Fourteen years ago, Emma and Andrew Walker suffered a devastating loss when Mandy, their 6-year-old daughter, was kidnapped. Her unrecognizable body was found one week later. The case and resulting media coverage moved an entire nation to the point that everyone knew who the Walkers were. Everyone felt sympathetic...which indirectly propelled the Walker's businesses and careers. Years pass and the Walkers have both rebuilt their lives and prospered. As founders of The Mandy Walker Foundation, they've helped thousands of children around the world and have raised their new daughter, Meghan, in front of the world on a show called Second Chances. America is riveted by scenes of them coping with the loss of Mandy, but also finding new hope as Meghan grows. Everything comes crashing down when Meghan disappears soon after her 6th birthday--on the very day Mandy disappeared 14 years ago. Emma and Andrew now have just one week to save their little girl from the tragedy that befell her sister.

More than a good baseball story, "Just a Phone Call Away" chronicles Madison's journey through the minor leagues to the majors, experiencing hardships, laughter, and hope. Few would believe someone with such a mediocre major league career could have experienced so much with so many famous people and enjoyed so many laughs.

Brenda Warner is best known as the outspoken wife of NFL superstar Kurt Warner. But years earlier, she found herself living through any woman's nightmare: a healthy baby tragically injured in the bathtub; a sudden end to a career she loved; betrayal and divorce; poverty; public humiliation; a deadly natural disaster that destroyed her foundation and shook her to her core. One shattering phone call at a time, Brenda Warner's life came to resemble little of her dream.

From the author of the Magic in Manhattan series comes a hilarious new novel with a high-concept premise -- what if you could call a cell phone number and give your younger-self advice based on hard-won, life-learned wisdom?

When I have episodes of the past, Dr. Lewis recommended I walk, get out of the house, read, exercise, or write. He said, “Write about what you see, what you hear, people making fools of themselves, good people, bad people, funny people, coworkers—people in general.” I may sound homophobic, prejudiced, racist, a son of a b——, but I just got my own humor. It sounds f—— up, but it’s still humor. A veteran putting his PTSD to good use. I want to dedicate this book to all my vet brothers and sisters and to people who like to travel and read. This book is called I Might Be Wrong, but I’m Not.

A phone call away...an important call, which can make or break a relationship. Life is messy, not perfect. Emma is trying to change things for her and her daughter from the past. Will she succeed? Time will only tell. Emma and her daughter had been casualties in a war--a never-ending war--not by their choosing. Letters were vital for Emma, and they would be for Brooke as well. So many hopes and dreams from Emma's past were shattered because of others. This story is a compilation of recollections that will take you on a journey that only these letters will allow you to understand. What was Emma hoping to achieve? Brook's understanding, insight, realities, and knowledge are not only for her daughter but for Emma herself. To understand this journey, you will need to read the letters Emma wrote to her daughter, giving her a history that she never knew existed.

Sydney Carter is shocked to discover her maternal grandmother, a woman she had never met, just recently passed away and left Syd her farmhouse in Iowa. She has questions about her grandparents that she hopes to find the answers to while preparing the farm to sell. Abigail Price, a neighbor of Syd’s grandmother, has lived on her grandmother’s farm in Iowa for most of her life, leaving only to promote her latest novel. In helping Syd find the answers she’s looking for, they develop a mutual attraction and deeper feelings for each other. Syd has to return to her life in Chicago, but will Abby stay in Iowa, or will she give the big city, and love, a chance?

BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.

BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.

Many of the great thinkers and poets in Christianity and Islam led lives marked by personal and religious struggle. Indeed, suffering and struggle are part of the human condition and constant themes in philosophy, sociology and psychology. In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed scholar Mona Siddiqui ponders how humankind finds meaning in life during an age of uncertainty. Here, she explores the theme of human struggle through the writings of iconic figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Muhammad Ghazali, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sayyid Qutb - people who searched for meaning in the face of adversity. Considering a wide range of thinkers and literary figures, her book explores how suffering and struggle force the faithful to stretch their imagination in order to bring about powerful and prophetic movements for change. The moral and aesthetic impulse of their writings will also stimulate inter-cultural and interdisciplinary conversations on the search for meaning in an age of uncertainty.