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Philosophy professor Dante awakens in a dream he cannot escape. An angel engages him regarding the things of God, his abandonment of the faith, his griefs, his hopes, his aspirations--all against the backdrop of the darkening of Western civilization. It is evening in the West, but even so, the angel is named Happy (Felix). Why? Felix confronts Dante: Who is Jesus Christ? What is the purpose of your life? Dante doesn't care. He just wants out. Will he find the way? Moment by moment, Dante's dream is all chaotic experience. But gradually, patterns emerge.

When sixteen-year-old shepherd Perceval encounters a silver-marked wolf in the Cambrian mountains, he thinks he's simply defending his sheep from another predator. But when the wolf leads him into a dark and enchanted forest, his simple life shatters. Armed only with his father's spear and cryptic guidance from the wizard Merlin, Perceval is thrust into a dangerous world he never knew existed—a world of knights and quests, mystical grails and wounded kings, dark sorcery and the ancient light that opposes it.

The thrilling first book in an epic new fantasy series from Christy Award-winning author, Jill Williamson.

With the world of Konsin II under Elorian control, Drin and Anais look to the stars for their next mission. But the church moves slowly in its deliberations. Each moment wasted is another in which her people might die—or worse. Anais has to grapple with the Elorian nanites living inside her, and what it means to have faith. Drin must once again leave his people to pursue a noble quest to liberate a people.

Some had called the attacks on the country by the Realm a second civil war, and Chase Beckett agreed. What he'd seen firsthand had turned into the largest and most destructive conflict on US soil since that era. Not only had the organized group behind the damage taken down the grid and infrastructure, they'd also continued to raise havoc across the country. But just because the good guys had finally won and the power was finally coming back on, didn't mean that the chaos that had erupted across the country had vanished. No. That was going to take time.

Jonas Walker has spent a lifetime running—from responsibility, from regret, and from the people he once called family. Alone in a failing shack on the edge of Walnut Springs, Texas, he believes his story is already over. Until the night someone knocks on his door. A silent stranger hands Jonas a worn, red-letter Bible… and vanishes into the dark. What follows shatters everything Jonas thought he understood about life, death, and the world around him. Because something else is watching him too. Something that smiles in the shadows. Something that stands by the creek at night.

Part Two picks up right where Part One left off! Ashe and the chosen 6 representatives for the south district must come together to defeat the 7 Locks of the north district in a tactical controlled warfare known colloquially as the “Unlocking the Truth Tournament” or the “UTT.” The ultimate prize is for the winner’s district to control the new government forged by the massacre Ashe accidentally unleashed on the previous Warlocks. Now, Ashe must conquer the ins and outs of this competition with the hope of self-realization to be met in the midst of it all.

King Jason has ruled four years and Nezmyth has been at peace. But now, war is on the kingdom's doorstep. To the west, King Nartikis of Unbuntye has raised an insurmountable army of monsters called the Ash, and with them, he's determined to overrun Nezmyth and take it for his own. King Jason and his friends struggle to repel the Ash as the black hand of death falls upon those they love. To overcome, they must learn to trust in the Sacred Dragon and an old enemy. If not, Nezmyth will fall to ruin.

SOME MONSTERS ARE REAL—AND SOME SECRETS ARE DEADLY After a dragon-like attack, a paleontologist’s team ventures deep into an island jungle—only to discover the true nightmare has just begun. Deep in a Caribbean rainforest, a secret U. S. military base is hiding something terrifying. After a dragon-like creature decimates a village on the Puerto Rican island of Isla Lagarta, survivors’ claims are dismissed—until paleontologist Dr. Vikki Barnes and her scientist ex-boyfriend start digging for answers.

Sacred Crossroads is a magical realism, spiritual-awakening novel for listeners who love stories that don’t just entertain—but quietly rearrange how you see your own life. When a mysterious object begins to glow in a small rural town, a family’s buried past cracks open. What follows is not a chase, a war, or a prophecy… but something far more dangerous: truth.

