Is God at work in the darkest places?In a nation known for oppression and isolation, Joy and Stephen Yoon discovered the answer is a resounding yes. For over 17 years, this ordinary couple witnessed God's extraordinary love piercing through the shadows, transforming their own hearts and the lives of those they encountered.In Crossing the Divide, the Yoons offer an eyewitness perspective on North Korean life and share powerful lessons like:...

Collects The Web Of Black Widow (2019) #1-5. The spy tale of the century! Natasha Romanoff is the deadliest spy in the Marvel Universe and the beating heart of the Avengers. But when a mysterious figure starts exploiting her murky past, the Widow must go underground and off the grid! Who can she trust in this web of deceit? And more important, can her friends trust her anymore? Natasha must run down all the names from her past — starting with Tony Stark and Bucky Barnes! The Widow and the ...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 27th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2021, which took place in Portugal, in August 2021. The workshops were held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.The 39 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover all aspects of parallel and distributed processing. These range from theory to practice,...

**“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s *Escape from Camp 14." —*Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-LaThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped**North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one...

Is this the day I die? Li Quan asks himself this question daily, knowing that he might be killed for practicing his faith. American businessman Ben Fielding has no idea what his brilliant former college roommate is facing in China. He expects his old friend has fulfilled his dream of becoming a university professor. But when they are reunited in China after twenty years, both men are shocked at what they discover about each other. Thrown together in an hour of encroaching darkness...

"A crisp, dramatic examination of how technology and human ingenuity are undermining North Korea's secretive dictatorship."— Kirkus ReviewsOne of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders.Drawing on deeply personal inter...

"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor—a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur— wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography." — The Boston GlobeUnderstanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask A North Korean, published by

The mystery of Haiti's history is a story waiting to be told. Today, the reality of Haiti's need has captivated the global community. As the poorest country in the western hemisphere, there seems to be little hope. Opportunity awaits like never before for the country once known as the Pearl of the Antillies.You may be newly aware to understanding the history of Haiti, or could have been an advocate for its progress for years. Take hold of the treasures in this book, learn the histo...

"My name is Zhang Rongliang, and I am an unashamed follower of Jesus Christ.…It is considered quite dangerous to reveal the contents of this book, but these are stories that need to be told for God’s glory and for the encouragement of the church.”So begins this extraordinary first-person account by the prominent leader of one of the largest underground churches in China. A former Communist Party member, Zhang took a stand for Christ and was targeted for prison, work camps, and tortu...

The 10th Anniversary of "There's a Sheep in my Bathtub" is being marked and honored by a fresh edition with updated content and many more illustrations - 85 in all!What happens when you drop an American family with three small children into the post-Communist chaos of Outer Mongolia? There's a Sheep in my Bathtub chronicles the adventures of the Hogan family as they try to follow God's leading into one of the world's most remote and mysterious enclaves. Brian and Louise meet during ...

Healings, Miracles, and Supernatural Experiences: Healing4Haiti is an excellent you-are-there compilation of true, first-person stories written by a team of 35 Americans and 1 British who volunteered to go to devastated Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 to help, heal, and bring hope to the people who had lost everything near and dear to them.  

The Light Shines in the DarknessThere is more to China's story than its rise as a global economic power. The Holy Spirit has birthed a vibrant, rapidly growing house church movement in China's cities. For years, Christians in the West have heard rumors of house churches in the rural countryside with believers numbering in the tens of millions. Now the underground movement has emerged among China's upwardly mobile, globally connected urbanites--and there will be no ...