Some people are marked by prayer. They enter a room with no fanfare, yet you know they are there. They are the people we turn to for wisdom and a listening ear, knowing they carry the marks of prayer. What does it take to become one of these people? Author G. Dwayne McCrary takes us on a journey to identify five traits and gain a deeper understanding of each. Discover how these traits developed in the lives of biblical characters, giving us clues as to how these same marks can be fostered ...

The Chronicles of a Mad Lab Assistant: Darke PygmalionBy: Lynn McCraryThe Chronicles of a Mad Lab Assistant takes place around 1930, in the world of the Cthulhu Mythos as created by Howard Philip Lovecraft. It is also a world of Steampunk Technology. The main character Ed, a senior at Miskatonic University, builds an android. The android starts killing women and he has to find a way to stop her without destroying himself in the process. This is a horror story with a hint of...

On the surface it may appear that yoga is yoga is yoga, but take a closer look and you’ll discover myriad different yoga systems and lineages. There are dozens of yoga styles to choose from, and while yoga is for everyone, not every style is the perfect fit for every person. But how do you choose between mysterious-sounding names such as Ashtanga, Kundalini, Bikram, and Kripalu? As Meagan McCrary discovered when she began exploring different classes, finding the right style is essential fo...

What price would you pay to keep everyone safe?Queen Siobhan of the elves knows that there's only one way to save the world: together. The problem? The elves fled to the Otherworld centuries ago to avoid war. Convincing them they need to join one will be no easy feat. Visions plague her as she ponders how best to sway her people. Can she put things into motion before it's too late, or will the world itself suffer the consequences of their inaction?Queen...

Remo Cobb was down on his luck before, but not like this...In the blink of an eye his flashy life of being a big money, heavy drinking, pill popping attorney came to a screeching halt. After being fired from the highfalutin law firm following a violent altercation, his days of wheeling and dealing for the accused are over. Now, all he wants to do is pick up the shattered remains of his life and spend some time getting to know his son, but the law isn’t ready to l...

To get her memories back, she’ll have to gamble with her life.Steady Teddy runs her bar with a baseball bat and a blatant disregard for the law. Years after a vicious attack that wiped her memory, she’d give up her lucrative poker ring in a heartbeat to remember her childhood. But when a mysterious benefactor makes her an offer to help her buy her late parents’ farm, Teddy fears that her dream could be the thing that gets her killed.When a suspicious tipo...

He betrayed two ruthless killers, and no good verdict goes unpunished…Remo Cobb is ready to wash his grimy soul clean. In an uncharacteristic burst of righteousness, the New York defense attorney throws the case of the most heinous criminals he’s ever represented. But after the psychotic Mashburn Brothers pull off an impossible prison break, Remo's instincts tell him his double crossing act of kindness may come back to kill him.Barely staying one step ahe...

Last night two children knocked at his door. Someone is looking for them…Nicholas Hooper wanted to be left alone. Looking to escape his past and his unfortunate present, the best-selling author rented a luxury house in the Poconos to finish what very well could be his very last book. But his plans change when one night he opens his front door to find two frightened children.A young girl and boy all alone.They refuse to speak. Looking for help.Hooper...

An essential guide to corporate financeUnderstanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk.Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials presents the material by example, using an extended scenario involving a new business formation. In Part One, present and future value mathematics are introd...

What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? This beautifully written book features teacher narratives and youth-authored student spotlights that reveal what classrooms do and can look like in the wake of these critical moments. Dunn incisively argues for the importance of equitable commitments, humanizing dialogue, sociopolitical awareness, and a rejection of so-called pedagogical neutrality across all grade levels ...

Dystopia, from the Greek dus and topos “bad place,” is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. This book addresses approaches to the study of dystopia from the academic fields of theology and religious studies. Following a co-written chapter where Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson argue that dystopia can be understood as demythologized apocalyptic, ten unique contributions each engage a work of pop...

Theology and Wes Craven explores the religious themes in the movies, television shows, and other works of the man who redefined the horror genre with such landmark and notorious films as The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Scream (1996). This volume provides a retrospective for his entire career, and then spotlights his most theologically intriguing works...