The Callender Papers
9 best books like The Callender Papers (Cynthia Voigt): American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts, The Horn of Moran, Sands of Nezza, The Traitors' Gate, Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong: A Biblical Response to Today's Most Controversial Issues, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Half a World Away, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, Albrek's Tomb
Author | Chris McGreal |
ISBN | 1541773772 |
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers.
Journeying...
Author | M.L. Forman |
ISBN | 1606412264 |
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Alex, our wizard in training, has been back in the real world for a year and boy is it different than the respect he commands while adventuring. When he is called back on an adventure he is excited to continue his travels as he and his band quest...
Author | M.L. Forman |
ISBN | 1609073290 |
A call for help draws wizard Alexander Taylor into an adventure that he knows nothing about. To save a friend, Alex must travel to the land of Nezza, a land where war is part of daily life, where adventurers are imprisoned, and where all magic is believed to be black.
Chance brings Alex into contact...
John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison.
Maybe the man following John -- who claims to be one Inspector Copperfield -- can explain why. Surely, Pa...
Author | John F. MacArthur Jr. |
ISBN | 0736926437 |
John MacArthur, along with the leadership team at Grace Community Church, where John has been the pastor for over 40 years, addresses one of the greatest challenges facing all believers: the powerful influence of secular culture on their hearts and minds. When it comes to every issue imaginable, Christians...
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
Author | Emmuska Orczy |
ISBN | 1419129090 |
There was a comment recently on a Lord Peter discussion group about "the Lady Molly stories", or Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. I'd never heard of them, so I did a search, and was surprised to find that they were written by the same author as The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. A few minutes later I had the...
Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
ISBN | 1442412755 |
A kid who considers himself an epic fail discovers the transformative power of love when he deals with adoption in this novel from Cynthia Kadohata, winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award.
Eleven-year-old Jaden is adopted, and he knows he’s an “epic fail.’ That’s...
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Author | Chris Arnade |
ISBN | 0525534733 |
Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.
Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael...
Author | M.L. Forman |
ISBN | 1609089189 |
Two thousand years ago, the dwarf Albrek went looking for new mines in the land of Thraxon in the hopes of becoming rich — and vanished. Now the dwarves must find Albrek's magical Ring of Searching before their mines run dry, a possibility which threatens the livelihood of the entire dwarf realm.
Alexander...