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Jenna is trying to rebuild her life after a series of disastrous relationships. Luke is struggling to provide a safe, loving home for his deceased partner's young son, following a devastating tragedy. When Jenna and Luke meet and fall in love, they are certain they can achieve the stability and happiness they both desperately need. And yet, someone is watching. Someone who has been scarred by past events. Someone who will stop at nothing to get revenge....

Once every 10,000 years comes the Sha’Daa, two days when evil crosses the dimensional barriers and attacks the Earth. Sha’Daa: Tales of the Apocalypse is a collection of frightening tales that run the gamut from soul-shaking horror, to wry and ironic takes on the end of reality as we know it. Unlikely heroes in unusual locations around the globe battle not only for their own survival, but for all of humanity.

In Heroic Conservatism, Gerson uses his own experiences in the upper tier of the Bush White House to show why America needs a conservatism that is heroic in its aspirations, including "compassionate conservative" proposals to confront global AIDS, combat poverty in America, and promote human rights and dignity abroad - initiatives that Gerson fought for during his time in government.

Uncover the stark realities tearing apart the antiwar movement worldwide: dark money from nefarious regimes run by nefarious dictators has corrupted the peace coalition that was once united in opposition to the Second Iraq War. As Alexander Reid Ross and others have uncovered, pundits and media outlets such as Russia Today have had a disproportionate level of influence on left-wing public opinion. That once-controversial claim has now become mainstream: Nancy Pelosi and Marco Rubio have called for investigations which, however, raise the issue to an inappropriate level and threaten free ...

The alien invasion of America didn't start in 1942 with the "Battle over Los Angeles"; in truth it was thousands of years prior. From the dawn of man, Native American cultures have claimed to be visited by people that came from the stars. There are countless shocking and amazing accounts handed down for generations of aliens from other worlds visiting in our ancient past. These star people educated and civilized mankind and guided the first Americans. Their legends speak of people coming from the stars to educate, guide, and civilize people of the Earth.

Barbarians, dragons, mermaids, and wizards abound in this eccletic collection of fantasy from Chattanooga's own, The Corner Scribbler's. Forward and "An Oath's Other Edge" - a Shijuren universe short story - by guest author, Rob Howell.

Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success. Forty years ago Joan Barnes founded a play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to achieve personal and entrepreneurial success, Barnes led Gymboree to become an innovative leader in a new industry: activity-based early childhood development.

The international order must find ways to survive illiberal assaults from Russia, China, and, increasingly, populist revolutions among its leading members. Doubling down on U.S. dominance would be the wrong approach. It would be better to build a less hegemonic, more diverse system.

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.

Packed with extensive enhancements, including new international case studies and more strategies to introduce and maintain action learning programs within an organisation, Optimizing the Power of Action Learning delivers an innovative and fresh perspective - making it a must-have for any organization looking to heighten competitive advantage and sustain success.

As the twenty-year anniversary of losing his father in the 9/11 disaster approaches, Bryan Rogers takes a sabbatical from his job as a Seattle neurosurgery PA to sail around the world. Halfway through his trip, he felt compelled to enter Yemen's bloody civil war to use his medical skills to save the children. A year into his peace mission, he stumbles on a terrorist plot that would eclipse the one that took his dad, and he is the only person that can thwart it; an around the world chase ensues. The Stones of Yemen will carry readers deep into Yemen's war-torn mountains and into the souls of...

You can see it everywhere—on the news, in social media, in books or movies, and by how some churchgoers behave. Just because people call themselves Christians does not mean they are anything like Jesus. His followers were first called Christians in Antioch. Why? Because they acted like Christ (the original Greek work meant “Christ-people” or “little-Christs”). At the time, it was something of an insult. If people call themselves Christians, but merely go to church, they will not like what they hear about themselves at Judgment. It is not enough to just know about Jesus. To be his ...

Malcolm Cain was once a boy with a Bible and a fire in his soul. He preached barefoot revivals, fed the homeless, and wept every time he said the name of Jesus. Now he’s the face of a billion-dollar movement. His sermons trend globally. His name fills arenas. But there’s one name he no longer mentions… and One voice he can no longer hear. As Malcolm rises to become a spiritual icon, the cost of the spotlight begins to haunt him.

Kinsley has always been the strong one—the steady shoulder, the quiet presence, the girl who holds everything together while falling apart inside. But silence, no matter how noble, has a weight. And hers is finally catching up with her. In this heartfelt and emotionally rich novel, Michael J. Melton tells the story of a young woman who has learned to hide behind calmness and composure, burying her exhaustion, loneliness, and spiritual longing beneath smiles that no one questions. Everyone leans on Kinsley, but no one stops to ask how much it costs her to be “the mature one."

Dr. Jason Davies, a young associate veterinarian, continues his work in small-town Birdie, Oklahoma, under the watchful eye of Dr. John Keating. Each day brings new adventures to Dr. Davies and his entertaining, and sometimes mischievous, clientele.

Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with 14 exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.

House on Fire! follows Sophie, a young investigative journalist searching for answers, whose sources for a story on leadership principles in a high-purpose organization get mixed up in a series of mysterious fires around Pittsburgh. Listeners follow Sophie as she explores the intersection of faith and servant leadership in high-purpose organizations and discover how to put serving leadership to work in their own high-purpose organization today.

It’s the summer of 1964 in Ocean City and the region seethes in racial unrest. The Vietnam War escalates. The Beatles lead the British Invasion in the takeover of rock-and-roll. It is the Age of Aquarius, and against this backdrop, Tom Delaney loses his college scholarship just a year before graduation. With no money or family to fall back on, he hopes to find work at a thriving beachfront to avoid the draft and salvage his dreams. Delaney soon encounters new friends who vie for his talents and will dramatically alter his future. Wendy Morrison, a beautiful surfer girl, want his heart, ...

Status-6: Poseidon’s Shadow An International Techno-Thriller by Michael J. Melton THEY DIDN’T LOSE CONTROL. THEY JUST LET YOU THINK THEY DID. When Russia “accidentally” leaks that ten of its doomsday torpedoes—autonomous, undetectable, and nuclear—have been stolen by terrorists, the world panics. But the truth is even more terrifying: the weapons were never lost. They were deployed. Across oceans. Beneath cities. Waiting. As NATO scrambles to respond, satellites begin to go dark. Bliznets, Russia’s ghost satellites, hijack Western communications.

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly-bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes.