Books with title The Family Gathering

Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently around Maya's home—and her reactions to them are somewhat . . . unexpected. Her best friend, Daniel, has also been experiencing unexplainable premonitions about certain people and situations.It doesn't help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret, and he's interested in one special part of Maya's anatomy—her paw-print birthmark.

Hanging onto him, she descended into a multicolored vision, shades of light she’d never seen filling her head. When her vision cleared, he shone, the purest, transparent white. She laid one hand at the base of his neck, and it flushed red.“You did this to me,” he said, “and I really like it.”Running “The Earth Shop”, Lauren Fournier had seen many unusual things. The supernatural was, after all, the purpose of the store. But never, since she’d taken it over, had anyone in the Christian community entered without an ulterior motive. They want to “save her soul” without a heart for understanding who she was.But from the moment Reverend Dagger Dawkins first speaks to her, it’s clear something about him is different. Not simply that he asks her out on a date. No man of his caliber has ever dared to do that. But also, she feels a pull toward him she can’t explain. When he disappears in front of her eyes, she’s desperate for him to return. But nothing about their date is normal – not his description of his superhuman family, not his skin turning colors at her touch, nor the instantaneous transfer of them both from her apartment in Virginia to the California coast. Who is he? And why, of all the girls he could choose, did he pick her?Book 4 of 5 in the SUPERHUMAN series of sci-fi teen romance by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS. 28,000 words. Clean Reads for teens.

The Gathering hides between the lines of Genesis 7:14-15; it is the epic backstory of the animal’s journey to Noah's Ark. Those familiar with the Bible will see countless symbols, themes, and events from scripture, metaphorically portrayed throughout. The story begins with a remnant, the chosen among several species, who are blessed with unique gifts for completing a great quest. Guided by their dreams, these animals sense they are on the edge of a great precipice. They heed a peculiar calling as they are drawn to a mysterious mountain, not fully aware of why they are going there. This story was written for parents to read to their children. It can also be used for Sunday school classes. Each chapter includes a colorful picture and commentary notes, spanning a total of 52 chapters. Sunday school classes can cover one chapter per week as part of a one year devotional. The commentary notes include a minimum of 7 scripture references for each chapter, with a grand total of 471 commentary notes and over 680 scripture references.

Hawk Running Elk is a Navtive American boy living in Denver Colorado with his parents and sister. The family attends a local powwow or gathering. His parents are interested in returning to the reservation and their roots. Hawk and his sister win door prizes at the powwow and his prize is a fancy dance bustle kit. His sister wins a fancy shawl. Hawk wants to make the bustles with Dad's help. Mom helped his sister Fawn make a fancy shawl dance dress. They also learned Indian style dances. They attend a powwow on the Wind River Reservation. Dad is offered a job with the tribe. The family decides to move back to the reservation. Hawk also endures the rite of passage task. They also attend the big powwow back in Denver with a surprise ending.

Some houses are more than just haunted... they're hungry.Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing -- and nobody -- can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear. And the way out?That's disappeared, too...Enter Shadow House... if you dare.Don't just read about Shadow House -- explore its haunted depths with the free app!

Leah continues to struggle with the changes within her life. Her grasp of reality is slipping and a lot of people may pay the price for Leah's crazy revenge filled plan to rid the world of one certain werewolf. Karen graduated high school and has embarked on a long standing tradition within the werewolf clans. The Gathering. She and other werewolves around the same age will gather and fight for a higher status and for the right to have a mate.Along the journey, Karen meets many other wolves, both friend and foe. The only problem is how to tell the difference between the two? Plus, she did the one thing dad told her not to do. She fell in love.

Dave and Brenda Brentwood are spending the summer with their Uncle Rob and Aunt Caryn in North Carolina. But the trip won't be all fun and games. There has been a monster trapped in a cave on the Brentwood property for over seventy years. After all those years, someone is trying to open up the cave. If their uncle can prevent the cave from being opened, they'll all have a nice quiet summer. If he can't then the family would have a terrible battle on their hands, and Brenda, twelve and Dave, eight, will truly find out what it means to be part of the family thing

About Adventures Of The Traveling Moon: Follow Luna and her friends as they explore an amazing and ever growing fantasy world. Experience a constantly evolving story, meet heroes and villains, encounter magical creatures and uncover deeply hidden mysteries. In this first episode of the story, Luna has set out to visit her friends and remind them of a feast that will mark the beginning of their first journey.

With this book, J. Andrews Smith, MSW, makes a unique contribution to the fields of North Carolina historiography, sociology, and social work. Almost 20 years ago, Clyde F. McSwain published a detailed account of his life at the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford, North Carolina. Nearly 10 years later, Richard McKenzie published a penetrating memoir of his life in the Presbyterian Orphanage at Barium Springs, North Carolina. A few other full-length recollections of orphanage life may have been written and published, but there is no other book, I think, similar to this one by Mr. Smith. His is no less than a collection of firsthand accounts of life as lived by a succession of children in the Free Will Baptist Orphanage (or Children’s Home) at Middlesex, North Carolina, over a period of nearly 90 years—from the second decade of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century.