Seventeen-year-old Hoshi'tiwa had a simple life: The daughter of a humble corn grower, she planned to marry a storyteller's apprentice. But her world is turned upside down when she is captured by the powerful and violent ruler of an infamous city with legends of untold wealth and unspeakable acts of[...]

The time is December 1999. Millennial fever holds the world in its grip - stirring ancient and terrible fears that the apocalypse is at hand. In the Sinai Desert, archaeologist Catherine Alexander has just unearthed a cache of six ancient papyrus scrolls that point to the millennium's most transform[...]

A riveting, historical tale set in first-century Rome, "The Divining" chronicles one young woman's spiritual quest to discover her destiny through the powerful gift of second sight--and save entire future generations.
"Ancient Rome: 54 C.E." Nineteen-year-old Ulrika is plagued with strange visio[...]

"Ugarit, Syria, 1450 B.C.E. "Eighteen-year-old Leah, the eldest daughter of a wealthy winemaker, is past the traditional age of betrothal. Vowed to wed the wealthy but cruel shipbuilder Jotham, Leah declines his offer of marriage after discovering that he and his family suffer from "the falling sick[...]

" I was born for adventure. I flout convention. I am a New Woman on a holy purpose. " Newlywed Emily Stone and her husband, Isaac, areyoung missionaries who have traveled from New England to Honolulu to share the Gospel with the Hawaiian natives. Gentle, adventurous, well-bred, and beautiful, Emily [...]

Wonder Wood presents this timeless material as it is being used today and how it can be used in the future. It also documents a selection of current international projects and processes, making-ofs, and experiments by 120 internationally renowned designers, architects, and artists, whose creative an[...]