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Starving. Kidnapped. Stolen. Seeking. Author: Camron Wright As an Audible recommendation of the week with an interesting premise and the shocking appeal of being based on a real story, The Orphan Keeper grabbed my attention. Challamuthu is like any other boy at first glance – mischievous, chipper, curious to learn, loyal to family, tempted by peers. Yet, there is a certain horror to what he accepts and embraces as his daily life in India. Living with an alcoholic and often abusive father Challamuthu has been forced to strike out with broken bottles to defend himself and his mother. He bears permanent markings [...]

The Author of The Shack is Back! Author: WM. Paul Young Best-selling author of the modern spiritual classic, The Shack, WM. Paul Young returns with another intense Biblical and emotional study on the nature of humankind’s relationship and understanding of God: this time from the prospective of a creation narrative. Lilly, a young woman, battered, nearly dead, arrives frozen, cast between worlds and discovered washed ashore by the Finder – John. Together, John and the denizens of his world work together to rebuild Lily – both physically and emotionally. No one knows why she is there, but research reveals that her blood [...]

Stranger than fiction... Author:  Michael Finkel Most of us would struggle to go 24 hours without any contact with another human being.  Try and get your mind around 27 years.  That’s what Christopher Knight did.  At the age of twenty – in 1986 – the Maine native disappeared into the woods and wasn’t seen or heard from again until his capture in 2013.  It may be the most audacious act of solitude in human history.  Was he crazy?  If not, what the heck was wrong with him?  Journalist Michael Finkel needed to know.  Doggedly following Knight’s well concealed trail, he [...]