If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott’s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But r...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith introduces his galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought.Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently...

The Complete Sermons of John Wesley is a remarkable illustrated collection of the sermons of one of the most influential Christian preachers and theologians in history. As the founder of the Methodist movement, John Wesley shaped modern Protestant thought through his powerful preaching, practical spirituality, and unwavering emphasis on faith, grace, holiness, and personal transformation. This comprehensive edition gathers Wesley’s most important sermons, covering a wide range of theologic...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past.Offered a free trip into a remote Idaho wilderness that she loves and studies, Professor Dawn Edwards can’t refuse. On the trip she meets Professor Madison Rogers, and they fall for each other before they even reach their destination.But living in the Old West proves to be a brutal task. Somehow, Dawn must survive to rescue herself...

The Incredible True Story of Two Girls in the Seventeen-Hundreds Who Become the Powers Behind the Thrones of the World's Greatest EmpiresThe fulfillment of an outrageous prediction seals the fates of two cousins in this true story that begins on a Caribbean sugar plantation and careens wildly towards the thrones of two empires. Innocent Aimée refuses to believe she might ever have to face the intrigue and evil that lurks beneath the exotic beauty and opulence of the...

It's not that Tate Grayson is impulsive, it's just that he thinks life is too short to take seriously. That's why he sold his multimillion-dollar company and spun his fanaticism for sports into a radio talk show. Tate also knows that love is fleeting as well--a fact he never resists rubbing into the face of the relationship advice radio host and total stick in the mud, Noelle Butler.After the death of her parents, a tragedy she blamed on herself, Noelle vowed to live a controlled, ...

A #1 New York Times bestseller!“A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance.” —Entertainment Weekly“[A] swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series.” —Publishers WeeklyFrom #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series full of “swoon-worthy romance [and] abundant action” (...

This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work. DoLs are everyday materials that illuminate the organisation of ordinary lives and their social worlds.Addressing key methodological questions in autoethnography, it brings together critical socio-cultural autoethnography (CSA) and DoLs through the innovative use of facet methodology (FM). This approach enables analytical enga...

A Portable, Practical Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Emergency and Critical CarePoint-of-Care Ultrasound is a concise, image-rich, and clinically focused resource designed to guide healthcare professionals through the fundamentals and advanced applications of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency, critical care, and field settings. This first edition serves as a pocket reference that outlines essential scanning techniques, diagnosti...

A young scholar. A missing heretic. A truth powerful enough to unravel the world.Alben has spent his life in service to faith, order, and the sacred teachings of the Rahsu. But when a desperate orphan begs him to find her missing father, he is drawn far beyond the safety of the archives and into the haunted northern wilds, a place where the spirits grow silent, old laws hold little power, and whispers of heresy spread like rot through the trees.What begins ...

Starting into a brand-new series, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith asks a simple question: What happens if ghosts can fight crime and bad guys?Just fifteen minutes after Dr. Jewel Kelly meets Deputy Sheriff Tommy Ralston, they both die. They simply become ghosts, hanging around their own death scene in the mountains of Montana, waiting for something to happen. But even as ghosts they find each other really attractive.In life, they both worked to help people. I...