Choosing What Mattersis an inspirational forty-day devotional drawing from the examples of the apostle Peter’s life to show readers the lessons and values that matter most on the Christian path. Because Peter is probably of mature age when he pens his final letters to first-century believers, these timeless topics are relevant for consideration as one transitions from a full-time career into retirement.Are you ever overwhelmed by challenges you face in life’s passages? Thi...

Exploring the backstory that led to the writing of Graham Greene’s beloved satirical spy novel, Our Man Down in Havana evokes this pivotal time and place in the author’s life.When US immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that “every vice was permissible and every trade possible” in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos and nude revues. The former MI6 ...

“This attractive and readable book is an excellent introduction to informational literature and to a fascinating creature.” — School Library JournalPython stirs and slithers out from her shelter, smelling the air with her forked tongue. It’s time to molt her dull scales and reveal the glistening snake underneath. Gliding along a tree, the hungry python stalks her prey. Combining informative facts, expressive illustrations, and a lyrical, mesmerizing narrat...

Bingo the Dingo and his pack are in trouble! All the water in their Outback home has completely dried up. They'll be forced to make a long, hard journey on foot to the next watering hole-unless the Roo Crew can build them a new road to drive there.Junior the possum is so excited to help on his first project ever. He's been on his phone day and night looking up everything he might need to know. But when it's time to pick up his toolbelt, can he say "so long" to the screen? Will he b...

A boy steals a ticket to an amusement park and gets the roller-coaster ride of a lifetime—literally. Thefirst day of middle school turns into a free-for-all when the gym teacher offers the class a get-out-ofgym-free card.Sick of his sister’s vampire wannabe friends, a kid decides to teach them a lesson at theirnext party. But the tables are turned when some surprise guests show up.Critically acclaimed author and master of the macabre David Lubar is back with th...

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individuals are slowing rail traffic between Sacramento and the Bay Area and swarming subway trains in Los Angeles in search of a place to sleep when they’re not languishing on Skid Row. Drug use among the homeless is plaguing communities, with discarded needles threatening children playing at public parks. And every day across California, thousand...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This powerful narrative pierces the veil of poverty and systemic oppression, mapping the hidden contours of inequality and scarcity. With urgent prose, it urges moral awakening and empathy, advocating for a just world where dignity is universal. Unraveling the threads of economic and political power that bind the marginalized, it is both critique and beacon of hope, imagining a future where freedom and equity are humanity's true yardsticks.

What if you could see through the bias in every argument — including your own?You second-guess your decisions, talk yourself in and out of the same choice, and walk away from debates certain you were right but unable to say why. Worse, the opinions you trust most are often the ones you've never actually examined — you inherited them, and they feel like facts.Left unchecked, muddled thinking leads to poor decisions, weak arguments, and a mind easily steere...

"When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it’s a job for mercenary Kate Daniels in this thrilling dramatized audiobook in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that’s saying a lot.But when Kate's werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront h...

The Blood Runners are an ancient culture, possessors of occult knowledge and power. Isolated in the forbidden Obeah system, they conduct horrific experiments exploring the nature of suffering, death and immortality. And the person Owen Deathstalker cares for most has fallen into their aberrant clutches. But Owen's Madness Maze-given powers appear to have abandoned him after the exhausting battle of Lachrymae Christi. In a stolen starship, the Deathstalker races against time on a desperate ...

"The war continues, and the undead ravage the land. Jirom, Horace, and Emanon begin to hope they might free the empire. But can they manage to do so before the dark king conquers the world?Horace has come a long way from his days of slavery. Now he, Jirom, and their companions think they just might glimpse victory ahead, and the triumphant end to what began as a mere slave rebellion. But first Horace must recover from the loss of his beloved Alyra. And Jirom finds himself asking if...

Everybody with a spare million is lining up at the gates of Ranch Ragnarok, home to Esther Clear Seer's Church of the Absolute and Incontrovertible Truth. Here an evil yellow smoke shrouds an ancient oracle that offers glimpses into the future.But when young virgins start disappearing, CURE smells something more than a scam. Here in Wyoming, East and West are about to fulfill an ancient prophecy. For Apollo himself, Zeus's own wild boy, is set to unleash a power greater than any se...