We live in a state of terminal cultural collapse, but we are looking for the enemy in all the wrong places.In The Kingdom vs. The King, prolific theologian, veteran public servant, Pastor Owen E. Williams, PhD (Hon.), delivers a fierce, uncompromised diagnosis of the modern World crisis. Moving seamlessly from the ancient stone walls of Jerusalem to the frantic concourses of our digital spaces, Dr. Williams exposes the "King's Atmosphere, a highly calculated system of stat...

Red Men and White gathers eight Western tales into a vivid portrait of the American frontier, where soldiers, traders, Native leaders, and settlers move through a world shaped by violence, superstition, humor, and hard necessity. Owen Wister presents these stories as true-to-life episodes drawn from frontier experience, arguing that America contains many centuries at once and that the West reveals the nation's most dramatic, unsettled realities. The collection ranges from tribal politics a...

Harlon once lived on the outer fabric of the universe and commanded his king's army with stern authority. His quest was to take his king's ashes to the top of the incline and have him resurrected by their God, Monaltor. He never imagined his expedition would lead him far from the truth he expected to find upon death. Instead, his soul ended up in an alternative universe, where a show trial of his life's misgivings held him prisoner to his remorse. Now, the Wood Whisperer, his magical creat...

At Harvard, two sunburned tennis boys, Bertie and Billy, are trapped in a late-night philosophy cram session with their polished tutor, Oscar Maironi, whose neat lecture notes seem to contain the whole course. Their slangy interruptions turn the lesson into a comic battle over perception, idealism, causation, and the ego, as they test Berkeley's claim that reality depends on ideas and discover that philosophy can be both absurd and strangely irresistible. When one boy realizes that being i...

AI can help with the work already on your team's desk--but small teams need shared rules for using it wisely. The Small Team AI Rulebook gives owners, managers, and team leads a practical way to decide what AI can help with, what information should stay private, and when a person must check the result. Start with five questions: What information is involved? How sensitive is it? What could happen if the response is wrong? Does a human need to review it? Is the tool approved for this task? ...

At the quiet California mission of Santa Ysabel del Mar, Padre Ignacio lives between the fading grace of Spanish colonial life and an ache for the Europe he has left behind. Music, memory, and renunciation shape his days as he waits for a barkentine from Spain, teaches his gifted organist Felipe, and keeps alive a refined world of opera, poetry, and ceremony far from the modern nation advancing along El Camino Real. Then Gaston Villere arrives—a young American stranger whose wit, restlessn...

A fast-paced, high-stakes adventure about heroes beating impossible odds - perfect for fans of Escape Room and Goosebumps. Brand new from the bestselling author of the Alex Neptune series.Once a year, monsters and the undead rise up from the Underworld and battle each other in the Graveyard Games to win a star prize.Tonight, that prize is...Jude's dad.But not if Jude can win him back. With the help of new friend and mo...

Paste Magazine Pick for Best New YA Books of August 2022“An addictive, action-packed, scorcher of a read!” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson NoëlSome shadows protect you…others will kill you in this dazzling new fantasy series from award-winning author Abigail Owen.Everything about my life is a lie. As a hidden twin princess, born second, I have only one purpose—to sacrifice my ...

Kasia Amon is a master at hiding. Who—and what—she is makes her a mark for the entire supernatural world. Especially dragon shifters. To them, she's treasure to be taken and claimed. A golden ticket to their highest throne. But she can't stop bursting into flames, and there's a sexy dragon shifter in town hunting for her...As a rogue dragon, Brand Astarot has spent his life in the dark, shunned by his own kind, concealing his true identity. Only his dangerous repu...

You care about her. You are trying to help. So why does the conversation keep getting worse?Hear Her Before You Answer gives men a practical way to stop guessing what a tense moment needs. Instead of jumping straight into advice, defending yourself, or shutting down, you learn to recognize three basic modes: Support, Solutions, or Space.Through realistic relationship scenarios and short, natural scripts, Owen Marreck shows you how to listen without becoming...

Members of the Family brings together Owen Wister's sharp humor, frontier storytelling, and affectionate attention to human character. Illustrated by H. T. Dunn and dedicated to Horace Howard Furness, the book moves from domestic warmth and comic observation to the rough, vivid life of the West, where family feeling, friendship, and memory matter as much as action. At its center is Scipio Le Moyne, a bandaged cowboy recovering in a reservation hospital, whose quick mind and gift for talk t...

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent...In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the vi...