Have you ever wondered why some are willing to sacrifice absolutely everything for their beliefs?The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas is a rare and astonishing survival from the ancient world-a firsthand account written by a young noblewoman, Vibia Perpetua, documenting her imprisonment and trial. Alongside her slave, Felicitas, and their fellow believers, Perpetua faces the ultimate test of her faith in the gladiatorial arena of Carthage. This text is not mer...

Eight years ago, on the cliffs at Harrow Point, Calder Roan rejected Calla Vane in front of the whole pack. She was seventeen. She left with a knife and a plan.Now she sits on the Maritime Council under a name he's never bothered to learn. Her security firm handles nine packs. She has a file on every Alpha on the coast, and the longest one belongs to him.He comes to ask for her vote, not knowing who she is. She lets him speak for an hour. Then she reads the file.Wha...

A diagnosis lands and the room goes quiet. Before you have absorbed the news, a harder question follows: do you tell them? The estranged parent, the sibling you haven't spoken to in years, the child who walked away. This book is for both ends of that silence — for the person deciding whether to share their illness, and for the estranged family member who has just learned someone they once loved is sick. It does not tell you what to do. It helps you see what you actually want, what you can ...

10 EARLY CHRISTIAN SAINTS brings together in one accessible volume the stories of some of the greatest lives of the first 500 years of Christianity. We hope that this collection will give you a good glimpse into the experiences of these early believers and will also serve to strengthen your faith as you see their perseverance in hardships, their stand for truth and their love for God.Included in this volume are:• The Martyrdom of Polycarp,• M...

This book is a navigational guide for women who aspire to rise. The book's essence is simple: to use proven, practical tactics from women who have succeeded to develop lessons and strategies that others can use to navigate and create success in their lives, businesses, and careers.Success is deeply contextual. As such, learning from those who have successfully navigated certain contextual dynamics provides a robust and informed starting point and boosts the chances of succeeding be...

Perpetua and Felicity (died 7 March 203) are Christian martyrs of the 3rd century. Perpetua (born in 181) was a 22-year old married noble, and a nursing mother. Her co-martyr Felicity, an expectant mother, was her slave. They suffered together at Carthage in the Roman province o Africa.The Passion of St. Perpetua and St. Felicity is said to preserve the actual words of the martyrs and their friends. According to this Passion, in the year 203, during the persecutions of the emperor Septimius S...

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Have you ever wondered why some are willing to sacrifice absolutely everything for their beliefs?The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas is a rare and astonishing survival from the ancient world-a firsthand account written by a young noblewoman, Vibia Perpetua, documenting her imprisonment and trial. Alongside her slave, Felicitas, and their fellow believers, Perpetua faces the ultimate test of her faith in the gladiatorial arena of Carthage. This text is not mer...

Zweihundert Jahre Rees-Präzedenz. Odile Marchetti-Rees ist seit zwölf Jahren die Tagesbevollmächtigte der Night Ledger Holdings, und sonntags, mit einer Zustimmung, die einmal bei einer Hochzeit gegeben und nie neu verhandelt wurde, ist sie auch das Abendessen ihres Mannes. Sie ist in Ordnung. Sie ist seit zwölf Jahren in Ordnung. Dann öffnet sie den falschen Aktenschrank und findet ihre eigene Sterbeurkunde, vorab beim Leichenschauhaus als Eventualfall hinterlegt. Darunter, in derselben S...

Nothing Left Undone is an inspirational memoir of an outstanding life a daughter shared with her beloved father, who passed away in 2017. Brimming with exemplary life lessons and anecdotes, Nothing Left Undone is an educational and inspirational book from which everyone can benefit.

"Some matters do not wait for morning."It is 11:00 PM in Awka, Nigeria, and the street has settled into a tense, uneasy quiet. For Chioma, a quiet weekend lesson teacher, the night is supposed to end with sleep. Instead, it begins with three slow, deliberate raps on her door.Outside stands her visibly terrified landlord, flanked by two large, silent, and menacing strangers. They demand she sign a document she has never seen—bearing a name she hasn't heard s...

Two hundred years of Rees precedent. Odile Marchetti-Rees has been the daylight signatory of Night Ledger Holdings for twelve years, and on Sundays, with her consent given once at a wedding and never renegotiated, she is also her husband's dinner. She is fine. She has been fine for twelve years. Then she opens the wrong filing cabinet and finds her own death certificate, pre-filed with the mortuary, as a contingency. Under it, in the same drawer: a perpetual irrevocable consent instrument ...