Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV’s groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen—from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journey to find a diagnosis for one of her twin girls with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and the collapse of two marriages. She has learned to live under the ...

If you were dreaming right now, would you realize it? Between surreal creatures, endless nightmares, and violence that may not be what it seems, this anthology blurs the line between reality and fantasy.Featuring stories by Sirius, Nicole Duffeck, Aaron Lebold, Alice Lorentino, P.N. Harrison, Andrew Darlington, Charles Stott, Justin Samuels, Fariel Shafee, Zazie Kanwar-Torge, A.R.I. Hemmings, Wendy Wheeler, Paul Lewthwaite, Jack Feerick, J.G. McGrath, Holly Horror, Nenad Mitrovich,...

"It took hitting rock bottom for me to realize that if I wanted something better for my girls, I had to learn to love myself first."Leah was first thrust under the reality television microscope when her teen pregnancy was documented on MTV's groundbreaking series, 16 and Pregnant. Since then, fans of Teen Mom 2 have watched her life play out on the small screen—from her struggle to rise to the challenges of motherhood, through her harrowing journe...

In a powerful work of memoir, history and biography, Jane Messer retraces the tragic and hopeful steps of her Jewish German grandmother, Bella. From pre-war Berlin to Tel Aviv to Melbourne, Messer follows Bella's journey and tries to understand her choices, including why she abandoned her son Michael in England before the war. Along the way, she speaks with historians in Germany, peace activists, scholars and refugees in Israel and Palestine, and, constantly, to her beloved father....

Neil Messer brings together a range of theoretical and practical questions raised by current research on the human brain: questions about both the 'ethics of neuroscience' and the 'neuroscience of ethics'. While some of these are familiar to theologians, others have been more or less ignored hitherto, and the field of neuroethics as a whole has received little theological attention.Drawing on both theological ethics and the science-and-theology field, Messer discusses cognitive-sci...

If we wish to understand ourselves and the world in relation to God, what contribution to our understanding should we expect from a Christian tradition with its roots in the Bible, and what should we expect from the natural sciences?Neil Messer sets out five types of answer to that question. The responses range from the view that the Christian tradition has nothing to contribute, through various forms of dialogue, to the claim that science is irrelevant to theological understanding...

Forced into an early retirement due to illness, Sam Rosen has lost any semblance of control over his life. His frustration flares into rudeness and obstinacy frequently and bizarrely. His wife Rhonda, confined to the carer role, is feeling her identity ebb slowly away as her former life retreats further and further into the past.Their eldest son Mark is over-invested, over-reaching and overwrought. As he lurches towards financial disaster, he can't bring himself to tell his wife In...

Every five years, twenty young adults are selected to participate in the Days of Dreams, an event celebrating Nile Corp. and the Company-Nation. If they survive, they will be rewarded with a place in the wonderful city of Tomorrow, and their families will be safe from need, but the fewer the survivors, the greater the reward.Tam wants to protect Alfie, their boyfriend, at all costs.Akira wants a better life for her family.

Providing the level one student with all they will need to know to understand their course fully, the textbook covers the major areas of ethical theory and methodology that are key to the use of the Bible in Christian ethics, natural law, conscience, various philosophical approaches to ethics and the influence of liberation theologies.

"The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits"-Albert CamusUh oh. Seems like a killer clown is mutilating people in the peaceful city of Nyon.Surely, this has nothing to do with Zeke, a bullied gay high-school student who loves to dress like a clown.Anyway, his friends, a bunch of social outcasts and weirdos, decide to investigate the murders. What could go wrong?In the midst of blo...

In the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that sets the world ablaze, Caleb and Nivitha find themselves thrown into a harsh, unforgiving new reality. They must face their fears, adapt to the dangers of their environment, and decide whether to trust others or isolate themselves.Caleb, social by nature, quickly makes a new group of friends among the survivors.Nivitha, determined to protect her younger sister Asha, guards herse...

A surprisingly friendly serial killer, a seemingly perfectly nice man who succumbs to his darkest impulses, a man who is sent pictures of torture that he has no memory of, a party that turns into a nightmare, supernatural creatures that cause pain and chaos, welcome to Aiden's twisted mind!In this collection you will discover different short stories, some set in reality, others in the supernatural, but all containing a good dose of blood and gore.