A revenge plot intertwined with a white-collar crime thriller, involving young professionals, with twists for the protagonists, encountering a ruthless local gang leader, a vengeful CEO, and the FBI.After a handful of years without contact, Danny fortuitously meets his old high school friend, who like himself is under pressure at work. Danny enlists Steve into a fraud scheme, bilking his own company by inflating claim values. Their deceit lands them in the grip of a ruthless local ...

They sort, load, drive, and walk. They deliver letters and packages right to your home. They are mail carriers! Find out how these helpers make your community a better place. Through vivid photos and examples, readers in kindergarten to grade 2 will learn how mail carriers contribute to the well-being of a community. This collection introduces young readers to a variety of community helpers. Using kid-friendly language, students will learn about what these helpers do and how they improve t...

Who uses special tools and gear, fights smoke and flames, and helps people in emergencies? A firefighter! Find out how these helpers make your community a better place. Through vivid photos and examples, readers in kindergarten to grade 2 will learn how firefighters contribute to the well-being of a community. This collection introduces young readers to a variety of community helpers. Using kid-friendly language, students will learn about what these helpers do and how they improve the live...

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers th...

In Simple Machines: Inclined Plane, young learners in grades 1–3 will explore what an inclined plane is and how it is useful. This 24-page title uses real-world examples of simple machine mechanisms and explains how these feats of engineering can make daily work less difficult to complete. The Simple Machines series for grades 1–3 explains how basic mechanical devices, that are used for applying a force, can help make daily tasks much easier. Featuring before- and after-reading activities,...

In Simple Machines: Lever, young learners in grades 1–3 will explore how levers give us the lift we need. From scissors to wheelbarrows, this 24-page title uses real-world examples of simple machine mechanisms and explains how these feats of engineering can make daily work less difficult to complete. The Simple Machines series for grades 1–3 explains how basic mechanical devices, that are used for applying a force, can help make daily tasks much easier. Featuring before- and after-reading ...

Does something feel off? Even in a world filled with achievement and endless striving many people carry a quiet ache beneath the surface--the sense that life was meant to be more than exhaustion, fear, performance, or survival. In The Re-Storied Life, pastors and longtime friends Rick Barger and Lorne Hlad invite readers into a deeper, more hopeful way of living rooted in the story of God. Drawing on years of ministry, personal loss, global partnership in Haiti, and the depth of the Christ...

Botox. Plastic surgery. Make-up. Women sometimes go to desperate lengths to distort, mold, and fashion their bodies into that of the "ideal" woman. They live with the reality of the body, from its reproductive implications to the pressures from the media to look a certain way. They are intimately connected to their bodies, but often find it difficult to link their experience of the female body with their desire for Christian spirituality.Lillian Barger presents Eve's Revenge

"When God Says Go" speaks to would-be missionaries, tackling theological and practical concerns to help them find success in their calling. The book also speaks to churches that send missionaries. Written to help the church be more effective in missions as well as guiding them through the process of selecting missionaries to serve, the book offers insight to questions, plans, and responsibilities that sometimes get overlooked.The author shares from his heart and from his own 40 yea...

Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie.The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the nuclear wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together....

Plan, saw, hammer, frame! Builders construct the buildings that shelter us and keep us safe: houses, schools, hospitals, and more. Find out how these helpers make your community a better place. Through vivid photos and examples, readers in kindergarten to grade 2 will learn how builders contribute to the well-being of a community. This collection introduces young readers to a variety of community helpers. Using kid-friendly language, students will learn about what these helpers do and how ...

Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an important part. The Girl's Own Paper, first published in 1880, stands out because of its rich musical content. Keeping practical usefulness as a research tool and as a guide to further reading in mind, Judith Barger has catalogued the musical content found in the weekly and later monthly issu...