Gabe is feeling the pressure. His family has money troubles, he's hardly talking to his dad, plus lowlife Benny is on his case. Needing some space to think, he heads off into the hills surrounding LA. And he suddenly stumbles across a secret that will change everything. A shallow grave. Gabe doesn't think twice about taking the gold bracelet he finds buried there. Even from the clutches of skeletal hands. But he has no idea what he's awakening...

Paul Hendry just wants to get away from him mother and annoying stepfather. But when he runs away, he finds that life on the streets is nothing like what he expected. By chance, he falls in with a radical action group called Omega Place, whose members are determined to let people know exactly how closely the government is watching them on closed-circuit TV cameras posted in public places. What are the ramifications of this kind of footage? Paul is about to find out.

When his older sister Charlie vanishes while traveling through Asia, seventeen-year-old Adam decides he can do more to find her than the nonchalant police and his distraught parents. Without telling his family, he boards a plane for Tokyo. He suspects Charlie may have been involved in the twilight world of bar "hostessing"-or worse. With help from new friends, especially the intriguing and beautiful Aiko, Adam prowls the town. His search ultimately leads him to Tokyo's underbelly of gangst...

The Gospel of Mark, the second book of the New Testament, serves as a profound narrative enriching Christian spirituality. At its heart, Mark's Gospel is a vivid and concise account of Jesus's ministry, focusing primarily on his actions and miracles. This briskly paced story propels us into the core of Jesus's life, revealing him as the ultimate Servant and the Son of God. Its simplicity and directness make it an accessible yet profoundly thought-provoking text for daily devotion and refle...

The Heresy came to Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion Guilliman’s own Ultramarines were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy arcology shelters beneath the planet’s surface. In this all-new c...

Discover 30 Remarkably Diverse Stories from the First Thousand Years of the Church· Encouraging, inspirational, challenging, and convicting true stories of the global church· Sheds light on Western and non-Western church history through stories from a wide variety of cultural, social, and political contexts· Offers invaluable insights for our timesFor many Christians, our understanding of the history of the church universal jumps straight from ...

For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a more equitable digital future.Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions laboring under often appal...

The incredible story of the special investigations unit that tracked down the Nazis who called Australia home after World War II.In 1986 journalist Mark Aarons presented a Radio National series, which established that a significant number of Nazi collaborators and war criminals – particularly from Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Yugoslavia – had settled in Australia after World War II.Aarons' explosive reporting led to the formation in 1987 of the Special ...

A fictional story, yet based on some truth. The characters are a mix of real people's characteristics, habits, looks and traits. Hence my 'Stealing your soul'. It is adult dark and sexual humour. Two friends who set out to find the meaning of love, what it costs, entails and it's effects on them both.I am no best-selling author. My writing is basic, written so that everyone can understand and hopefully relate to. It is a passion of writing. A love that was instilled way back in my ...

For many Christians, our understanding of the history of the church universal jumps straight from what we read in the New Testament to a basic understanding of the Reformation. We're missing more than a millennium! And it was a busy, fascinating, tumultuous thousand-or-so years during which Christianity spread across three continents. In places as distant and different from each other as China, Sudan, and Britain, the gospel was spreading, the church was growing, and believers were express...

you stuck in the Rat Race? Do you want to start Trading and live your Best Life? Then this Book is for You!Thanks to the incredible strategies presented in this book, you will learn the best and most powerful trading strategies to create abundance in your life. You see, most people go through their day exchanging their time for money and having a miserable life which they are cannot change.But you are different. The fact that you are looking for practical s...

Le incredibili avventure di un Rospo snob e capriccioso, di una Talpa, un Topo d'acqua e un Tasso vecchio e saggio, nella felice traduzione di Beppe Fenoglio.«Il vento nei salici parla del desiderio che ciascuno di noi ha di sentirsi al sicuro dentro la propria casa, e di come ciò confligga con il nostro bisogno di avventura. Narra della bellezza e dell'asperità della natura. Di quanto sia piacevole essere bambino e dei pericoli in cui possiamo incorrere senza la guida di ...