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Stories from Room 113

Autor: Concordia International School Shanghai

Número de Páginas: 357

Leap into fantasies and battle strange creatures, travel through time and strange lands to save the world from destruction, and find lost treasure while exploring the mysteries of Stories from Room 113: More International Adventures. Get a second chance at life and discover the cost of perfection. Take an unforgettable journey, ride on dragons, and search the secrets of Beijing. Challenge the mafia, experience the struggles of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and escape to safety from impossible situations. Learn about growing up, high school drama, and find a loving home in Stories from Room 113: More International Adventures. Read eighteen different stories from eighteen writers and enjoy passion and adventure through the eyes of teenagers. Stories from Room 113: More International Adventures is a compilation of stories written by students in Room 113 at Concordia International School Shanghai and organized for publication by Terry Umphenour. The stories represent the final works of a year-long writing project. All stories are published with the consent of the students and Concordia International School Shanghai.

Jim's Course

Autor: Bryan Candy

Número de Páginas: 205

Jim is a young man who dropped out of college, opting for a comfortable income in a union work place. Boredom, women, his declining mother, and an event from his past plague his day to day life. Things take a turn for Jim when he makes a gruesome discovery early one morning. While arriving to work, he notices a large box near the parking lot, and decides to investigate. He opens the box to find the dead body of a young woman. He panics. He reaches in, grabs an item from the body, closes the box, and heads into work. What follows is Jim's continued downhill spiral with his personal life coupled with the growing guilt of what he's taken from the body.

James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony

Autor: George Hendrick , Helen Howe , Don Sackrider

Número de Páginas: 184

This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United States. Between his Army enlistment in 1939 and the wound that sent him to a Memphis hospital in 1943, James Jones suffered the loss of both his mother and his father, a victim of suicide. Psychologically precarious, Jones drank heavily, often brawling in bars. Concerned about his erratic behavior, his aunt took Jones to meet Lowney Handy, who took virtual control of his life, securing his discharge from the army and, with her husband Harry, inviting him into their home. Lowney became Jones's writing teacher--and his lover. An aspiring but unpublished writer when she began the Handy Writers' Colony in Marshall, Illinois, Lowney Handy developed a reputation as an inspirational teacher of writing. Her husband, an oil refinery executive from nearby Robinson, supported her in this endeavor, which proved quite successful. The Handy colony achieved national attention through the success of Jones, its most celebrated member and the author of From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running.

Lifelines

Número de Páginas: 350

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Autor: United States. National Labor Relations Board

Número de Páginas: 1396

BUS STATION

Autor: Michael Hare

Número de Páginas: 250

This is a story about a girl named Jennifer Conner who woke up in a bus station and knew not how she got there. She went back in her memory trying to figure out how she got there. Soon many of her friends began to show up. This tells the story about a way station between heaven and hell. It tells people just because you go to church every week doesn’t mean you’ll make it to heaven. This is religious fantasy and a romance that Jennifer had becoming a church secretary. How her friends went through different trials to end up with her in the bus station.

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 348 August 31, 2006 through December 29, 2006

Número de Páginas: 1402

Covers Board decisions and orders issued from August 31, 2006 through December 29, 2006.

Behavior Modification in Child Treatment

Autor: Robert M. Browning

Número de Páginas: 431

This book is the first attempt to validate behavior modification techniques in a carefully controlled experimental treatment environment for emotionally disturbed children. Such special settings permit carefully conducted research experiments can be carried out. This is the first book to synthesize scientific and clinical approaches to human behavior, indicating that behavior modification may one day be as much an applied science as engineering or medicine. This experimental approach introduces scientific rigor to the clinical setting, as evidenced by precise measurement of behavior variables, detailed specification of treatment procedures, and the use of sophisticated experimental designs to provide objective evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment programs. In this approach, series of idiographic (single-subject) case studies are conducted in a precise manner with each patient-subject admitted to the treatment program. The general research methodology is similar to that used in the broad area of operant conditioning, and most work reported in the book was conducted within a learning theory or behavior-modification framework. Browning and Stover discuss the general problems...

