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Moral Choices: Audio Lectures - a companion to the best-selling ethics textbook Moral Choices by Scott Rae - features 16 lessons, each corresponding to a chapter in the textbook. The lectures provide students with an introduction to Christian ethics and equips them to form a basis for practical, ethical decision-making in contemporary culture.

Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend - who might want to be something more. She also has a secret.

The destinies of a 12-year-old boy and an alien man become inextricably linked as they go on the run from government agents and a shape-shifting enemy. The Alien Skill series is a science fiction adventure story for fans of Percy Jackson, A Wrinkle in Time, and Lost in Space. The young at heart will revel in this family-friendly, action-packed series filled with alien powers, engaging characters, and a riveting "alien" hunt.

A boy with an alien power. “The thing is, it wasn’t meteors that fell into the woods that night. It was alien spacecraft”. When UFOs crash into the fields next to his grandfather’s house, 12-year-old Ben Archer becomes a cumbersome witness in the eyes of the government. Not only that, but Ben discovers he has been entrusted with an alien power, the significance of which could jeopardize human life on Earth. Government agents rush in to remove all evidence of spacecraft and extraterrestrials.

The champion must not waver. The champion must not fear. The gate of darkness closes. Elisa is a fugitive. Her enemies have stolen the man she loves, and they await her at the gate of darkness. Her country is on the brink of civil war, with her own soldiers ordered to kill her on sight. Her Royal Majesty, Queen Lucero-Elisa née Riqueza de Vega, bearer of the Godstone, will lead her three loyal companions deep into the enemy's kingdom, a land of ice and snow and brutal magic, to rescue Hector and win back her throne.

The only thing more inconvenient than being kept in a gilded cage... is being forced to marry a fed to escape it. My name is Bianca Castello. I'm a mafia princess who's being forced to marry a Fed. Apparently, the sexy stranger is desperate enough to make a deal with my brother in exchange for a favor. And favors are hard to come by in this world. But Jack Connelly's an outsider. He hasn't heard the rumors. He doesn't know the things I've done to protect my family or the reason why every single made man refuses to touch me.

In the male-dominated field of animation, Mel Vaught and Sharon Kisses are a dynamic duo, the friction of their differences driving them: Sharon, quietly ambitious but self-doubting; Mel, brash and unapologetic, always the life of the party. Best friends and artistic partners since the first week of college, where they bonded over their working-class roots and obvious talent, they spent their twenties ensconced in a gritty Brooklyn studio. Working, drinking, laughing.

"My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?" Being an introvert in a world that glorifies cool isn't easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award-winning hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, is that introvert--whether she's navigating love, work, friendships, or rapping--it sure is entertaining.

A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging.

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can't see how she ever will. Now, on her 16th birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king - a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one. And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic,are hunting her.

Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room - the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding. In this moving coming-of-age story, Kim brings to life her rat-infested home and her childhood consumed by concealing her father’s shameful secret from friends.

That’s the mantra I’m repeating when a well-equipped biker pulls over to save me. One glance at the scowl Crawford Doxe is wearing proves he isn’t impressed with the task. My efforts to change his mind deflate faster than the shredded tire at our feet. But disgruntled or not, my so-called hero still agrees to fix my flat.

I'm falling for my sworn enemy. The night I witnessed my mother's execution at the hands of the Rossi family, her screams branded my soul. For years, hunger for vengeance is the only fire that keeps me alive. Then at a decadent soirée, a chance encounter ignites a new blaze within me. His deep velvet voice sends tremors through my core. When his tongue strokes those full lips, desire blooms between my thighs. Until his mask comes off and I'm face to face with Antonio Rossi. The very man whose family steals everything from me. I want to recoil, yet I can't tear my eyes away from this man. I...

Hadley says she hates her brother. But I know the truth. She hates that she loves him. Because it’s hard to love an addict. Honestly, I don’t even love myself most days. But I can see her falling for me. She doesn't know her brother and I are cut from the same cloth, though. She doesn’t know I’ve already lost everything because of my addiction. She doesn’t know that’s why I push her away. Why I refuse to claim her, the same way I refuse to reclaim my role as front man for my band.

Instead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people's minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies—how we feel in them and relate to others through them—as the sites of transformation.

The squirrels Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and mysteries are revealed. Nuts to You is wholly original, funny, lively, and thought-provoking.

Ecstasy is not about techniques. It’s about attitudes toward your mate, yourself, and sex. “Exercise Naked” (Gymnazo) is a Bible word …for intentionally changing your mindset to overcome the #1 marriage problem—sexless marriages. The scriptures identify four escalating levels of “clustered love sins” (sins that cluster around being “without natural affection” in 2 Timothy 3:1-5). You’ll find Action Steps for each Level of sexless marriages: Level 1: The Word-Doubting Spouse doesn’t know God’s design for men, women, and sex. Level 2: The Fire-Flirting Spouse takes “...

Diece is the right-hand man to the most powerful family in the Italian Mafia. He’s ruthless, brutal, and has been tasked with protecting me after I stuck my neck out for his boss. That doesn’t mean I trust him, though. Against my will, Diece whisks me away under the guise of keeping me safe, but I’m not about to exchange one prison for another. When he finds out what I’ve been through at the hands of my previous captor, he begs me to let my guard down. To let him in. But if I do, he’ll find out the truth, and I can’t let that happen.

Soon to be seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, welcome to the casino city of Canto Bight. A place where exotic aliens, captivating creatures, and other would-be high rollers are willing to risk everything to make their fortunes. Set across one fateful evening, these four original novellas explore the deception and danger of the lavish casino city.

I didn’t expect to see Rylee Creed after her brother’s funeral. That’s the initial reason my jaw hangs slack when she walks into Bent Pedal a month later. The loss of my friend hit me hard, but that’s nothing compared to the crash she’s endured. Grief and misery still shadow her every move. But she’s not alone.