Books with author Billingsley

Create delicious treats inspired by the most popular animated movie of all time, Frozen! Featuring three Frozen-themed cookie cutters, along with a booklet of 25 recipes ranging from snacks to beverages to sweets, this fabulous kit is perfect for everyday fun as well as for theme parties and movie nights.Copyright ©2016 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"Part mystery, part fantasy, this beautifully-written page turner explores guilt, mercy, and love."—New York Times bestselling author Holly BlackBriony has a secret. It is a secret that killed her stepmother, ruined her sister's mind, and will end her life, if anyone were to know. She has powers. Then Eldric comes along with his golden lion eyes and a great mane of tawny hair. He is as natural as the sun, and he treats her as if she is extraordinary. And everything starts to change . . .A National Book Award Finalist ★ “Exquisite to the final word.”—Booklist, starred review★ “Both lushly sensual and shivery.”—School Library Journal, starred review

An emotional ride, an uncommon romance, and a who-done-it-like plot that will have you guessing until the unforgettable end…On a frigid winter night in a Boise hospital nursery, a desperate man commits a desperate act—he switches his ailing newborn child with another. Thirty-three years later, Annie Lorda learns of the switch through a letter left behind by her late husband. She discovers the daughter she raised is really one of a set of twins belonging to ruthless Idaho billionaire Andrew Post and his wife.Annie wants Post’s support. Post wants Annie.But mostly he desires redemption for his past sins including a terrible secret concerning one of his daughters—a secret he will guard with his life. A secret Annie cannot know.Detective Matt Downing, who is like a son to Annie, is hot on the trail of Post, threatening to expose Post's secret to Annie and the rest of the world...Set in the majestic beauty of southwest Idaho, The Redemption is more than your typical mystery and love story. Way more.

This exquisitely beautiful book by Mary Billingsley presents the rosary for children, but I might add – for children of all ages. When I first saw a few of the paintings, I wondered if it was wise to portray Christ, Our Lady, and the other participants in the drama of the rosary as puppet or manikin figures. But the idea very much grew on me and, as I now see the final outcome of Mary’s work, I’m completely captivated. This is a rosary book for young and old.

Sned may not be the coolest kid in sixth grade, heck, he may not even be the coolest kid in his circle of friends. None of this matter to Sned, though, because he’s going to win the election for class president. He has something no one else in his school has--Ninja skills. There’s just one tiny problem; he can’t possibly give his big campaign speech (you know, the one in front of the whole school?) without his trusty sword at his side. With only three days before the big day, Sned must find a way retrieve his sword from his Grandma’s before he has to give the most important speech of his eleven-year-old life. No big deal...right?

"Part mystery, part fantasy, this beautifully-written page turner explores guilt, mercy, and love."—New York Times bestselling author Holly BlackBriony has a secret. It is a secret that killed her stepmother, ruined her sister's mind, and will end her life, if anyone were to know. She has powers. Then Eldric comes along with his golden lion eyes and a great mane of tawny hair. He is as natural as the sun, and he treats her as if she is extraordinary. And everything starts to change . . .A National Book Award Finalist ★ “Exquisite to the final word.”—Booklist, starred review★ “Both lushly sensual and shivery.”—School Library Journal, starred review

She doesn't really know who she is or what she wants... Corinna is a Folk Keeper. Her job is to keep the mysterious Folk who live beneath the ground at bay. But Corinna has a secret that even she doesn't fully comprehend, until she agrees to serve as Folk Keeper at Marblehaugh Park, a wealthy family's seaside manor. There her hidden powers burst into full force, and Corinna's life changes forever...

“Billingsley unmasks Barack Obama’s life story as historical fiction.”–Joel Gilbert, producer of Dreams from My Real Father “My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.” That was Barack Obama’s message to the Democratic Party convention back in 2004. The story first emerged in his 1995 Dreams from My Father but the author confessed a “stubborn desire to protect myself from scrutiny” and was not exactly forthcoming about his background. In 2008, the Dreams author became President of the United States but during his second term the mysteries mounted a surge.In 2012, Paul Kengor authored The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. The professor argued that Davis, a Stalinist, was the president’s true ideological father. That year Dreams from My Real Father, a documentary film by Joel Gilbert, made a case that Frank Marshall Davis was the president’s true biological father.In writings from 1958-1964, including his letters, the Kenyan Barack Obama mentioned nothing about an American wife and Hawaiian-born son. That emerged in 2013 but the president never viewed the collection. In 2015, Gilbert tracked down Malik Obama, son of the Kenyan Barack Obama. Malik Obama noted a strong resemblance between the president and Frank Marshall Davis, right down to the spots on their face. “I don’t know how I’d deal with it,” Malik Obama said, “if it really came out that he really is a fraud or a con.” No insider stepped forward to tell all, but in the 2017 Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow proclaimed that Dreams from My Father was “in multitudinous ways and without any question, a work of historical fiction” and the author a “composite character.” Fellow college students call Barry, as he was known, a “GQ Marxist.” Close friends see him as a “pompous jive” who likes to “masquerade.” Reporters tell Garrow the president’s narrative is “not entirely true.” Was the 44th President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, not really who he claimed to be? According to Joel Gilbert, Barack ‘em Up “exposes the Obama story as the fraud of the century. Highly recommended!”

“Billingsley unmasks Barack Obama’s life story as historical fiction.” –Joel Gilbert, producer of Dreams from My Real Father “My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father, my grandfather, was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.” That was Barack Obama’s message to the Democratic Party convention back in 2004. The story first emerged in his 1995 Dreams from My Father but the author confessed a “stubborn desire to protect myself from scrutiny” and was not exactly forthcoming about his background. In 2008, the Dreams author became President of the United States but during his second term the mysteries mounted a surge. In 2012, Paul Kengor authored The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. The professor argued that Davis, a Stalinist, was the president’s true ideological father. That year Dreams from My Real Father, a documentary film by Joel Gilbert, made a case that Frank Marshall Davis was the president’s true biological father. In writings from 1958-1964, including his letters, the Kenyan Barack Obama mentioned nothing about an American wife and Hawaiian-born son. That emerged in 2013 but the president never viewed the collection. In 2015, Gilbert tracked down Malik Obama, son of the Kenyan Barack Obama. Malik Obama noted a strong resemblance between the president and Frank Marshall Davis, right down to the spots on their face. “I don’t know how I’d deal with it,” Malik Obama said, “if it really came out that he really is a fraud or a con.” No insider stepped forward to tell all, but in the 2017 Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow proclaimed that Dreams from My Father was “in multitudinous ways and without any question, a work of historical fiction” and the author a “composite character.” Fellow college students call Barry, as he was known, a “GQ Marxist.” Close friends see him as a “pompous jive” who likes to “masquerade.” Reporters tell Garrow the president’s narrative is “not entirely true.” Was the 44th President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, not really who he claimed to be? According to Joel Gilbert, Barack ‘em Up “exposes the Obama story as the fraud of the century. Highly recommended!”

Can a number determine your worth? That’s the question children in the colony ask until age ten, when a single test seals their future. Beth, a Number Four forced to work on a cleaning crew, hates her necklace of four beads, which identifies her as a lower worker … a nothing. She covets the foods and possessions of the Higher Ups in a society where everything is “fair” and perfectly ordered. Stories of the scorched land above—the duslans—convince Beth she will never leave the colony. When a strange pale man appears with hints she may not be a Number Four, Beth learns everything she knows is a lie. But without her Number, who is she?