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Miranda George feels stuck in the small mountain town of Kings Grove - a town that reminds her of embarrassing moment she’s had - and there are a lot. Living with her parents and working at a diner wasn’t exactly how she saw her life going. Despite her life’s imperfections, the one thing she looks forward to is Chance Palmer. Tall, dark, and handsome, she’s convinced he’s the man for her - even if he seems to come in a package deal with Sam, his younger brother and the instigator of most of her embarrassing moments.

Chauncy and Tre were childhood friends. Tre, who works for a pharmaceutical company, is in town on business. Chauncy hadn’t seen Tre since college and decides they should catch up. After picking Tre up from the airport, they are ambushed and kidnapped. Held hostage in an old, abandoned house. With hopes of escape, Tre and Chauncy use an experimental drug from Tre’s company that gives them extraordinary physical abilities. After using Hypo, Chauncy finds out there are side effects.

Small town business owners Leslie Baker and Kade "KC" Cavanaugh aren't just former college sweethearts circling each other when they find themselves back in the same town after more than a decade apart. Leslie, owner of Potter Lake's original hometown beauty shop, The Curl & Dye, and Kade, owner of Guys & Dolls, a family salon, are rivals in competition for the affections of a quaint, slow town.

A unique fusion of classic meter and contemporary angst, this book, rich in vivid, surprising imagery, speaks in a powerful, conversational voice with heightened language of insight and revelation. Sometimes dark and laced with irony, other times irreverent, the words are always challenging with at least a glimmer of hope for redemption.

In the squalid aftermath of a failed Texas secession, rival factions wage vicious battles over territory and precious resources, killer drones fly overhead in search of prey, and everyday life is a desperate scramble for survival. Soledad Paz is a slave, sold to a ruthless rebel leader by marauders who raided her home and murdered her parents. With her remarkable ability to see through any deception, she's become an invaluable - and unwilling - secret weapon in the war to control the Republic.

Love, Lies, Lust. In the midst of all of this drama, someone has to remain calm. Meet Sparkle. Beyond the bubbly personality and contrary to her name, Sparkle guards a dormant heart. She's bored both at home and with her corporate job. Maneuvering through her daily duties on autopilot, she finds herself gradually submerging into a passive, emotionless life. Once a vibrant, active member in her church, she knows that the only way out of a marriage, albeit loveless, is through adultery.

DL Moody (1837-1899) was an American evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. Harry A. Ironside (1876-1951) was a Canadian-American Bible teacher, preacher, theologian, pastor, and author. Ira Sankey (1840-1908), known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism, was an American gospel singer and composer, associated with evangelist DL Moody.

A great many persons imagine that anything said about heaven is only a matter of speculation. They talk about heaven much as they would about the air. Now there would not have been so much in Scripture on this subject if God had wanted to leave the human race in darkness about it. ''All Scripture,'' we are told, ''is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect.

The Apostle James tells us that the prophet Elijah was a man ''subject to like passions as we are''. I am thankful that those men and women who were so mighty in prayer were just like ourselves. We are apt to think that those prophets and mighty men and women of old times were different from us. To be sure they lived in a much darker age, but they were of like passions with ourselves.

Tex, as his comrades called him, was not the same man he once was upon returning home from 'Nam. No, that man died over there with thousands of other soldiers. He was a casualty of war, sent home with a broken mind and invisible wounds that were impossible to mend.

Lincoln's Diary is a fast-paced story about a young woman's determination to unbury secrets, including the disappearance of a private Lincoln diary her mysterious grandfather once owned. And when she hunts down a professor who likely swindled her mother out of it so he could prove Lincoln planned his own assassination, she's accused of his murder. Running from police and a stalker who's bent on destroying any evidence the diary exists, Sarah turns to the only person she trusts - herself.

We were asleep too long. The enemy has been busy. There was a plan to defeat the greatest foe in the galaxy, and I was key to that plan. Unfortunately, I can't remember it. Not to mention, time has taken its toll on the once proud metropolis of Tewhebenco, the center of our operations. Now, it's just an endless jungle, and we have to start from scratch, again. And, we have no means of getting to anyplace civilized.

Rescued, retrained, and re-armed to fight back against the enemy that wants only the destruction of all that is not theirs, there is quite a lot resting on her shoulders. Now, though, Kendra "Amaratzu" Anteen wakes up in a recovery pod with no memory of who she is or what is happening. She only manages to get out of the time-worn and damaged tube by accidentally breaking it.

Cute college girls Jenny and Amy can't understand why all their thongs and g-strings keep going missing from their washing basket. But one day, they discover that they are the latest targets of a campus panty thief! These two sexy girls decide to take their revenge, concocting a devious, devilish plan.

Irelyn Wilkes was Zolt Hamil's seraph. His angel. His hallucination suddenly real. But her abrupt departure from his life has sent him into a tailspin of nameless women, alcohol, and drugs. When Zolt realizes that Irelyn lied to him, he sobers up and sets into motion a public rescue, making an even greater enemy of Marcus Xavier. Marcus doesn't take kindly to people taking what is his, and he's not about to let Zolt and Irelyn ride into the sunset without a fight.

While on vacation, journalist Sandy Travis and her fiance Tom are in a horrendous helicopter accident. The crash causes Tom to have a near-death experience - he sees an ethereal figure who sends him back to the living, so he can accomplish more with his life. After Tom is revived by Sandy, he describes to her his experience. He tells her about being sent back by an Angel so he could achieve more with the living. As it turns out... Tom is wrong. Horribly wrong.

The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller bemoans the bad luck that is ruining his game and has dogged him throughout his life. Tragic yet uproariously funny, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines themes of individual responsibility and society's mistreatment of the aged. A co-production with The Smithsonian Associates and Voice of America.

Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?

Kate’s husband Erik left her a year ago, ending their marriage without warning for a trust-fund 20-something and her luxurious global-hopping lifestyle. Now, Kate is spending one last Christmas at her family’s Smoky Mountains cabin before selling it to raise cash. But when nostalgia moves her to keep the place, things quickly turn sinister, suggesting all is not what it seems.

Spelling can be very challenging for kids, especially when more videos are being watched than books are being read these days. Luckily, spelling and reading comprehension are two things that can still be taught in a fun and interactive way that people of all ages can enjoy.