New Releases by Angela Elwell Hunt

Now collected in one volume are three favorite titles: "Sandpebbles, Strandedin Paradise," and "The Pearl."

Nicki and her friends try to help their school track team''s star runner Jeremy, who has received a mysterious threat about his next race.

Nicki and her friends try to find out who is behind the mysterious occurrences at the small local bowling alley.

Nicki and her friends are invited to spend a few days at a 500-year-old Irish castle, but soon it turns into a dangerous search for the truth about a legendary treasure.

Christine''s friends help her investigate the cause of her older brother''s increasingly violent behavior after witnessing his frightening outbursts.

Having nearly forgotten her troubled early years in the wake of a successful twenty-five-year marriage and her husband''s renowned ministry, Emma Howard finds herself confronting the past and reevaluating her faith when the child she gave up for adoption reappears in her life. Original.

For eight years, a woman has taught, tended, and loved a western lowland gorilla named Sema, and has pushed their interactions to breakthrough levels. But now the zoo that owns Sema is demanding her return so they can exploit her abilities to fund zoo projects.

Aurora Rose Norquest is different from her neighbors, different from most people. Still single at thirty-five, she spends every hour of her days and nights in an elegant Manhattan apartment, quietly caring for her invalid mother. Then her mother dies, and Aurora''s world spins on its axis. Reality shatters into startlingly realistic nightmares, and the shards of troubling memories slice into her sleep. Everything Aurora has believed about herself and her world fades into murky dreams that will not let her rest. Something, someone is pursuing Aurora--growing more threatening by the day, testing the limits of her sanity. Will she find the courage to confront her unseen pursuer? Or will she surrender to the destructive melancholy that haunts her days and nights? What will it take to satisfy the relentless intruder whose voice presses her toward The Awakening?

Thirteen-year-old Josiah accepts a spot in the nation''s hottest young band in spite of his scoliosis which, if discovered, could result in his dismissal.

Caught in an unguarded moment, Liane reveals her intellect to a reporter.

Neurologist Alexandra Pace teams up with British physician Michael Kenway to search the Amazon jungle for an indigenous people who may hold the cure for the deadly disease that is killing her body and mind.

Dr. Diana Sheldon''s whole life changes after a bad decision and she struggles to get her family back.

Vernie Bidderman, the owner of the Mooseleuk Mercantile, and Salt Gribbon, the lighthouse operator, learn lessons in failure and the frustration of self-reliance despite their differences. Original.

Presents three novellas that celebrate motherhood, as well as sketches and poems about mothers by authors, their children, and others.

This touching look at a young couple''s first year of marriage opens on their first anniversary when a weeping Heather Stone is convinced her marriage is finished, while Kurt Stone is alone in his "cave" mulling over the mess of their supposed marital bliss. Through their relationship, the story explores how men and women must learn to understand the other in order to make a marriage work.

Claudia is stunned by Asher Genzano''s story. Who is he? A fanatic? A religious zealot? A raving lunatic? Or is he what he says he is-a 2000-year-old man cursed with immortality and on a holy mission to prevent a global cataclysm? Her search for answers leads Claudia into the past where myth, history, and prophecy intertwine in ancient legends of the Wandering Jew, biblical warnings about the Antichrist, and eyewitness accounts of the Crucifixion, the Inquisition, the Holocaust. What Claudia learns challenges everything she believes . . . about life, love, and God.

Versatile and prolific author Angela Elwell Hunt has two young teenagers of her own and has worked for 23 years with her husband in middle school youth ministry. In this book, she draws from her own and many others'' experience to instruct parents and anyone who loves teenagers in the fine art of relating to and caring for these sometimes puzzling young strangers. Throughout the book, Hunt teaches through warm, humorous true stories that she has collected from her wide contacts with other parents of middle schoolers.

"Captivating, practical, and down-to-earth. A rare Christian resource."Paul Fleischmann, executive director of National Network of Youth Ministries

In this sequel to "Against the Dawn", evil ruler Adrian Romulus has achieved the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and its Arab neighbors and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. Will Isaac Ben-David, a member of Romulus''s inner circle and new believer in Christ, learn the truth in time to stop the ultimate evil?

computer genius Daniel Prentice has no idea that the entrepreneurial opportunity of his lifetime will lead to a dangerous entanglement with a one-world government.

Even with her beloved husband gone, Lara Godfrey can''t help but feel renewed hope and joy over the new life growing inside her. But as the infant''s birth date draws near, Lara''s joy dims with the knowledge that someone is intent on possessing her child. Fleeing in terror, Lara''s only hope lies in trusting a man whose life is as shadowed as her own.

Daniel Prentice''s technological skill helped save the world from the deadly impact of Y2K in the popular thriller Flee the Darkness. But that victory didn''t stop the encroaching evil. In this gripping sequel, tension mounts in the 21st century as a Russion-Arab invasion of Jerusalem seems imminent. Now Daniel must guide NSA chief Captain Michael Reed in the battle ahead. More than a battle for the land, the offensive could be the fulfillment of Ezekiel''s ancient biblical prophecy of Gog and Magog invading Israel. As the world shudders in response, the invaders offer Israel a choice: surrender or be obliterated. As the State of Israel fortifies itself against the coming onslaught of missiles, biological weapons, and an invasion force attacking from all four borders, Reed and his Israeli counterpart, Sergeant Major Devorah Cohen, exhaust every military resource to prevent a nuclear war. Soon Reed and Cohen realize that the real battle they face is one of spiritual origin-for which no military drill could prepare them. Will Michael and Deborah find faith to confront the enemy? Never have the forces of evil been stronger, the stakes higher, or the world''s possible destruction nearer than By Dawn''s Early Light.

Series: Legacies of the Ancient River.

Series: Legacies of the Ancient River.

Series: Legacies of the Ancient River.

In the wilds of America, Rev. Thomas Colman must win beautiful, fiery Jocelyn''s hand in marriage or face fifteen years of servitude.

While continuing her voyage to America, Kimberly encounters not only a deaf girl who attempts to save a baby whale but also a Jewish boy who accepts Christ.

Unknown writer, Theodora Russell is mistaken for famous but reclusive novelist, Theodore Russell by a high-powered editor who wines and dines and offers her half a million for what is really the other author''s proposal for a novel. Lively, readable and amusing.

A teenager''s grade nine journal records her thoughts and feelings as her parents divorce and build new lives. Includes information and advice designed to ease a teenager''s transition through a family break up. Also includes bible verses and meditations.