Nola Soto trusts numbers because numbers do not flirt, lie, or decide what she is allowed to know.At twenty-nine, she is a sharp, career-driven pension investigator sent from St. John’s to Marystown, Newfoundland, to examine a disturbing claim: disability payments are still moving through accounts tied to Barrett Tate, an Iron House MC member officially declared dead three years ago. One clean audit could strengthen Nola’s path toward management. One mistake could damage the profes...

Elle Hamilton knows how to keep people alive under pressure. As a thirty-one-year-old Black critical-care paramedic in Port Huron, Michigan, she trusts her training, her instincts, and the man she believes is building a future with her.Jason Sampson is everything she should be able to count on. A former Marine, respected biker, and Vice President of the Blue Water Reapers MC, he is steady in a crisis, dangerous when necessary, and fiercely protective of the people he claims as his ...

Doctor Spechaug, a psychology professor in a small provincial town, wakes with blood on his hands and clothes and no memory of what he has done. As he makes his way through the woods toward the college, his hatred of the local peasants, his urge to escape Glen Oaks, and the forest's strange hold on him all suggest that his rational, scientific mind is beginning to fracture. Deep in the trees, that buried self stirs. He feels a sudden freedom and vitality, then encounters Edith Bailey, a br...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

An indispensable resource for preaching and teaching the book of DanielIn this well-researched commentary, scholars Aubrey E. Buster and John H. Walton guide readers through chapters 7–12 of the book of Daniel. They provide historically informed, theologically sound interpretations of the content in these chapters: Daniel's apocalyptic dreams and visions, his encounters with the angel Gabriel, his prayer for restoration, and more. Buster and Walton also help reader...

How Flawed Interpretation Disrespects the Bible and Divides the ChurchThe Crisis of Biblical Authority is noted biblical scholar John H. Walton's response to one of Christianity's most pressing challenges: the damage done when believers treat the Bible as a tool for advancing their own agendas rather than as a sacred text to be faithfully understood.Christians agree that the Bible has authority, but it can be difficult to identify where that author...

Reclaim Apocalypse as a Mode of Wisdom and WonderDiscover the connections between the apocalyptic literature of Scripture and the imaginative worlds crafted by one of Christianity's most beloved authors in C. S. Lewisand the End of the World.This innovative exploration from Old Testament scholar Aubrey Buster delves deep into the creative worlds Lewis constructed, examining how his fictional worlds echo the cosmic struggles between good and evil th...

A Relaxing Pet-sitting Gig in Mexico... Until Danger Strikes at DawnViviane Masters is celebrating her sixties with a new lease on life as a globetrotting pet-sitter. But her inaugural assignment in a sleepy ex-pat town in Mexico turns sinister when threatening notes appear at the casa.Against her daughter’s wishes, the spunky senior has embarked on this adventure seeking excitement and freedom. But Viviane quickly senses a dark undercurrent in the seemingl...

Times are hard. Perhaps not quite hard enough for Arthur to awaken from his long sleep, but other characters from mythology and history may still be here to lend a hand. Are you having trouble with an unscrupulous landlord? Is your village or wildlife reserve being threatened by a multi-national corporation? Is funding being cut for the very services that allow your community to thrive, or function at all?Throughout history, from the Chartist movement to the formation of the NHS vi...

A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of the spheres to the “melismatic celebration of disaster” that is the blues, these are poems that map the places where orderly cosmic harmony and dissonance converge.“If only the world were as orderly as Bach, if there were no need for gospel, no need for jazz, no need for the blues.” As Anthony Walton writes, centuries ago, Johannes Kepler observed that the univ...

Fresh start? Check. Quirky neighbors? Check. Finding a dead body? Absolutely NOT in the plan.Forty-something divorcee Anne Freemont traded her high-pressure city life for the charming mountain town of Carolan Springs, Colorado. Her plan: renovate a Victorian fixer-upper, breathe some fresh mountain air, and enjoy zero drama.Then a runaway chicken changes everything.When Anne's goofy and sweet neighbor, Kandi, is accused of murdering the neighborhood...

A cozy mystery where Texas grit, homemade pie, and quiet faith meet small-town secrets.Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and returns home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest, help Pop, and finally have time to try out some pie recipes. What she finds instead is a community with long memories, a mystery that keeps pulling her in, and people who became family before she’d quite noticed it happening. Set against the warm, wide...