We’ve all heard stories of amazing product successes: the brilliant college kid who started a business in his dorm room; the team who built a business from the back of a napkin with just a few friends and sold it for millions.Yet for every amazing success story, there are thousands of stories of products that went nowhere.Most of us aren't looking at billion-dollar valuations; we’re not looking for an exit. Instead we have a few ideas — some innovative, some not — and we’re...

In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. Heavenly voices, she said, had told her to seek out the Dauphin, Charles, so that he might give her an army with which to deliver France from its English occupiers. The ensuing tale of Joan's military success is told here in a gripping and authoritative narrative. Previous works have concentrated on the religious and feminist aspects of Joan's career; this is...

The dark unknown beckons.Rune Jenkins has a long-standing infatuation with anything from the supernatural world, and she's trying to hide it. If she doesn't, she angers her reckless twin brother Ryker, and starts feeling like her own sanity is slipping. But the closer she gets to Grey Malteer—an old friend who waves his fascination with fantasy like a flag—the harder it becomes to stifle her own interest.The supernatural suddenly invades their reality when ...

Tybolt’s a Deviant, a hated race immune to direct magic in a world where Wizards ensure survival. But when he loses his entire family to a spell-made storm he joins an elite group of Wizard hunters, organized beneath the new non-magic wielding king.Now eighteen, he spends his days capturing Wizards. But the nights are his, reserved to feed the starving villagers of Eriroc under cover of dark. There’s always more people in need than he can help, and one of these days he’s going to h...

In 2013, Helen DeVries received a death sentence – stage IV cancer of the appendix. Her only hope was a drastic surgery that would take twenty hours and require removing the contents of her abdomen and flushing the peritoneal cavity with highly concentrated, heated chemotherapy – an extremely invasive procedure requiring days in intensive care and weeks in the hospital. The alternative was three to six months of symptom-free living followed by palliative care for another two and a half to ...

Every Christian is sent by Jesus to "be Jesus" to everyone everywhere. That's what Missional Living is all about. It's aligning your heart with Jesus' missionary heart. Six-Word Lessons to Discover Missional Living gives you practical ways to help you incarnationally display the gospel to those around you, make disciples who make disciples, and multiply churches to the ends of the earth.

Do you find yourself again and again wondering what it would take to get some new volunteers onboard for your ministry? And yet does it seem that you are never able to focus your energy on recruitment? Maybe you find yourself saying things like: It?s just easier for me to do it myself."At one level, of course, this is true. Almost always, it is easier to "do it ourselves." We avoid the hassle of having to coordinate and communicate. We avoid having to follow up with people who dro...

Can someone from the past help rewrite the future?When 16-year-old Lucy McGowen goes under sedation for a routine dental procedure, she hopes to come out of it free of pain. Instead, she wakes up in an alternate version of her life―a reality in which her secret hobby is out in the open, her own parents feel like strangers, and her boyfriend doesn't even know her name. Navigating her new world is hard enough, but then Lucy begins getting cryptic messages from a mysterious sender with...

The more you discover, the less you know . . .Hazel Stone is beginning to accept her birthright—and the extraordinary powers that come with it—but she's still a long way from understanding her connection to a stranger's troubled life. With the help of her friend, Max, she continues her desperate search for answers, but the trail leads them deeper into dangerous territory. They encounter some unlikely allies along the way—and cross paths with a fanatical doctor who seems hell-bent on...

This Story Bible is a classic in which Anne de Vries touches on the episodes recorded in Scripture, one by one, bringing them to life for young readers through dramatic dialogue, vivid imagination, and careful attention to narrative structure. The exquisitely detailed and unique illustrations by Cornelis Jetses beautifully complement the story of God's dealings with His people.

In Marketing With a Book you will learn savvy storytelling strategies for your books and speeches to position yourself above your competition. Writing and publishing strategies are clearly outlined and provide a road map to success. If you are serious about what you want to achieve—and enjoy a spot of humor along the way—then this is the book for you.

It's hard to tell how the aging process will affect you until it hits. Then, one morning, your knees start to ache as you get out of bed, your brow suddenly has bigger lines than Whole Foods on a Sunday afternoon, and that cup of coffee you just made seems to have disappeared somewhere into the ether along with your car keys. In the chapters outlined in this book, I have revealed the answers to those very questions and much, much more. From the very moment you read this book, you w...