-One month before my fifth birthday, my mother began teaching me to read and write, and school at home became a wonderful thing.- The engaging story of the Swann family's experiences with homeschooling as told by the oldest daughter, Alexandra. At the age of fifteen she became the youngest student ever to graduate from Brigham Young University in its 111-year history. In this poignant narrative originally published in 1989 when she was eighteen, Alexandra recounts her experiences as the oldest in a family of ten children, all of whom were earning their educations at a highly-accelerated pace....

On a warm September afternoon in the year 2000, Dr. Alexander Sinclair travels to the Doppelganger Genetic Cloning Facility near Santa Fe, New Mexico to meet with its brilliant but mysterious director, Dr. Karl Helmick. Over the next 21 years, the two scientists collaborate on incredible scientific breakthroughs, as Karl becomes friend, mentor, and father-figure to Alexander. But the longer Alexander knows Karl, the more aware he becomes of how little he knows about him. As the years go by, Alexander becomes increasingly suspicious that his colleague is not who he appears to be. And as Karl...

This life-long reference guide for seventh grade through adult is the last writing course you may ever need to buy - Writing exercises are interspersed with grammar, punctuation, and word usage exercises to reinforce concepts. - Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and others provide examples of the styles and methodology discussed. - A special section is included on writing in the digital age including emails, blogs, and social media. - Frequent exercises and unit tests allow the student to measure his progress.

In this heart pounding sequel to "The Planner," Homeland Security is using the National Defense Authorization Act to incarcerate tens of thousands of Americans in secret government prisons where they are never heard from again. When Father Nathan O'Brien is arrested for refusing to preach the messages mandated by the Religious Unity Agency, Michael Linton and Jeff Conners call attention to abuses of government power by setting up "The Wall," a website which publishes the names of all those who have vanished. Soon, the entire country is talking about the problems of indefinite detention, but...

A dark force is rising. Someone is murdering the world's most beautiful women-over and over and over. When Jarrod and Joshua Sinclair are called in to consult with the FBI about the Hollywood Starlet murders, they immediately suspect their old nemesis, Josef Helmick, of creating clones of famous women for a visiting Saudi prince. Wasting no time, they hire retired detective Fred Kowalski and send him to Dubai to uncover Josef's base of operations and build a case against him for the murders. But Fred soon discovers that Helmick is harboring a secret much darker than human trafficking. Fred...

Kevin Marshall is trapped in a miserable existence with a boss and a fiance who despise him. The Monday night before Thanksgiving, however, through an act of kindness to a stranger, Kevin receives an invitation to begin a new life and awakens the next morning to find himself living his dream. Now Kevin must discover how to let go of his past and accept the invitation for himself before his new life ends as suddenly as it began. You are invited...to experience the power of faith, the joy of love and the magic of Christmas in this holiday story of life choices and second chances.