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First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles.

Bad boys were never my thing, unless they existed within the pages of a book. Until Alex Moss came to my rescue like some sort of avenging angel. He saved my life, which is why I believed him when he told me the threat against my life was back, and only he could protect me. With his dark hair, golden eyes, and broad shoulders, the warlock was hard to resist. Yet even as his kisses made me crave more, there was something about him that frightened me. It wasn’t until I tasted his blood that I knew it wasn’t magic that brought us together, but fate. The warlock is MINE.

When an ATF raid on a cult compound goes horribly wrong, the cult leader and his band of deadly terrorists escape. On the run and desperate, they need a place to hide. A remote family farm makes for the perfect place. But there’s one big problem. The family that lives there has a guest—a drifter they picked up by the name of Jack Widow.

The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is a model of social tolerance and global thinking, the surrounding community turns out in the thousands to participate in what becomes a radical cultural hub of the city. Over the course of one hot summer the boys grapple to learn what a democracy is and to oversee its demands.

A few years ago, I wanted to buy a little book of prayers for a friend and was surprised that there didn’t seem to be much available. It was this that motivated me to put together Hope: Changing Rooms. In these uncertain times, we all need hope wherever we find ourselves, and especially as we face important or challenging decisions.

Endless Seasons is a collection of poems about oil, the Niger Delta, and emotions. Oppression, pain, corruption, exploitation and injustice are themes that run through the poems. There is the recurrent theme of female subjugation, as well as the deep personal struggles of the African woman. In diverse ways, the poems poignantly portray the sufferings of the women, men, and children of Africa.

Raz Frewer just made a bet with the Devil. He needs a cure to save his dying wife, and Lucifer has it—a mystical lamp, but its pieces were scattered around the globe centuries earlier. If he can find them, he'll get his cure; if he can't, the Devil gets his soul.

What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society’s cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City's Rikers Island prison complex—from incarcerated people and their relatives, to officers, lawyers, and commissioners, with stories spanning the 1970s to the present day. The portrait that emerges calls into question the very nature of justice in America.

It was supposed to be a holiday, with nothing more challenging than babysitting, navigating familial politics, and arguing about the proper way to brew tea. But when dragon prince Thuan and his ruthless husband Asmodeus find a corpse in a ruined shrine and a hungry ghost who is the only witness to the crime, their holiday goes from restful to high-pressure. Someone is trying to silence the ghost and everyone involved. Asmodeus wants revenge for the murder; Thuan would like everyone, including Asmodeus, to stay alive.

Die Nautilus liegt noch immer auf dem seltsamen Wüstenplanten. Die verbliebene Besatzung entschließt sich zu einer Erkundungsmission und trifft auf merkwürdig vertraut wirkende Bewohner und eine uralte Stadt. Doch schnell wird klar, dass dort eine tödliche Bedrohung lauert.

Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhealthy amount of candied fruit. But when dragon prince Thuan brings home his brooding and ruthless husband Asmodeus for the New Year, they find not interminable family gatherings, but a corpse outside their quarters. Asmodeus is thrilled by the murder investigation; Thuan, who gets dragged into the political plotting he'd sworn off when he left, is less enthusiastic.

Rigby Croxford's introduction to the United States proves to be more perilous than anything he faced in Africa. His efforts to defend his famous brother-in- law, a television newscaster, from a sex scandal puts him at odds with men bent on destroying America.

Life gives you so many opportunities to go out there and take action. There are so many things you can do, but without action, nothing will come to fruition. Many people wait for the opportunity to come to them, but it's when you go after the opportunity that things actually happen for you. The people you see who are successful are not successful because some great thing happened to them or because they're just smarter or better than you. It’s because they actually went out and took action on the things that they wanted to do.

Improve your grades and test scores with smarter study methods. It may be surprising, but you probably do not know how to get the most from your time and effort studying for school or training on the job. Most of us try to "memorize it all and hope for the best during exams." The best students don't memorize things they need to actually understand.

Imagine you’re a high school kid, a football player in a small Texas town, totally focused on attending West Point. In an instant, your plans are derailed in a horrific auto accident. For Philip Jalufka, life has presented a series of challenges, starting with an accident that required the jaws of life to extract him from a crushed car. With each setback, Philip found the strength to make decisions that guided him to personal and professional success. Following a detour to West Point, he graduated the Academy with honors and went on to serve in the elite U.S. Army Special Operations.

Steve Galanos, a native Midwesterner, reflects on his time in Northern California during the 1990s, a time when the two-digit year emerged as the Y2K problem, the burgeoning Internet fueled the expansion of the New Economy, the dot-com bubble created unseen prosperity and real estate frenzies. Yet it’s a housewarming party, held in late 1999, that affects him the most. At the request of John Goertz, a group of technology managers and executives gather in a conference room.

Wireless connectivity is an amazing and empowering technology. It allows people to access data and be in touch with others in a way which was impossible until recently. Whether we are are accomplishing financial transactions, reading books, listening to podcasts, or listing merchandise for e-commerce, wireless connectivity is a critical link in nearly all of our usage of the internet.

Après plus de 10 ans de formation de disciples, l’auteur a identifié les défis majeurs auxquels tout nouveau croyant doit faire face:J’ai écrit ce livre pour t’aider à comprendre ce qu’aimer Christ veut dire et te transmettre les rudiments qui t’aideront à maintenir le cap à sa suite. Dans la première partie, tu découvriras ce qu’est la vie chrétienne: en quoi consistent ton salut et ce qu’il implique comme promesses, exigences et buts. Dans la deuxième, je te partagerais des conseils bibliques et des outils pour construire concrètement ta vie en Christ.

Dans la Bible, beaucoup ont choisi, en dépit des circonstances, de placer leur confiance en Dieu. L’auteur s’inspire de plusieurs d’entre eux à travers 34 méditations. Il imagine leurs raisonnements face aux doutes et aux difficultés de la vie. Avec beaucoup de talent, il apporte du relief à la personnalité de ces hommes et de ces femmes, pour leur donner vie, les rendre accessibles et proches de nos questionnements. Il n’a qu’un désir: que vous puissiez, vous aussi, être encouragé à croire en Jésus même quand tout s’y oppose.

Jack und Cliff finden heraus, dass es ein Geheimnis in der Vergangenheit des alten Segelschiffes Bonny Star gibt. Es gehörte einst dem berüchtigten Freibeuter und Haudegen Perry Nutting. Der transportierte damals damit Edelsteine und Kostbarkeiten von den East Indies nach Amerika. Doch dann wurde das Schiff von Piraten angegriffen und geriet in einen Sturm.