healing

Penny Chaney was a living miracle. The victim of a lethally sudden virus, no medicine could help her, and no doctor could bring her back. Then, in the realm between this world and the next, she was given a choice: enter the hereafter, or return to her life with the extraordinary ability to heal others -- but at a great personal price. Penny chose life.

When the forces of the evil Shadow Man kidnap six-year-old Elijah, his parents and siblings, Zach, aged sixteen, and Piper, aged thirteen, face their own weaknesses when they enter the Abyss to try and save him.

Explains how the body's healing system operates, and looks at case histories in which people with seemingly incurable illnesses have experienced complete healing. Gives information on food, exercises, and other factors that can aid the body in maintaining its well-being and investigates alternative medicines and treatments.

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

All his life Billy Dean has known only the world of his bedroom and the sights, sounds, and scents of his father and mother. One day his father disappears, and his mother is allowed to finally show Billy the wider world outside--a broken world, which he has been brought up to save. He is the Angel Child, they tell him, and he must fix every mysterious thing that went wrong on the day of his birth.

A collection of short inspirational stories that tell of men and women who acted heroically in the wake of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

Explores some repulsive aspects of the human body with a focus the body's healing process, and provides facts and information on bleeding, clots, scabs, scars, and other related topics.