![]() ![]() Soon he and the rest of the kids on the track team become great friends. He never thought that you needed to train for track or that you had to prepare or even that it was hard work. The coach lets Ghost on the team but the first practice goes straight downhill. A boy walks up to the starting line and Ghost decides to race him. As Ghost is walking past the track he sees the track team warming up. Ghost never thought that he would be on the track team, he had always been a basketball player, but one day everything changed and he found himself there. After that incident Ghost and his mother were on their own. All I can say is, that was the night he ran the fastest. When Castle was a kid he had a great father (although he would get drunk sometimes) but one night everything changed. The main character is Castle Cranshaw (he calls himself Ghost). ![]() The book Ghost is written by Jason Reynolds. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “A brilliant ending to a fab series!” – The Romance Cover For those of you who haven’t read the Stark Trilogy yet or would like to suggest it to a friend, I recently learned that Complete Me is on Books-A-Million’s three-for-two table all the way through Valentine’s Day! That’s a fabulous chance to grab Complete Me Complete Me & Bodyguards: Bestseller lists times three (and four!!) Check it out! (refresh your screen if you can’t see the link!) And huge A #StarkOnSaturday sale … and snippet! Here’s a link to a sample from the audiobook. ![]() I’m so excited!!! Release Me, the first book in the New York Times and International bestselling Stark Trilogy, has been nominated for an Audie award! What better way to celebrate #StarkOnSaturday. It reminded me of the pearl scene from Complete Me, and so I just had to share! Audie nomination for Release Me by J. 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'Its hard to imagine a memoir about moving home to take care of your cancer-stricken Mom and your dying Dad could be fun to read, but Dan Marshall manages t. His father was a prominent newspaper figure and was not Mormon. Dan grew up with a pack of siblings in a sprawling house in Holladay set squarely in the center of a heavily Mormon neighborhood. ![]() For those who grew up in Holladay as a non-Mormon, this tale of coming of age in Utah in the '80s, which is intertwined with the painful reality of coping with the death of a parent, will resonate in ways that might make you flinch or cry but will also make you laugh. ![]() ![]() With a forever ex, the drama never goes away! Immortal vampire assassin Sirius Sinister learns this the hard way after being served divorce papers by Bloodsucker Number One-a shady woman from his past-he realizes there's a major problem: he was never even married to her, or so he thought. 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She loves cons, lifting weights and parenting ind conventional ways. loves to build worlds with words while raising three precocious teens in the Pacific Northwest with her spouse, a tech nerd who happens to be a doppelgänger for Denzel Washington. ![]() ![]() ![]() The building is closed, but the church is wide open.We are here from all over the world and God is where you are at.You’re here on purpose you’re here so that God can speak specifically to your life.Give in expectation with what God is going to do in our lives Look beyond yourself and this moment, and allow God to use your obedience when you give to a ministry that feeds you.A job or a certain person will not give you what you need, just God.Be reminded that God is your provider even during the pressures of this time.The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords is on your side You need to understand who is on your side when the enemy suggests things to you.Be open to how He wants to move and speak through you. ![]() Maybe there are areas God is trying to step into, please don’t close the opportunity because it looks different than you thought it would.If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me Revelation 3:20 New International Version (NIV) – 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 10:04, Ben’s meditations on art, concerns about selling out, and doubts about artificially inseminating his best friend (“Because would have been bizarre”) were framed by two massive weather events: Tropical Storm Irene, which hit New York in summer of 2011, and Hurricane Sandy, which landed in the autumn of 2012. ![]() Though we are more interconnected than ever, this phenomenon is most akin to the sensation of spiraling on a mass scale daily life requires reckoning with being an actor in the thrall of forces far more powerful than any individual.ġ0:04 was a reckoning with responsibility that was not yet required of the narrator of Leaving the Atocha Station. In 10:04, Lerner’s narrator, also named Ben, frets over how to act meaningfully in a world that often feels meaningless. 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