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A famous 18-year-old fiddle player, Beau, is abducted from her parents’ huge Sierra home at a birthday folk jam in her honor one summer in the early part of the 21st century. As a fire burns up the mountain while she is buried on the land under a pile of brush, she is found just in time. A month later, much to her horror, she is abducted again, this time from a Berkeley music jam.

In a comic whirlwind of high style, La Bête tells the story of Elomire, a 17th century French playwright, and his touring acting troupe who have come to lead the high life due to the patronage of the fickle Prince of Conti. Sparks fly when Valere, a swaggering braggert with delusions of artistic grandeur, becomes the Prince's choice to join Elomire's troupe. It is a battle of wits and witticisms as the two face off in this outrageous commentary on the nature of art and the artist in society.

The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors. Big hats, big trucks, big oil fortunes—Texas clichés all. And while those elements do flourish throughout...

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a...

In der entferntesten unwirtlichsten Ecke Ungarns, nahe der slowakischen Grenze, erheben sich auf einem Ausläufer der Kleinen Karpaten dunkel und drohend die Überreste von Schloss Csejthe. Im Inneren der Ruine befindet sich ein zugemauerter Raum, der die sterbliche Hülle der Blutgräfin vor den Blicken der Neugierigen verbirgt. Nebenan liegt der Eingang zu einem unterirdischen Gewölbe, dessen eiserne Tür jahrhundertelang verschlossen blieb, bis der Rost das Schloss zerfraß.

A lifetime journey. A test of faith. A calling to a deeper love. This is more than a book; it's a heartfelt testament to resilience, devotion, and discovering love's true meaning through the eyes of King David. In Becoming One with Christ, I share my journey--a lifetime of seeking spiritual depth and strength, which was put to the ultimate test during the pandemic. During that turbulent time, I encountered profound revelations through David's trials, triumphs, and unwavering faith. Now I want to share these lessons with you in hopes they will inspire and embolden your own walk of faith.

Being an outlaw for many years, I took fact and fiction and mixed it up...and here you go.

A muscular man stands atop the roaring falls wearing a traditional Lakota war bonnet and buckskin garment. A vision back in time. James, Melissa, and Josiah are a family of three seeking shelter in a park in the mountains. Because of a society in collapse, the president, as his final act, opens all federal parks to citizens so that they could use the resources there. Food shortages and anarchy have weakened the nation to the brink of destruction. These families are forced to return to a native way of living where only the strong survive.

Dave Brown with three of the book's Montford Pointers. Platoon Sergeant Charles Foreman, First Sergeant Jack McDowell, and Ambassador Ted Britton at the Twelfth Montford Point Marines Day on August 26, 2021Shoulders to Stand On: Marine Corps Heroes from 1942 takes a historic look at racism in the Marine Corps initially under the leadership of the Corps' Commandant in WW II who stated in 1941, "It is my unwavering intention to tell the General Board up front that, if it ever was a question of having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites.

This book guides you to recognize, reframe, and replace the negative or unsupportive thoughts in your mind, allowing them to exemplify the values most important to you instead. You will be thoroughly challenged as you become masterfully conditioned to automatically respond in ways representative of favorable and successful tendencies. By learning these techniques, you will gain insight and begin thinking without persuasion or concern for a poor knee-jerk reaction.

The year is 2028. Man's most ancient and feared enemy still walks the earth. For centuries, he has been consolidating his power and marshaling his dark forces for one last play. Walker Cain is the Man of Shadows and has only one agenda: to establish a one-world order through which he can control our destiny and remove our freedoms of personal choice. For him, no other plan can be worth his time and resources. He is the beast and intends for all to carry his mark. Benjamin Jasher has been a historian for as long as humanity has lived to record the advancement of civilizations.

Four people driven by their passions, struggle for love and money in an untrustworthy world. A veteran cartel hitman, Curtis, and his sworn enemy, Tom, must team up to find two 20-year-olds, David and his girlfriend Aubrey, who ran off with the cartel’s cash.

The Baseball King is about a famous left-handed major-league baseball pitcher, Charlton Harmon. He has epilepsy and played for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He loves to tell others about God. Unexpectedly, Charlton passes away, and his son, Christian Harmon, who learned a lot from his dad, also has epilepsy and is a left-handed pitcher. Christian wants to form a team of his own and become great, just like his father.

Everyone wants to be a winner in life. But winning doesn’t just happen. This book will help you discover how to MAKE WINNING HAPPEN in your life. Being a winner is a matter of choice, not chance.

Avior Aviideus is born with an impossibly rare condition. The particles that make him up are phasing in and out of the universe. To save his life, doctors upload his consciousness into the Simulation, where he spends his childhood in infinite digital freedom.

Since the start of time, man has been searching for ways to live a productive and meaningful life. Everyone goes through this thought process, either consciously or subconsciously. The key to finding that answer is to begin asking the right questions. A great starting point for asking the right questions is a question I asked myself thirty years ago. That question was, What are my core values, principles, or beliefs? In other words, what is truly important to me. I simplified that question to this–What do I believe?

Over the past fifteen years, as a licensed health provider in the United States, I remain incredibly inspired at how the human body works and its ability to heal and repair itself if given the right resources and conditions. I have always believed that the fundamental premise of our healthcare system should focus on using the best practices across all disciplines to offer solutions that support the inherent healing ability of the body to obtain sustainable health outcomes.

Isn't that what many of us are seeking? We crave security in our relationships, in our finances, and in our spirituality. Yet, regardless of the faith we profess, our churches, our synagogues, and even our mosques, consist of a myriad of rules, covenants, tenets, and creeds dictating how we must live to honor our God. They leave us confused and often divided. Wouldn't it be better for believers to raise up what unites us? A Simple Foundation provides a simple, solid foundation, based on Scripture, to live a truly exciting life, becoming more and more in the image of Christ.

Ist der Sträfling Oscar Rian wirklich der, für den er sich ausgibt? Oberinspektor Greywood Usher von der Polizei in Chicago hat daran seine Zweifel. Wie gut, dass der Inspektor einen Lügendetektor hat. Leider hat er aber auch den neugierigen Pater Brown am Hals, der zufällig gerade einen Studienfreund in Amerika besucht. Und der Pater hat so seine Zweifel, ob eine Maschine wirklich die Wahrheit herausfinden kann.

Die alte Mrs. Mulligan bietet Sherlock Holmes und seinen Freund Dr. Watson um Hilfe. Ihre Tochter Louise ist seit einigen Tagen spurlos verschwunden, weshalb die gebrechliche Dame vom Schlimmsten ausgeht. Die Detektive werden bei Ermittlungen von dem übereifrigen Reporter Geoffrey Cooper begleitet, der einen großen Bericht über Holmes schreiben will und ihnen keine Minute von der Seite weicht.