"You keep what you kill. That's one law everybody out here respects."Twenty years ago, the Merge brought armies of monsters flooding into the West Coast.Dungeons popped up in shopping malls, airports, and Starbucks. Walls were built to contain the spread, but the promise of priceless loot dropped by the creatures inspired a new type of gold rush. Magical weapons, powerful gear, potions to cure every ill… If you survive long enough to kill the mob, whatever ...

The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center.

Peter Berger (1929-2017) was one of the pre-eminent sociologists of the twentieth century. His highly creative and controversial writing made a distinct impact not only in sociology but in such disciplines as political science, public policy, history, religious studies and theology.Originally published in 1986 Making Sense of Modern Times shows how Peter Berger struggled with the classical legacy of the sociological enterprise – a legacy abandoned by contemporary sociology. Berger made a s...

Here is devil worship, drugs, Satanism, witchcraft, reincarnation and other fanciful practices taking place right under the nose of the late Jerry Falwell, a biblical fundamentalist of unequaled intelligence and vast political judgment. Here also is a supernatural romance between a young reporter and a lovely professor whose age is never certain, yet whose beauty is never questioned. She first bedevils him with a wild siege of love and later, on little more than a whim, decides to destroy ...

An American journalist named Jason Wycott, full of literary ambitions, sits alone and a little drunk, in a Copenhagen bar, contemplating the means by which he will go about consummating the first great betrayal of his life, abandoning his family in the United States to stay on in Europe after many an inappropriate and wild interlude of love-making with an illicit girlfriend who is also the wife of his best friend. And how does he escape the attention of another young and tempting lass who ...

After the great Dragon War, the Everlands has finally begun to heal, however in the new world the realms healer is killed to unsettle the balance, with a loss in direction a new face is brought to the realm to help bridge the vacuum of power, it also up to to her to help repair the damage done by both the wars and the past to help build a new future for the once profitable realm.A New World for the first time in 10 years adds new characters to the established world of the Everlands...

War is headed to Dentarius and Stacy and Kane are caught right in the middle, add to the mix Kane's ex wife, his father and crazy brother and you have a mix for chaos, trouble is brewing and Stacy is the key to it all.A lot has happened in the year since Stacy arrived in Dentarius and she is finally happy and finding her feet, however The Everlands and happiness are never really ready to go hand in hand, but this time it's up to to Stacy to save the realm, the problem is no one is ...

With an introduction on using the principles of The Servant in your life and career, this book redefines what it means to be a leader.In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he relu...

Journey from the Isle of Skye to the Deep South, to the Rockies and beyond.A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told.Over a period of three centuries, many thousands of people left the islands and wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea. In this new edition of his acclaimed bo...

In the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split in two. People are passionately choosing sides on contentious issues such as the invasion of Iraq, gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the right to die, and the battle over abortion continues unabated. Social and political splits fascinate the media: we hear of Red States against Blue States and the ""Religious Right"" against ""Secular Ame...

Freedom of Religion-protected in America for two hundred years by the Bill of Rights-has become more a source of divisiveness than the binding force it used to be in American life. Abortion, school prayer, creation science, and secular humanism are a few examples of the conflict between religious liberty and public justice that arise today.Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace examines the contemporary challenges to religious liberty and explores ways in which the public phi...

For most of America's history, schools were established to furnish more than just academic training: They were founded to form young people of strong character and civic conscience. We rarely think of our schools that way now. Ironically, we bicker over test scores, graduation rates, and academic standards, even as we are besieged by news stories of gratuitous misconduct and cynical, callous, unethical behavior. Might our schools provide a glimmer of hope? This is precisely the question th...