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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack one wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

Gil is free at long last from the ice in Lucifer’s shadow. He begins his ascent out of the depths of Hell to reunite with his loving parents, Adina and Yitz, but his arduous journey is interrupted by remnants of the Pious Legion. An ancient warlord plans to roll mechanized war machines upward to New Dis, and he has the most cruel and vicious souls at his disposal.

Durante uma viagem de fim de semana, a filha mais nova de Mack Allen Phillips é raptada e evidências de que ela foi brutalmente assassinada são encontradas numa velha cabana. Após quatro anos vivendo numa tristeza profunda causada pela culpa e pela saudade da menina, Mack recebe um estranho bilhete, aparentemente escrito por Deus, convidando-o a voltar à cabana onde acontecera a tragédia. Apesar de desconfiado, ele vai ao local numa tarde de inverno e adentra passo a passo o cenário de seu mais terrível pesadelo. Mas o que ele encontra lá muda o seu destino para sempre.

Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt.

Three deaths in three years. His mother. His best friend. And now, his two-year-old daughter. In this moving story, a Christian author goes to a retreat center to grieve and face the hard questions about God that he is asking in the wake of these losses. If you have ever felt alone, betrayed, abandoned - if you have found yourself asking God why - this novel may be a source of hope. And if you have ever wondered what heaven is like, this book provides a beautiful vision.

This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides listeners through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the listener to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world.

She has secrets, but she can’t remember what they are. Paramedic Travis Monroe has honed his emotional shield when it comes to trauma, but when a terrified and injured woman clings to him after a devastating accident, her touch threatens to break through his carefully constructed defenses. She’s scared and alone, and she can’t remember anything. Unable to remember half of her life, Isabella Young latches onto the kind EMT whose patience becomes her solace as she struggles to put the pieces of her life together.

Barely into his 20s and already a highly decorated military hero, Army Special Forces veteran Blake Kershaw is now going to college, studying while recuperating from wounds received in Afghanistan, and planning to reenter the army as an officer after graduation. But life tosses Blake a curve when his country approaches him about using his special skills to avert a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device in a major eastern US city.

Filled with the prejudices that existed in the early 1800s, outlaws burn down the Williams’ farm as they attempt to burn alive the Williams sisters and the men working at their farm. The sisters, their two farmhands, and other friends from the nearby town of Harmony, Arkansas, seek justice. Justice, they hope to find a hundred miles away in Little Rock. Together with the last three living members of the outlaw Butterfield Gang, they trek across the open countryside and cross swollen rivers on the newly built military road.

Josh Barnes was just nine when he received an invaluable gift from God: the ability to play guitar to the utmost perfection. He could recognize each note and play every chord to create the most beautiful melodies ever heard. In no time, he became the pride of his hometown, and many believed he was on the road to becoming the youngest and most talented guitarist of his time.

During one black ops mission, he gets compromised, wounded, and separated from his unit. Searching for a place to hide from an international drug cartel that wants him dead, he bursts into the apartment of two Mormon missionaries. They agree to hide him from the cartel fighters looking for him. While waiting, Kincaid ends up listening to their message and become curious about Christianity in general and the message of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, specifically.

A surgical residency is a rough profession for a recovering narcotic addict. But in his second year of training, Jackson Cooper is just that. It’s 1983, and in the midst of his struggles, he meets a memorable character and patient named Maurice Latinsky. Maurice suffers from HIV/AIDS dementia. The patient has a recurring delusion of being Steve McQueen in the movie The Great Escape and continually tries to break out of the confines of the hospital.

What If ancient myth contains more truth than we previously have imagined? Genesis, the first book of the Bible, describes a world dominated and influenced by giants. What if those giants were actually the deities worshipped in ancient cultures? The series "The Last Nephilim" explores this fascinating idea, calling upon many ancient traditions to inform a richly imaginative idea of how myth and the Bible might intersect.

The Bible's Book of Revelation set in an epic high fantasy world. Conservative political thriller in an age of chivalrous knights, epic quests, mythical creatures and ancient prophecies. If Tom Clancy and C.S. Lewis had collaborated on a fantasy novel, the result might have looked something like this.

In the small Lake Erie township of Benning, someone is at work cultivating a supernatural garden... Andy Kemp's young life has been as ravaged as his scarred face. Disfigured by an abusive father, the teenager hides behind his books and an impenetrable wall of cynicism and anger. As Andy's mother struggles to reconnect with him, his Uncle Rip returns transformed from a stint in prison and wants to be a mentor to the reclusive boy, doing everything he can to help end Andy's pain.

Is it possible that the mythical gods of polytheistic Greece, Egypt, Assyria, etc. were actual people that lived shortly after the flood of Noah? The Last Nephilim is a work of historical fiction based upon the first chapters of the book of Genesis and several ancient apocryphal texts. The Bible presents the sons of Noah as monotheistic followers of the God of the universe. So how did their grandchildren end up reigning over polytheistic empires? What happened?

When facing the impossible, will you believe? Storm clouds gather over a small Michigan town. As thunder shakes the sky, the lights inside St. Thomas Church flicker...and then go out. All is black until a thick bolt of lightning slices the sky, striking the church’s large wooden cross - leaving it ablaze and splintered in two. When the storm ends, the search for answers begins. James Lindy, the church’s blind minister, wonders how his small congregation can repair the cross and keep their faith in the midst of adversity.

This audiobook is a fantasy in the form of a creation myth. It explores a plausible origin for evil from a story rather than a philosophical perspective. Haylel and his cohorts fear that the creator of the universe is mentally unstable. How were they to cope with an irrational all powerful creator, that they fear may destroy them altogether in favor of his newest creation?

It is 1999, at the end of the bloody Kosovo War in which Christian Serbs have sought to eradicate the Albanian Muslims. As the brutal Serbian militia draws near, Jusuf Hasani must choose to flee to safety or stay with his defiant grandmother. When fellow Albanian, Sali Noli, joins the Kosovo Liberation Army to protect his family, his 11-year-old son Lek must help care for his four younger siblings as the Serbian militia closes in.

Colton Pierce apprehends Aberrants - those who display symptoms of faith - and quarantines them on a remote island to ensure public safety. Years prior, the government released a genetically-engineered super-flu that destroyed the genes believed to be the biological source of spiritual experience in an effort to rid the world of terrorism. As an extractor with the Center for Theological Control, Colton is dedicated to the cause. But Colton's steadfast commitment is challenged when he learns his own son has been targeted for extraction.