Charles Mills (1) (1950–)

Because the horrors of war have emotionally scarred his nine-year-old adopted Vietnamese sister Tie Li, eleven-year-old Tony builds a time machine and takes her back to witness God's love in a series of Biblical episodes, beginning with the Garden of Eden and culminating in the birth of Jesus.

He hides it just out of sight, watching, listening, longing. Why has he come? What does he want? More important, will he choose to use the deadly object jammed under his belt?

Stranger in the shadows takes you in a mystifying journey from the alleys of Washington, DC, to the valleys of Montana. Along the way you come to know a boy with a frightening past, and a future that grows more ominous with each passing mile.

But wait! Someone's heart in his trail. Hunched behind the wheel of the pickup show more truck, a policeman pursues the runaway, hoping against hope to reach them in time. If he's too late, tragedy may strike shadow Creek Ranch. show less

It's the most embarrassing moment in Wendy Hansen's life. As she steps into a classroom filled with strangers, everyone burst out laughing. Even the teacher doesn't know what to think of the stoic arrival. After all, how many students show up at a new school with a duck held tightly in their arms?

But one person in the room isn't laughing. Through eyes familiar with pain and self-consciousness, a thin, gaunt girl suddenly sees someone with whom she can relate. So begins a friendship that will show more become far more than casual. In the weeks to follow, it will become a matter of life and death.

Welcome to planet of joy. Master storyteller Charles Mills introduces you to a cast of characters new to the shadow Creek Ranch gang, people young and old who will lift your spirits and take you on a journey you will not soon forget. This book is for anyone who is ever lost hope or long for a heaven that seems so far away. show less

Something mysterious is going on on vacant thirty-sixth floor--something so awesome that it requires all the computing power in the whole skyscraper. At the center of it all is Simon. Simon surfs the future and quarries the past, and helps Tony trace the great conflict between good and evil from the time of the apostles into the future, Slowly Tony is drawn ever deeper into a long-forgotten world of raging storms and shipwrecks and cave dwellers and visiions of three angels with a startling show more message about the day of the sun, a scary beast, and final glory. The Truth Trackers wil keep you right on the edge of your virtual reality cockpit. show less