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Who would you trust with the power to alter the destiny of humanity? Devastated by the loss of his son in a remote rainforest of Indonesian Papua, Quentin Darnell now must struggle to get his wife and surviving students safely back to civilization. But surviving the trek out of the wilderness is only the first challenge, because his group now possesses an object that can create anything or do anything, for better or for worse. Can anyone be trusted with such power? If they can somehow get the object to the United States, will they be heroes—or the world’s destroyers?

If you’re an entrepreneur, you already know the hustle. You’re spinning plates, managing teams, launching ideas, chasing opportunities—and somehow, you still feel stuck. You’re working harder than ever, yet your impact feels smaller than you expected. Sound familiar? You’re not alone—and you’re not broken. In Visionary, author Mark C. Winters unpacks the real reason so many high-achieving entrepreneurs feel frustrated: they’re doing too much of what they shouldn’t be.

Este devocional de un año te invita a vivir un ritmo de encuentros diarios con Dios para que seas transformado por Cristo y despiertes a tu llamado al servicio de Su misión.

Snow loves music. She has spent her entire life learning new instruments and memorizing new pieces, only to while away her life in a country manor with only her mother and twin sister as company. If only she could get out on her own and play in front of a real audience. Rose loves magic. The things she can do with music would amaze her twin sister, but whenever she shows her, Snow quickly forgets as if the event had never happened. If only Rose could get out on her own and work some real magic.

Ed's life changed that first day of September when that deadly twister had roared across his Texas ranch and destroyed his house. But what was much worse was that it had ripped his Bessie and their boys from him and destroyed much more than the wooden structure; it had destroyed his life. Rather than rebuild, he had taken the coward’s way out and crawled into a bottle to escape the loneliness. But Bessie’s anger and disappointment finally made him understand that he had a life to live and other people to help.

It’s a bad week to be one of Murder’s exes. She rushes to the aid of her 71-year-old ex-girlfriend Lucy who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. After Murder leaves to prepare for Levi’s big Hawaiian wedding, a YouTube video reveals a terrorist attack and execution of magical people. This includes one Jackson Kingcade, an Ageless being and magical items dealer who also has a past with the magical musician.

Nothing lasts forever. Even for a queen. White picket fence? Not for me. I need to be amongst them. The lights. The crowd. My place is here. Where I can feel eight million hearts pounding. The alternative is to be alone with my thoughts. My name is Anne, and everyone I have ever known is dead. This Lady Dreamscapes novella leans into the literary fiction and magical realism strands of the series’ DNA. A mother and daughter, no longer separated by 486 years, struggle to connect in the modern world. Road trips! Ghosts? ...and a centuries-old, forgotten power paves the way.

Earth’s last refugees. A one-way trip. A world of terror. Time is up. Earth is collapsing. Eight billion people and countless other living things will die. Bridgers Infinity Fowler and Desmond Weaver have one last chance to save a handful of refugees. And one last chance to have a life together. Earthquakes and storms threaten to destroy humanity’s last hope—the SafeTrek bridging facility. With the building literally collapsing around them, Infinity, Desmond, and a small group of refugees manage to bridge out. Their destination: an alternate world similar to their own.

The school year has begun at Euterpe Music School. Pregnancy, lesson plans, and a new album have Murder beyond busy. But that's not all...the Mayor and the FBI want her cooperation.

THEN: Anne faces execution, her unborn child in jeopardy. Only the Boleyn Triumvirate can save them. But can Mary be trusted? NOW: Time traveler "Eustace Black" might be the mouthpiece for the Holy Roman Emperor. Tress must expose his plan so The Nobles can find London's mysterious "watchmaker"—their only hope for truth. Murder must confront her past, racing to discover what really happened to her mother.

As the Accessories to Murder summer tour barrels to a thrilling close, Grant has a shocking revelation—Murder's eyes have morphed from a vibrant green to a piercing copper. "Maybe I let the enchantment slip. I am exhausted from the tour.” But exhaustion isn’t their only adversary. Magic has vanished, and just in time to derail a crucial climate conference! The Nobles have been slapped with a no-fly order, and that’s not all—Davina is missing without a trace.

Carter Hayes was a soldier. A protector. Until the night he failed the one person who needed him most. Now, drowning in guilt and whiskey, he’s given one last chance to rebuild his shattered life at Valor Ridge, a place for veterans seeking redemption. But Carter isn’t looking for salvation—until he meets Maddie Sinclair. Maddie has spent her career helping others, but Carter is different. Stubborn. Broken. And impossible to ignore. She knows he’s running from something, but what she doesn’t expect is how much she wants to help him stop.

Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman, one of the most popular bands in the country. At the time, it was a controversial move―it was still taboo for African Americans to share the bandstand with white people.

Eighteen-year-old Rose O'Neill leaves her beloved Ireland and boards a steamer bound for New York City. She's starting a new life with Adam, the American soldier who's sworn to marry her. But when she arrives at New York Harbor, Rose finds herself abandoned, pregnant, and alone. Scared and homeless, she takes a job at one of New York's luxury hotels, and gradually begins to see a future for herself and her unborn child. But when a deadly fire rips through the hotel, in one shocking moment Rose loses all she has built.

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With the failed coup on Hegemony put down and Audacious three star systems away, Earth must now come together in order to look beyond its solar system to the greater galaxy. Captain Rohit Mishra, together with Staff Sergeant Dixon and Second Squad, accompany their new allies, the Lomolai, in a mission to find out what happened to Orlova. When they learn where she's gone, it strains credulity.

After a fire subsides enough to enter Jack Easton’s 40-foot sailboat, Sanctuary, investigators discover his body on board with a crushed skull. The police are quick to suspect Alex Hart, the owner of a neighboring boat, when his winch handle is determined to be the murder weapon. His sister, Hannah Hart, a novice private eye, struggles to prove his innocence with the help of a Boston police detective she once helped solve a previous case. Their shadow investigation leads them into the dark corners of the murder victim’s life where they discover several others with motives for the murder.

Mme Frisby, une maman souris, et ses quatre souriceaux, Teresa, Martin, Cynthia et Timothy vivent paisiblement à la campagne. Leur vie est bouleversée lorsque Timothy tombe gravement malade et qu’un tracteur menace de détruire leur maison. Pas question de se laisser abattre ! Mme Frisby est bien décidée à sauver sa famille, coûte que coûte.

Draven Montrose's world, Galdorsfarne, is like a soggy firework: so much potential, so little sparkle. Magic is running out, and so are his dating options. Whilst he should be grateful for a cruelty-free world, he's never known anything else. His (entirely realistic and modest) goals for the year are to solve the magical energy crisis . . . and get a proper boyfriend.

In the early twenty-first century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change.