Bazil and Edith Rozelle have just married in Cincinnati in 1891 and are living a very comfortable life. With lofty expectations they trade that life in to take over her late brother's 114 acre farm in Los Angeles. Their dreams are challenged as they try to farm in a drought, raise children in a tiny home and live in isolation a day's journey from the big city. The farm adjoins the Los Angeles River, which was but a trickle when they arrived. Over the next 40 years they grew wealthy from that river and then faced ruin before its raging fury. This book includes over 150 never before published photos the family took of early Los Angeles, Catalina Island and their primitive farm life. We follow the couple's romance, daring, tragedy and triumph as they experience the depression, a devastating earthquake and that moody Los Angeles River.
Perhaps no other literary figure has transformed the American religious landscape in recent history as much as C. S. Lewis. Even before the international publication and incredible success of his fictional works such as The Chronicles of Narnia or apologetic works like Mere Christianity, Lewis was already being read "across the pond" in America. But who exactly was reading his work? And how was he received? With fresh research and shrewd analysis, this volume by noted historian Mark A. Noll considers the surprising reception of Lewis among Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical readers to see how early readings of the Oxford don shaped his later influence. Based on the annual lecture series hosted at Wheaton College's Marion E. Wade Center, volumes in the Hansen Lectureship Series reflect on the imaginative work and lasting influence of seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.
Skye Mackenzie, the protector of gay boys and virtual superhero, is faced with a new danger that seems unreal. For the first time Skye tangles with a foe who is more than his match and is saved only by the quick thinking of Devon, his former nemesis. Marshall, Verona's resident expert on the supernatural, summons help and Skye cannot believe his eyes when the promised aid comes in the form of two young boys. Skye's concept of reality is about to change forever.Devon is a sixteen-year old boy-again. Now mortal and human, he's back in high school, facing a life both familiar and strange. His former enemies have forgiven him, but can they ever forget? Devon seeks redemption, but his own memories stand in the way. A special boy crosses Devon's path, giving him hope that he may find self-forgiveness and happiness despite his horrific past.
Sixteen-year-old Avery is in trouble, yet again, but this time he's in over his head. On the run, Avery is faced with hardships and fear. He must become what he's always despised to survive. He discovers new reasons to hate, until fate brings him to Graymoor Mansion and he discovers a disturbing connection to the past. Through the eyes of a boy murdered more than a century before, Avery discovers that all is not as he believed. Avery is soon forced to face the greatest challenge of all; looking into his own heart.Sean is head over heels in love with his new boyfriend, Nick, but there is trouble in paradise. Could a boy so beautiful really love plain, ordinary Sean? Sean cannot believe so and desperately tries to transform himself into the ideal young hunk, only to learn that it is what's inside that matters. Keeper of Secrets is the story of two cousins, one a gay youth, the other an adolescent gay basher. Fate and the pages of a hundred-year-old journal bring them together and change their lives forever.
Keeping our streets clean is a lot of work Streets sweepers work hard day in and day out to keep dirt and debris from piling up. We'll show you how they do it With up close pictures and detailed descriptions, we'll show you how street sweepers take trash off our streets and send it on its way to the dump.Book 1 of the Let's Move children's series.
He was picked for a reason.Major Otis "Bull" Henry comes alive in this story of Civil War adventure.An officer respected by his superiors, Henry is given a likely fatal mission to rescue a prisoner who is vital to the war effort. Despite the odds, there is nothing in him that would cause him to shrink from the task.At the head of a hand picked group of men who would follow him to the mouth of Hell, he rides behind enemy lines in search of a single man. Along the way there is peril and potential discovery as they ride farther and farther and have no one to trust but themselves.A story of valor, of ingenuity, new friendships, dreadful danger and ultimate sacrifice.Ride along with Otis and his men on this action-packed adventure.
