*Audio Enhanced Read-Along EbookNominee for 2017 Cybils Award, Best Fiction Picture Book, Children's and Young AdultGrandmother Thorn treasures her garden, where not a leaf, twig or pebble is allowed out of place. But when a persistent plant sprouts without her permission, Grandmother begins to unravel. "Her hair became as tangled as the vines on her fence. Her garden fell into disrepair. One morning, she did not rake the path." A dear friend, the passage of seasons, and a gift only nature can offer help Grandmother Thorn discover that some things are beyond our control, and that sweetness can blossom in unexpected places.

In this haunting tale from the heart of Appalachia, Vicki Lane draws together past and present, good and evil, folklore and secrets, mesmerizing readers with the mysterious bond of true sisterhood—richer than blood, stronger than the passage of time. Elizabeth Goodweather and her city-girl sister, Gloria, couldn’t be more different. Elizabeth lives on a farm in the Great Smoky Mountains. Gloria lives in Florida off an ex-husband’s fortune. Gloria is a beauty; Elizabeth isn’t. Now, to Elizabeth’s intense displeasure, Gloria parks herself at Full Circle Farm, on the run from her latest man, who, she insists, is trying to kill her. Elizabeth thinks this is just another of her sister’s fantasies. Besides, Elizabeth has her wedding to plan—if only she can overcome her fear that the man who already shares her life may not be what he appears to be. At this precarious crossroads, the sisters must turn to each other—or face a lifetime of consequences.

Elizabeth Goodweather knows what it’s like to be an outsider, to keep secrets and nurse wounds. But Elizabeth raised a family in these mist-shrouded North Carolina hills and is deeply settled on her small farm—even finding the space to let a new man into her life. Everything changes when her daughter Rosemary returns home, determined to solve a nineteen-year-old riddle: the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, Maythorn Mullins, when the girls were just ten. Soon Elizabeth and her daughter are prying into the strange history of the Mullins family, confronting a complex thicket of relationships and exploring a realm of magic and Cherokee legend that Maythorn shared secretly with Rosemary. But most of all, they will discover that behind a child’s disappearance was something more evil and far closer than they ever imagined....

Yolanda Martin, a retired teacher, devoted wife, understanding mother, and doting grandmother resides in Jackson, Mississippi. As in her first book, Teaching in the Potter's Hands, she approaches another subject dear to the hearts of millions of people. In The Thorns in Grandma's Garden, Martin dares to explore and expose the difficult aspects of being a grandparent, while still celebrating the joy that this wonderful blessing brings. She, fourteen other grandparents, and a sensitive, grateful adult grandchild lovingly share the "grand" relationships that have made life changing impacts on how they view the world. How each has met the challenges has been determined by the level of Wisdom employed.

Lancaster County, with its rolling meadows and secret byways, may seem idyllic, but it is not without its thorns. THE ROSE TRILOGY is the stirring saga of two Amish sisters on the fringes of the church, and the unforeseen discoveries that change their lives. Rose Kauffman, a spirited young woman, has a close friendship with the bishop's foster son. Nick dresses Plain and works hard but stirs up plenty of trouble too. Rose's sister cautions her against becoming too involved, but Rose is being courted by a good, Amish fellow, so dismisses the warnings. Meanwhile, Rose keeps house for an English widower but is startled when he forbids her to ever go upstairs. What is the man hiding? Rose's older sister, Hen, knows more than she should about falling for the wrong man. Unable to abandon her Amish ways, Hen is soon separated from her very modern husband. Mattie, their young daughter, must visit her father regularly, but Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, despite her husband's wishes. Will Hen be able to reestablish her place among the People she abandoned? And will she be able to convince Rose to steer clear of rogue neighbor Nick?

This book is about the given names of feelings, it demonstrates clearly the known law of opposite and equal reactions. The book is able to demonstrate the law at work not only within the body but most defiantly identified within each person’s lifestyles, events and actions. Although the book is very different with the new definitions, or interpretations of the known meanings of feeling words, the exercises within the book support the new theory and interpretations. The book leads each reader to re-examine what they believe to be a fact about themselves and the world they live in. In a nut shell, it’s a book of how to get to know yourself, what really motivates you as well as the how and why you came to be who you are today. The way that you are.

The people of Maskek have always presumed it to be a bizarre weather phenomenon happening rarely but with great intensity and loss of life. For the poison they have no answer. The odious creeping cloud is growing, pulsating and expanding; its lethal tentacles reaching ever upward. Faced with this perverse, avenging adversary, Deacon and a small band of “modern day warriors” are all that stand between the malignant and vaporous enemy and the town of Maskek.

Fourteen generations have passed since a newborn prince was cast into the currents as a sacrifice to the sea gods. But the Lord of Creation had other plans. To save her people from extinction, Lolani Aeramiel once stole a child, brought to her by the Mermaids of the Eryn, who rescued him from certain death, and for three years protected him under a pact with the Creator Himself, until the princess was betrayed. But instead of rallying her people to revenge, Lolani abdicated the throne, but left an Heir who would unite the Creator’s people under one banner. Following a brutal confrontation with her childhood nemesis, Breena Everly, town misfit, and everyone’s favorite patsy is led into the ancient burial grounds of a long-forgotten people, by a voice that reveals the distant past where she discovers a terrible secret involving a lost woman everyone believes is dead. When she returns home to a storm-ravaged village, she finds that she is suspected of summoning the storms and after healing the victims of the Elemental attack that destroyed her village, she is forced to flee the only home she had ever known. Alone and on the run, Breena must determine what the Lord of Creation revealed to her in the mountain. Will she accept the truth of her heritage, or will she forge her own path?