Books with author Babs Schneider

Sixteen-year-old Lysandra Blake is forced to question her sanity after attempting to rip her mother’s eyes out of their sockets. The doctors want to know why she did it. Lys has no idea where this Need came from, she just wants it to go away.Lys is about to give up, when the mysterious Jeremiah Mason appears. He assures Lys that she’s not crazy, she’s addicted to a rare and deadly drug she swears she’s never used. He offers hope, in the form of his recovery facility. Afraid of who she will hurt next, Lys agrees to go. At the old hospital, Lys finds that the other addicts have even more frightening Needs than she does. She and Kamau, a tall, handsome seventeen-year-old from Africa, discover that Mason has not been honest about their condition. When Lys starts seeing visions, she and Kamau are thrown headfirst into a world of unbelievable powers and dangerous possibilities.

Lysandra Blake may have thwarted Mason’s plan to bring magic back into the world, but she and her friends are far from safe. With the touch seal leaking waves of unstable power, and Mason trying to break more users, they are fighting an uphill battle.An uneasy alliance with the New isn’t enough, so Ayden asks Kamau to reach out to his tribe. The tribes are secretive, paranoid and more apt to kill outsiders than listen to anything they say, but when Mason’s touch users exhibit powers beyond the norm, Kamau agrees.Lys and the rest are thrust into a world of hidden powers and drastic consequences. It doesn’t take long for Lys to realize she’s out of her league, and she quickly finds that she is dangerously close to losing what little control she has gained over her magic.

After the power grid goes down and the death of their parents; Henry, Eva and Layla are left alone in a dark, desolate and dangerous world, with only their father’s dying words – stay together.When Eva gets nabbed in a roundup, she confronts greater threats than she ever imagined, while Henry and Layla search for her, facing their own imminent peril. Up against the mysterious forces of a conspiracy that may go beyond this world, they fight to stay together, stay alive and escape the future.

Cal screwed up. He trusted the wrong guy. Wendy almost died and Shelter fell. In an attempt to assuage his own guilt, Cal joined a dangerous mission to lead the Primate’s people away from the survivors. While laying a false trail for the Primate’s Skinnies, Cal discovers some old friends, but he also finds an enemy even more dangerous than the Primate. Now the group must decide if their objective has changed. Cal will do anything to prove to the others, and maybe himself, that he’s not a traitor. But will it be enough to keep his friends safe?

Jeff has exactly one thing left in this ruined world; his older brother, Dillon. They’ve seen and done things that drive most survivors crazy, and Jeff is afraid that the next encounter will push Dillon over the edge. After being hunted by Skinnies, as well as those who still claim humanity, they decide to head west over the mountains. Their journey is interrupted when they stumble on a shielded building. The Starvation happened almost twenty years ago, but the possibility of what could be inside is too alluring to pass up. The two alone aren’t enough to crack the shield. If they want in, they’re going to have to ask for help, and asking for help means dealing with people who will slit your throat for a scrap of good food.

Reeling from the fall of Shelter, and mourning the loss of too many friends, Wendy and the battered survivors must leave their broken home in search of another. As Jeff tries to keep the council together, Wendy rallies the remaining fighters in their defense, but more deaths and a clash of wills divide the people. Some insist they fight, others wish to run while a growing number desire to surrender to the Primate, falsely believing he will show them mercy. Up until now, Wendy has been able to slash her way out of anything, but her knives prove useless as hunger, disease and discord threaten to rip not only the group apart, but also the growing relationship between her and Jeff.

Wendy has watched too many of her friends and family fall prey to the Primate. Thousands have died at his hands, simply because he deemed them unworthy of life. With her newfound allies, who possess more information on the Primate's vicious plans for domination, Wendy urges her weakened people to strike. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wendy and Jeff lead a group into the heart of the Primate's city. When they find technology that could wipe out what is left of the world to make room for the Primate's believers, they each must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep their friends safe. Even if that sacrifice means losing each other.

If not for pesky things like reality, fourteen-year-old Brady would live in a comic book world. Being something more than normal is pure fantasy, until Brady dashes through a geeky mob like they’re standing still to save a toddler from getting trampled by a man in a giant tree costume.Knowing that super speed and strength should not be taken lightly, Brady catches a train out of London and finds a secluded glade to conduct his first experiments. What he finds is a dark power that has a mind of its own, and a desire to use more and more of it. When the opportunity to save someone comes again, Brady plays the hero, but he quickly learns that the consequences of life and death are heavier than he could have imagined.

Inez hates being used, but until she fulfills her contract with Larry, a dirty ex-cop gone private detective, she’s trapped. He has evidence that links her with a murder, and she has an unnatural ability to persuade people do to what she wants. The power is more of a curse than a gift, leaving Inez with a void in her mind that only Meth addicts can understand.When Larry asks her to work a missing persons case without recovery time, she says no. But the price Larry offers, her freedom more than a year early, is too enticing to ignore. Little does she realize that the missing kid, Peter, has more in common with her than she could ever imagine, and that maybe she isn’t as safe as she thought she was.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is renowned for its amazing system of limestone caves. Both Carlsbad and the nearby Guadalupe Mountains National Park, just across the state line in Texas, are also blessed with spectacular above-ground trails. This thoroughly revised edition is the authoritative and the only comprehensive guide to all of the hiking trails in both parks.