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If you have a tough time coping with life's disturbances, disappointments, and challenges, this book is for you. Dr. Peale offers a simple, sure-fire solution for stress: a healthy dose of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the magic ingredient that can make the difference between success and failure, and it can help you to: improve your problem-solving abilities; overcome your fears; sharpen your mind; make your job more rewarding; calm your tensions; build self-confidence; and kindle the powerful motivation that makes things happen. 

Watered-down messages and spiritual "fast food" fail to feed the hunger of those who truly seek the heart of God. What Christians need, according to David Wilkerson, is a confrontational message that will provoke them to righteousness-the message that Jesus alone can satisfy the hunger. Hungry for More of Jesus issues a passionate call to a deep walk of daily discipleship.

Conquering dungeons and using them to grow has long been the most efficient way to become a powerful adventurer. The only thing keeping the process from being easy is the Beasts that inhabit these places. Questions plague those entering this particular place of power: Where do the ‘rewards’ of weapons, armor, and heavy gold coins come from? Why is a fluffy bunny charging at me? For abyss-sake, why are there so many monsters? Cal has all of the answers to these age-old questions for a very simple reason. He is a Dungeon Core, a soul forced against his will into a magical stone.

Generative AI is the hottest topic in tech. This practical book teaches machine learning engineers and data scientists how to use TensorFlow and Keras to create impressive generative deep learning models from scratch, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), Transformers, normalizing flows, energy-based models, and denoising diffusion models.

When the police receive a desperate call from a frightened nine-year-old girl, they know every second counts. "He has a knife. He killed her." Before help can arrive, the line goes dead. When Detectives Tanzy and Byrd arrive at the house, they are met with a gruesome crime scene and a mystery that only grows darker with every clue they uncover. As they race to find a ruthless killer, hidden secrets, shocking twists, and deadly lies threaten to derail the investigation.

Crown of Fire, Chalice of BloodIn the ash-stained years of the Third Age, when kingdoms crumble and faith is wielded as a weapon, two relics shape the fate of empires: the Crown of Fire, forged in the breath of the God-Kings, and the Chalice of Blood, vessel of sacrifice and eternal covenant.The...

Explore the enchanting world of animal adventures where trust, kindness, and faith intertwine. These heartwarming tales celebrate life's beginnings, unexpected changes, and the joy of faith, making them perfect for families, teachers, and Sunday schools alike.

Shine and her team, all with supernatural abilities continue their search for the Gladius Diaboli, the ancient weapon that can bring about all their goals and stop the duplicitous Claudia Black. The quest takes the team from Rome to Belize's jungles, seeking Xibalba's entrance, the Mayan underworld. Jessica must fight against betrayals, ambushes and the loss of one of her key allies in the fight. It all culminates in an intense battle against the Midnight project in a final showdown that has been centuries in the making.

To enter the woods as a human means death… But I am no mere human. They call me, “witch." As one of the last surviving witches, Faelyn’s sole duty is to keep the protective barriers on the forests where the lykin roam—creatures who can shed flesh for fur—sparing nearby humans from their violent, beastly natures. When she has an unlikely encounter with the rare, primordial spirit of the moon, Faelyn finds herself not only the object of the Wolf King’s desire, but essential to his ability to keep his crown.

A short touching story about a man who is poor but becomes rich through an act of kindness.

Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can throw at you through gut-twisting true stories of survival on the brink Narrated by Cassie de Pecol, Mike Corey, and Roger Wayne! How to Survive Against the Odds places you at the center of fifteen...

The third crusade is over. Richard the Lion heart is bound for England. But with the princes of Europe united against him, can the greatest warrior in Christendom make it safely home? The Lion is Chained. Captured. Bound. Imprisoned. King Richard's slim hope of salvation rests on one man - a former outlaw who scoffs at Holy Mother Church: Robin Hood. For King and country, Robin will risk all - from blood-soaked battlefields to deadly assassins - to see the Lion heart restored to his rightful throne.

The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the centre of our lives. The world's biggest corporations are racing to automate jobs and some experts predict that A.I could put millions of people out of work. But all is not lost. With a little effort, we can become futureproof.

They were innocent men, slaughtered in the Rockies. A party of land surveyors who met their grisly fate at the hands of the Crow Indians—or so it seems. Some folks think the story is a lie. And now it’s up to U.S. Army Lieutenant Ron Stanton to figure out what really happened up there in those desolate, blood-soaked mountains. As his guides, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister agree to retrace the footsteps of the doomed party—come hell or high water—but first they’ll have to pass through a particularly nasty piece of purgatory known as Fort Buzzard.

Was will die deutsche Seele – und gibt es sie überhaupt? Bernd Stegemann, eine der umstrittensten Stimmen in den politischen Debatten unserer Zeit, zeigt in diesem Buch erstmals seine biografischen Wunden. Bis heute zeigt die deutsche Seele eine Unfähigkeit zum Mitgefühl, eine Fixierung auf die Schuldfrage und eine demokratische Lähmung im Umgang mit fremden Meinungen und Menschen.

A powerful Christian Testimony of childhood trauma, a life-changing injury, disability, marriage, ministry, and the sustaining love of God.Have you ever wondered where God is when life falls apart?Mike Shultz had plans. He was young, strong, adventurous, and preparing for a future that seemed...

London, November 1956. A message has been sent four minutes before anyone asked for it.In a departmental review room, Eleanor Vane spends her days among the paper remnants of other people's decisions: cable traffic, routing slips, carbon copies and files that have passed through too many hands...

With a relentless assassin tracking her every move, Sarah is forced to rely on an unlikely stranger to survive the treacherous crossing of a ruined American heartland. As a bitter winter forces her family into impossible choices back home, Nadia fights a blind bureaucracy from inside a failing...

I’ve finally returned to Aerenvale, and my retirement is shaping up to be what I always wanted. Best of all, my nights are filled with the passion of the three incredible women who make this place a home. But peace is a fleeting luxury for a former battlemage. The bitter nobles of House Vos...

Long before the songs turned him into a monument, Beowulf was a young man with a boat, a name to earn, and a rumor of a monster in another king's hall. This is the old story in a plain-spoken new voice. The mead-benches still smell of smoke. Grendel still comes in the dark. The mother still drags her grief up out of the mere. A dragon still wakes for a stolen cup, fifty winters later. But the poetry has been cleared away so you can hear the men underneath—tired, funny, afraid, and standing anyway. A young hero. Fifty quiet winters on a throne. One last fire in the hills.