The young girl, Freddy Gold, is not comfortable in her own skin. She has so much talent, writing and singing and music, but no one seems to take her seriously because of her weight. It is painful. When Freddy goes to camp that summer, she meets an African American girl named Dolly, who is also overweight, and they form a solid friendship.

Scott Beckman always loved the game of golf. His best friend, Matt Kemp, also has the same passion. Scott's mother resented the game because it took her husband away when her husband dies in Iraq, Scott and Matt start getting in trouble. A nice cop takes them to a man, Sandy McNair, who has mentored young boys and helped them with discipline and golf.

Katie Stone has always thought someone has been following her. She should have gotten with her fiance, she never shows. Then a miracle happens - they find Katie alive! But Katie has a story to tell and she wants to tell it to the sheriff - seems the man she accuses of kidnapping her has been dead for years.

We've heard of Russians experimenting with ESP, and psychic spying - In The Last Oracle, the Russians are using children who have been operated on enhancing the childrens' power to further the Russian's plan to further their plan for world domination.

Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel, who have had the forumla for eternal life, meet prophecized twins who have the power to either save the world or destroy it. The Codex which holds all the spells needed to do so, including the recipe for the the elixer of life, was taken, but Josh had the foresight to tear out the last 2 pages.

Angel and Louis are partners in crime, and life partners. Their love for each other doesn't make them less menacing, but their love gives them humanity. Their association with Charlie 'Bird' Parker in previous books has been accompanied not only by violence but supernatural pulls between Light and Dark Forces.

A pair of young archaeology students, a young man and woman - Mitch and Alex are on a dig and suddenly discover a mysterious box, and with the help of two friends they open the box that is so old, it predates anything else known.

One day. long ago, a beautiful young Native American woman, Jessie Dancer, disappears. In those days, sometimes women were taken from other tribes as wives, but she didn't have that fate. Charlie Crane confused Jessie with a long lost woman in his life.

(KINDLE EDITION)Rage's treatment of Pilate is amazing. No matter if Christ is portrayed as a woman, or as He was before, the story strong, powerful, and violent. And the triumph is with you to your core. I have never read a book with so much palatible violence. The world Rage created is scary. Some can triumph and transcend. Brace yourself for one WILD violent ride.

In Stalemate, we met Montalvo, the mysterious Latin who hired Eve Duncan to do a facial reconstruction in exchange for information regarding Bonnie, Eve's daughter who was kidnapped and killed. Her body was never found. Of course an event like this is life changing, but Eve put a positive spin to it.

What Mrs. Baer does is use that grief, not only as an homage to Samantha Rose, but has included photographs of her life and family and has been inspired by Samantha's older brother Jacob to put his perspective to these remembrances.

When Karen's Mom starts singing with Bunny, and they leave find fame and fortune, things start going downhill. Mom takes her children out of Paradise and into Hell guided by a so-called pious Bunny in search of fame and fortune. But Bunny was an abusive force that the children paid the price time and time again.

Lisa Williams wrote her biography, Life Among the Dead, and it is a refreshing look at the woman behind the metaphysical person. She gives a frank detailed look at her life, and how her gift was cultivated. Her grandmother was a famous psychic/medium, and she certainly inherited that gift.

The situations in the world are turbulent - if you have studied the past years of this world's history, and read these books, you will be scratching your head and saying - No - couldn't happen...we better start thinking really hard how we want our world to be, and how it will be when our children's children are on the earth.

The Ghost Hunters have been hired by M.J.'s friend Karen, who they call Teeko -because she's a knock out - to investigate the Northhelm Boarding School near Lake Placid NY - an angry ghost, nicknamed Hatchet Jack has been terrorizing the area for decades, and has traumatized Karen's niece.

Leona is a dog. She tells a story of three ladies that found and saved her. And they included Leona in all their adventures. It is not only written by Susan E. Hartrick, but illustrated charmingly by her. I will not spoil this lovely book, but it is a very small book with a delightful message.

Hamilton was in jail and escapes - and is after Dr. Bill! But - Burt DeVriess has a serious query to ask Dr. Bill - his dear aunt was cremated, but they received cremains he doesn't think look right - and asks Bill to look at it - That opens up a horrid can of worms about a crematorium that has not been cremating bodies, but dumping them.

In Hybrid, a grown Stephan and his wife Liz, another Hybrid, continue their journey of discovery. The Galactic Federation works with Stephan to make Earth aware it is time for us to wake up and be one people - one planet - Liz works with young children, particularly one girl with psychic abilities.

Lula is more flamboyant than her normal self - thinking she will become the next plus size supermodel... Some hilarious moments happen when the crew saves an injured racehorse named Doug and transporting him in an RV, then a stint in Stephanie's apartment.

Catholic Church has hired scientists to find any potential sources to get DNA from. Instead of using this information for the good of humanity, findings are destroyed and those associated with any project, suddenly have fatal accidents. Dr. James Burk, discovers exact matches from DNA taken from the Shroud of Turin, Crown of Thorns, and others, Burk is convinced the DNA matches come from Jesus.