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The Fleet Marines have inserted a team of Terrestrial Advance Combat (TAC Team) Operators to the Orrkasi’s sacred home world, and Eli Vanhorn, the hero of Leonis B, was picked to be part of the team. The Orrkasi are a violent, savage race who have been humanity’s enemy in a war across the galaxy that spans decades. TAC Team Operator Eli Vanhorn is an agent of chaos, and he’s been let off the leash. But the Orcs are intent on tracking his platoon down on the wild, alien world.

Dark Roux is the story of a family simmering on the verge of burning to ruin. The delicate nature of this sauce depicts how Cajun culture survives Americanization along parade routes and swamps in South Louisiana.

Abandoned on the Orrkasi home world, Eli Vanhorn leads the survivors of TAC Team 13, but circumstances have changed. An invasion force has landed with heavy artillery. It won’t be easy, nothing is on a recon mission in deep space. Van will never quit fighting, and he’s got a few tricks up his sleeve to keep the savage Orcs on their heels. But no one lives forever, an even a killing machine like Van can’t beat the odds every time.

The Living and the Dead examines the boundaries between the worlds of life and death. The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and natural science to suggest that life and death are best understood not in opposition but as continuous tendencies acting upon one another. Austin Locke argues that the failure to give nuanced consideration to the connections between the living and nonliving devalues both life and death.

It's February 29, 2020, and Nova Negrahnu cannot wait to start playing Solarversia, a year-long game based in a virtual world that's modeled on the real-world solar system. Given three lives, three vehicles, and told to master the Science of Solarversia to stand a chance of winning, players compete against 100 million people for the £10m grand prize and a place in the history books.

Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence. Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence. This deceit has been there from the very beginning. We’ve been trying to fake it since Alan Turing answered the question ‘Can machines think?’ by proposing that machines pretend to be humans. Now we are starting to build AI that truly deceives us. Powerful AIs such as ChatGPT can convince us they are intelligent and blur the distinction between what is real and what is simulated.

Thinking about quitting the ministry? Let one of the greatest leaders of the Bible help you. Had enough of the church and ready to move on? Wondering if pastoral ministry is right for you? In this groundbreaking guide, bestselling author and veteran pastor Dr. Toby Lofton shows you how a prayer Moses can help you discern if resigning is following God for you. Drawing from years of experience in pastoral ministry, Dr. Lofton offers practical advice and guidance on how to use this powerful prayer to remember your calling. Resignation Monday: A Pastor’s Guide to NOT Quitting is an inviting ...

Sharks - the ultimate predators, masters of their watery domain, a world that is entirely alien and inhospitable to man. So many aspects of the shark are associated with humankind's most primal fears. Inspired by such classic pulp movies as Jaws and Deep Blue Sea - as well as such ludicrous delights as Sharknado and Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus - the stories contained within are rip-roaring thrillers and slow-build chillers that celebrate all things savage, pulp, and selachian.

The entire five-part saga now in one complete volume! It's been over a year since the plague and the world is now infested with roving bands of zombies. Survivors struggle to hold back the tides of living dead on land, but the oceans are a safe haven from the chaos, or so Todd thought. All alone and struggling to deal with the grief of his wife's untimely death, Todd decides to risk his life helping another family escape the hell on earth that is the Zompocalypse. Little does he know this small act of kindness will change his life forever, and may just be the key to saving the entire human race.

Hannah and Eric are a successful couple living in North London with their three children and Eric's father, Yosef, a survivor of the camps. They are devout Jews who believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament, all except for their youngest son, Tovyah. The death of Yosef fractures the family's apparent harmony and has a disastrous effect on Elsie, the model daughter, who disappears for four days, plunging her parents and siblings into a living nightmare. When she returns, just as mysteriously as she left, she is strangely altered.

You will not achieve fulfillment and happiness until you allow God to be the architect of your reality. Imagine that, with a few moments each day, you could begin the powerful transformation toward complete control of your own life and well-being through prayer....

Far below the beautiful city of Avondale, in the blighted lands of Valana where no one has ever gone and lived, four young adventurers have discovered a world that is beautiful and dangerous. Tiberius, third son of Earl Ageus of Avondale, struggles to understand and control the magic he has dreamed of for so long. Meanwhile, in Avondale a frantic search is underway to discover why Tiberius would willingly leave the city, and find out who has joined him outside the stronghold's massive walls.

What if you learned that the AIDS virus was the result of bioweapons research gone bad, and that somebody knew and was hiding the truth? What if there's a cure? Could you trust your source of information? Could you trust your own perceptions? Could you act on such information? And what would you do? This is the situation that San Francisco AIDS counselor Jonathan Stiers finds himself enmeshed in in this wisdom-tinged thriller novel by gay spiritual writer, student of Joseph Campbell and former editor of White Crane Journal Toby Johnson

In the 22nd century, humanity has spread across the SALOA system. From the inner Golden Lands to the frozen Second Belt: klans, kults, and corporations live by a diverging set of laws and norms. At the edge, descendants of the distributed communities who fought the war of ReImagination, live their best lives, following the "Self Evident Truths"—a social pact and warrior's code.

Ten-year-old Keely Rosalie Tucker is a modern-day knight with no armor. Constantly bullied by a neighbor boy, Keely struggles to find her place in the world in which she is comforted only by the stories her Gramms has told her about enchanted, faraway places, where unicorns, fairies, and angels protect children from life's everyday pains and dangers. Now all Keely has to do is figure out how to call them to help her.

When we see a person of great strength and ability but also with a fatal flaw, it’s often said that they have “feet of clay”. Did you know that expression came from the Bible? The heroes of the Bible had great strengths and abilities and were used by the Lord to do wonderful things, but their stories are not preserved for us without including their struggles and failures.

When even his friends refer to him in print as "a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet, and an ego the size of a Hercules supply plane", the odds of Toby Young scoring, in any sense, appear to be slim. But then How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, his account of the five years he spent trying (and failing) to take Manhattan, improbably catapults Toby to best sellerdom, and his book is translated into 12 languages, including American.

Every Friday 12pm EST. My name is Toby and I was just recently diagnosed with OCD, ADHD, and PTSD. These entries are the journey through my life pre and post therapy, what that was like, and how different things are now I’ve sought help. I will also be including strange tales and unique experiences to help better get to know me and to get a hearty chuckle. I mostly hope to inspire people who need help as I did to seek it and how much better things can be for not only yourself, but those who love and worry about you. This is a safe space of stories, thank you for being here, I’m still ...

The Three Links Odd Cast is an exploration of and discussion about issues in Odd Fellowship for members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. It provides a fun, light-hearted look at the history, traditions, customs, and practices of Odd Fellowship as well as an examination of where the fraternal order is today. NOTE: there will be *NO* discussion of The Unwritten Work or any of the signs, grips, or passwords of Odd Fellowship.

This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story.