end soon with their educational emancipation, dipping her toes in the water? Or shall she dive into one? Carrie is on a self-discovering journey to come to terms with her life, her relationships, and her future while answering questions that need to be questioned. While on the other hand, Jess is on a quest to lose her virginity over the trip. Everything in Carrie's life is about to change and she is desperate to savor every moment of it.

There is perhaps no feeling lonelier than that of being a stranger in a strange land -- an experience many adoptive parents know well. Touching down in a crowded airport, with tens of thousands of dollars in cash strapped around your waist, to pay people you’ve never met for a baby you’ve never seen . . . . You might have prayed for months, even years, about that moment, but it still often feels like the foreign country is a region God has forgotten, and that He has sent you there in vain. For the young Christian couple, perhaps the only feeling more paralyzing and lonely than the one I’ve described is that of infertility. There are pregnancy announcements nearly every week in the church bulletin, and not wanting to “rain on your friends’ parade,” you suffer and grieve together in silence. This is the story of two international adoptions, complete with piles of cash, passport checks, airport con-men, electrocution, and Ukrainian cops on our doorstep with guns. It’s all part of the wild ride that is international adoption. But so is God’s faithfulness taking new forms each day through the love of friends, the support of family, the comfort of Scripture, and the fellowship of a new church family in a foreign land. And so is the joy of meeting two boys who will soon become part of your family -- the sensation of walking down narrow hallways through dark orphanages to say “hello” to your children for the first time. ss. We hope that you’ll read them and not only be entertained, but be motivated to think of Christ and our adoption as His sons and daughters. It is only the love of Christ, and our hope in Him, that got us through the first, the most difficult adoption in the history of our agency’s work with Ukraine, then infertility, and finally a second adoption. And it was these adoptions, more than any other events or events in our lives, that truly taught us to find our peace, comfort, and identity in Christ.

The author met General Tealeaf Howard Patrick on Skype on May 4th, 2011, two days after Osama bin Laden was killed by the SEAL in Pakistan. General Tealeaf Patrick was the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan back then, and nominated as the next Director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) by the US president Omama. Tealeaf proposed to the author in order to fulfill the requirements for the attendance of the US Senate confirmation hearings with his wife to be. However, this mission impossible is even more difficult and tougher than anyone could have ever imagined. The first part, "Confession of the Twenty-First Century Female Scientist", all-inclusively confesses the author's past extraordinary life experiences. The second part is focused on the true love story between the author and Tealeaf Howard Patrick encountering on the internet, the virtual world. South China Sea controversy, military maneuvers, Diao-Yu-Tai/Senkaku Islands controversy, exhibitions of advanced weapons and arms in the news, intelligence wars and cyber wars, etc., all occurred during this time. When a man from a secret world encounters a woman from another world without any secrets, what kind of sparkling love will be kindled?

Music charts have been around as long as recorded music and radio programs from Your Hit Parade to American Top 40 have capitalized on the idea of counting down the day's top hits. Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 documents those songs that dominated the Midwestern airwaves during that decade- considered by many to be top 40's "golden age." Many of the songs listed did not appear at all on the national charts. Others, including local acts, fared much better in Chicago than in the rest of the country. Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 contains an alphabetical listing by title and by artist of every tune listed on the WLS Silver Dollar Surveys during those years. It also lists the top 40 songs of each year and for the entire decade, as well as a supplemental listing of songs on the station's Rhythm-and-Blues chart of 1964. For those who grew up listening to radio in the Windy City as well as for record collectors from anywhere, Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 will be a valued addition to any music reference library.

(Book). This lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such renowned radio personalities and programmers as Casey Kasem, Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Gary Owens and many others, and includes an exclusive CD with "airchecks" rare recordings from 16 legendary DJs on actual Top 40 broadcasts so that readers can hear the crazed, creative and compelling voices that made Top 40 so memorable. Also includes lots of fantastic black-and-white photos to help readers put faces to the voices they know so well, a bibliography and index, and a special Top of the Pops section featuring the Number One records of Top 40 radio from 1957 through 1997 as calculated by the staff of Gavin.