Book I in a Coming of Age TrilogyWhat if death forgot you?In a future eerily similar to be ours, Lizzie, a suicidal teen-age girl, barely navigates her own life. Then everything falls apart. In an apocalyptic land nearly deserted by disease, she lacks reasons to live until a shocking turn of events reveals a phone number. Her call pulls her dangerously cross-country seeking a stranger she thought was dead.Along the way, she will find w...

Before he became Santa's Debt Collector, McKilphin kept the Naughty and Nice List in order. Then Santa summoned him for a task no list could solve. With a snow fairy partner and a ledger full of attitude, he sets out on his first mystical adventure—where saving one boy's joy may be the key to saving Christmas.

“In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. ClarkeIn a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers....

I have written this book to equip churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and every place of worship with practical, easy-to-implement emergency action plans designed to prepare for a wide range of threats, including active shooter incidents and other acts of violence. Drawing upon decades of real-world law enforcement experience, my goal is to provide faith leaders, security teams, and congregants with accurate, actionable guidance that enhances safety while respecting the unique mission ...

What if Death forgot you?Untouched by a global pandemic killing over 95% of the population, Samuel's family fears a mutated virus and the people who have survived it. Is this apocalypse an act of God? They may escape into the wilderness to find a place of safety as civilization dies around them, but can they escape each other and their pasts?TOILS AND SNARES is chronologically the first book in the series, starting slightly before ends a bit after it's parallelequel, Cygnus...

Pierre Eggar is an insurance investigator for Alliance Insurance, which operates within Independent Worlds Alliance. He’s looking into a claim over the death of one Al Lund. But something about Lund’s death doesn’t quite make sense.Lund was a common mechanic living a quiet life. Yet he was murdered by a professional killer. Eggar suspects that Lund might have once been a criminal. He has to travel all over the Alliance and dig up the past to sort out why Lund met a violent end.

Oria is the youngest daughter of the famed magus Hilia of Bacaria. A rough end to a relationship and a message from one of her mother’s friends sends Oria to the great city of Nuvus.Someone is selling scrolls with false tales written on them, including ones about Hilia. Is this a scheme to get coins? An effort to undermine Luthgenicca? Oria is tasked to investigate. Will trying to solve the mystery take Oria’s life in a startling new direction?

From their decades of combined teaching experience, Benjamin L. Merkle and Robert L. Plummer have produced an ideal resource for novice Greek students to not only learn the language but also kindle a passion for reading the Greek New Testament. Designed for those new to Greek, Beginning with New Testament Greek is a user-friendly textbook for elementary Greek courses at the college or seminary level.

BOOK TWO IN THE SAPPHIRE SAGA TRILOGYThree space-dwelling siblings learn a shocking secret and embark on a treacherous, interplanetary mission to save an alien civilization from imminent peril.After wielding the unparalleled power of the Sapphire Sword to save Earth, Slugger, Flint, and Scout, spend their days cruising the cosmos and exploring the infinite possibilities aboard the Nautilus, their all-galaxy-class spaceship. Life is...

To save the world from certain destruction, three siblings and their shapeshifting alien guide embark on an out-of-this-world adventure in search of an ancient, all-powerful weapon.Slugger, Flint, and Scout are always out exploring the mountains of New Mexico near their home. When a cherry-picking expedition puts them in the path of a peculiar pooch in peril, the three siblings have no idea what unstoppable calamity has just been set in motion.The dog they ...

"[These essays] are rich in argument, in clear and provocative presentation of complicated issues, and are often delightfully quotable. Behind the Veil of Economics makes instructive, disturbing, and lively reading." —Elizabeth Wolgast, New York Times Book ReviewWhat lies behind the veil of economics? Power and ideology, answers Robert Heilbroner—the power of our economic involvement in society to shape the ways we think about it; the visions and ...

95% of humanity died in a bat virus pandemic. Lizzie, our "anti-hero with a heart of gold," is in love, in trouble with the law, in trouble with the father of her child and their best friend, and in trouble with her father who reappeared after 15 years.Renegades are attacking, a no man's land is burned outside “The City's” wall, and martial law is declared. Lizzie, pregnant from an end of the world one night stand, can't leave her father's house without a man.She escaped th...