The extraordinary true crime story of a family, a brutal shooting, and the year that would change their lives forever. When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox. Then everything changed overnight. Her police officer father, John, was driving to his shift when someone leveled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed left John's jaw on the passenger seat of his car-literally. While clinging to life, he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. The suspect? A local ex-con with rumored mob connections. The motive? Officer Busby was scheduled to testify against the suspect's family in an upcoming trial. Overnight, the Busbys went from being the "family next door" to one under 24-hour armed guard, with police escorts to school, and no contact with friends. Worse, the shooter was still on the loose, and it seemed only a matter of time before he'd come after John-or someone else in the family-again. With few choices left to them, the Busby family went into hiding, severing all ties to the only life they had known.

Explores the science underlying such cooking techniques as frying, roasting, baking, and chopping; and provides tips and recipes utilizing the author's unique cooking principles.Title: How to Read a French FryAuthor: Parsons, RussPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: 2003/09/08Number of Pages: 320Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: BL2003013824

Some doors are better left unopened. Join teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her brother, Scott, and friend Ryan Riordan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the power of God. The Invisible Terror Collection brings together three fast-paced novels of the supernatural by bestselling author Bill Myers. The Haunting Becka and Scott’s greatest enemy is the owner of an occult bookshop. She is requesting their assistance, but helping to conduct a séance is out of the question. Is it really the spirit of a little girl who is haunting the old mansion in town … or something far worse?The Guardian Who wouldn’t welcome protection, guidance, and the path to enlightenment? But the “spirit guide” who claims to offer them to Becka’s friend Julie is sugarcoating a sinister lie―one that threatens to entangle them in the darkest deception of all.The EncounterWhen Krissi starts talking about receiving mysterious messages from an alien being, only Becka takes her seriously. More is at stake than anyone realizes, and Becka is up against one of her strongest and most frightening enemies yet.

Orphaned and penniless in 1922 Baltimore, Maryland, fifteen-year-old Carl and seventeen-year-old Adam Matuski are forced to move across the continent to live with their Uncle Pete in Portland, Oregon. Almost from the beginning, homesick Carl desperately wants to return east with his brother, but his plans fall apart when Adam is sought by police for the theft of expensive jewels from his wealthy girlfriend’s home. Carl is convinced that Adam is being fingered unfairly. He and his brother are Polish Catholics, and Portland is awash in anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant sentiment. Voters, in fact, are being asked to decide whether Catholic schools, indeed all non-public schools, should be outlawed entirely. Carl works at one such Catholic school. Fueled by the Ku Klux Klan and other unsavory groups, the campaign touches Carl personally as he strives to clear his brother’s name and solve the mystery: Who really took the family jewels, and why?