Rescued from a local jail, a young man, Roshaun, finds himself suddenly thrust into a world wholely different than the life he once new. He discovers that he is part of a long line of protectors and a direct descendant of a hero of legend. With his newfound powers and companions, Roshaun is caught up in a threat that looms over the country that he and the others are called to fight against.Join Roshaun and the others as they travel toward the city of Lavir in an attempt to warn the...

Back to the Family is a companion to Art Smith's New York Times bestseller and James Beard award-winning cookbook, Back to the Table. Smith is the personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and a contributing editor to O Magazine.This book encourages readers to better understand the importance of valuing the ones you love through cooking and communing with food. Most importantly Back to the Family stresses the importance of recognizing old food trad...

Unlock Your Inner Strength: Transform Adversity into OpportunityImagine facing a setback that leaves you feeling lost—whether it's a job loss, a relationship breakdown, or an unexpected health challenge. In that moment of uncertainty, a spark of resilience can ignite a powerful transformation, empowering you to rise stronger than ever.In The Strength Within Unlocking the Secrets of Resilience: Mastering the Art of Bouncing Back and Moving Forward, ...

Life Planning for the 12 Areas of Life: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Balance, Fulfillment, and SuccessAre you feeling overwhelmed, and struggling to balance work, relationships, personal growth, and well-being? Do you want to take control of your life but don't know where to start? Life Planning for the 12 Areas of Life is your step-by-step guide to achieving life balance, personal growth, financial stability, and long-term success.This powerful self-improvement book int...

From Farm to Table: Building a Thriving Organic & Sustainable Food Business is the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs, farmers, and food enthusiasts looking to create a successful and ethical farm-to-table venture. With consumers increasingly demanding transparency, quality, and sustainability in their food choices, now is the perfect time to build a business that not only nourishes people but also supports the planet. This book walks you through every step of launching and growing an organi...

Before there was the Elf on the Shelf there was a young boy named Nicholas. . . .Shipwrecked in the Arctic Tundra, a young Nicholas and his loyal dog, Barry, stumble upon the enchanted and mysterious world of One True North—home to gnomes, fairies, and, of course, magical elves. This epic Santa Claus origin story shows how Nicholas discovers that these special creatures protect a powerful relic known as the Lumistella Stone, a shard of the Christmas star that fell to Earth thousand...

Understanding the Book of Mormon on its own terms and through its two-way connection with the BibleLike the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, the Book of Mormon uses narratives to develop ideas and present instruction. Michael Austin reveals how the Book of Mormon connects itself to narratives in the Christian Bible with many of the same tools that the New Testament used to connect itself to the Hebrew Bible to create the Christian Bible. As Austin shows, the c...

Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like Children of God to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world ...

At the end of his first inaugural address, delivered to a nation deeply divided and on the brink of civil war, Abraham Lincoln concluded, “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.” Lincoln’s words ring true today, especially for a new generation raised on political discourse that consists of vitriolic social media and the echo chambers of polarized news media.In We Must Not Be Enemies, Michael Austin combines American history, classical theories of democracy, and co...

Published in 1853, the first American novel about the Mormons is also one of the best. John Russell, an Illinois journalist and educator, witnessed the persecution in Missouri and Illinois and generally sympathized with the Saints. The Mormoness tells the story of Mary Maverick, the heroine of the novel, who joined the Mormon Church when her husband was converted in Illinois. Though not initially a believer, Mary embraces her identity as “the Mormoness” when her husband and son ar...

First published in 1855, Boadicea; the Mormon Wife belongs to a sub-genre of crime fiction that flourished in the Eastern United States during the 1850s.Boadicea has become increasingly important to scholars of Mormonism because it gives us a glimpse of the Mormon image in literature immediately after the Church’s public acknowledgement of plural marriage. Over the next half century, this image would be sharpened and refined by writers with different rhetorical goals: to end polygamy, to a...

Dime novels probably did more than any other kind of book to turn lower- and middle-class Americans into both book owners and book readers. They were so cheap that almost anyone could afford them, and so exciting that almost everybody wanted to read them. It’s hard to tell just how many of these dime novels featured Mormons, but the way Mormons were portrayed in dime novels was remarkably consistent over many decades and multiple genres. This consistency tells us that dime novelists were p...