Bøger af Courtney Pierce

This is book 2 of a 12 book series. These books are daily prayer prompts. They contain 31 pages with bible verses and prayer prompts. This series is great for everyone but specializes in helping those who feel broken or worthless. These books can help the participants to regain confidence, elevate daily moods, and increase their sense of worth. They can also help to lower the effects of stress and anxiety. This is done all while being a fun and interactive way of practicing daily prayer.

When living forever is a choice, making the most of today becomes a passion. Creating a legacy isn't easy. More than magic is needed for Jean and Spence Collins to pull it off. Their baby boomer instincts tell them to get cracking; the countdown has begun for the jazz festival to celebrate the opening of Spence's vintage record store in downtown Milwaukie, Oregon. The arrival of two elderly jazz musicians changes the game.Legs Flanders and Wheezy Beevers have come to play the grand finale-and to steal the show. Only Legs can breathe life into the legendary harmonica once owned by Muddy Waters. But the past is catching up with Jean, Spence, and FBI agent, Jon Segert. An investigation into the ancient magical fabric is opened by Jon's nemesis, Special Agent Dan Brick. The secret of immortality is on the verge of being exposed to the world. Can the harmonica protect the fabric, help Jon take down the last inside trader on his hit list, and set the course for the Collinses' future? The goals are in their grasp, but Jean and Spence must first secure Legs's and Wheezy's immortal place in music history. The STITCHES trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion as Jean and Spence celebrate the magic of life's tune, and also the music legends that make it worth living.

The magic started in STITCHES and blossoms in BRUSHES, the second installment of the Collinses' quest to transform their lives from ordinary to extraordinary as they sleuth their way toward retirement. The power of art makes big waves for Jean and Spence Collins. With the magic of the ancient fabric still inside of them, the Collinses make their first visit to their newly inherited B&B in Richmond, Virginia. While there, Jean becomes obsessed with a small painting called The Dancing Boy. She says the painting speaks to her-and it really does! It has secrets to tell, and so do members of the immortal Gaines family who come out of eternal retirement. Immortality really can be a choice, and the possibility of it ignites a passion in the Collinses to realize their dreams in this life. Jean and Spence have no idea the firestorm they're about to unleash after they bring The Dancing Boy home to Portland, Oregon. When they take the painting to the museum to be cleaned by a gifted art student, the worlds of fine art, financial fraud, and magic converge to draw the Jean and Spence into the deadly game of a Ponzi scheme-a game that puts both their magical painting and their inheritance at risk. But the Collinses have a plan. Together with their friend at the FBI, agent Jon Segert, Jean and Spence devise a scheme of generosity-that requires a little immortal help.

When living forever can be a choice, creating a legacy becomes a passion. Jean and Spence Collins step out of the corporate mainstream-and right into a world of magic after they make an innocent purchase at an estate sale. And their lives are about to go from ordinary to extraordinary. After thirty-two years in the corporate grind, Jean and Spence Collins are ready for a magical time-out when they move back to Portland, Oregon. And that's what they get when Jean buys an old chest at the estate sale of Mary Coulter, an elderly widow. Hidden inside the chest is an ancient eighteen-inch piece of fabric that begins to act strange-the three magnificent birds on it are ancient and alive. And they're about to change the Collinses' lives too. At the touch of her most treasured possessions to be sold, Mary Coulter is ready to let go and move into a senior living community. But she's not ready to give up on her potential journey to immortality. The magical fabric holds the key, but she can't find it. Mary's greedy son, Raleigh, wants to get his hands on the fabric too-he needs money fast. An FBI agent has his eye on Raleigh for insider trading. And Raleigh has his eye on the Collinses. Jean and Spence track down Mary Coulter, who knows of the fabric's powers-but not all its secrets. With Raleigh and the FBI on their heels, Jean and Spence set off on a transforming quest to London, and finally to Cairo, to unlock the fabrics secrets of life...and death. And what they find out will change their lives forever. STITCHES is the first installment of a trilogy following the magical journey of Jean and Spence Collins as they sleuth their way toward retirement - with a little immortal help. Celebrate the adventurous spirit of the boomers who want to put away the remote and run to the next phase of life. Magic exists for every generation, but what you do with it can change your life forever.

