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Americans spend a majority of their waking hours working, whether paid or unpaid. Due to a global pandemic, rapidly advancing technology, shifts in the economy, and more, the working world has become an increasingly complex place to navigate. In this newly expanded and updated version of his 2011 book, Work Matters, author and pastor Tom Nelson wrestles with the latest trends and dynamics of work, including remote work, work-life balance, technology, the meaning of Sabbath, and working for the common good.

Fred Bracken, son of a small-town Montana rancher, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1968 and was sent to the jungles of Vietnam, where he served his time in the elite Marine Force Recon. Months later, wounded and fraught with nightmares, he returns home to his Montana ranch to face not only the demons of his childhood but also those he brought home with him from the jungle. His plans? College, marriage, and a normal future. The problem is, after a drunk driver kills his parents in a car crash, Fred is forced to drop out of school to run the ranch now heavily in debt.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this Century of profound change for women our Atlantic neighbours produced authors of extraordinary ability that dazzled us all with a range of ideas, characters and stories of such magnificence that literature would never be the same again. Genius is written in their names.

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied...

A dog's love for her master provides the clues that the police need for solving the disappearance of a young woman who works for a multimillion dollar charitable foundation. Rob MacKay is asked by the owner of the foundation to find the woman. When police discover that twenty-eight million dollars are missing, the case becomes more complicated, exposing the sometimes sordid dealings of the Silicon Valley's tech community.

The Hell Wars ended 10 years ago. Hell won. Tonight, a half-human cyborg powers up. He died as an army grunt, but now he rises as a hero named MANBORG. He seeks answers about his mysterious origins as he battles the hordes of armed demons that killed him and conquered his world. He teams up with a gunslinger named Justice and his knife-expert sister, Mina. Number 1 Man, a martial arts master, completes the unlikely squad. Together, they face damned legions, monsters, and finally Hell’s ruler on Earth: Count Draculon.

Gilde has spent her life isolated in the wild marshlands, a place too wet for the dragon to go. She’s safe there, according to her father. So why is he asking her to leave with him now that she has come of age? There is more to Gilde’s family than she knows, and debts need to be paid. Betrayed and shattered, she wakes in a crumbling mountain castle with the beast of her nightmares. Except this dragon speaks like a man and reads books. His kindness confuses her and opens a forgotten longing in her heart, all while Gilde plans her escape from a mountain full of secrets.

Author Bret Nelson mashes up dime novels and drive-in double features to bring you two killer books in one!

Since my divorce, women have served a solitary purpose for me. The last thing I needed in my life was the headache of a relationship. I had no time or energy for anyone other than my son and my club. But when a chance encounter with my son's teacher turned into something I didn't expect, I tossed aside all my reservations and took a chance. I should've kept my distance. I should've listened when she told me she had doubts about us, suspicions which she was yet to find out were justified, and let her walk away.

In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest the curse of the Baskervilles once and for all. The perpetrator escaped into the night and was presumed drowned, consumed by the murky bog... In truth, the criminal mastermind survived the night to nurse his wounds and plot his revenge against Sherlock Holmes.

Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire's farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of secrets that will ultimately reveal just how far everyone was willing to go to protect her. The Sunken Town explores adoption, identity, the nature of family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, the impact of family secrets, the weight of motherhood, and the lasting consequences of the choices people make.

The Alice Dunbar-Nelson Collection showcases the multifaceted talent of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a prominent voice of the Harlem Renaissance. This compilation features standout works like Violets, Ten Minutes' Musing, A Carnival Jangle, The Woman, and Titee, each reflecting her keen insight into themes of identity, gender, race, and social justice. With lyrical elegance and emotional depth, Dunbar-Nelson captures the intricacies of human experience while addressing the cultural and societal dynamics of her time.

77 Affirmations for Sobriety is a powerful and uplifting guide designed to support individuals on their journey to recovery.

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives.

"I promise you this is a transformational book .... Start reading, Believe me, you won't be able to stop until you're finished." (From the foreword by John Bradshaw)

This book was written to give anyone, but especially brown and black women and men encouragement to apply and complete nursing school. We all have very important stories to share with the goal of giving you encouragement to live your dream of becoming a nurse. We are here to help and be an inspiration.

When a shriveled body turns up in an old silver mine, failed detective Syl Dixon gets pulled into the investigation. But the strange case is even more sinister than she imagined. And the dying town of Pate, Idaho is full of secrets that don't want to be uncovered. People go missing all the time. Strange howls echo from the woods. Eerie portraits hang like shrines outside homes. But nobody-including the local sheriff-seems to care.

You're not lazy, crazy, or broken. Nor are you too fat, too shy, boring, or selfish. Don't believe the lies you were told. You are perfectly you, and that's your superpower! You're not alone. Support is available, and recovery is possible after the devastating experience of narcissistic abuse. Brave Love 365 is a daily book that meets you right where you are and provides you with supportive bite-sized pieces of knowledge, information, and thought-provoking prompts.

The purpose of this autobiography is to record the frequent times of God Moments In my life and what He called me to do and what I did, as well as other memories of my life, which all seem to me as God moments, now that I look back and remember after reading this autobiography over many times, I realized that God has never missed a moment being at my side. Maybe it was also my Guardian Angel, the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Trinity of God, my Family, or my relatives who have prayed for me and made me who I am today and over the years.

It is a rare opportunity to learn from the wisdom of one who has witnessed a century of life, including all of its joys, sorrows, changes, and unchanging truths. It is even rarer to have such a witness from a prophet of God. Having been first called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1984, President Russell M. Nelson has viewed much of the world’s modern history through the lens of a special witness of Christ.