Playing With Fire

Autor: Dirk Greyson

Número de Páginas: 193

Jim Crawford was born wealthy, but he turned his back on it to become a police officer. Add that to his being gay, and he's definitely the black sheep of the family. Dr. Barty Halloran grew up with lessons instead of friends and toys and as a result, became a gifted psychologist... with only an academic understanding of people and emotions. When Jim's pursuit of a serial killer goes nowhere, he turns to Dr. Halloran for help, and Barty thinks he can get inside the shooter's mind. In many ways, they're two sides of the same coin, which both scares and intrigues him. Together, Jim and Barty make progress on the case—until the stakes shoot higher when the killer turns his attention toward Barty. To protect Barty, Jim offers to let Barty stay with him, where he discovers the doctor has a heart to go along with his brilliant mind after all. But as they close in on their suspect, the killer becomes desperate, and he'll do anything to elude capture—even threaten those closest to Jim.

New Jews

Autor: David L. Reznik

Número de Páginas: 204

"New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly "new" Jewish characters emerging on the big screen, this book details how traditional racial stereotypes of American Jews persist in popular films from the first decade of this century. In clear and readable prose, the book offers an innovative and penetrating look at dozens of American Jewish "meddling matriarchs," "neurotic nebbishes," "pampered princesses," and "scheming scumbags" from 21st century film, whether Hollywood blockbusters like Meet the Fockers and Sex and the City or indie favorites like Garden State and Kissing Jessica Stein. Throughout the book, famous American Jewish characters played by the likes of Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller are discussed, with the ultimate conclusion that movies today are marked less by the emergence of "new Jews" than by the continued - but dynamic and transformed -- presence of the same old stereotypes.

S.M.I.T.E. Episode One the Nuclear Attack

Autor: Donald Uttenmacher

Número de Páginas: 112

SMITE Episode I: The Nuclear Attack is a spellbinding fiction novel, teetering on the edge of reality. The story begins in 1983 with the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut by a Hezbollah terrorist. In that actual terrorist attack, 241 marines and other military personnel were killed. Frustrated by the lack of retaliation, five army officer candidates form a tight-knit secret organization, whose mission is to seek and destroy international terrorists. The organization, named SMITE (Secret Military International Terrorist Exterminators), plays a key role when five al Qaeda terrorists from Iran infiltrate the United States with dirty bombs and threaten a nuclear attack in five major cities. With a surprise ending, the reader is left with a keen appreciation of the need for stronger national security, and a better understanding of the serious threat posed by global terrorism. The book offers fiction with a reality base, creating a dichotomy for the readercould a terrorist attack such as this occur in our country?

Simbiosys - Ultimate Cyber Attack

Autor: E. Gordon. Hoofnagle

Número de Páginas: 140

Ultimate Cyber Attack is both a page-turning contemporary sci-fi thriller and an existential masterpiece, filled with tangible characters who defy easy classification of good and evil, and an objective exploration into relationships. The protagonist learns poignant lessons that E. Gordon delivers with finesse, as his life and the modern world come under the ultimate cyber siege.

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman

Autor: Frederick Wiseman

Número de Páginas: 447

Frederick Wiseman is among America’s foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a career that has spanned five decades. Together, these films provide a fascinating chronicle of American social and institutional life. This book makes available for the first time transcriptions of five of Wiseman’s most important films— Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing—providing all of the dialogue as well as annotations about other aspects of the soundtracks such as music and ambient noise, and notes about editing and camera movement. These scene-by-scene transcripts enable readers to scrutinize the films’ complex structural patterns, recurring motifs, editing regimes, and the unscripted dialogue that makes Wiseman’s cinema a rich repository of American speech. Editor Barry Keith Grant’s critical introduction discusses the importance of sound in Wiseman’s documentaries. Liberally illustrated with images from the films, these meticulous transcriptions are accompanied by a bibliography and filmography.

Coming of Age on the Streets of Java

Autor: Thomas Stodulka

Número de Páginas: 287

This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness.

