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Ella Thompson, a geotechnical engineer, arrives in Wirrapara expecting dust, silence, and an abandoned mine site. What she finds is static—on the radio, in the mirrors, and behind her own reflection. Her dog, Casper, senses it first. Then the motel room shifts. The town watches. And memory itself begins to rot. As reality fractures, Ella is pulled into a spiral of echoes, teeth, and voices that don’t belong to her. The town doesn’t want to kill her. It wants to keep her. Shape her. Speak through her.

In 1915 a book was stolen, a crow appeared, and fate dealt its hand. Rose Carbonelli sees ghosts. She doesn’t sleep. She watches every corner, studies every shadow, listens to the screams that no one else hears. Rose Carbonelli is terrified. Her father hasn’t been heard from since he volunteered to go to war in 1915. The money ran out a year ago, her mother, Edith, is fading away. Rose needs a job to save them both, and an excuse to flee the ghosts of her home. When Rutherford House advertises for a lady’s maid, Rose seizes the opportunity.

Are you one of the 75% of business owners who will profoundly regret selling their business within a year after exiting? Or will you join the elite 25 % who exit on their own terms, with complete control, maximum value, and zero regrets? If you are looking for a highbrow book on theory and academic analysis, this book is not for you. My book will give you a down to earth, step by step action plan on how to avoid exit regret. And best of all, it is written for a plane ride listen.

Isolado da sociedade e profundamente amargurado, o narrador sem nome deste pequeno romance compõe uma reflexão existencial e filosófica ao mesmo tempo em que apresenta uma confissão tortuosa, mordaz e irônica sobre seu passado. Ex-funcionário público de São Petersburgo, o "homem do subsolo" — como ficou conhecido o narrador-personagem deste livro —se volta para temas como a liberdade, a consciência e a irracionalidade, em um relato, ao mesmo tempo, angustioso e irresistível.

Forrest Hesketh se raccroche désespérément à son humanité. Coincée dans sa forme de louve depuis qu’elle a neuf ans, l’espoir pour cette enfant traumatisée de retrouver sa forme humaine s’étiole de jour en jour. Mais alors que sa meute qui la maltraite fomente son meurtre, son geste désespéré pour aider son demi-frère déclenche la transformation de la jeune femme brisée.

What do the Jewish Feasts, prophetic Seals and Bowls from the book of Revelation, and an Earth-bound asteroid have in common? This is the question on the lips of every individual who sees the potential correlation between the impending coming of Christ and the imminent approach of the asteroid Apophis. Since the dawn of time, God has had a plan for all humanity’s salvation, and through His time here on Earth, Jesus fulfilled his portion of that plan by purchasing our Redemption. He confirmed this through His revolutionizing of the Old Testament tradition.

This is a note to readers; this book is NOT a fairytale by any means. There is no happy magical end. This is dark truth and for those who are squeamish or easily triggered, I encourage you to read no further... However, if you do, what you find in these short stories may surprise you. Not all of these stories end badly, some are lighter. But be warned, fact and fiction are well blended.

Adam Newcommer is missing. In the idealistic town of Marshport, Ohio, the eleven-year-old has seemingly vanished from his friend's house in the deep of the night. While his parents question who they can trust and struggle to remain hopeful, the town's sheriff and a young private investigator look into the mysterious disappearance. The deeper they dig, the more they fight against small-town secrets and local superstitions as they search for Adam to bring him back home.

Winifred “Fred” Crowsdale thought life couldn’t get worse after a decade-long relationship ended in humiliating betrayal. Then, her rambunctious husky chewed through a door, prompting her furious landlord to kick them out—and ban them from every rental in town. Her one glimmer of hope? A mysterious, sentient house that offers them a home. But Fred’s luck takes a deadly turn when a daylight food-delivery gig in the Vampire Sector goes wrong… leaving her with fangs, an insatiable thirst, and a kill-on-sight warrant from the ruthless vampire court.

