Computer technician Jimmy Culver, having recently moved back to his hometown, is doing well with a new job and girlfriend, but things start to fall apart when he starts having nightmares of an incident from his past, and he must unravel the secret of the haunting dreams before they overtake his life.
Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.
Josh Winkler's small town life is thrown into a tailspin when he wanders down a pathway that somehow deposits him fifteen minutes in the past and he encounters a young woman claiming to be from 1908.
Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.
Highlights some of the attractions of Illinois while providing information about the history, geography, agriculture, and industry of the state. Includes lists of state symbols and famous people, as well as the words to the state song, maps, and illustrations.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Illinois, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous Illinoisans.
Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--has happened and he has been left behind.
When the Antichrist takes over the world, Rayford, Buck, Bruce, and Chloe form the Tribulation Force to try and stop the war, famine, plagues, and disasters that are killing millions of people.