Saving Amazing Grace

Autor: Susan Becker

Número de Páginas: 337

Book 2 of the Turner Series. Steve Nickle was an orderly in the suicidal protection ward at Timberwoods hospital. It was there he met an unusual patient, Pastor Anna Kimball. Steve took a risk by befriending Anna and here they were 3 years later closer then he ever imagined. He and Anna were key members of his loving church family. But now here was Grace, another patient in trouble. Grace told Steve of her abusive boyfriend, Harold. Could it be possible again? Maybe he, Anna, and his Turner Community Church family could help save Grace the same way. But Harold would not be so easily fought off. Harold found Grace with Steve, with Anna, and with the Turner Community Church Family. This action packed story will make you ask, "What is stalking?" and "What is following?"

A TwinCredible Journey

Autor: Alexandra & Carolyn Stanch

Número de Páginas: 349

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Sorry Works!

Autor: Doug Wojcieszak , James W. Saxton , Maggie M. Finkelstein

Número de Páginas: 138

This book is, in part, adapted from speeches I have given to medical, insurance, and legal organizations across the United States and in Australia and Canada over the last two years. Liability exposure has been a major issue for healthcare and insurance professionals for a long time, and they are looking for new solutions to an old problem. More and more doctors, nurses, risk managers, hospital administrators, and insurance executives are turning to Sorry Works! for answers. I thought it was time to put Sorry Works! in a book that was concise and to the point. Along the way I met and had the pleasure of working with James Saxton and his team at the law firm of Stevens & Lee. It was fascinating to me how as lawyers and health law consultants they were spreading the same message. To make sure this message was well grounded in law and risk management principles, we collaborated, and this book is part of that partnership. This book adequately covers the topic of disclosure and apology but has intentionally been kept short so even the busiest professional could read it on a plane ride or over a weekend. Though Sorry Works! has its roots in medicine, it is my hope that this book finds a ...

The Howl of the Whisperers

Autor: Patricia E. Peterson

Número de Páginas: 384

This fictional novel parallels a story from World War II, a saga based on a band of Navajo Marines called the True Whisperers. In this present era there is a small band of select women and men called ATA agents-Whisperers, hired by the President of the United States. These select agents come from different international organizations, each bringing unique skills to decipher anything within the global cyber network. What they uncover are encrypted plans by a new Al Qaeda terror group founded by their leader, Abu Bakr. Under the Presidents command, their charge is to reveal the heinous plot of terror directed against the USA by Abu Bakr. For years this Al Qaeda group has secretly developed home grown terrorist cells within the USA working toward their final goal-an unprecedented attack within our contiguous borders using a lethal toxin. As leads and clues unfold in different parts of the world, these agents follow the cyber footprints to reveal the target sights. Each ATA agent brings individual personal reasons for taking this job that adds intrigue to pique the readers interest to unravel how their lives are caught up in this plot. It was fortuitous reality that an unparalleled...

The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh — Captain Jim's Friend

Autor: Bret Harte

Número de Páginas: 40

In "The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh 'Äî Captain Jim's Friend," Bret Harte offers a captivating blend of adventure and nostalgia set against the backdrop of the American West. The novella follows the adventures of Captain Jim, who grapples with themes of loyalty, memory, and spiritual legacy as he recounts tales of his life intertwined with the eerie and picturesque Dedlow Marsh. Harte employs a rich, descriptive style that evokes the landscape and culture of the region, skillfully infusing local color with poignant human emotions. The narrative is marked by its use of vernacular speech and authenticity, reflective of Harte'Äôs aim to capture the essence of frontier life during a transformative period in American history. Bret Harte, renowned for his contributions to Western literature, was deeply influenced by his experiences in California Gold Rush towns. His acute observations of human character and local customs provided the foundation for his storytelling. Having commercialized themes of the American frontier, Harte's work often highlights the complexities of pioneer life, especially through the relationships forged in challenging environments. His literary prowess solidified ...

