When Shanna's mother gives Shanna her favorite pink, childhood ribbon to wear for picture day, eight-year-old Shanna feels excited to be trusted with something so special. But when the ribbon goes missing on the playground, she refuses to take her picture until it is found. Meet author Tiana Washington in the schoolyard and help look for Shanna's Lost Ribbon in this playful story about not giving up when it seems as if everything is lost. Tiana Washington lives in Columbus, Ohio with her ten-year-old son, Tylon and her two-year-old daughter, Thijs.

Celebrate 50 years of America's favorite teddy bear with a brand-new, classically illustrated picture book by Academy Award winner Viola Davis. When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the very first time, it’s so magnificent and exciting that he just can’t help heading out on his own to explore. From the orchestra pit to the prop table to the dressing rooms, Corduroy sees it all. Could there be a place for Corduroy on stage, too? Fifty years after this lovable, inquisitive teddy bear was first introduced to readers, he’s now the star of the show. Author Viola Davis uses her own experience as an Emmy, Tony, and Oscar Award-winning actress to imbue Corduroy’s adventure with all the magic of the stage. A beautifully illustrated tale with a classic feel, Corduroy Takes a Bow is sure to spark an interest in theater in children of any age.

The festivities went on all night as the Ingawa celebrated the good luck and riches with eating and dancing...Year after year, they gave their lives to insure the survival of their civilization, but this time, something happened... Allaya's Redemption is an epic tale about evil and absolution unveiled through a fast-paced, multifaceted story spanning from 643 BC to modern day. The story begins with the unselfish, misguided act of sacrificing young Allaya's life for the sake of the Ingawa tribe, commences to the fall of Nazi Germany, and culminates in the South American Amazon basin. Evil controls and resides comfortably within Hans Hechler, the fugitive Nazi doctor hiding under the alias Peter Salvador who disappears in the Amazon rainforest and is constantly pursued by Israeli Mossad. Decades later, dying drug smugglers reveal a frightening viral entity discovered in the port of Miami, Florida, where an elusive anonymous black-operations group seizes control. Forrest Archer, a retired Navy Seal, and his wife Amy are forced to venture into the depths of the Amazon river along with a team of modern-day researchers and archaeologists having two separate agendas""to find the source of the viral entity and to complete an expedition to discover an ancient lost tribe of the Amazon, the Ingawa. Throughout this riveting adventure, you will be amazed at God's effortless abilities to directly control outcomes, shape humanity, and unexpectedly guide the rudderless to him. The horrors of yesterday and the manipulation of the innocent by the godless and power hungry will expose the unimaginable, timeless power and reach of the Almighty Father and how he truly works in mysterious ways. A shepherd without a flock is just a man in a field.

In 1888 New York City, sixteen-year-old governess Verity Newton agrees to become a spy, whatever the risk, after learning that the man for whom she has feelings sympathizes with rebels developing non-magical sources of power, via steam engines, in hopes of gaining freedom from British rule.

“a compelling detective duo”—Kirkus Reviews “readers will fall in love with the eccentric (and aptly-named) couple…they light up the pages.”—The BookLife Prize Never underestimate a sleuthing octogenarian… After weeks of no answers from the authorities, Sheila and Shane McShane, a spry and tenacious octogenarian couple from New Hampshire, board the magnificent Celestial of the Seas to look for their daughter on the same British Isles cruise she went missing from six weeks before. Guided by Sheila’s intuition and Shane’s logic, they uncover clues about Shanna’s disappearance, but the closer they come to the truth, the greater the danger, including from a mysterious stranger. Drawn from a British Isles cruise with the author’s parents, The Cruise Ship Lost My Daughter is a cozy mystery full of humor and heart, one that takes the reader on a spirited caper from Scotland to Belgium and sails into the real-life world of art.

Cindy meets Meri in college, and Meri teaches Cindy that she, too, can be perfect.