Adult

The time: 1941, at the cusp of America's entry into World War II. The place: southwest Missouri, on the edge of the Ozark Mountains. A young junior college teacher strikes up a friendship with two young men that soon takes a turn for the worse.

How can you become a happier person? In this seven-week companion to his bestselling book, Joel Osteen offers inspiring guidance to meet that goal. This journal offers relevant Scriptures, inspirational quotations, selected stories, prayers, and points for reflection.

The aging paradigm has shifted: "cresting the hill" no longer means being "over the hill." In his latest book, H. Norman Wright shows baby boomers --- and all those wanting to make the second half their best half --- how to embrace the coming changes and navigate life's transitions with passion and purpose.

Hannah Sunderland felt content in her embrace of the Quaker faith --- until her twin brother ran off and joined the army and ended up captured and in jail. Suddenly Hannah's world turns on end. Can she sit by and do nothing while he suffers?

Kansas, 1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emma Switzer’s Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them stranded on the prairie. They pray to the Lord for someone to help, and a rugged man soon lands in the dust at Emma’s feet.

When her father disappears in war-torn Mississippi, Hannah Dandridge finds herself responsible for everything he left behind. Though a marriage of convenience could ease her predicament, she determines to trust God for direction --- and a wounded soldier soon stumbles into her life.

Improbably caught in a June blizzard, two wayward compatriots stumble upon a mysterious inn and learn that they are in the middle of a "reality storm."

In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead blew himself up. More than two years later, the station is still floundering, and the CIA's chiefs wonder if it somehow has been infiltrated by the Taliban.

At the close of the Civil War, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology form a secret society that is determined to find the truth behind a recent string of commercial disasters.