The Adventures of Detective Dopeyworth

Autor: Elizabeth Green

Número de Páginas: 45

James Augustus Dopeyworth wants nothing more than to become a detective, just like his father and his hero Sherlock Holmes. He loves solving mysteries and can often be found with a magnifying glass in one hand and a chocolate eclair in the other. Poor old Jim, as he likes to be known, doesnt seem to have much luck. Nothing ever seems to go his way and it doesn't help that he is extremely clumsy and is always getting into the most unlikely scrapes. But one day an advert appears in the local paper that changes everything. Will Jim become the famous detective that he always dreamed of being or will it all end up as one big messy disaster? Detective Dopeyworth is a story about never giving up on your dreams, no matter what obstacles are put in your way.

Mr. James Bowden's penny stories

Autor: James Bowden (publisher.)

Número de Páginas: 1050

Life of a Double Agent

Autor: Kenneth J. Kerr

Número de Páginas: 386

Jim Hunt grew up in a small town near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He was always tall for his age. He played basketball and baseball in high school, and was a good student. He entered the University of Delaware and studied Chemical Engineering. During his junior year in college, the CIA recruited him to monitor the radical groups on campus that were a growing concern in the U.S. government during the 1960s. After graduation from college, Jim entered the U.S. Army as a 2nd Lieutenant and attended officers training in the Chemical Corps. He was assigned to Ft. Lewis, Washington and was immediately transferred to the Corps of Engineers, which was staffing several units for deployment to Vietnam. While at Ft. Lewis, Jim was recruited by a Chinese intelligence agency, with the full knowledge and support of the CIA. Thus began his life as a double agent. In Vietnam, Jim Hunt uncovered an operation by the North Vietnamese to assassinate Bob Hope, and participated in the take down of the assassin. After the Army, Jim joined The Dow Chemical Company, but maintained his relationships with the Chinese intelligence agency and the CIA. He helped uncover a network of Chinese spies, working out of...

Disappear

Autor: O. L. Morgan

Número de Páginas: 75

Game of My Life Miami Hurricanes

Autor: Craig T. Smith

Número de Páginas: 282

This book takes a personal look inside some of the biggest moments of Miami’s greatest players as “The U” morphed from a football program nearly disbanded in the 1970s to a national power. Three-time All-American and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Ted “the Mad Stork” Hendricks shares his thoughts on single-handedly dominating the LSU Tigers in 1968. Current Georgia head coach Mark Richt recalls getting pelted with oranges in Gainesville in 1980, then taking over for an injured Jim Kelly and leading the Canes to a 21-20 win over the Gators in 1981. Alonzo Highsmith remembers all four of his touchdowns in Miami’s first victory at Notre Dame in 1984, where he wanted to jump out of the stadium . . . and run over that leprechaun. Vinny Testaverde recounts the antics of Melvin Bratton and Alonzo Highsmith, who prank-called Brian Bosworth the morning before No. 1 Oklahoma invaded the Orange Bowl to take on the No. 2 ’Canes, where Testaverde threw four touchdown passes in a 28-16 Heisman-clinching win. Gino Torretta describes the shot that knocked the wind out of him as he delivered the game-winning touchdown pass to Lamar Thomas in Miami’s 19-16 “Wide Right II”...

The Sand Castle

Autor: Wayne M. Smith

Número de Páginas: 289

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Vegas Hustler

Autor: Clancy O'hara

Número de Páginas: 194

Clancy O'Hara was born a Pisces on March 3, 1955. The same year as Rock and Roll and Disneyland. He was friends with Quentin Tarantino and Quentin's success with Pulp Fiction inspired Clancy to write this hard boiled crime novel. The characters are real life X-Men. They think of themselves as mutants and they conspire to rob a Las Vegas casino. Clancy published the award winning Pulp: A Fiction Magazine and won an honorable mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for his short story The Asylum Choir.

