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In this volume, what you will find in the sections that follow are twenty-one amazing stories of death and wealth set around a wandering cousin far out in the cold edges of our solar system. You will find Vikings, knights, warriors defending home and hearth, of triumph and tragedy, and, yes, even the god himself. You will listen to tales of great courage and great loss. Of sacrifice for a greater good and of justice delivered to the overly greedy. You will even find the aforementioned Walt Disney himself.

All practical Shelby Stewart wants is to build her PR career at the Boston zoo, and maybe find some nice guys to date. But long-buried memories of a childhood incident keep interrupting her plans, affecting her health one way after another. And when will she actually date someone her friends think is good enough for her? Ambitious Astrid Ericcson thinks she wrote the book on How to Get Ahead by Flirting. But she is forced to re-visit her career advancement strategy when her PR agency boss takes the innuendos to a whole new level, threatening her job and her safety.

Humans have achieved something no other species has ever experienced: the ability to live in a state of constant comfort. Our bodies are still hard-wired for coping with intense physical and environmental challenge — from famine to extreme temperatures. But our comfortable lifestyles never exercise these hard-wired systems. This is killing us.

Sometimes, the dead do come back. Sometimes, they crave your flesh...and sometimes, they desire your very soul, but they aren’t the only thing you have to fear. You don’t believe in what you can’t see, yet something is there, watching, waiting. You can feel its unholy intentions deep down in the marrow of your bones. You don’t know where it came from, but you know with every fiber of your being that it is not from this earth, and as you feel its gaze searing through your skin, you know the end just might be near.

The spell of an ancient ancestor king throws Jaron into the middle of a war when that king returns from beyond the grave. Jaron discovers that his whole life was only a disguise. His friends weren’t who he thought they were, and his father who he thought was dead, wasn’t. In a war of kings, he might be the final piece of a plan that started centuries ago.

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This is a fast-paced, easy-to-hear story of an accomplished and well-traveled man who never believed in God until the continued, fervent prayers of a few of his dermatology patients broke through. It culminated in a spiritual awakening that has led to more than 30 years of unshakable faith in God, and, in 1994, the founding of the Paramount Church in the historic landmark Paramount Theater Building in Palm Beach, Florida.

Robert Rivers is an honorable thief who has made a living conducting well-planned heists on the various businesses that dot the idyllic environs of Southern California. But during a routine robbery of a local steakhouse, Rivers comes across something that shakes him from his comfortable existence.

The Ven. Laurie Brock and The Rev. Dr. Steve Pankey bring you a weekly podcast on the Lectionary Gospels. In the horse world, where Laurie lives, a hack is an easy, non-competitive ride to relax both horse and rider. In golf, where Steve likes to spend his time, you occasionally have to hack your way out of the rough. At Lectionary Hacks, we’ll try to make it easy for you, but we might take a few wild swings as well.

Shannon Simpson has no idea she can communicate with animals when she sets off on a 100-mile trek through the forest seeking her long-lost grandmother. Finding Gran means winding her way safely through the woods with only a compass, her wits and a mysterious, possibly magical, marra mamba stone to guide her. During her journey, Shannon faces bad weather, injuries, hunger, thirst, and wild animals—some nice and some not so nice. And she uncovers secrets about her family and herself.

Secrets, Adventure, Fear, & Love : Book Two is a collection of six stories by a team of very talented authors. Race To Adoption by Elaine M. DeGroot A young couple's attempts to adopt...a puppy. (Based on real life questions asked of me and my fears of rejection when adopting our first pup.) The Summer in Madrid by Terez Peipins A romantic story of a young gay male. “Don’t you want to be loved or just to love someone?” He didn’t tell his mother just how sad love had made him. One more weight of sadness to what he already carried around with him. Ouroboros by Gary Bolick “The self-...

In the third of the Ellen Parker novels, it is 2013. From the Carolinas to southern Pennsylvania, someone is killing women and leaving many hanging on barbed wire fences. While the unknown killer is pursued by a multi-agency task force led by the FBI, Ellen Parker, a Philadelphia journalist, is contacted by Iraq veteran Elizabeth Chernov, who has encountered a young girl fleeing from the drug-related killings of her guardians. Chernov believes the girl is pursued by the murderers perhaps aided by the police; she trusts Ellen only because she did a story on her and others dealing with the ...

