When winning at all costs becomes too expensive.Eddie Alonso, a former pro soccer star, whose career was ended by a violent and intentional assault, is now a reluctant high school science teacher and varsity coach in St. Cloud, MN. When two of his favorite student players are recruited by an upstart Finnish soccer club owned by an eccentric tech billionaire with a secretive cognitive training program run by Dr. Anna Lehtinen, Eddie is suspicious of the motives but ...

Discover the next frontier in sports training—improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience—and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life.Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.The playmaker on any sports team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining anticipation, perception, and decision-making skills. This quality raises their game above the competition and all...

Jonah didn't ask to be a prophet. After seeing the damage it did to his father, he just wanted to be left alone and to lead a quiet life. God had other ideas. What interest could God have in Nineveh, a non-Hebrew city worshiping false gods? How did Jonah survive three days in a fish's belly? This more plausible version of Jonah's story tells it the way it really could have happened. Fish and all.

Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki ‘Ahok’ Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia’s liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing Islamist majoritarian sentiment.Specifically, this book analyses whether a 2010 decision of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has rendered the liberal democratic human rights guarantees contained in Indonesia’s 1945 Constitution ineffe...

Walter was always running away from something—a broken heart, shame, the truth. He was also unknowingly pursued by something sinister, and, when he finally held still too long, it caught him.

Jordan J. Winslow had tried love. He had tried marriage. And he swore that he would never go through that mess again. Then he met the beautiful, dynamic Catherine. She was not interested in this geek. But Jordan had a plan. He would give her what she wanted most, a winning season for her sculling team. Implementing the plan would make this time in his life the best he'd ever known, and worse than he could have ever imagined.

Eskander's woman betrays him. His king banishes him. His best friend is murdered. Now Eskander lives for revenge. He will make an army and dispense justice, even if thousands die. But what will he live for when revenge is impossible? And what will he do when he becomes a target of revenge? Eskander struggles across a world, following the road sunward, driven by forces he strives to understand, and finally discovers his incredible, real purpose.

Discover the next frontier in sports training—improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience—and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life.Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.The playmaker on any sports team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining anticipation, perception, and decision-making skills. This quality raises their game above the competition and all...

**"The magical book that will have your kids asleep in minutes." —The New York PostThis groundbreaking #1 international bestseller is sure to calm racing minds and make bedtime easy and fun for kids and parents!**Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? Do anxiety or worries ever interfere with bedtime?Join parents all over the world who have embraced The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep as their new nightly routine.When Roger...

After two devastating defeats and the utter annihilation of two armies, the hideous Vlagh still vows to invade the land of Dhrall. A voracious insectile overmind, she can breed millions of soldiers in mere days and even evolve entire new species in just a week.At first, Dhrall's mortal defenders-a motley bunch of mercenaries, pirates, horse lords, and lone heroes like the archer Longbow-are certain they'll prevail again. Most are now battle-hardened veterans, and the natives of Dhrall are ...

From New York Times–bestselling authors—Gods and mortals unite against an evil threatening not just a kingdom but a world in this fantasy saga conclusion.The end of twenty-five eons has arrived: now the four Elder Gods will be replaced by the Younger Gods. During this transition, the greatest danger comes not from the Vlagh, who breeds her largest and deadliest insectoid army for a final war on Dhrall, but from Aracia, an Elder God. Aracia has grown addicte...

Richly imaginative, this fantasy will take you to the brink of the end of the world as gods fight demons and monsters for the right to rule -- and their lives.While most continents float freely on the face of Mother Sea, the Land of Dhrall survives anchored by the will of the Gods. All Gods, Elder and Younger, share the people and the land of Dhrall equally. But the one place they never enter is The Wasteland: a barren and hideous wilderness ruled by the Vlagh -- a ...