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Alaina was living her life just barely making it. Stuck at a job her ex helped her get, she was forced to work with him and his new wife. Unable to hold in her anger any longer, she reacted before thinking and it cost her to lose it all. With life taking a turn for the worse, Alaina was ready to give it all up, including her life. Hearing her name being called by the last person she expected, stopped her from making the worst decision ever. After meeting Isaiah, you would think he had it all together. Having his own problems to deal with, he met Alaina and realized maybe his problems ...

These are the afterthought tales - bite-size chunks of a life’s grander design, something to gnaw on briefly before moving on. A few recorded moments in time that will ask of you a few minutes of your day. A breathy laugh might follow, or "Oh, yes, I see myself in there!" Maybe, a morsel gifts a smile, while a tale creates a sense of wonder. Enjoy!

At the End is an insight taken from FingerNale Tales, and tells the story of a woman looking back over the years of her life.

The gospel message transcends cultures, but human communication does not. In Transforming Communication missionary and professor Vee J. D-Davidson provides principles for the intercultural communication of Christ. Using her twenty-five-plus years of experience teaching as a Westerner in Asia as a starting point, Davidson provides transferable principles that encourage awareness of context-specific issues and that see opportunities for intercultural communication as wholly unique opportunities, regardless of any perceived communication barriers.

In this post-apocalyptic anthology, nothing matters except survival. Many are forced to scavenge every day to get by while others are part of the remaining vestiges of society. Some face zombies and other monstrous creatures while others watch their backs from fellow humans. Regardless of their numerous challenges, when the end arrives, life finds a way. Features twenty-three short stories by the following authors: Alex Passey, Ainsley Davidson, Daryl Marcus, Stephen A. Roddewig, Matt Spencer, Lee Clark Zumpe, Linda Griffin, Sean E. Britten, Andrea L. Staum, J. VanZile, Kelly Matsuura, ...

"Green Pastures: Ordinary Means of Grace for Ordinary Believers" is an introduction to the ordinary means of grace: the Word, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and prayer.

Este es un mundo donde se hace difícil vivir. ¿Quién no conoce ese terrible sentimiento que puede brotar en nosotros cuando nos enfrentamos a una situación de miedo o estrés? Sin embargo, para el cristiano, este sentimiento también puede hacernos dudar de nuestra fe en Dios. Lo que puede ser aún más desafiante es cuando luchamos cotidianamente con la ansiedad, el miedo y la preocupación. La sensación de inestabilidad y descontrol que acompaña a la ansiedad puede abrumarnos casi totalmente mientras nos hundimos más y más en nuestros pensamientos y nos preguntamos si la paz ...

Grief-stricken over losing his wife in childbirth, Karydor commands that his son be drowned. Carers choose to hide the newborn instead. The child, when his father realizes his terrible mistake, vanishes without a trace.

First lockdown has ended and classes are about to resume, but nothing is as it was. Leanne regards her studies as outdated for an utterly changed world, and decides to do something to help others instead. Her friend Alex has a plane and he is so in when she suggests volunteering in Morocco, and will fly them there. Soon, the sky above and the sands of the Sahara below will tell their tale.

From the realms of prophecy and reincarnation to the reality of ancient dragons, feathered magicians, and Darak Ors, from dreams to the scrying bowl, from thrones to forest clearings, this epic sci-fi/fantasy omnibus edition journeys through, and finely weaves, fact, and fantasy. Part One includes The Kallanon Scales, and The Nemisin Star. A city of stone is discovered in a place forbidden to all. An ancient map leads them there and it changes the future. Ancient kingdoms are exposed, as well as shadowy spheres of influence.

Rayne of the Mantle searches for the magician Aven to confirm rumours of the dara-witch Infinity’s presence on Valaris. He isn’t prepared for what he actually finds. Changeling children bent on murder, a secret Society of Sorcerers, the mysterious waif Averroes, and the Maghdim Medaillon, a magical coin that creates a thread of light between two realms.

Emma Reed is Ward Sister at a frail care center. When Celeste Harwood is admitted, she is suspicious of the woman’s motives. Has Celeste come to hide from the world? If so, that is not right; her bed is needed for someone deserving. When Emma sees how wary the nurses are of Miss Harwood, she understands something else is at work. Her doctor arrives and tells a tale of murder, of a woman about to suffer a terrible death, and Emma’s curiosity is aroused.

The war of eternal darkness is about to commence on Valaris. One battle is already behind the team, the disastrous events upon Ardosia, and now it is time to look ahead to the stability of Valaris, or the same fate awaits her. Hidden from humankind are 14 sacred Valleur sites, each built upon a node of power. Vannis of the Valleur advocates unveiling the sites to restore balance to the earth, balance he claims will aid them in the fight against Margus. The Darak Or has other ideas, and unleashes his soltakin....

Torrullin’s sanctuary is invaded by a desperate call through the spaces. Someone has stolen the Xenian seer, Lowen Dalrish, and he suspects it is Agnimus, the draithen, who nearly annihilated his world and then vanished without a trace. Meanwhile three Valla heirs await the rising of the Valleur Throne; only one will be chosen as Vallorin. When a prophecy is uncovered about Three Kingdoms and rumors of an army secretly building to prevent it, Torrullin realizes the three heirs to the throne are in danger, for the warmongers believe he will carve out Three Kingdoms.

A mist-ridden hill on an empty plain conceals an abyss able to swallow worlds, and is discovered in a place forbidden to all. Ancient beings and shadowy spheres of influence tell a new tale of what was and what is. While objects of power come forth to manipulate and threaten, among them the mighty Valleur Throne, the swords called Lumin, Catharsis, and Nemesis, the true connection is the Maghdim Medaillon, a magical device thought forever lost. Realms entwine when slim fingers one day find the golden coin hidden in a sterile desert.

Richard J. Davidson har studeret hjernemønstre hos tibetanske lamaer og har kunnet påvise meditations gavnlige effekt på hjernen. "DIN HJERNES FØLELSESMÆSSIGE LIV" er en samlet fremlæggelse af de sidste års opdagelser omkring hjernens smidighed og påvirkelighed og specifikt, hvad denne hjerneforskning kan lære os om sindets indretning, om vores forskellighed og om vores individuelle muligheder for at påvirke os selv og øge vores livsglæde. Bogen vil præsentere videnskabelig dokumentation for, hvorfor vi føler og reagerer, som vi gør.

An ancient map, a strange prophecy, and anyone who dares speak of it, dies. A new enemy enters the Valla arena, but this one is as old as time and seeks a forbidden place. An ancient map points the way. Sorcery and technology work together to contain a creature created of time and fire. The terrible secret of the source of Valla power is uncovered and, as friends and family are murdered, Torrullin reveals the truth about the Valla Dragon, a secret about greed from the era of Nemisin.

Two thousand years have passed since the epic explosion of the Valleur Throne. After employing the golden seat as a weapon, Torrullin enters the invisible realms and drags the Darak Or with him, thereby gifting the universe a time of unprecedented peace. Now, there are multiple signs of approaching doom.

Margus and Torrullin are two faces on the same coin. No matter how opposite they are, they remain equal, except Margus has no qualms in using Torrullin's twin sons against him; an agenda he knows causes his enemy suffering. Tymall is the dark twin, whereas Tristamil is the light. To negate their destiny, desperately seeking release from their symbiosis, they must fight until only one remains standing.

The universe is populated, and many worlds are far-flung and forgotten. Until the day Gabryl, a man both alive and dead, his body reposing in a sarcophagus, his spirit roaming as a shifting being, bellows a call to arms. Eurue, as world and civilization, after ages of isolation, will now step into the ultimate arena.