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Jon Peters had it all: record-breaking high school baseball pitcher, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a beautiful girlfriend. He was going to play professional baseball. He was going to have everything he'd ever wanted. Until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed his life. With dreams shattered, Jon struggled to find value and happiness. After years of searching vainly to make sense of it all, alcohol, a suicide attempt, deep-seated anger, and a failed marriage made him feel even more desperate.

High Drama explores rock climbing's transformation from a pursuit of select anti-establishment vagabonds to a sport embraced by competitors of all ages, social classes, and backgrounds. Climbing magazine's John Burgman weaves a multi-layered story of traditionalists and opportunists, grassroots organizers and business-minded developers, free-spirited rebels and rigorously coached athletes. Deeply reported and compellingly told, this is a celebration of climbing and the pivotal figures who made its growth possible....

In You of Little Faith, Pastor Ryan Thomas isn't afraid to talk about the most taboo subject in the church - money. Drawing from a multitude of biblical passages and contemporary examples, he will convince you that giving aggressively and extravagantly, beyond what you ever thought reasonable or possible, will unlock God's blessing in your life and community and strengthen your faith in a way that nothing else can.

Frank Chess didn’t care for much in this world. Especially himself. So taking a job for local big shot Rhino Hulst was an easy choice. Each day drifted into the next: running Rhino’s crooked errands and blowing his meager pay on poker and the saloon. All because Rhino killed a man in cold blood, pinned it on Frank, and now holds the hangman’s rope over him. And who would give a damn? Frank came into town a drifter - a fiddlefoot. And when he finally remembers what it’s like to care about something, the town has no idea how much hell he’s about to bring down on them all.

Two of the greatest fears in life come in the form of questions we often ask ourselves but rarely say out loud: "Am I okay?" and "Do you love me?" The answer the Gospel gives us is both surprising and just what we need to hear: "No, you are not okay," and, "Yes, I love you." Jesus holds these two truths about us together, and this is the good news we desperately need.

In arguably one of the most divisive and polarizing eras, evangelicals are faced with a profound crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that has many dimensions - political, biblical, and theological - as well as a crisis of spiritual formation and discipleship. What ultimately is at the root of this crisis? Mark Galli encourages us to turn our attention away from the politics of the moment, the social issues being discussed online, and the debate du jour among Christians. He asks us instead to take a long and hard look at what’s missing in our spirituality.

As believers, we have received unimaginable grace from the Father. Unfortunately, we often separate our spiritual life from our everyday lives. We fail to value the grace given to us, and we miss the opportunity to bring heaven to earth. And then we wonder what light we can bring to a world in deep darkness. With depth and insight, Dr. John Jackson shows that grace distributed is the key to sweeping social change, hope, and revival. Through biblical teaching and prophetic revelation, Dr. Jackson helps you partner with the Holy Spirit to step into the fullness of all God has called you to be.

Cole Adams is a successful commercial pilot who is deeply haunted by his memories. Teetering on the edge of reality, he attempts to quiet the voices of his past by seeking justice for victims of the present. His job gives him access. His compulsion makes him deadly. His uniform makes him invisible. After meeting an intriguing, sullen girl, whom he feels compelled to protect, Cole has to decide between the life he has worked so hard to attain and his soulmate in darkness.

In an America on the edge of extinction, Thomas La Stella serves as a Deportation Force officer. Tom is old enough to remember America before Dayton Day, the attack that finally brought the country to its knees, and the earth towards its death. Still fighting for hope, Tom clings to his pregnant wife, Riley, and begrudgingly serves a government on the brink of revolution.

In this new children's bible, Anglican priest and biblical scholar Rob James offers adaptations of fifty stories of Jesus' life and ministry, as well as the experience of the early church, designed for oral storytelling. From the Annunciation to Resurrection appearances to Paul's travels, Fifty New Testament Stories for Storytelling introduces children to the key events of the New Testament, whether at home, in church, or in school.

Search for monsters long enough and you might become one. Thirty years ago, Jacob Vance and Raymond Turner committed a gruesome crime that shocked a small West Virginia town. Only nine years old themselves, they kidnapped and murdered four-year-old Josh Baker. The two boys were quickly arrested, tried, and convicted, but were released after serving only eight years in a juvenile detention facility. Because of the heinousness of their crime and the town's thirst for retribution, the government gave Vance and Turner new identities and relocated them to parts unknown.

35-year-old philosophy professor Rand Aroyan is a smart, witty rising star in the field of medical ethics. But when Bright Triad--a project to cure psychopaths with mRNA therapy--instead creates a murderer, Rand becomes obsessed with identifying the killer. As he teams with a homicide detective, a psychologist, and a charismatic ex-pastor, Rand is forced to grapple with questions of faith and reason, science and religion--and to confront his own deepest fears.

Most of the parenting books currently in circulation were written decades ago. Parents need insights, techniques, and strategies to tackle the pressing issues of twenty-first-century parenting. That's what the Understanding and Loving Your Child series of books will do. Understanding and Loving Your Bonus Child takes a look at a very familiar family dynamic. Not being the biological parent to your spouse's child doesn't mean you don't have a voice. This book helps celebrate the role of a bonus parent in a child's life.

NewEden Life Sciences promises that its revolutionary scientific breakthroughs can add decades of prime years to its clients' lifespans. What's more, their research team is relentlessly pursuing an even bigger goal—redesigning the human species to conquer death forever. Clients who have graduated from the NewEden program are ecstatic, but their families are worried about changes they see in their loved ones.

COVID-19 has caused fundamental shifts in attitudes around remote and office work. And in The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever, internationally renowned IT executive Gregory S. Smith explains how and why companies today are shedding corporate office locations and reducing office footprints.

This book will give you a head's up on all the defining moments you are guaranteed to experience as a parent. It'll warn you when your life is going to take a change of course and how your child is going to influence the choices you make, and it’ll give you some practical, knowing, sanity-saving methods of dealing with them. Each moment is headlined with a common scenario that dads have encountered down through generations - but that will still come as a shock to you for the first time.

What would you do to stop a school shooting? An active shooter leads John Jordan on a riveting chase into a stunning mystery. While attempting to prevent a school shooting, sheriff’s investigator John Jordan must confront a cold, cruel killer the likes of which he's never seen before. When the echoes of the gunfire cease and the smoke clears the biggest mystery of all still waits to be solved. Who planned and perpetrated this devastating deed and how did he hide his identity? But a cunning killer isn’t the only thing John is battling.

Against all odds, Airn and Wowo freed Ivnolan from the Regency, but after just a year spent undoing the damage of generations, their defenses go down and the mercenaries show up. The Regency won't let go, of the planet or of the Earthburst, and with the resources of a galaxy behind them no one can stand against the immortal overlords.

This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It examines the reasons for the growing interest in historically grounded research in management departments and business schools, and considers both the intellectual and practical questions the endeavor faces.

Deception and murder flourish during the season of the Winter MoonIt was a cold morning and she was still alive. Golden Meadow prayed for the mercy of death but knew her punishment would be the severe guilt she would have to live with for the rest of her life. To escape Tahnie, her father, and the reverend, running away was her only option. And Meadow was good at it. Chief Gray Storm’s men joined forces with the warriors from the Blue Clan and followed the last wagon leaving the plantation.