James Still

Autor: Carol Boggess

Número de Páginas: 585

James Still (1906–2001) first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet, and he remains one of the most beloved and important writers in Appalachian literature. Though he is best known for the seminal novel River of Earth—which Time magazine called a "work of art" and which is often compared to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as a poignant literary exploration of the Great Depression—Still is also recognized as a significant writer of short fiction. His stories were frequently published in outlets such as the Atlantic and the Saturday Evening Post and won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Memorial Prize. In the definitive biography of the man known as the "dean of Appalachian literature," Carol Boggess offers a detailed portrait of Still. Despite his notable output and importance as a mentor to generations of young writers, Still was extremely private, preferring a quiet existence in a century-old log house between the waters of Wolfpen Creek and Dead Mare Branch in Knott County, Kentucky. Boggess, who befriended the author in the last decade of his life, draws on correspondence, journal entries, numerous interviews with Still and his family, and...

Building a Legacy

Autor: Brenda Nevidjon

Número de Páginas: 472

Oncology nursing is a growing specialty. This unique book captures the stories of oncology nurses who have excelled in their roles as clinic ians, educators, researchers and other positions within the oncology n ursing specialty. The text centers on role models within the disciplin e and provides an historical account of some of the major contribution s these nurses have made to cancer care. Building a Legacy: Voices of Oncology Nurses will have great appeal to Oncology Nursing Society me mbers and others caring for cancer patients. These stories will encour age nursing students to explore the specialty. Overall, the book will become a valuable source of inspiration and support for individuals in cancer care.

Why, Lord, Why?

Autor: Frank A. Pesta

Número de Páginas: 93

Frank A. Pesta has over 35 years in the law enforcement field. Hes held the positions of Patrol Officer, Patrol Supervisor, Detective, Detective Lieutenant and Acting Chief of Police. At the present time he is a Retired Training and Crime Prevention Officer for the Macomb College Police Department. Officer Pesta was an Emergency Medical Technician as well as an Evidence Technician. Officer Pesta served as a part-time instructor for the Police Continuing Education Department at Macomb Community College and has instructed at the Police Academy. He has authored numerous Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Training Council programs and his work has been published in a number of National Police Journals and Training Manuals.

May God Have Mercy on Your Soul

Autor: Jack Jenkins

Número de Páginas: 251

Houston is a big city, with a crime rate to match that of most big cities. Violent crimes occur daily. On this particular day, Matt Wakefield, a young HPD Robbery Investigator was dispatched to a robbery by firearms at a convenience store, with added info of "Shots Fired!" A two-time ex-con had attempted a carjacking. Matt arrived after the victim was rushed to a hospital by a Houston Fire Department ambulance. There, he learned Alice Renfro was DOA, and met her husband, Jim. Capital Murder charges would now take precedence over robbery charges. A suspect, identified by a witness, was arrested blocks from the scene. Jim was stunned at the loss of his beloved wife. Matt tried to comfort the devastated man, staying with him until the Coroner's Office sent a Unit to transport her to the County Morgue. He attended her funeral and kept Jim apprised of progress on the case. The suspect was indicted, tried, found guilty of Capital Murder and sentenced to death. Typically, execution didn't occur for 15 years or more, due to repeated appeals, on the taxpayers' dime, and support from Anti-Death Penalty groups. The convicted murderer was placed on Death Row at the Polunsky Unit in East Texas ...

Experiencing School Mathematics

Autor: Jo Boaler

Número de Páginas: 238

NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS ONLY: This is a revised edition of Experiencing School Mathematics first published in 1997 by Open University Press, © Jo Boaler. This revised edition is for sale in North America only. The first book to provide direct evidence for the effectiveness of traditional and reform-oriented teaching methods, Experiencing School Mathematics reports on careful and extensive case studies of two schools that taught mathematics in totally different ways. Three hundred students were followed over three years, providing an unusual and important range of data, including observations, interviews, questionnaires, and assessments, to show the ways students' beliefs and understandings were shaped by the different approaches to mathematics teaching. The interviews that are reproduced in the book give compelling insights into what it meant to be a student in the classrooms of the two schools. Questions are raised about and new evidence is provided for: * the ways in which "traditional" and "reform oriented" mathematics teaching approaches can impact student attitude, beliefs, and achievement; *the effectiveness of different teaching methods in preparing students for the demands...

