In Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling, Paulina Stevens and Jezmina Von Thiele share the knowledge and personal experiences of being raised to be fortune-tellers. They share divination methods, tools, and techniques that have been created, adapted, or popularized by the Roma, including card reading, palmistry, dream divination, and tea-leaf and coffee reading. They share exercises to strengthen your intuition and discover your natural gifts, and explain how divination helps with sha...

The Bible is a portrait of love painted on a canvas of forgiveness and reconciliation.We don’t always see that portrait in the relationships closest to us, however. Robert Kraus wrote Family Forgiveness and Reconciliation to help bridge the gap between what we see in the Bible and what we see in our families.For this*,* his second book, Robert welcomed input from eight talented individuals with a combined pastoral experience of over 200 years. In easy-to-read chapt...

運氣是什麼？為何有人好運連莊，有人卻歹運連連運氣真的存在？華梵大學東方人文思想研究所教授 冀劍制 導讀「幸運是機會的影子。」──蘇格拉底你的人生中有多少事情是自己做出的選擇、發揮自己的技能、自己的意願所造成的結果？你遭遇到的所有事情：你的成功與失敗、你住在哪裡、你做什麼工作、你愛著誰，這些事情之中，有多少成分是取決於運氣？你真的可以仰賴那些值得信任的知識？還是你只不過是運氣好，那些知識剛好是正確的？有些人認為，假定我們的人生都是事先規劃好的，都是宇宙秩序中的基本組成部分，這樣想會讓人比較安心。但本書要告訴你，運氣只不過是一種永恆且麻煩的幻覺，世上根本沒有所謂的幸運，而是我們自己創造了運氣。本書作者以哲學教授身分，引領讀者探究運氣與神學、機率，和現代心理學的關係，並帶領讀者遊走古希臘羅馬年代，透過蘇格拉底、柏拉圖等哲學家了解何謂幸運，讓我們反思，幸運和努力只是一線之隔。就如蘇格拉底所言：人愈努力，遇到的機會就愈多。所以若希望擁有更多機...

Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe.Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoret...

It’s 1852 and San Francisco is still in the thrall of the Gold Rush.Boomtowns can be dangerous places especially when there is gold to be had. Nick and the crew of the Panther aren’t interested in the riches. They want to get out alive.The city becomes a tinderbox ready to burn when an old nemesis kidnaps Nick’s son. Nick and the crew must navigate the gangs trying to take control of the lawless city—and its riches—in order to save him.Thei...

Revolution spreads along the Central American coast. Steam power is reshaping trade. Empires maneuver for control of the isthmus—and the sea lanes that feed it.When a relic from a long-forgotten wreck surfaces, it brings documents never meant to be found. What was buried at sea now threatens fortunes and the fragile balance of power.A routine recovery turns into a race across unstable ports and hostile waters. Civil war burns ashore. Armed vessels patrol offshore. In a worl...

They call him Preacher. And they call him when they need help. Now, a Mexican brother and sister have asked the legendary frontiersman to accompany them into the Sangre de Cristo mountains—to find a missing family fortune of gold and silver.In a land stained by cruelty and war, the Spanish treasure has drawn the interest of a treasure hunter with ruthless paid killers as his partners. And by the time Preacher finds the bounty, bullets have begun to fly.No gunfight will ever...

Join the crew of the Panther in this thrilling continuation of the Tides of Fortune series. As tensions mount in San Francisco, Nick Van Doran and his crew are thrust into a desperate race against time. Their mission: to navigate the treacherous waters and war-torn landscapes to reach New York.The perilous journey set against the backdrop of the Nicaraguan civil war, the journey is fraught with peril at every turn. From fierce sea battles to relentless land skirmishes, the...

Things are never easy when you’re labeled a pirate in the Caribbean.On the run from his past, Nick and the crew of The Panther have enough treasure aboard to live like kings, but nowhere to spend it. Not all the crew agrees on his plan, and after a near mutiny, the crew decides to try for a new startWhen his heritage catches up to him, and a new treasure appears, bigger than anything they’ve tried to recover before, the crew is lured into an adventure off the coast of the Y...

Where can you run when you need to escape your past?The Caribbean isn’t a place where Nick and the crew of the Panther can sail freely any longer, so they set off on their biggest adventure yet: Around Cape Horn to join the San Francisco Gold Rush.The opportunities in the lawless gold fields are uniquely suited to the crew’s abilities—and eerily similar to their pirate past.Their new adventure is fraught with danger, excitement, and the ultimate ris...

May Day, 1970... Annabelle, nineteen and disheartened with her coal-town prospects, meets Walt, who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Wandering McCain's Magic Midway, she enters a sideshow, where a three-armed man reads her Tarot cards. Their mysterious images echo her reality. Later, at a bar in town, Walt boasts of life on the road, and Annabelle confesses her yen to be elsewhere. She takes a shot at adventure and romance, goes to his hot...

The stealth war has only begun.Admiral James Henry faces a serious dilemma. Curall has already made deep inroads throughout Independent Space. While distracted fighting the League, the Jalm’tar Empire waged a clandestine war using the highly addictive substance—with far deadlier consequences.Billions across the galaxy face an excruciating death without a constant supply of the drug for which there is no known antidote. To keep the tap flowing, one planet’s ...