Ryder Shadow, 22 years old, soon to be Alpha of the Full Moon pack, is very different from the other Alphas. He is trying to go against rules while his father is still in power. He loves music and travelling and has no intention to find his Mate yet. But his father has other plans with him, and tries to arrange a marriage for his son with one of their neighbor packs, to build their own more powerful with this alliance. The plan is working. Ryder, despite that his wolf doesn’t want to accept, falls in love with Scarlet, the Blue Forest Pack chief’s daughter. Suddenly everything changes when Scarlet rejects Ryder and he falls in deep sad-ness. His father sends him to find his mate and he hopes that with love, Ryder will finally grow up. Although Ryder has other ideas. He escapes with his friends, Matthew and soon to be Beta Eric, to Europe to forget Scarlet and just to live his life for a bit without any responsibility. They arrive in Hungary as their first destination and suddenly Ryder feels something he only just heard about before. Ariel Cenke is a 19 years old Hungarian orphan, girl who works in a bar in the capital city, Budapest. She is really into everything that is not ordinary. She loves paranormal stories and has a weird obsession with mermaids even if she knows that none of these things exists. Until a mysterious man appears at her job and changes her world completely.

Bryce remembers it like it was yesterday. The scent of chlorine. The blinding crack and flash of pain. Blood in the water. When she wakes up in the hospital, all Bryce can think of is her disastrous Olympic diving trial. But everything is different now. Bryce still feels seventeen, so how can her little sister be seventeen, too? Life went on without her while Bryce lay in a coma for five years. Her best friend and boyfriend have just graduated from college. Her parents barely speak. And everything she once dreamed of doing-winning a gold medal, traveling the world, falling in love-seems beyond her reach. But Bryce has changed too, in seemingly impossible ways. She knows things she shouldn't. Things that happened while she was asleep. Things that haven't even happened yet. During one luminous summer, as she comes to understand that her dreams have changed forever, Bryce learns to see life for what it truly is: extraordinary.

"Steph, is Mike home?" Nothing warned Stephanie about the fatal diagnosis that would follow her dad's question, but something did prepare her—an event that happened in 1986. Anything But Ordinary tells the story of the divine encounter that changed the trajectory of one man's life and the faith that profoundly influenced the too-short journey to his death. Jesse Morales was an ordinary Filipino immigrant and mechanic who found the better life he was looking for when he met Jesus. With refreshing vulnerability, this story shows what living by faith looks like. It spotlights the legacy of faith Jesse left, not only for his family, but scores of others, when he passed away from ALS. The books serves as a powerful reminder that there is hope. It will encourage you to see impossible struggles as the birthplace for inspiring faith. Read it and be reminded that when life isn't working, you can hold onto the God who always is.

Bernie and Winifred have been in love since they were fourteen, but when Winifred goes away to college in California and Bernie stays in New Jersey things change for the two of them, and each must try to forge an identity separate from the other.

Billy Bradshaw is only twelve when a juvenile court judge sentences him to community service, and throws him to the care of six aging Bohemians in the Liberty Street Home for the Elderly. His summer takes an unexpected turn when a new administrator arrives to Liberty Street, planning to get rid of the troublesome denizens of Hall B. Aided by the administrator's eccentric daughter, Cassidy, Billy embarks on a journey through the seedy New Orleans underground in order to save their home. But with summer comes change, as Billy begins his journey to adulthood. Faced with tragedy, can he bring himself to face life and learn what it means to love someone?

Compilation of memories and stories from conflicts in the Middle East written by alumni and faculty of the American Community School at Beirut.

Traces the story of dancer-turned-magician's assistant Adelaide Herrmann, placing her achievements against a backdrop of period conventions about women in the arts and her determination to continue her work after the death of her husband.