Numbers of Faith by Daniel Miranda is a thought-provoking exploration of the unseen connections between numbers and spirituality. Beginning with ancient beliefs that numbers hold divine significance, the book traces their role in shaping human understanding of faith, destiny, and purpose. It unpacks how civilizations across history—from Babylonian astrologers to modern mystics—found patterns in numbers that guided rituals, predictions, and prayers. Miranda seamlessly blends historical insi...

The Millennial Generation, those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s, is the most educated, digitally connected, and globalized in the history of the world. Around the globe, this generation encompasses 1.8 billion people--a quarter of the world's population--and will soon produce a majority of the world's political, economic, and social leaders. Millennials grew up experiencing the terrorist attacks of September 11, the perpetual "war on terror", the global proliferation of th...

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Immersed in her old diary and unfinished story, Eve Green finds herself in the old room that she had left in haste two decades ago. She recalls how, at thirteen, she followed a path of utter danger and uncertainty just to find answers about her beloved father who mysteriously left her and her distraught mother. The person who leads her to her father is someone who is supposed to have died years ago. Eve uncovers that the father that she looks up to is not who he seems.

A few days after his father dies, sixteen year old Andrew Gray meets his mother for the first time. Wallowing in self-pity in the comforts of his bedroom, Andrew accidentally finds a brass key with the same initials carved into it that he had seen engraved in a secret door in the house.Using the key to unlock it, Andrew finds himself in a mystifying old study. He discovers a mysterious book with indecipherable words and strange pieces of old furniture. Andrew figures out the words ...

Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change: Children and Youth in Diverse International Contexts considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences, understandings, and practices of citizenship among children and youth in diverse international contexts. As such, this edited book examines the meaning of citizenship in an era defined by monumental global change. Chapters from across b...

This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance in a globalized world. The IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS) is a comparative research program designed to investigate the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens, and provides a wealth of data permitting not only comparison between countries but also comparisons between schools within countries, and stude...

The enduring story of a slashing in Penn Station that draws a Manhattan detective back into a case from the past that haunts him, by the bestselling and critically acclaimed master of the gritty crime drama.“A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as Clockers and Lush Life . . . [The Whites has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, in its brilliant chara...

An almost unnaturally poignant love story from the father of “Gonzo” journalism and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson.What makes the romantic short story Screwjack so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden: that "we are doomed. Mama has gone off to Real Estate School...and after that maybe even to Law School. We will never see her again."Hunter S. Thompson’s mos...

This is a STANDALONE dark(ish) erotic romance set in the Cordova Empire series (no cheating-HEA-no cliffhanger)RamonIn my family, there’s an old story going back generations about love at first sight. I used to think it was a fairytale, until I met my sweet Joy. The more I got to know her, the more I wanted her. But the world of the cartels is a dangerous place, so I watched her from afar, wishing things were different and I could claim he...

Edgar Award Finalist: A Florida crime reporter juggles multiple mysteries in a novel that "pulses with excitement, grit and vérité" (Faye Kellerman, New York Times–bestselling author).On the police beat for her Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero has a lot on her hands. She's investigating a series of bizarre deaths involving sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. As if that isn't enough, there's the long-unsolved murder of a young girl tha...

In The Vender who Cried One-Percenter (a twist on Aesop's tale), a lonely youth tries to attact attention to his booth. In Little Red and the Big Bad Biker, Little Red races a biker to Grandma's house. In Who Wants a Road Trip, Red Skull is ready for a road trip, but are his friends? In Motorella, how could a penniless orphan find her way to a true friend?