Grief has stolen the color from Novella‘s world. Her family remains cheerful around her. Yet joy feels distant, like a memory she can’t quite reach. As the darkness sinks his claws into Windy Ridge, the Seelie Queen stays, trapped behind the locked gate of the Seelie Court. Novella‘s quest to find the hidden key is the only hope of freeing those imprisoned beyond its shimmering gate. But as a darkness creeps closer to her loved ones, Novella is forced to confront not only the monsters hunting her, but the weight of her own sorrow. Every trial chips away at her strength.

No one knows when and how the magic was reborn. Maybe it never went away. After all, some people have always seen, experienced, and … sometimes … feared the supernatural, from pixies and faeries to werewolves, ghosts, and the walking dead. But one day—more likely night—everyone else began to see, experience, and sometimes too often fear the supernatural, too. Maybe the quantum strings of the universe played a new musical, magical note. Maybe a blockage holding back mystical energy broke and a trickle of magic became a torrent of paranormal power.

Engineer Naomi Reyes did not come to the Moon to preach. She came to keep people alive. But as storms scrape the solar plain, a blackout tests courage, and an eclipse thins the light, Naomi and her small crew learn to survive by writing a humble Rule of Life on the habitat wall and living it with their hands. Under Commander Park’s steady quiet, botanist Tamsin coaxes green from dust, electrician Olu listens to wires like hymns, and Naomi chooses stewardship over spectacle when the world asks for a show. From a lab on Earth, Leah, Arthur, and Jonah fight for truth with signatures that cost.

Her Masks & His Truth is a novel inspired by true-life events. An unexpected encounter turns Anna's world upside down. It begins with a stranger, a globally recognized influencer and celebrity against whom she has long harbored resentment. The story unfolds as Anna's curiosity drives her to welcome him into her life, undeterred by the potential for intense criticism. Anna's uninhibited spontaneity, which led her to leave her successful career as a public figure in the Arab world to marry her beloved Joe, continues to be a recurring theme.

En un futuro donde la fe y la ciencia están en guerra, el padre Javier, un sacerdote atado por el deber y los secretos, descubre un antiguo pergamino relacionado con el vino utilizado en la Última Cena. El descubrimiento lo conmociona profundamente. ¿Quién lo escribió? ¿Qué verdad prohibida revela sobre la vida eterna? Siguiendo órdenes del Papa Patricio I, el segundo papa nigeriano, Javier viaja a Israel-Palestina, donde desentierra una hermandad perdida de dramaturgos y se cruza con un extraño muchacho llamado Tito, que parece saber más de lo que debería.

Soon Eafin is thrust into a great many unseen perils, frightful encounters, and life threatening events, all of which become his most challenging quest. But he must overcome the most frightful of obstacles: Thorekin, Wretchsouls, and the Valley of Shadowed Death. Eafin cannot fail to recover the Ancient Secret too long lost.

In a future closer than you think, the once-united republic has shattered. States have seceded. New flags rise where old ones once flew. Texas declares independence. California votes to return to Mexico. Alaska and Hawaii forge global alliances. And in the heartland, ordinary people are forced to choose between loyalty, survival-and freedom.

In the time before Creation, before so many of the children of God turned away from their Father and walked knowingly into the dark, there was a choosing, a sifting, a contest of ideas and a battle for souls. In that great premortal war, each of us learned the first lessons of life: The great ones may fall. The wicked can change. The weak and the foolish can become the strongest of all. And the battle between good and evil is the same regardless of the time or place.

For 21 years, Elias Merrick was a ghost. The night he vanished, he made a vow to God while staring down the barrel of a gun—a vow sealed by a miracle no one could explain. When Elias disappears without a trace, the world assumes he is dead. But Elias does not age. And Elias is not finished. Two decades later, a barefoot man with glowing eyes appears on a street corner in downtown Austin. He speaks truths no stranger should know. He names hidden grief, secret guilt, and prayers whispered only in the dark. Crowds gather. Lives unravel. Hope awakens. They begin calling him the Corner Prophet.

In a near future America pulled from today's headlines and coming apart at the seams, Turn Red Tomorrow details a soberingly possible scenario where the nation's financial system is obliterated overnight, plunging the country into chaos. The story follows a typical extended family and their friends, scattered across the country, as they seek to reunite and survive the ever-present horrors of disease, starvation, and violence.