'Mommy, I cried when you left Wednesday night. I finally realized just how much I love you and how much I miss you.' The same night she spoke these words, the world as I knew it came to an end. Jenny was gone.Life was good for Rebecca and her only daughter, Jenny. They had survived the rough teen years, and Jenny was starting college. Three short weeks into her freshman year, every parent's worst nightmare happened-Jenny was involved in a fatal car crash. The world as Rebecca knew it came to an end. Lost and alone, Young had to overcome this tragedy in order to survive. This poignant memoir of a mother's undying love shows that you cannot only survive the depths of the valley of the shadow of death, but can soar above it.Losing Jenny: A Walk Through the Valleyis a must read for any parent dealing with the loss of a child. 'Any parent who has suffered the loss of a child will be touched and blessed by this moving story. With great honesty and raw emotion, Rebecca shares her journey from the depths of grief and despair toward peace, acceptance, and the ability to go on living when her life seemed over. This is an important book because it helps us understand that grief is not something to be ashamed of or avoided, but something good and vital. The fact that we grieve deeply is proof that we love deeply. Rev. Peter Larson, Senior Pastor, Lebanon Presbyterian Church, Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary

This is a story of love and struggle in 1876 America about a family nearly penniless traveling west on the Oregon trail in search of a better life like countless thousands of families who went before them. This is a story about the Leland family and how they interact with their fellow travelers and how they deal with and overcome the harsh realities of the Trail. The arguments and violent tempers within their group, the violence they are subjected to by others, and the insecurity they must live with after the massacre of the 7th Cavalry.

Using Scripture and personal narrative, Courageously Expecting empathizes with and empowers women to face a pregnancy after loss with faith and courage, despite inevitable feelings of grief and fear that accompany life after losing a baby. Pregnancy is widely regarded as the most joyful time in a woman's life, but for the mother who has experienced pregnancy loss, a subsequent pregnancy can feel like she's holding her breath and hoping for what she can't control. In Courageously Expecting, Jenny Albers meets women in this difficult season as someone who has also experienced the worst and cautiously hoped for the best. Through the telling of her own story, Scripture, and heartfelt prayer, she encourages readers to cling to faith in the face of fear and guides them to cultivate hope when doubt weighs heavy; realize that the past does not dictate the present or the future and that God creates a way in the wilderness of grief and loss; flip the script on the what-if, worst-case-scenario narrative in their minds and learn to take their thoughts captive; and find the courage to humble themselves and ask for and accept help from others. Regardless of where readers are on their pregnancy after loss journey, Courageously Expecting is a companion to help them through the days when fear overshadows hope.

It is the twenty-second century. The Earth is an ecological mess where the UN has become the dominant political influence. To reduce the exploitation of resources and pollution on earth, mining colonies have been established on the Moon and Mars. The jewel in the UN space development program was 'Project JUPITER', centred on the UNSV GALILEO, a deep space, survey and mining vessel built to exploit the vast mineral resources of Jupiter and the asteroid belt. Jan Maldrick of the Central Intelligence and Security Service had been given a simple close protection assignment. However, he found himself being dragged into the centre of conflicting conspiracies to save the human race and obtain global dictatorial power, with the GALILEO as the target for both. With no way out, he becomes embroiled in a complex plot involving espionage, sabotage, assassination and corruption. The GALILEO was the key. The vessel needed to be protected and fate had selected him to achieve this. Only the GALILEO and her crew could guarantee the future of mankind. Confined to the Earth, humanity remains vulnerable. Extreme climate change, volcanic activity, asteroid impact or global nuclear war; any one of these could threaten us with extinction. We have the technological capability; isn't it about time we expanded beyond our planet to ensure survival of the species? The story of the GALILEO Conspiracy seeks to create a fictional future situation that might lead to a small band of humanity taking that leap and leaving them in a state of affairs that sets the scene and raises questions for future stories. What might happen if a small band of talented and dedicated people made their home in space? How would they survive? What kind of society might they build? What would their challenges be? Are we alone?

Tom, Jenny, and Gimlet face a terrible new danger as the Dark Night advances from the East. So the young adventurers set off to seek the safety of an Unknown Land. But something deadly is hunting Tom, drawn by the power of his precious Star-Glass. Book jacket.

The second book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age Spanning a momentous wartime decade, Thorn on the Rose is the spellbinding sequel to Pearl in a Cage It is 1939 and Jenny Morrison, distraught and just fifteen years of age, has fled the tiny logging community of Woody Creek for a new life in the big smoke. But four months later she is back - wiser, with an expensive new wardrobe, and bearing another dark secret... She takes refuge with Gertrude, her dependable granny and Woody Creek's indomitable midwife, and settles into a routine in the ever-expanding and chaotic household. But can she ever put the trauma of her past behind her and realise her dream of becoming a famous singer? Or is she doomed to follow in the footsteps of her tragic and mysterious mother? "You can't fail to enjoy this portrait of rural Australian life in the wartime years with its many sorrows, joys and challenges." Woman's Day Fans of Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker will love Joy Dettman.

Jennie King returns to her Amish grandmother's home in Pennsylvania to heal from an injury she incurred documenting what war does to children. She reunites with an old flame, Matthew Bontrager, and wonders if she can look past her emotional scars and bridge the difference between their worlds.