Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Now a USA Today bestseller!Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing...

The pastor who seeks to preach expositionally through Psalms faces a daunting task, for the sermon series would take several years to complete and many of the sermons would seem repetitious because of similar psalms. To respond to this challenge the author has used the book theology method to analyze the Book of Psalms into twenty-eight theological themes, providing the preacher with material for approximately a one-year series on the book. Each chapter includes a list of applicable theolo...

Since the days of Dimitur Blagoev, a member of the first Marxist group in Russia and a founder of Bulgarian communism, the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) was closely identified with its Russian counterpart. In the waning days of the Soviet Bloc, the best-known fact about Bulgaria was that it modeled itself closely on the USSR and was allegedly linked to KGB terrorist activities. Those similarities were more than superficial. The internal factions in the early history of the party, the emp...

Bookbinder Lily Delaney must unravel a mystery involving a missing man, a long-ago secret society, a murder, and the supposedly mythical, heretical Liber Numerorum—The Book of Numbers—in this compelling sequel to the national bestseller, The Bookbinder's Secret.Read on if you dare!That is the epigraph in the hidden journal found by bookbinder Lilian "Lily" Delaney when her friend, mentor, and partner John Caxton disappears after a...

Josiah Braxton's future changed when he found Benjamin Wolff in his living room, pointing a gun at him. But neither Braxton nor Wolff had an inkling how the changes brought by that meeting would cascade through the multiverse of the hidden worlds.Braxton, Wolff, his Medji, Lyn, and Braxton's partner, PC41, moved forward – but their decisions created a myriad of choices, leading to paths unknown, and results not foreseen.At least, not foreseen by them.

"The first thing you do, you kill the sheriff." This is a bit of writers' lore that generally works, and JD Bell displays it done well. SELAI hits the ground running and doesn't slow down. It's not really an urban fantasy because the setting is more varied and would better be described as modern fantasy. Bell establishes his characters quickly, and leaves puzzles like fishhooks in the story. This locks the reader in as one tries to make sense of novel and totally alien concepts. Bell escap...

Event industry veteran and popular national speaker Fausto Pifferrer offers memories, Pro Tips, and industry insight from his nearly 40-year career in weddings, event planning, catering, and the worlds of social and corporate/trade events. Temporary Friends traces his path while he shares observations from his humble beginnings four decades ago, as the child of Cuban immigrants in Philadelphia in the 1960s, through his career in Philadelphia and throughout New Eng...

Grow your productivity with a formula to flourish! The G.R.O.W. Productivity Guide is an accumulation of tools designed for independent tasks spanning academic, professional, and creative endeavors. Tailored for all adults, including those navigating neurodivergence, academic boredom, and complex trauma, this comprehensive guide offers 100 productivity strategies and 100 blank journaling pages to foster personal growth and achievement. Whether you're striving for academic success, professi...

Since the forced resignation of Todor Zhivkov in November of 1989, Bulgaria's transition to democracy has been marked by good beginnings ending in frustration or disappointment. It has avoided the violent ethnic confrontations that have characterized much of the "post-Communist" Balkans, but has also seen the development of an influential criminal

Sexual misconduct by clergy is a devastating issue that reaches across all denominations, damaging the credibility of the church in its wake. The media regularly reports on the moral failure of leaders and abuse at the hands of those who are supposed to be trustworthy.Betrayal of Trust focuses on a common scenario of abuse--sexual involvement between a male pastor and a female congregant--and offers practical solutions on how to respond to and prevent this betrayal of trus...

This book is simply an aid for any individuals nutrition and well-being, it's not to take place of any Doctor's advice. But I believe that a person is their TRUE PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN and the importance of a book such as this one will help any individual to become better off in life. This book is comprised of recipes that I and my daughter have done at home. We do believe that our God has given us the instructions to do this book to simply be a BLESSING to ALL who purchases this material....

This short poem book covers a simple affirmation and understanding for black and brown children in today's ever changing world. The mission is "No Child Left Behind". Many children are holders of low self esteem because of trauma and abuse. Let's teach our children to create positivity from the inside-out.