Are you truly prepared to meet God? In Well Done, My Good and Faithful Servant, Shelver Franklin invites readers to examine their relationship with Jesus Christ through the unchanging truth of God's Word. Grounded in Scripture, this book explores the essential foundations of the Christian faith, including salvation, the new birth, forgiveness, obedience, love, the work of the Holy Spirit, and living with eternity in view. Rather than relying on religious tradition or personal opinion, this...

You "public speak" in some way everyday in every way. Understand the bits and pieces of what to say and how to say it, be in control of any situation. You're nerve free, confident. Eye contact, voice, volume, hands and delivery are under control. So simple! So easy!Recognize rhetorical devices, learn to use them to your advantage! Understand the strategies of rhetorical communication at its easiest and best!

My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin, is a landmark of Australian literature and one of the most compelling early novels about a young woman determined to shape her own destiny. At the heart of the story is Sybylla Melvyn, an intelligent, passionate, and fiercely imaginative young woman growing up in the harsh realities of rural Australia. Her family struggles financially, while Sybylla dreams of escaping an existence she finds stifling and of becoming a writer. Her ambitions frequently ...

While riding their motorcycles into town, Frank and Joe Hardy are nearly run off the road by a roadster that they later realize belongs to their friend Chet. As they set out to solve the mystery of the stolen car, the tower mansion is broken into and robbed. Are the crimes related? The Hardy boys will do their best to figure it out.This book is the first in the Hardy boys series of novels, first published in 1927. It was updated and rewritten in 1959, but this Standard Ebooks editi...

The city of Bayport is at the mercy of a ring of car thieves! Vehicles have been disappearing off of the well-traveled Shore Road for three weeks; eventually, the gang gets bolder and starts moving their sights to the city. With the police and even Fenton Hardy running into dead ends, the town is in an uproar. The ring runs like a well-oiled machine: no one sees the thieves and the cars seemingly disappear into thin air despite patrols on either end of the Shore Road. Incentivized by a vic...

When your living room window starts giving you visions of the future... you better pay attention.Chloe Blake’s campus rental has it all: a retro Victorian vibe, a beautiful picture window, and a perfect view of Ethan Reynolds—the guy who broke her heart and lives across the street. But when disturbing visions of death slide across the panes, she’s convinced she’s glimpsed Ethan’s future. She’ll stop at nothing to change fate and save him… even if it means everyone ...

A dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stored "in the tower." Both towers of the looted mansion are searched in vain. It remains for the Hardy boys to make an astonishing discovery that clears up the mystery and clears the name of a friend’s father.

They’re gifted. They’re powerful. And they’re after her.Ava Michaels isn’t sure what’s real anymore. She’s haunted by terrifying nightmares of a huge, hulking man with mismatched eyes. But then that same man shows up on her doorstep and tries to abduct her – and her mild-mannered physics tutor, Caleb Foster, appears out of nowhere to come to her defense.And she has no idea why.On the run for her life, Ava discovers a secret, ancient race with amazin...

Could the boy next door be the man of her dreams?She’s broke, broken-hearted, and moving back in with her mother, but Violet Chalmers isn’t one to feel sorry for herself.Nope. Vi picks herself up, dusts herself off, and takes a job teaching drama at her old high school.Okay, so maybe she feels a little sorry for herself.Enter her best friend, Kade. He’s there like he’s always been, making her laugh, singing her songs, and letting he...

Language can be a battleground of ideas, and nowhere is this more vivid than in the Russian context. Across 350 years, Russian has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a literary standard to digital-era debates about slang, obscenity and online identity. Simon Franklin traces how tradition and disruption have continually reshaped the language, including sections on the discovery by the educated elite of the language of ‘the people’, the lin...

In 1987, Dietrich Mickler risks everything to lead his family across one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world. One mistake means either torture or death. Yet freedom demands a price no one can foresee.Thirty-nine years later, that price is still being paid.Now living in America, Dietrich is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. As old wounds reopen and long-buried regrets rise to the surface, the family he fought so desperately to save begins to fracture around hi...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a record of the life of one of the most impressive people in the American history. There may be no greater figure in American history than Benjamin Franklin and here the reader will delight in an intimate portrait of the man in his own words.Benjamin went on to play a key role in the American Revolution and the founding of the United States. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, is an unfinished collection of memoirs written over fou...