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War. Disease. Poverty. Lucille Ball. It's the end of the world and look who's back... Winner of the Reader's Favorite 2014 International Book Award for Comedy.The year is 1999 and the millennium is fast approaching. Baseball fan and thirty-two-year-old confirmed bachelor and architect, Seth Miller, is content with his life, as long as the Yankees win and his mother stays away from his Greenwich Village apartment. Seth's life, though, is turned upside down when he is informed by his overbearing and overprotective mother that he is God's youngest son and by default the second coming of Christ...

In this combined tale and treatise, bivocational pastor and nurse David encounters the past. Surprised and upset to find a large crowd in ancient dress at his favorite swimming hole, he is shocked when some of them disrobe for a baptism ceremony, performed totally in the nude! Antiquity offers a fatal blow to the wall in David's mind that keeps his experiences of hospital nudity from confronting the taboos of his upbringing. When that wall topples, he gains a new perspective on life in Bible times, a deeper theological appreciation of human embodiment, and a pricked conscience about the ...

It is the winter solstice of 1846. Fafnir the dwarf's monstrous creation, the Great Clock, has begun to tick. With every turn of its thousands of gears beneath the earth, the world is slowly changing, but not for the better - at least not for Mankind. Frederick has discovered that Fafnir seeks yet another relic - the Eye of Odin, through which he will gain the power to see all the paths of time, and so shape the course of history and the future to his own ends.

Conor and Aine have barely escaped Seare with their lives. Conor knows he must return to find the harp that could end the Red Druid’s reign of terror, but he must first see Aine safely to her family home on the isle of Amanta. When an unnatural storm tears them apart, they find themselves in even more danger than that which they fled. Because magic is not the only thing to fear in Aine's homeland, where the Sofarende invaders harry the coasts and shifting clan alliances make it impossible to know who to trust.

Captured by bandits! Things couldn't get worse for Prince Martin and Ray in this story in verse! They're unarmed. They're tied up. No one knows they've been caught! These thieves are bad news, and their leader has got a most dastardly plan for the prince and Sir Ray.... They should never have entered the forest that day! Now they're hanging from snares that are tied to a tree. But sometimes things happen we cannot foresee.... What if one act of kindness can alter events? What if payback is owed to Sir Ray and the prince?

In book three of The Light Series, Bria and those she loves have escaped the dangers of DC and discovered a town where compassion survives and love blooms. When their comfort comes to an end, each member of the group must decide their path. Some will stay behind. Some will journey on. But all will learn that even the most hoped for moments can be filled with unimaginable sorrow.

The moon is a very religious place. The year is 2242, and Armstrong City, the largest city on the moon, maintains a precarious balance between the old United States of America and the upstart, self-proclaimed Free States of America that broke away in 2126 in protest of government policies they deemed oppressive. The majority of the population on the moon consists of Christian and cultural conservatives, the former having fled the United States to worship and act out their faith freely and the latter to pursue their own agenda free from centuries of policies that they believed had burdened ...

Jacob Mason had it all. He was rich. He had a beautiful wife, wonderful kids, and perfect health. But in one day that all comes crashing down. He loses everything. His businesses fail. He is involved in public scandal. His wife leaves him for his best friend. His son dies. His daughter is in a coma. Then he develops a rare disease that has no cure or treatment. Ultimately he loses his grasp on reality. As he frantically tries to find the answers to all this he is continually tormented by everyone that crosses his path. There is no rest for him. A court full of people watches his every move ...

A Princess and her seven Sages, haunted by the past, set out to stop a mysterious and sinister enemy. And to succeed, they need the five stones of legend. But none of the Kingdoms are willing to give up their only source of power without a fight.

(This book has been updated, top to bottom, in December 2020) When you wish you knew more about your favorite characters, you have Loose Rabbits of the Rabbit Trilogy. Based upon (and penned by the author of) The Rabbit Saga Books 1-3, the author gives delicious background on the vampires you grew to love in this epic series. YOU WILL FIND 20 tales featuring the characters of the Rabbit Trilogy (Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider, Rabbit Legacy, and Rabbit Redemption). Some questions beg for answers. Here are just a few of the questions that are answered inThe Loose Rabbits of the Rabbit Trilogy: ...

First, vampires in space. And now...zombies. Really? Jebediah and the others are trying to get over the horrors they faced in deep space, and now this. When a mysterious ship from space arrives on Resolve, it unleashes a horde of undead that might spell the end of the survivors and their dreams of peace. Will the specters of the past save them, or seal their fate?

The muggy silence that hung outside my bedroom window that August night in 1982 was pierced by the ringing telephone. A baby call. My mother was a baby-catcher (a midwife) and whenever the call came, she went. Too young to stay at home by myself, I went with her. I planned to draw or sleep as my mother worked, but on that night, as storm clouds burst overhead knocking power out for miles around, nothing went as planned.

A Dark Descent continues the Kingdoms of Islandia story. The High King Eloy has returned and with him a dire warning. Darkness permeates every corner of Islandia. Rumors of the Felled Ones return are whispered in the streets. Can the Kingdoms of Islandia unite under their returned King? Or will they fall into a dark descent?

Sixteen-year-old Rebekah Silver is your average teenager living in Southern California. She worries only about learning her cheerleading routines and passing her math test. But as world dictators rise to power and devastating disasters claim millions of lives she is inspired to search for answers. Becky soon discovers her world is quickly coming to an end, just as it was prophesied. Now she must decide whether to risk her life to follow the laws of God or surrender her soul to the law of man in this action-packed thriller. Will Becky survive?

The Seven Lands of Velspar put their faith in the Intercessors, a psychic priesthood responsible for the purification of the spirit. Where passion flares, they soothe its intent. Those who cannot be soothed are cast out, their spirits destroyed by fire.

A dutiful son to his single mother, Manny Stockton has spent the last 20 years harboring a grudge against his absentee father, Isidore. But after Isidore’s sudden passing, an obligatory homecoming to Devil’s Dyke reveals the truth behind their estrangement. Manny’s father was not the man he thought he was. In fact, Isidore was no man at all. He was a Disciple, a divine being created from the blood of the Supreme Sire - what we, the living, would call a vampire. Manny also learns Disciples like Isidore do not simply die. They must be slain.

There is nothing you can do to make me love you any less... There is nowhere you can go that my love won't reach you... Those fateful words, spoken on a cold night during World War II, become the catalyst for a heart wrenching journey beyond imagining. A terrible event, committed by an evil monster, ultimately determines the course of two little girls, Kiela and Kayley Stonehaven. Blessed, or is it cursed, with the rare ability to see the world through a condition called synesthesia, they are adopted by an embittered soldier. They are abused, neglected and forgotten by a world that doesn't ...

Gwyneth Blacksman was content to live comfortably on her farm, but a long-held secret changed her life forever. Thrust into a role she didn't want or ask for, Gwen must face the facts. Will she step up and be who her people need her to be? Or will she wilt under the pressure of politics, schemes, and a looming war? The emperor of Devin offers her a way to avoid the bloodshed that is sure to come, but his offer is disingenuous at best, a lie at worst.

Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task - to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, Jameson has learned a terrible secret. Desperate to relay this information to the highest level of the American government, Jameson enlists the aid of journalist Cat Early.

A millennium’s worth of evil plans are about to bear fruit for the dark wizard Gád. Niðergeard lies exposed, and at long last it is time for the dragons to be awakened and the gates between worlds to be thrown open.A terrifying army of giants, dragons, trolls, and yfelgópes, assembled by Gád over centuries, awaits the wizard’s order to invade Niðergeard. The end of the underground country - and life as we know it on the surface - is near.