Tyler Fox, from Goessel, Kansas, is a sophomore at St. Alfanus, a private Catholic college near Hooks in Bowie County, Texas. Tyler is an up-and-coming golfer who will hopefully lead the St. Alfanus team to a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship. One day as he is practicing prior to the start of fall semester, the editor of the St. Alfanus Clarion, Charlie Harrison, shows up to do a story about Tyler’s golfing prowess. Charlie convinces Tyler, who is an English major, to come work for The Clarion. Days before the fall semester is to begin, Tyler takes an evening …
Prince Michael Tetov is a page for Nicholas II and is privy to wealthy Russian court society in early 1900s Russia. His mother, a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexander, socializes with the magnificently rich Usupovs. Michael meets Anna, a student revolutionary and servant to the family. The two fall passionately in love. When the Revolution of 1917 begins, Michael hides his mother with Anna. Anna surrenders her to the Bolsheviks and Michael, deeply betrayed, loses all hope. After another brief experience of love and loss, God is dead to him, as is his faith. Michael is sent to Siberia where …
The Second Edition of Confidence: Reliance on the Spirit, The Innocence and Resilience of Youth is a gripping story of the irrepressible Lilia Faith Christian, which will thrill tweens and teens alike. “What are you trying to do Jimmy, kill me?” thirteen-year-old Lilia screeched at the top of her lungs when sixteen-year-old Jimmy pitched the softball directly at her head. She heard the whirring of air around the ball as it picked up velocity, and leaned backwards to avoid it as the ball flew past within an inch of her nose. “This is supposed to be for fun, not for …
Eight unrelated obese females are kidnapped from Modesto, California, and held in a remote ranch in Mexico as test subjects in a pharmaceutical company’s development of a diet medication. Each is forced to exercise and adhere to a strict controlled nutritional diet under medical supervision. At the onset, an extremely ambitious weight loss goal is set for each and the women are promised they will be freed once the goal is attained. So the “ransom” is for pounds of flesh and not money. The story traces the results of the weight loss spanning various periods from 199 to 228 days …
What’s a woman to do when the man she falls in love with is someone her father is dead set against? In the case of Anna Marie Lindquist, she goes with her heart. Anna is a vivacious second grade teacher and the youngest of Harvey Lindquist’s three daughters. A banker in a small Wisconsin town, Harvey feels he must control his daughters’ lives to such an extent that he’s told each of his girls the type of man she should marry. Although Anna’s two older sisters wed the men that their father chose, both marriages ended badly. Now Anna has …
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