Als bei einem Terroranschlag während eines internationalen Fußballspiels Dutzende Menschen sterben, ahnt Jacob Detlev, dass es sich nicht um eine isolierte Tat handelt. Gemeinsam mit dänischen und internationalen Ermittlern stößt er auf Spuren, die Jahrzehnte zurückreichen – zu ungeklärten Gewaltverbrechen in Irland und zu einem alten Feind, der längst vergessen schien.

Urlaubszeit auf Sylt – aber an Erholung ist nicht zu denken. Als Hannah Lambert bei einem selbst anberaumten Treffen nicht erscheint, witzeln ihre Kollegen zunächst noch. Bis aus dem Spaß tödlicher Ernst wird. Hannah ist spurlos verschwunden, und während bald schon niemand mehr daran glaubt, dass die Kommissarin noch lebt, kommen Ole und Ralf den Entführern Stück für Stück auf die Spur. Doch dieser Fall führt alle Beteiligten an ihre Grenzen und weit darüber hinaus, schließlich ist nicht klar, ob Hannah ihre Hilfsbereitschaft mit dem Leben bezahlen musste.

Now, in Stay in the Game, Matt shares the highs and lows of his storied career—from the first time he put on pads at age 7 in Slidell, Louisiana, his college days at Tulane University, and his decade of dominance in the NFL, to the difficult decision to hang up his cleats at age 32, and the work he is currently doing to mentor professional athletes and stop gun violence on the streets of Chicago.

The history of the Western church is stained by injustice. The impulse to resist justice and look the other way has harmed the church and the people it aims to serve. But a different future is possible. In The Justice of Jesus, Joash Thomas surveys the history of injustice and colonization in the Global South at the hands of the Western church. He shows that in addition to harming colonized peoples, colonization has limited Western Christians' understanding of the gospel, leading us to devalue the pursuit of justice for our neighbors on the margins.

As English and German settlers migrated to Pennsylvania, they brought their beliefs in magic with them from the Old World—sometimes with dangerous consequences. In 1802, for example, an Allegheny County judge helped an accused witch escape an angry mob. But Susan Mummey was not so fortunate. In 1934, she was killed in her home by a young Schuylkill County man who was convinced that she had cursed him.

What are the aims of the Christian spiritual life and how can we deepen our life in Christ? What is the Catholic form of the spiritual life and what are its causes? This book serves as an introduction to Catholic spirituality by examining the mystery of Jesus Christ—His Crucifixion and His Resurrection—as the center of our spiritual life. The central argument of the book is that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus present us with the form or essence of the Christian spiritual life and orient us toward union with the Trinity as the final end or aim of human existence.

The Light of Christ provides an accessible presentation of Catholicism that is grounded in traditional theology, but engaged with a host of contemporary questions or objections. Inspired by the theologies of Irenaeus, Thomas Aquinas, and John Henry Newman, and rooted in a post-Vatican II context, Fr. Thomas Joseph White presents major doctrines of the Christian religion in a way that is comprehensible for non-specialists: knowledge of God, the mystery of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the atonement, the sacraments and the moral life, eschatology and prayer.

Read by the author. Twelve lies are holding you back from the life God already promised. You love God. You read the Bible. You try to do the right things. So why does your faith still feel dry, frustrating, or stuck? You're not alone and it's not because you're doing Christianity wrong. It's...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us the anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict, and the personal commitments that feed these acts of creativity.

How would Pride & Prejudice be different if William Collins came to live with the Bennets at Longbourn as a young child? Will Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy still find their happily ever after? Young William Collins spent his childhood under the oppression of an abusive father and an ill mother. When he becomes an orphan after a scarring tragedy, Collins is sent to live with his estranged cousins, the Bennet family, at Longbourn. At the same time, Fitzwilliam Darcy passes through his own crisis.

True devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus moves us to ponder the unrelenting love of Jesus, fully human and fully divine, as He poured Himself out for the world. In this book, Fr. Thomas Dailey transports you beyond the prayers and liturgies and helps you to contemplate the Sacred Heart, which Pope Benedict XVI said “has irreplaceable importance.” Fr. Dailey shows you how to experience the way of prayer that formed St. Margaret Mary — the visionary to whom the devotion was revealed — in the religious order founded by St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal. Fr.