Summer 1966. A family holiday to France becomes a journey of discovery, friendship and growing confidence.Eight-year-old Nicholas is small for his age, has ginger hair and freckles, and knows what it feels like to be singled out at school. When the summer holidays finally arrive, he is more than ready to leave his worries behind and set off with his parents and older sister, Sandra, on an exciting two-week camping adventure in France.Travelling by ferry and...

Most people think endurance is about how much pain you can tolerate or how far you can push yourself. I came to see it differently. Endurance is what happens when you decide that the person you're becoming matters more than the comfort you're leaving behind. I didn't set out to write a book about resilience. I thought I was writing about running. As the pages came together, I realized the miles were never the point. They simply gave me a way to understand failure, patience, discipline, and...

There is a battle for your attention.And the most dangerous distractions are not always the ones that look sinful.Sometimes they look like opportunities.Sometimes they look like entertainment.Sometimes they look like endless activity, endless information, endless conversations, endless scrolling, and a life that is constantly busy but strangely unproductive.You can be moving every day and still be going nowhere.You can be connected to everyon...

Why would a loving God allow a messenger of Satan to torment one of His greatest servants?For centuries, believers have wrestled with Paul's mysterious "thorn in the flesh." Was it suffering? Persecution? Sickness? Demonic opposition? Whatever it was, one truth remains undeniable. God did not waste it.In **Messengers of Satan**, Nicholas A. Lawrence explores one of the most misunderstood passages in Scripture and uncovers a powerful truth that every believer needs to unders...

The papers collected in this volume recount a 40-year struggle between scholarship and illusion on matters of great importance. They do much more than that: They present a matchless course of instruction in the demographics of poverty and prosperity, hardship and health, and progress and decline, and they paint a vivid, pointillist portrait of the circumstances of modern humanity. Nick Eberstadt, armed only with data and patient study, debunks Al Gore, Jared Diamond, and P...

What do you do when something in your life has been broken, and you cannot simply put it back together?What do you do with the pain you have carried for years? With the relationship that never recovered? With the person you have struggled to forgive? With the mistakes you wish you could undo? With the seasons that left you asking God questions you still cannot answer?And what happens when you have learned how to continue living, but you know you have not truly healed?

Santa and Mrs. Claus deserve a vacation. No elves. No reindeer. No Christmas. Just Las Vegas, baby.Naturally, it goes sideways immediately.Their hotel window has a perfect view of Christmasland — a new casino shaped like a giant Christmas tree, run by people who have never met a holiday they couldn't monetize. Santa is offended on a professional level. Mrs. Claus is offended on every other level.But when Santa finds out exactly who's behind the whole tacky operation...

Santa just wants a vacation.No autograph hounds. No flirtatious strangers. No skateboarders. Just he and Mrs. Claus, a remote Costa Rican mountain cabin, a hot tub, and absolutely nobody who knows who he is.That lasts about forty-eight hours.Now Mrs. Claus is following a toucan through the jungle with nothing but a cigar stub as a clue, a Yule Lad is loose in the North Pole workshop slamming every door in sight, and Santa himself is trussed up on a helicopter headed...

An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world?Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can't avoid hearing rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow king...

**With exclusive travel photos and a special letter from the Author, only available for e-readers.From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.**1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the frien...

In the romantic tradition of Dear John, an injured Navy doctor meets two extremely important women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this #1 New York Times bestseller.Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a p...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth SenseCOMING SOON AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN AND STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND PHOEBE DY...