Books with author Shane L Johnson

She was everything I ever wanted - but I lost it all on that very night tragedy struck.Prepare yourself for an emotional roller coaster;Lyric Foster is your average teenage girl who lives her daily life by isolating herself from the outside world until she meets Beatrice Geller, the girl she claims that had changed her life for the better.What Lyric didn't know though is the traumatic past Beatrice had which made her develop bipolar depression, social anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder.This is a story full of wonders of lgbt romance, real situations most teenagers face in their everyday lives, and what words could really do to a human being.

The Amazon #1 Best Seller from the International Award Winning Author of "The Book of Barkley" and 2017 Reader's Favorite GOLD Award Winner for Fiction "Small Town Roads". It started with a piece of paper---a birth certificate, sent to the author's parents long after her birth. There is much history in that piece of paper. For she was born to an unwed mother in the generation prior to Roe v. Wade, on a warm day in August--a small, painful beginning in which she had been an unwilling participant, yet one that would shape her destiny. She is adopted into a loving Christian home with another child that would become her beloved brother. Then as her brother leaves for the military, her mother dying from cancer, and her Dad consumed with grief, she finds herself alone, to emotionally fend for herself.Looking for a lifeline, she finds herself pregnant; she's a teen and a college student, abandoned at the news. The options are obvious, but there is only one decision she could make: to give her child up to a family praying for one, and walking away. Saving Grace is more than a story of adoption. It's a deep look into family--at hope and faith and why we end our days surrounded by souls that may not bear our name or share our blood, but who are our true family.

The residents of Celestica Space Station really do live on the edge (of the known universe, and next to a supermassive black hole). And everybody knows, the farther you get from the civilized universe, the closer you are to the monsters that lurk in deep space.Lyra is a plucky doctor at the hospital that serves Celestica and the surrounding moons and planets. Like most of of the residents on Celestica, she's running from her past. That makes her extra motivated to protect the present. Living this far from the civilized universe though, anything and everything can go wrong. The only question is, what will it be this time? In this case, it's a mysterious new patient brought in from a nearby planet. And also, a mutant rat that starts a bar fight. The mysteries just keep stacking up, and it's up to Lyra and her oddball friends to figure out what's going on before it's too late. This story has mutant rats, orc miners, a head of security that looks like the Predator, and a very cool jellyfish named Gorb. And also, an A.I. Zombie. Snarky Sci-Fi with mystery, mayhem, and monsters.Excerpt from A.I. Zombie:Lyra tried to sum it all up and make herself feel better. "Ok, people, so the weird singing patient is no longer singing. Maybe the lack of brain function finally caught up to him. That would, in fact, be completely normal. And a very rational explanation as to why he stopped. Just in case, though, I'm going to check on Vax."Except that her feet wouldn't move. "Gorb, you coming with me, buddy?" Gorb shook his head."What about you, MACRO? Up for a walk?" Beep, beep, beep."Ian?""Um," he replied, pointing at his phone. "Research. Very important.""Fine," she said, as she made her way slowly down the hall like she was being made to walk the plank in a pirate horror movie. "I'll go alone." She rounded the corner. The door was still ajar. She peeked in, realizing that she was no longer breathing. She considered starting to again, but then decided it was best if she continued to just hold her breath.

Join Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the Dragon Riders as they soar to new adventures beyond the Island of Berk in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on the DreamWorks Animation movie How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World! How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World flies into theaters on February 22, 2019!Toothless thought he’d be with his best friend, Hiccup, forever. But then one day he meets Light Fury, the most stunning, amazing dragon he’s ever seen. Now Toothless is torn—should he start a new life with Light Fury or stay with his best friend? How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World © 2019 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Join Olivia and count down to Christmas with a holiday adventure that’s packed with stickers and activity ideas.There are just ten days until Christmas, and Olivia can’t wait! Olivia doesn’t want to miss any of the upcoming action, so she makes a checklist of everything she wants to do. It’s going to be the best countdown to Christmas ever!This 8x8 paperback comes with holiday stickers and a special “countdown flap” that lists all the awesome things Olivia has planned. Readers can count down along with Olivia—and have fun doing the same activities, such as baking cookies, eating candy canes, singing Christmas carols, making ornaments, trimming the tree, wrapping gifts, and more!OLIVIA™ Ian Falconer Ink Unlimited, Inc. and © 2012 Ian Falconer and Classic Media, LLC

Prince Tut has everything a child could ever want. The best toys, amazing clothes, and above all else his favorite blue coat. There is only one problem with having so many awesome things; he has to share them with his little brother Skare. When Tut decides no longer wants to share his valuables, chaos begins to unfold. Now Tut has to save his brother but to do that, he must make a great sacrifice. Will Tut be able to rise to the challenge and save his brother? Find out the answer to this in Tut the Generous!

Olivia has lots of love—and even more imagination—to share in this Valentine’s Day story.It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and Olivia is determined to make the very best possible valentines for all of her friends and family. Each valentine is made with extra special care and is personalized just for its recipient. What could be sweeter?OLIVIA™ Ian Falconer Ink Unlimited, Inc. and © 2013 Ian Falconer and Classic Media, LLC

Olivia and her friends start a dog-washing business for a good cause in this book with stickers!Olivia wants to help her mom raise money for books for the Children’s Reading Room at the library. So she decides to open Olivia’s Woof Woof Wash—a place for neighborhood dogs (and one amazing turkey) to come and get washed, rinsed, dried, and groomed. But when the dogs start running around the yard and getting even dirtier, Olivia will need to come up with a creative way to get them all clean. This adorable story comes with more than 20 stickers! ©2012 SLP. OLIVIA™ and © Ian Falconer.

READER'S FAVORITE 2017 GOLD WINNER for Fiction - Religious Theme.Small Town Roads is a Christian Coming of Age Story in Small Town America from the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of "Saving Grace - A Story of Adoption" and "The Book of Barkley - Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever". Let go of the life you wanted to get the one that you were meant for. With a recent college degree in Criminal Justice and big future dreams, rookie Law Enforcement Officer Rachel Raines is looking for a temporary place to hide a heart full of loss and a quieter police patrol than Chicago. The bequest of her late aunt's house out in rural Illinois seems like the perfect opportunity for both if she can survive the gigantic spiders, creaky plumbing, and inevitable challenges of being the rookie on a small town force. It's a place unlike any she has lived in - a tiny town with no coffee baristas, no night life, and one single restaurant that has a giant cow perched on the roof. It was not the life she had expected. Sometimes God has other plans for us. Down the street, her aunt's best friend, Evelyn Ahlgren, marks the passing of seasons and neighbors, long mired in her loneliness as a widow. When the young woman with scars of her own befriends her, they strike up an unlikely friendship across generations that just might help them both heal with a little help from heaven above. Written in both third person (Evelyn's view of life) and first person (Rachel keeping an online journal to track the events of each new day), words both humorous and breathtakingly lyrical, as these two vastly different generations bond, Small Town Roads is a beautifully told, heartwarming story. It is not just a story of life in rural America, it is finding the best in people, including ourselves, in the most unlikely of places.

In ABCs of the BOP: A Teacher’s Prison Primer, L. A. Johnson writes about the 55 months she spent in prison for crimes she did not commit. Johnson talks about her initial despair; her battles, both legal and emotional; her hope; disappointment; and eventual acceptance of the plight she found herself in. The memoir also describes routine procedures, work, prison staff, other inmates, and how her faith in God brought her out; baffled, but not bitter.Nelson Mandela said “After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.” Johnson was released from prison 5 months after Mandela died.