If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past?Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and manual for unleashing creativity in your congregation so you can connect with the more visua...

"A sweet and engaging story that’s hard to stop reading, with truly good characters and a well-written and believable plot." - YA Books CentralSometimes life doesn’t go according to plan.My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought.It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil.No way...

Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way to the Moon’s core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld.Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. After training for two and a half years, four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—are bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth c...

Liminal Sky chronicles humankind's first journey to the stars. The first three books - the Ariadne Cycle - cover the creation and launch of Ariadne (aka Forever) as she was grown from seed on an asteroid and then launched across the interstellar void. The books are told in epic fashion, with each broken into three parts that span generations.THE STARK DIVIDESome stories are epic.The Earth is in a state of collapse, with wars breaking out over resources and an enviro...

Chosen by Booker T. Washington himself, this respectful biography traces the public life of one of America's most influential leaders through the eyes of men who knew him well. It is less a full life story than a clear account of the major phases of his work, his rise from slavery to national prominence, and the enduring legacy of education, service, and dignity he left behind. Theodore Roosevelt's preface hails Washington as a great American whose devotion to industrial education, practic...

This supporting workbook is designed to be used with the Practical Aviation & Aerospace Law textbook to provide a comprehensive instructional package for undergraduate and graduate aviation law courses offered to students preparing for aviation careers. It aids in application of legal principles set forth in the textbook to the kinds of decisions students will make in the real world of aviation as managers, pilots, mechanics, aircraft owners, air traffic controllers, air safety in...

Most people think blockchain is about cryptocurrency. It isn't. At its core, blockchain is an operating system for digital trust. The Blockchain Operating System explains blockchain from the ground up through systems thinking rather than technical complexity. Instead of beginning with wallets, mining, or speculation, the book begins with a simple question: How can strangers trust one another without relying on a central authority? From that foundation, readers are guided through the archit...

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a single tool: a chatbot, image generator, search assistant, or productivity application. But AI is becoming something much larger. It is increasingly embedded in software, businesses, institutions, physical infrastructure, and the systems people rely on every day. Understanding AI therefore requires more than learning how to write prompts or use the latest application. It requires seeing the full operating system forming around it. In The AI O...

When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks FlyCrispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, could find a needle in ten haystacks. His desk is so neat it would make an accountant blush, and he's never failed to complete a recovery mission. He has no idea how adorable he is, especially when he's at his most annoyingly officious.Enter utterly chaotic Leopold Lane. His life is a masterclass in disastrous events--and it's about to get worse. He's the latest thing that Cr...

Welcome to Oberon, one of the seven wonders of the Common Worlds—a perfect half-sphere of a planet that defies the laws of physics.Jameson has just arrived on this strange world in search of a rare psychoactive called pith. His local guide, Xander, is a handsome, cocky wing man with a troubled past, who guides him into the wilds on a quest to find the source of the mysterious substance.As the world starts to fall apart around them, they race to avert a cataclysm while fight...

A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant; recently-widowed Carmelina; Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups; Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel; teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi; an...

When Lisa returns home on Halloween night, the porch light is already on. Inside, a family she has never seen before is moving through her house as if they belong there. A woman opens the kitchen cabinets. A child sits on the rug. A man waits at the table. Upstairs, someone turns on the shower. Lisa tells them to leave. They don't. They are calm. Polite. Almost reasonable. And that is what makes them so frightening. As trick-or-treaters gather outside and her calls for help keep failing, L...