Owen Deathstalker was compelled to make a questionable decision when he reawakened the cyborg army of Hadenmen from suspended animation to enlist their aid in the Great Rebellion. Now he must face the consequences, for the Hadenmen have begun to act on their own agenda. The augmented race have ensnared a planet's population to facilitate the next stage in mankind's evolution, and recreate all humanity in their own likeness. Finlay Campbell was a hero of the Great Rebellion, but now he's a ...

After the dust settles from the Great Rebellion, Owen Deathstalker and Hazel D'ark find themselves working as bounty hunters for the tentative new democratic government, chasing down war criminals from the old empire, while still struggling with the nature of their mysterious powers derived from the enigmatic Madness Maze. Their mission is to capture the most notorious villain of all, the grinning psychopath Valentine Wolfe. The Deathstalker has bloody revenge in mind, but his flamboyantly...

The armies of Shub have come to the planet Loki and the over-extended parliament of the New Republic can only send the legendary hero Jack Random and his loose cannon companion Ruby Journey to do their damnedest with the powers they've acquired from the Madness Maze. But when they get to the mining planet, they find the colony engaged in a civil war, with the representative government in the hands of unsavory profiteers who are at war with justifiably aggrieved rebel forces, who have unjus...

A darkly funny novel of mobsters, murder, and marriage: "The surprise ending will knock your reading glasses off." — The New York TimesCharley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York's most dangerous crime family. When he meets Irene Walker, an LA-based tax consultant, it's pretty much love at first sight.But Irene also moonlights as a hit woman—and had a hand in a big-money heist in Vegas. Now Charley has been told that she's got to g...

Her Honor Judith Frick waits, tied to the bedpost, for her husband to come back to bed, but the man who enters in a chickadee mask is not Walter, but an intruder who stuffs a pillow over her face until she blacks out. When she opens her eyes again, the police are swarming through her bedroom and Walter lies dead in the kitchen with a knife in his belly. Lieutenant Patricia Newman holds a grudge against Her Honor for an old case that forced a sergeant off the force, and is determined to arr...

Some traditions are meant to be broken.Lailani has always known that being a woman means that she will never be a dragon rider, but when a messenger shows up demanding that all dragon riders must prepare for war, Lailani knows that her father’s crippling illness will get him killed. She must choose between two paths: let him go and die or put on his armor and go in his place.Disguising herself as a boy, she joins the dragon riders and finds herself facing d...

跳脫個人主義的框架，重建聖經的文化視野，讓神的話語更貼近心靈我們往往透過個人主義的眼鏡來看聖經而不自覺。在聖經當中，我們看到的是個別聖經人物的成功與失敗、得勝或墮落，或是僅僅將聖經視為記錄了「個人與上帝的關係」，而忽略了當中的「我們」與「他們」。這樣的誤讀，使我們錯過了聖經中深刻的社會背景與價值體系，因為聖經的誕生並非基於個人主義，而是根植於古代集體文化的土壤。由於缺乏對這些背景的認識，許多經文的重點與細節容易被忽視，使我們錯失了神藉聖經所傳達的寶貴信息。要突破這種局限，我們需要打破個人主義的迷思，開啟全新的視野。這不僅僅是從一個新的解讀角度出發，更是通過文化通識課來深入理解聖經背後的歷史脈絡與社會結構。聖經的訊息不僅是關於個人的成敗，更是集體、社會及群體中所表現的價值觀和行為模式的呈現。在集體文化的框架下，聖經文本中每一個細節都充滿了不同層次的社會意義。本書將帶你走進十五堂聖經文化通識課，由聖經學者蘭迪· 里查茲和中東宣教士里奇· 詹姆斯共同領航，探索聖經中親屬關係、恩主制度...

"An absolute humdinger of a murder mystery . . . unrelenting suspense [and] a close look at the dysfunctions of military justice and of one particular family." —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Presumed InnocentA "riveting legal thriller" by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Trial ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)The McCarrans and the Gallaghers have been close for decades, ever since Anthon...

Honor, to many it is merely a word. To others, it exemplifies a foundational principle which encompasses every aspect of their being. For former County Sheriff, U.S. Navy Veteran, Mayor, and lifelong public servant the word meant so much more. Through each adventure he undertook, call for service and person contacted, Richard Stephens set out to honor his calling through exemplifying professionalism and providing for those who could not provide for themselves.What he failed to unde...

March 1814Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict. Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a vision of the future and a personal peace seems attainable.However an unsympathetic Admiralty dispatches him to Malta. In this ap...

Some traditions are meant to be broken.Lailani has always known that being a woman means that she will never be a dragon rider, but when a messenger shows up demanding that all former dragon riders must prepare for war, Lailani knows that her father’s crippling illness will get him killed. She must choose between two paths: let him go and die or put on his armor and go in his place.Disguising herself as a boy, she joins the dragon riders and finds herself f...

Marriage of Honor is a book that challenges husbands and wives to reach toward their spouse to discover the differences that exist in marriage. As we lean and learn we find the areas where we can improve our connection and develop a greater fitness for marriage. God has wired us differently, thus we all have needs wants and desires that are diverse. This book can help men and women to focus on and understand the uniqueness of their spouse. As we apply these principles to marriage we can be...