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Some people believe questioning the Bible, the direction God is going, or even God himself, is blasphemy. Some think it’s a sign of disbelief. Daniel Thornton is one such man. He believes his son, Rusty Thornton, is lost without God and takes him to a faraway place in the early 1950s near Spicewood, Texas, where he would never come in contact with people. He has an old King James Version of the Bible and began to try and cure his son’s affliction of skepticism.

Do ghosts walk through walls or do they need a doorway open to allow them to pass from one room into another? But, wait, are there really such things as ghosts? Sophia Knight, wife of two-time Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist, Johnathan Knight lays on her death bed. There is some terrible secret she has kept from her husband the entire time they’ve been married. Yet, her strength is getting weak from cancer. She lays in bed and stares out over the Pacific Ocean and watches the sun go down, wondering if it will be her last sunset she will ever see.

Reverend Mrs. Ada Caston Slaton Bonds was one of the most colorful ministers ever produced by the great Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Beyond a doubt, she overcame more difficulties and passed through more heartaches than any minister ever known to preach the "Whosoever Will" gospel. Miss Ada, as all affectionately called her, possessed countless prodigies.

Hidden Past probes the events that precede a "perfect couple" in their commitment to each other. This psychological drama quickly pulls strangers together and provokes empathy and self-reflection in you, the listener. It challenges you to think about what aspects of your past continue to haunt you.

Si Reardon knows nobody wants to hire an ex-cop fresh out of prison unless it’s for a job nobody wants. His only offer’s from Rose Cantor, an elegant and beautiful “special counsel” who just wants him to take a meeting. Her clients, Grace and Adam Holst, are asking for extreme justice. A very bad man named Valentine Alexeeva, a criminal on the rise, once ordered the deaths of their young daughters over a business deal gone wrong.

A thrill-seeking professor, William Knight, a former recipient of the Nobel Prize in Archeology, from Texas A&M University and two of his graduate assistants, one from Austin, Texas and another from Calgary, Canada, attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot air balloon built to support their journey for two weeks. Their mission was to find an island that records from the University Library in College Station, Texas showed the entranceway to a mystical island that would lead to the lost city of Altinova. Would they find the legendary plaque that held the secret to a lost city?

In his 1920 book The Jews of Africa, Mendelssohn attempts to chart the separate and progressive histories of the Jews in the different parts of Africa where they lived since their expulsion from the land by the Romans. He succeeds in compiling a narrative of a large part of the histories of the Jews of Africa during the centuries following the Romans’ destruction of Jerusalem.

This 1880 book is about the Pepper family of five children and their widowed mother, Mamsie, a seamstress in a small New England town. Mamsie faces poverty with a brave heart, a smiling face, and the help of her children Ben, the eldest at the age of 11; Polly, always eager to cook for the family; the two little ones, Joel and Davie, and the baby Phronsie. The book has been a favorite of children, parents, and teachers for generations, and has inspired countless imaginations with its tender tales of the ways in which courage and good cheer overcome adversity.

Mary Ashley, recién designada embajadora de los Estados Unidos, se convierte en el blanco de una misteriosa conspiración de asesinato. La acción corre de Washington DC a Buenos Aires, de Paris y Roma a Bucarest, mientras Mary se debate entre sus asesinos ocultos y las aparente traicióde los hombres en que confia.

Sombreada por la tragedia y cargada de amnesia, una bella mujer intenta desesperadamente volver a la realidad. Ella es Catherine Douglas, destinada a desafiar una vez más el poder cruel y carismático de Constantin Demiris, el magnate naviero griego que asesinó al esposo de Catherine. Ahora, en las relucientes capitales y áreas de juego despreocupadas de la Europa de la posguerra, Demiris pone sus ojos mortales en Catherine, y el secreto único y traicionero cuya verdad devastadora es conocida solo por ella.

Your unique personal brand is your insatiable Why. Think about why you do what you do. What motivates you? What tasks make you feel fulfilled? Are you striving to become better? Run Your Own Race: 12 Steps to Building Your Powerful Personal Brand equips listeners with the intentional behaviors needed to maintain a strong personal brand in a crowded marketplace. Regardless of where you are in your career, personal branding is a vital skillset to continuously hone.

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles’s multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles’s work, shedding light on aspects of his art that have been eclipsed by a narrow focus on his films.

In its heyday, the southwestern town of Ambition was bustling with enterprise. For the first 50 years the town prospered and expanded in an ever widening circle, away from the freshwater well the town’s founder dug. The well gave life while the people searched out their fortunes, and fortune gave them a reason to call Ambition home. Prosperity eventually fell prey to complacency, and Ambition withered away. It was an incremental decline, unintentional and unavoidable once set into motion.

Vincent Price stars as Simon Templar, an elegant, sophisticated character with a sly sense of humor and impeccable cool. He is criminal in many of his actions, a thief, a liar, a rake, and a rogue - but, he is a criminal with a conscience. Better known as "The Saint," Templar is a freelance troubleshooter who helps people out of desperate situations without so much as spoiling his shoeshine.

All endeavors are going to fall short of your hopes until you understand your biggest enemy: your ego. Most people have no idea that the ego is actually a massive collection of self-sabotaging programming with a goal of keeping everything basically the same. And the ego is brilliant at what it does. Sid Walker presents a formula for bringing any vision into reality by focusing more on your intuitive instincts and less on the conventional wisdom created by the ego.

Sidney Keyes' great allegorical tale of a race between a newfangled steamroller with a top speed of five miles per hour and a horse-drawn hearse, whose two old nags are accustomed to a stately pace appropriate to the transportation of the dead. The race takes on a wider significance as an allegory of progress and the advent of the age of the machine versus the old thoughtful way of life.

GLAMOUR, GLITZ , SEXO, VENGANZA . UN HOMBRE SOLITARIO. Templo Toby es una superestrella y un super bastardo, un hombre adorado por sus fans y lleno de sospechas y desconfianza. UNA MUJER DISALLUSIONED. Castillo Jill llegó a Hollywood para ser una estrella - y descubrió que tenía que vender su ella cuerpo para comprar la fama... con una oscuro y misterioso pasado, ella tiene aún mayor ambición que Toby. JUNTOS. Templo Toby y Jill Castle están unidos entre sí por un amor tan cruel tan fuerte, es más que humano - - y menos que humano. En español.

Are you ready to conquer your call reluctance? That is the promise of this book! Everybody is promoting something, and most of us have some resistance to the process of getting other people interested in whatever you are offering. The resources in this book are a reflection of 30-plus years as a full-time sales performance coach. This information has helped thousands of people break through their barriers and find the will to make the prospecting calls they need to make.

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics" - disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war's wake to change regimes or even overthrow states.

Something was stalking Jennifer. Threatening phone calls, strange noises in the night, a feeling that someone was watching, waiting. No matter how much police protection her rich father provided, no matter how much comfort she got from the nice young man next door, her terror grew. She got a guard dog. A bodyguard. Still, the gloved hand holding the bloody knife slipped through a crack in her bedroom door. And the name Azarius began to be whispered.