It is 2003: Ellen Parker, now a journalism intern and trying to deal with her demons from violence of a decade ago, watches while in the countryside and small towns of eastern Pennsylvania, someone is stalking and killing women. The killer is not a fool and appears to be quite knowledgeable of police procedures. Disciplined, intelligent, his motives carefully hidden, the killer’s violence is escalating. The task force hunting him, including county Deputy Sheriff Craig Morgan, knows they are running out of time. Ellen has an idea for her paper that is both exciting and terrifying: explore ...

Ellen Parker is taking a long overdue vacation in Coalville, Pennsylvania, testing her healing after last year’s brutal events. Coalville is a small town noted, in the summer of 2014, for its antique stores, bed and breakfasts, and – most recently – ugly death. A tragic plane crash the month before has drawn the attention of hunters from both sides of the law, all looking for something hidden on the plane, something now missing. Initially focused on her own healing and an interest in a handsome man from New York, soon Ellen is aware of the growing danger of the hunters willing to kill...

In the 29th Century, the greatest evil in the human settled worlds is slavery, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. While many oppose it, on some worlds it flourishes, restrained only by the slaveholders’ fear of the slaves themselves, for there is no such thing as slave loyalty. However, in the shattered, burned rubble of Torianis, a rebel warlord’s elite soldiers, soldiers who died fighting with an almost inhuman precision and competency, put the Free Union’s intelligence service on the track of what might be programmable slaves. More than mass produced clones, someone has ...

In Mercenary’s Redemption, the seventh Wild Geese novel by Steven M. Silver, Free Union President Peter Mavis Carmichael, the cunning and ruthless leader of the most powerful bloc among humanity’s Settled Worlds, struggles to maintain his grip on power. At the same time, on the backwater farming world of Kodomir, a member of the Free Union, the man known as Gwielgi tries to find peace with his demons. His grief and guilt drive him into a desert. As fighting rises within the Free Union, Carmichael is believed dead and chaos rapidly spreads and Kodomir is occupied by a brutal leader of ...

It is 1994; Ellen Parker, a thirteen-year-old rural Ohio girl, is mourning the death of her cousin Eileen, killed by a wild bullet from a fight between the Steel Riders and a rival outlaw motorcycle gang, both struggling to control the methamphetamine trade out of Butler County. As Ellen and her family try to comfort one another, county Deputy Sheriff JJ Jeffers works with a federal task force to break up the trade but is becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress and his minor role. The summer stretches on and Ellen finds a sanctuary on the farm of her grandfather Tom. Then...

Someone keeps sending small mercenary groups to perform hit and run raids on the backwater farming world of Kodomir. As tensions rise following attack after attack, Kodomir, still trying to determine who is attacking them and why, suddenly finds itself the target of two imperialist powers, both of whom want Kodomir as a stepping stone towards the other. As foreign fleets in orbit overhead eye one another, diplomats and intelligence officers race to find the key to the lock that will save Kodomir from being ground to dust between the two powers. Part of the solution may be a disgraced ...

During the summer of 2018, young boys are found in shallow graves scattered across Chester County, Pennsylvania, the sites marked only by a red ribbon. There are few clues in the killings and an FBI task force is only slowly finding links between the boys. The ribbon is the killer’s desire for recognition, a desire so strong he calls reporter Ellen Parker to make sure all the bodies are found. He is not simply trying for notoriety – he wants recognition and he wants it for protecting a terrible secret. Ellen Parker, with the help of Robert Blasingame, tries to solve the puzzle of the ...

Mercenary’s Justice, the tenth Wild Geese science fiction novel by Steven M. Silver, follows Gwielgi as he flees from his home, a place of painful memories, and. becomes a mercenary again. He hires on as a security advisor to a judicial team representing the Organization of Settled Worlds’ High Court. Sent into the Frontier to resolve conflicts, the team finds itself in increasing danger and it becomes clear powerful interests, for reasons unclear, are keeping the legal team exposed to that danger. While Gwielgi tries to protect the team and deal with ghosts and ex-enemies of the past, ...