Thaddeus Thatcher makes a blood pact with his best friends that they will all graduate college and go forth into the world, pursuing a life of glorious, swashbuckling adventure.Thaddeus sets out, determined to fulfill his vow, and discovers the wonders and beauty of new places and people. While on a romantic weekend sailboat getaway on an atoll off the coast of Tahiti, he runs into the celebrity Avior Aviideus.Avior likes Thaddeus's adventurous spirit and invites him to be ...

There is a universal restlessness today among believers, young and old—unease, unhappiness, and unrest that exists in our pursuit of happiness.Unarguably we find the answer in the life and salvation of Jesus Christ. Undeniably the miracles of His virgin birth, death on the cross, and resurrection from the grave hold the key to eternal life and ultimate joy. But what if in addition to these awaited a miracle revealed in Jesus' three years of public ministry, the rou...

What's holding your company back from the growth you know is possible?Every entrepreneurial leader eventually hits a ceiling. The skills and grit that fueled your start-up can't carry you through scale-up. Instead of freedom, you feel frustration-people problems, profit pressures, lack of control, or endless firefighting.In Grow!, Expert EOS ImplementersⓇ Jonathan B. Smith and Jeanet L. Wade reveal a proven roadmap for breaking through those barrie...

Avior Aviideus is born with an impossibly rare condition. The particles that make him up are phasing in and out of the universe. To save his life, doctors upload his consciousness into the Simulation, where he spends his childhood in infinite digital freedom.Now a teenager, the doctors stabilize his particles and reintroduce his consciousness to his body. Avior is told that he has one phase left in his particles. If he can phase into that other universe, the Interverse, one more ti...

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point of re-accentuation, i.e. having in mind one of the ke...

The Dover Demon is real...and it has returned.In 1977, Sam Brogna and his friends came upon a terrifying, alien creature on a deserted country road. What they witnessed was so bizarre, so chilling, they swore their silence. But their lives were changed forever.Decades later, the town of Dover has been hit by a massive blizzard. Sam's son, Nicky, is drawn to search for the infamous cryptid, only to disappear into the bowels of a secret underground lair....

Among the many consequences of Spain’s annexation of Portugal from 1580 to 1640 was an increase in the number of Portuguese authors writing in Spanish. One can trace this practice as far back as the medieval period, although it was through Gil Vicente, Jorge de Montemayor, and others that Spanish-language texts entered the mainstream of literary expression in Portugal. Proficiency in both languages gave Portuguese authors increased mobility throughout the empire. For those with literary as...