Midget

Autor: Kate Valery

Número de Páginas: 508

The novel Midget ( Symphony of the Ocean ) is touching some of the most important modern topics – the places of handicapped and mentally ill people in today’s society. It contains ever-living values and ideas of good and evil, talent and mediocrity, love and hatred, purity and foul, honesty and lies, willpower and weakness, hypocrisy and truth, punishment and crime. The genius composer, Jim Bogat, is a midget severely handicapped from birth. After death of his adoptive mother, he ends up accidentally in a group home for mentally ill people. Being the only one person in the house who is in his right mind, he started noticing very strange things that are going on around. The owner of the group home, Mona Lainer, uses a compulsion to pull naive and inexperienced Jim into a sexual relationship, trying to prevent his ‘investigative mind’ from discovering her dangerous secrets. Noticing Jim’s super talent in composing music, Mona is stealing page-by-page the main creature of his life – Symphony of the Ocean, scheming to present her daughter as a genius composer and make her rich and famous. However, those are only the smallest of the crimes and abuses which are happening...

Blue Moon

Autor: Ed Joesting

Número de Páginas: 235

Blue Moon is a horror novel in the Lovecraftian tradition. The novel tells the story of an investigator of the outre who fully knows what terrors lurk in the darkness. He, however, is amoral and uses individual people as tools for his own ends. The book focuses on a subtle plot and his attempts to defeat it.

Jim's Flight

Autor: Christine Frank Petosa

Número de Páginas: 388

Is there life after death? Does Heaven really exist? Providing us with insight, wisdom and practical knowledge, we learn from Jim Petosa’s flight to Heaven and back that life exists beyond the physical world. This book is a compilation of the journey of Jim’s transition to Heaven, his wife’s experience as the caretaker and the portal to expand humanity’s understanding of it all. Riveting moments capture the reader, open the hearts of many and, truth be told, enlighten all of us to believe that the soul lives on forever.

Chac Balám

Número de Páginas: 290

Circus of the Scars

Autor: Jan T. Gregor

Número de Páginas: 544

Final Grains of Sand

Autor: David Harder

Número de Páginas: 173

When James Kreider receives the devastating news his life is being cut short with cancer, he is immediately filled with shock and disbelief. At 60 years, Jim is too young to die and believes he has a whole life ahead of him. When the reality of his impending demise sinks in, Jim methodically prepares for his final days, including trying to heal old wounds. With a dash of life’s regrets and unfinished business, Jim’s hours are spent pondering the legacy he will leave for his friends and children. In preparing for the end, Jim selects five individuals to represent his life at the funeral service. This group includes Jim’s boss, his personal physician, a neighbor, the pastor of his church, and a woman whom Jim was involved with in a long-term affair. None of the individuals know each other or why they were chosen. Summoned to the office of Jim’s attorney, the representatives disclose emotions and information few individuals want to hear. Reluctantly, they agree to share every facet of their friend. Jim’s story not only transforms the five representatives but alters the lives of the funeral guests. They realize the value of one’s life is less about the length of time, but...

Arcane

Autor: Ray Fernandez

Número de Páginas: 83

This book is a story about the existence of magic in America and a conflict between a magic government and a non-magic government arises as the leaders dispute politics. In the story of Arcane, the leaders of the government struggle to keep peace. The President of the Arcane government loses grip of peace as fellow politicians begin to take violent action. The Arcane President attempts to stop the violence but the opposition prepares for war.

Confidence

Autor: Peggy L. Headlund

Número de Páginas: 384

"Lilia's in for many lessons-- her talent takes her to winning a $10,000 musical scholarship, modeling, and becoming an internationally known celebrity. But with fame comes other problems, and Lilia will encounter those who wish to destroy her faith, crush her spirit, and even threaten her life. As Lilia matures and is faced with the temporal temptations that are strewn in her path, she will have to decide what is really important."--Page 4 of cover.