Jessie Lightfoot is missing. So is her 2-year old son Jeremy. Jessie left behind her abusive ex-husband - with a knife in his chest. 42-year old Allison McLeod has been aware of her psychic abilities all her life and now she receives strange messages from the missing Jessie. Together with Special Investigator Andy Walker, she follows a trail through the rural communities surrounding Rock Bottom, Washington - and several other murders.. Twenty years ago Jessie's father was convicted of cannibalism and killed by the police. His family, all women, sacrificed and ate children. Jessie was raised...
Jessie Lightfoot is missing. So is her 2-year old son Jeremy. Jessie left behind her abusive ex-husband - with a knife in his chest. 42-year old Allis...
Could he really be a direct descendant of Beethoven's cat? Wiggie, short for Ludwig, is as astonished as the rest of the Carter family when he discovers a picture of the famous composer together with his cat Ludwig. The resemblance between the cat and Wiggie himself is amazing. Is Ludwig his ancestor? Or could it be that he is the reincarnation of Ludwig? Since Beethoven was very close to his cat he begins to haunt Wiggie in his dreams. But what is it he wants him to do? Does he want Wiggie to record an unfinished composition? Does he want him to rid the house of rock music? And is Wiggies...
Could he really be a direct descendant of Beethoven's cat? Wiggie, short for Ludwig, is as astonished as the rest of the Carter family when he discove...
When I was four years old I came from Korea to be adopted. My new mother is a veterinarian and she is single, as in never-been-married. Although she's very organized at work, she is hopeless at home. If I wasn't here to take care of things, I don't know what would happen to her. She'd probably spend the rest of her life looking for her missing car keys, or else starve to death because she forgot to cook. Now I'm eleven. In another seven years I'll leave for college, and then who is going to take care of Mom? By that time she will be thirty-seven, which is almost forty, which is old, and who...
When I was four years old I came from Korea to be adopted. My new mother is a veterinarian and she is single, as in never-been-married. Although she's...
Ten-year old Sara is convinced this is going to be her most boring summer ever. Her whole family is working on their new house, which Sara expects not to be finished in her lifetime. All her friends are leaving town. Celia is visiting her dad in California. Katie is going to Colorado to see her grandparents. Mary K. and her brothers are going to Iowa to visit their father. Even Brad, who is the only boy around who likes to play house, is leaving town. And where is she going? Nowhere Not only is she supposed to help with the house, she also has to babysit 3-year old Potty all summer. Sara...
Ten-year old Sara is convinced this is going to be her most boring summer ever. Her whole family is working on their new house, which Sara expects not...
As the Carter family prepares to move from Virginia to Idaho, Wiggie's imagination takes a new direction. He has only recently overcome the delusion that he is the reincarnation of the cat that belonged to the famous composer Beethoven. Now, as the Carter family and their pets move across country he is convinced that his forebears were among the early pioneers. While the Carter's other pets, Winston, Josh and Gwenny look forward to an uneventful cross-country trip, Wiggie is convinced that the Wild West is as rugged and wild as ever, full of bloodthirsty Indians and dangerous outlaws....
As the Carter family prepares to move from Virginia to Idaho, Wiggie's imagination takes a new direction. He has only recently overcome the delusion t...
