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Born at the dawn of the Second World War, a German girl comes of age under Nazism and communism, her quest for freedom carrying her from behind the Iron Curtain to the shores of California.

We express how our unique travel style--house sitting for months at a time--has changed our perception of ourselves and the world.

Gripped by her grandmother Lucy Ker’s dramatic stories of her life in China from the Boxer Rebellion to the deposing of the Last Emperor, Kate follows in her footsteps a century later.

Faint, distant, a warbling fragment of what sounded like a 1960s rock song, distorted as if drifting through miles of jungle air. The collector frowned. That was impossible. The US Vietnam War radio's frequencies were long obsolete. It shouldn't be able to receive modern transmissions—if any at all...

Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. But where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary living, by everyday people. Through a rich narrative of story-telling God Quest – God Discovered in Everyday Places leads to hidden...

In the post-COVID era, a nineteen-year-old law student clings to denial and substances to ignore her crashing academic performance, and the notion that this bizarre party across the street might have noticed her.