For anyone who has ever felt like life is like a video game comes this faux game guide for a fictional adventure video game titled ''Your Life.''Fans of videogames or anyone who has ever held a controller will love this romp through life's challenges from the formative Toddler Years all the way to the Retirement Home. Complete with navigation, instructions for which buttons to press on your gamepad, and secret codes for success, you'll find out all the tricks to win such challenges...

Little Kayla's best friend Zola didn't get her Christmas wish for the 3rd year in a row. Kayla had to do something about it to make this Christmas the BEST Christmas Zola has ever had. Find out what Little Kayla's secret Christmas present is all about and see how it changed the meaning of Christmas for Kayla forever.

Little Colty enjoys mowing the yard with his Dad and nothing makes him happier than to be outside mowing especially with his brand-new shiny red mower. Find out how Little Colty goes from a toddler pushing his toy mower that blows bubbles to becoming big and strong enough to push a real mower.

The audiobook version of the first book in the bestselling faith-based young adult series, performed by actors from the "Mount Hideaway Mysteries" Christian movie series."An exciting and heartfelt story that draws teens and parents together."In a small Virginia town outside a mysterious government facility, four homeschooled teenagers investigate a series of murders and other crimes while wrestling with "coming of age" challenges of faith, family a...

They've ravaged her hometown, murdered her best friend and launched a cyber-attack on the government facility where her dad works. This sweet, homeschooled veterinarian has had enough.Amy Bradford's tender heart just can't take another tragedy.The beautiful small town animal doctor and crime scene investigator just lost her best friend in a tragic car accident. It seems like the last straw in a litany of pain and sorrow that has her questioning her...

Being a spy was dangerous. But moving back home is MURDER.Bethany Shanholtz isn't sure if danger followed her home or if it was there waiting for her.After a top-secret mission went tragically sideways, she gave up her job as a government operative and moved home to her farm and her family.But when a dead body turns up at her ex-boyfriend's investment property her old bosses want her to investigate. It turns out this small town murder could...

The usual wide range of approaches to garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three chapters focus on practical matters: a description of the medieval vestments surviving at Castel Sant'Elia in Italy; a survey of the spread of silk cultivation to Europe before 1300; and a documentation of medieval colour terminology for desirable cloth. Two address social significance: the practice of seizing clothing from debtors in fourteenth-century Lucca, and the transformation of the wardro...

One of the truly great minds of all time, the 15th-century Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was uncannily ahead of his time, giving the world not only the Mona Lisa and his other extraordinary works of art, but also designs for a helicopter, military tank, submarine, bicycle - and even the sewing machine - among many other incredibly advanced innovations.It has also been argued that he may even have been behind the faking of Christianity's most precious relic, the Shroud of Turin t...

For more than eight years, I lived and worked in the dark underworld of Las Vegas as an exotic dancer. Some things are worth repeating-others you try to forget. Unfortunately, you never forget. I decided it was time that somebody told the truth about what really happens in Las Vegas strip clubs and their VIP rooms. Is there "sex in the champagne room?" With the right dancer and for right price, there is anything you want in the champagne room! This book gives a lot of insight into what rea...

It is the hiding place of the Holy Grail, or a great secret that will rock the Church. It is a place of hidden treasure and dark knowledge. It is the place where Jesus is buried... These are just some of the many theories now current about the village where a Victorian priest became strangely - and massively - rich, and where he left clues to a great mystery in the very fabric of his church. What is the truth about Father Sauniere and the now-famous village of Rennes-le-Château?Thi...

A hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate.Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women, Brittany became a wildly popular blogger and national spokesmodel—known for stripping on stage at TedX and standing in Times Square in a bikini on national television, and making skinny people everywhere ...

“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The plague that devastated Asia and Europe...