What would you risk for freedom? Mercy Baudelaire has been held captive since her eleventh birthday when the government took her away from her family. The reason? To save their lives. Her childhood was spent on the run, escaping the hands reaching out to pull her into a world of deadly conspiracies and experiments. For years she was tortured at the hands of a government too corrupt to care. Because of her gifts she fought so hard to conceal, freedom was nonexistent. As Mercy finds herself on the run once again, she encounters misfits with powers of their own; allies in a game of life she was sure to lose. Now, placing faith in freedom didn't sound too impossible to the hopeless young girl. But where faith exists, darkness often lies in wait. Mercy's enemies refuse to go down easily and not even time can save her now. What happens when conspiracies are proven and super-humans fight to take back what is rightfully theirs? In AS THE WORLD TURNS COLD, Mercy Baudelaire sets out on an adventure to prove to herself that in a broken world where the line between human and monster wears thin, a little faith goes a long way.

This book is a mix of different winter and Christmas themed images. All of these adorable pictures are hand drawn and computer edited to create a memorable holiday experience. Dissimilar to some of the other books drawn by this artist, Inspired Colors and Fun with Winter and Christmas, is truly a book with only one-sided pages. This book offers a mixture of complex and simple images so that the book is great for all ages. This book is also designed with anxiety in mind. It is great for relaxing and taking a moment for yourself as well as coloring with your family. Great pictures for everyone to enjoy!

You can never escape the confines of your own mind. So often we immerse ourselves in the confines of fiction and that it entails. It is easier that way. Perhaps, the most difficult thing of all is to look inside ourselves and unleash all the bottled up thoughts and emotions that don't ever quite make the cut. I invite you to explore all of the happiest of thoughts, the worst of them, and all the moments in between. For my hands held pens as daggers, and the words bled out.

Leave it to the Dushane sisters to complicate a simple situation . . . If there's one thing author Olivia Novak loves more than books it's family dirt. The success of her deceased mother's best-selling novel, Indigo to Black, begs for further investigation to find out if the so-called fictional murder is true. But she has one complication: the new love of Olivia's life, 62-year-old attorney Woody Rainey, is connected to the story through his mother, too. Woody's mother sued Olivia and her two sisters, Lauren and Danny, over Indigo to Black. Cracking open the family "dirtball" is key to her and Woody's future. And dead mothers tell no tales.Digging into the truth begins under the hot lights of a book auction in New York. A collection of Woody's inherited books is about to be sold. Letting go of first editions is nearly as tough for Olivia as removing her old wedding ring. In a desperate move before the hammer drops, Olivia makes a shocking decision that could blow apart her and Woody's relationship. This calamity requires a clean-up call to Olivia's street team in Portland, Oregon: her two sisters, Lauren and Danny, a Portland cop, and a pair of wise-guy therapy dogs, Pogo and Beauregard. But a monster snowstorm arrives with them. Protecting Mom's reputation takes more than an unbreakable sibling bond and a vow of lifelong love-it requires a risk of life and limb and a four-wheel drive to have a sit-down with elderly mobsters in a Pennsylvania prison.

This book is a mix of different fall and Halloween themed images. All pictures are adorably hand drawn and computer edited to create this holiday experience. Dissimilar to other books in this series, Inspired Colors and Fun with Fall and Halloween, is truly a book with only one-sided pages. The main image of each page offers a cute coloring opportunity for every age while the more intricate borders provide more of a challenge that even adults will enjoy.

Portland, Oregon's own best-selling romance author, Olivia Novak, should have been entering life's third act with a sparkling clean storybook Tudor, her first serious novel under her belt, and a real-life romance with her husband of thirty-two years. Instead, her husband was killed in a hit-and-run, a case the police have shelved, and she's too worn out from her own obsessive three-year hunt for the culprit to write. Now, her mother has died. As the executrix of the estate, which doesn't amount to much, Olivia prefers managing the paperwork to keeping a lid on the combustible brew that is her two sisters, Lauren and Danielle. At sixty, Lauren is Mom's mouthy memory defender as she waits for the daily chime of wine o'clock. Danielle, the pampered baby of the family at forty-five, suddenly has nowhere to go, having lived with Mom since walking out on her fiancé, Ryan, a Portland cop. Olivia thinks the final straw is her elderly neighbor, R. D. Griffin, asking her to dog-sit Pogo, his unruly standard poodle. But she's wrong. When R. D. goes missing, the three sisters and Pogo stick their noses into the case . . . and the dog senses something fishy. Can Pogo unite the sisters, help Ryan solve both cases, and inspire Olivia to deliver her next book? Olivia needs a lifeline from Mom from beyond the crematory urn, and she finds one in the safe - in the form of a manuscript. Olivia's in for the story of her life, all right - but it's beyond anything she could write on her own.