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When four recent high school graduates return home from a weekend of camping, they expect to go back to life as usual. Instead, the boys discover empty streets, abandoned cars, and utter silence—everyone has disappeared. As the friends attempt to solve the mystery, they stumble upon more...

People are missing in the demon lands. Only a karmic anomaly can save them. It's been six months since Cha Ming's clash with the White-Eyed Tiger Clan. His growth has stalled to nothing, and his search for an heir to the Golden Dragon has come up empty. When two angry city lords come looking for...

The Inkwell Plane is a magical place. Daoist arts and technology work hand in hand, and transcendents are on friendly terms with demigods and demons. But not all is well. As a new ascendant, there aren’t many people who are weaker than Cha Ming. He must fight to prove his worth and carve out a place for himself in this dog-eat-dog world. To succeed, he may need to share more secrets than he’s comfortable with. 

Frightened, my wife nudges me awake, certain that she heard a noise somewhere in the house. I hear the intruder a moment later. Our home is in a run-down part of town where burglaries and robbery have become commonplace. Worried about our 18-month-old in an adjoining room, I get up, grabbing a golf club I know to be in our closet, and go out to investigate. There's just sufficient light to illuminate the form of a man close to me in the hall.

Eighteen months ago, Divinity Parker mysteriously disappeared from her school playground. Everyone, including the FBI, believes her to have been killed or trafficked. A resident of a Georgia town insists she knows where the missing girl is. Though Forrest Spencer and his law colleagues are dubious about this claim, Divinity's mother tasks them with the identification and recovery of her daughter. They find the child alive and thriving. What troubles Spencer and his team is why Divinity, only one and a half years gone, wishes so vehemently to remain distant from her California home.

> Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt is, at first glance, a legal thriller in which figures a detailed account of a trial for an innocent young man's life. But, unlike most books of that genre, the novel may be said to be more character- than plot-driven with color and much attention to the family lives of the attorney and the defendant. Though not overtly stated, the thrusts of the book are two - the inherent defect of a prosecutory system that foresees the occasional execution of the wrong person, and the vagaries of chance that, without warning, can embroil us in a struggle for our lives.

Church congregations all across the United States are searching for the magic bullet, the secret to attracting people, growing their membership and their cultural relevance. They are looking for the right program, or the right environment, or the right features to help bring people back into the...

Christianity is not the ability to memorize or recite from books of Scripture or doctrine. It is not magic. It is not a social club, counseling group, or self-help support group. It does not promise that you will be healthy, wealthy, wise, or even happy. Christianity is a truth - a truth first...

Real Answers Real Religion Real Holy Spirituality There are only two kinds of spirituality in the world. One is false, and one is true. One is the manifestation of the old evil foe who has sent many false spiritualties out into the world, and the other is the holy spirituality found only in...

After fighting off a group of bandits, Cha Ming helps a people rebuild. His heart is heavy with guilt, but he can't stay long. To face an inevitable foe, Cha Ming must journey to Quicksilver City, where he'll meet the man who once enslaved him. Will he find the courage to face him? Meanwhile, Huxian, the two-tailed fox, is enjoying his new role as the ruler of a demon mountain. The perks are great, but the position comes with heavy responsibilities. When Cha Ming's friend Wang Jun finds an immortal-jade mine on his doorstep, he has no choice but to defend it.

You have gifts! And you are a gift to the world around you. Because every human is fearfully and wonderfully made, each one of us has something to offer to the world. But we have not always identified or developed our gifts well, nor deployed them effectively. Don Everts explores the gifts God has given every person and what new research reveals about the difference those gifts can make for us, our churches, and our communities.

Another person might have given up, but even death itself could not stop Clem Denisov. He is one of those men who's not afraid of hardship, even if that makes him a bit old-school. A client's death does not change anything for him. The quest must be completed - after all, gamers are still dying in the real world, where they have just a single life. Someone is hell-bent on cutting these precious lives short. Can Clem become the roadblock that will stop the fine-tuned criminal machinery dead in its tracks? Who knows....

Unlock the pieces of marathon training and make your next race a personal best with this practical guide written by professional pace team leader Dave Masterson. Anyone who has already run a marathon knows—it's a big deal! Some people look to challenge the marathon distance as a mental...

Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a new and riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with traders, explorers, settlers, and the United States Army...

Santa is an alien and Christmas is in crisis. Ben and the crew are one step closer to reuniting their orphaned Viraquin with her mother. All they need now is a little information. When they arrive the planet is under attack. Santa’s deployment to Earth is in jeopardy and the consequences for...

Who knew babysitting an alien would be so hard? Ben and the crew have set course for an alien planet, but the inhabitants are far from what they expected. They have answers that could get their baby Viraquin home but Ben isn’t sure he’s willing to pay the price for the well guarded secret...

Being a space pirate can be complicated… Ben and Lois are closer to reuniting Bubbles with her long-lost alien mother, but just because they're closer doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. They must face off against an army of spiderbots, killer mushrooms, and a colossal cave monster the...

Ben Roberts hears voices…alien voices. When word of his abilities spreads through the galactic grapevine, Ben ranks number one on an A.I.’s most wanted list to become their cybernated slave. A bleak prospect, but what if they offered him everything he ever dreamed of in exchange? A...

In the wake of their shattering victory, Brutal Deluxe ascends at last into the Premiere League—krieg chess at its most savage, lethal, and politically charged. To anchor his impossible squad, Virgil unveils his most heretical gambit yet: an Echo, vat-grown and memory-sown, a man wearing a dead prodigy's face and the broken remnants of a stranger's soul. He calls himself Lance—and he must master his fractured self even as the world's elite gather to break him.

When crime lord Jimmy Nunzio is caught, knife in hand, over the body of his daughter’s lover and his own archenemy, he turns to Mick McFarland to take up his defense. Usually the courtroom puppeteer, McFarland quickly finds himself at the end of Nunzio’s strings. Struggling to find grounds for a not-guilty verdict on behalf of a well-known killer, Mick is hamstrung by Nunzio’s refusal to tell him what really happened. On the other side of the law, Mick’s wife, Piper, is working to free Darlene Dowd, a woman sentenced to life in prison for her abusive father’s violent death.