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Allison Strange is not your typical young woman. After growing up on a planet occupied by indigenous alien moss, Allison finds herself in the middle of a power struggle: the shrinking moss supply is threatening the planet’s clone production industry. In the middle of increasing clone unrest, Allison discovers alarming evidence about her birth, and begins to question her whole existence. Is it any wonder that Allison Strange is glad you're born?

Pope Francis offers an inspiring reminder of the universal call to holiness and a practical guide about how to pursue it. In clear and challenging terms he applies Gospel values to the challenges of our world.

Eli and Johnny shared their first kiss at a camp for the hearing impaired. Eli even gets Johnny to speak the word, kiss. They go their separate ways, but fate brings them back together on Valentine’s Day twenty years later, where happily ever after begins. Or does it? For much of the time between summer camp and Valentine’s Day, it was Eli and Casey, the best friend with benefits. Casey thinks things might be moving too fast for Eli and Johnny. Plus, the relationship has bumps from the start. Johnny’s family responsibilities mean his time with Eli is limited to the point of frustration. Suddenly happily ever after doesn’t feel as certain. Is Johnny and Eli’s reunion just a moment, not a lifetime? Is there room in Eli’s life for Casey still? And then there’s Eddie ...

One night a few years after the tragic death of his fiancée, David Knight has a dream - or is it a dream? In it, his dead girlfriend shows him a diagram of a time machine that he instinctively knows will work. Working in secret, he builds the machine and tests it several times only to find that some 1,000 years in the future, humanity has ceased to exist. As he works his way back towards the present, he sees scenes of death and destruction that horrify him. Knowing that he may be the only human alive who can intervene to save humanity, David travels into the past to discover the origins of Christianity and examine the millennia of religion-based conflicts that have plagued human history. In his research in the past, he is shocked to learn there was no historical Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. As he gets to know the four writers, he learns that Mark is leading a movement to help unify the Jewish people who are under the tyrannical rule of the Romans. Mark and his brethren are trying to help people see that there can be new life, rebirth and draws his character of Jesus as a human sent from God to save His people. In helping them with their work, David sees a way to reveal the manuscript to his own time and if modern scientific research can confirm its finding, then the future of the human race has a chance of survival. Returning to his real time, he puts in motion a series of events that he hopes will turn humanity away from the brink of extinction....

If it weren't for the ring... ...rancher Clancy Calhoun and Olivia Parsons might be able to pull off their "cool acquaintances" routine. They might be able to convince the world that they just knew each other in passing, enough to say hello and be on their way. Or at least they might be able to convince themselves. But all those years ago, they had been the whole world to each other--and he'd given her a diamond ring to prove it. Now, ten years later, Olivia is back at the Silver Horn, and she and Clancy are sure they can be in each other's company without falling apart--or worse yet, falling into each other's arms. Because if the ring goes back on her finger, this time it's never coming off!

Among the British troops bound for the Black Sea in May 1854 was a young officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, Richard Temple Godman, who sent home throughout the entire Crimea campaign many detailed letters to his family at Park Hatch in Surrey. Temple Godman went out at the start of the war, took part in the successful Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava and in other engagements, and did not return to England until June 1856, after peace had been declared. He took three very individual horses and despite all his adventures brought them back unscathed. Godman’s dispatches from the fields of war reveal his wide interests and varied experiences; they range from the pleasures of riding in a foreign landscape, smoking Turkish tobacco, and overcoming boredom by donning comic dress and hunting wild dogs, to the pain of seeing friends and horses die from battle, disease, deprivation and lack of medicines. He writes scathingly about the skein of rivalries between the Generals (‘a good many muffs among the chiefs’), inaccurate and ‘highly coloured’ newspaper reports and, while critical of medical inefficiency, regards women in hospitals as ‘a sort of fanaticism’. Yet at other times he will employ the pen of an artist in describing a scene, or wax eloquent on the idiosyncrasies of horses. He is altogether a most gallant and sensitive young cavalryman, and deservedly went on to achieve high rank after the war. Always fresh and easy to read, his letters provide an unrivalled picture of what it was really like to be in the Crimea.

Once in the Town of Glad by Linda A. Shaffer, M.A. In the town of Glad, nobody ever smiles. Nobody except little Melinda Sartie. Melinda discovers the secret behind the town’s frowns and helps everyone in Glad finally find their smiles. Once in the Town of Glad teaches young children that no one can feel truly happy unless they let themselves feel all feelings, including sad feelings. Society still frequently teaches children that it is brave to hold back tears - but it’s much braver to let the tears out. Feeling our feelings, even crying, is part of how we all heal and grow.