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Life has not been easy for 15-year old Lou Thomas. In the last few years, her once happy family has been whittled down to just herself and her unreliable older sister Charlotte. It's been a daily struggle to make it through. And it's about to get worse. Because Lou's abilities—enhanced strength, speed, and healing—have just awakened. While Lou may not understand what is happening to her, another group does. And they won't let anyone get in the way of gathering their new recruit.

A powerful relic was hidden eons ago to protect mankind. If it’s uncovered, our world will change forever. The key to this ancient danger is none other than Victoria Chandler. No one knows who she really is, or more importantly, what her role is in the fight against the fallen angels. But Victoria’s time for secrecy is over. Now she must step out of the shadows and take her rightful place in mankind’s history. With every step, the danger will grow more severe and the stakes ever higher. And in this battle, not everyone will be standing when the dust clears.

Life has not calmed down for Delaney McPhearson now that she has become the ring bearer. For the last few months, she, Henry Chandler, and Jake Rogan have been finding the camps of the teenage potentials left behind by Amar. In their search, they've come across something they didn't expect: More children are missing, but these children are younger—much younger. One of the largest lines of investigation leads them to legends of an ancient race of giants. But are they getting closer to the missing children or heading down a path that will only lead them farther away?

In the last bastion of humanity, life was not all a bed of roses. On a seemingly unimportant Wednesday morning, in a seemingly unimportant dwelling, an actually unimportant inhabitant was rudely awakened…

Sangre del Unico begins The Solomon Chronicles, a series of historical fiction novels. The story begins in the year 1392 and traces the rise of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon to the united throne of Spain. With help from an unlikely group of dedicated servants of the Prophecy of Solomon, Sangre del Unico takes one along for the ride as the story weaves an altered version of how the Catholic monarchs became the most powerful force in Europe and the world.

Seventeen-year-old Destiny scores tickets to a sold out Jonas Brothers concert. Among the millions of fans who desire to catch the eye of the three high-profile performers, Destiny's hope to stand out in the crowd is supported by her faith and expectation to experience the extraordinary. With letters composed to each of the boys, Destiny and her mom, Christy, happen onto an unannounced meet-and-greet line. Christy notices one of the boys slip Destiny's letter into his back pocket.

R. D. Hooker, Jr. was a combat soldier and leader in five wars. He then served as a senior Pentagon advisor and as a White House staff member in four different administrations. At the time of his retirement from the military in 2010, he was the most decorated colonel in the US Army. Beginning with his enlistment at eighteen in 1975, this memoir chronicles his experiences in the post-Vietnam Army as a young paratrooper, as a West Point cadet, and as a combatant in the many military conflicts which followed.

The author of the bone-chilling Unsolved Serial Killers series, D.R. Werner, is back with yet another fantastic book filled with ten horrific and unsolved true crimes that were either forgotten over time or never heard of to begin with. The victims of these tragedies have not received the recognition they deserve and the offenders were never found and therefore never held accountable.

After years of pulling heist, the Great Bandit is caught. The judge discovers something different about her and gives her an opportunity that most criminals would only dream of. The Great Bandit has the ability to remember everything—she has an eidetic memory. After realizing the great potential that she could have for his country, the judge orders her to serve out eight years in the US Army and become part of the CIA. She doesn't want to go, but it was either this or 30 years in prison for all the robberies she committed.

As many times before, Dual’s impulsive nature and reckless actions had contributed to him being flung into what was to be an almost-certain death. This story picks up largely where we left him, detailing the many twists and turns of his quite ludicrous escape(s) and subsequent more misadventures. Dual Geller was a man for whom to "stop and think" were things that "other people" did. "Other people", possibly less equipped with his superhuman-like luck, guile, and expertise.

Legitt Redd was many things to many people: lifelong friend, occasional employee, regular drunken liability.... And yet, for Legitt Redd, all facets of his personality seemed to be going nowhere fast--a speed and direction that had been carefully honed and crafted over many painstaking years. He forever lived his life not as its willful director but as its obliging passenger. Times, however, were about to change. Unwittingly, his life, and his lazy coasting attitude toward it, was about to take a dramatic turn to considerably stormier waters.

I’m a minister that’s building my own church, a podcast church. A weekly message/sermon based on the teachings of the Bible but based more on the book of life, and what I can speak to from experience.

O'Varth, once an island flourishing in peace, was now ruled by Levithe, an ageless being who claims to be the island's god. His law for control was simple: Seared or Drudge? One choice gives your child a life of luxury and magical ability, but binds them for life to serve Him. The other choice gives your child a life of poverty and toil, but freedom from Him and his Guard. Seared parents never chose Drudge for their child, unless it was disabled or cursed. But for the first time in three centuries, one set of Healer parents chose to forgo the magical abilities for their abled children.

Two Revolutions and the Constitution describes how the American Constitution secured the gains of the American Revolution. It tells the story of how the American constitutional system drew on both Americans' experience of partial self-government in colonial America and their understanding of the British constitution. It also tells how, when they were drafting the Constitution, the Framers used what they had learned about effective constitutions since independence. This audiobook describes how the English started that struggle, and the American Constitution completed it.

A tale of space exploration interspersed with nail-biting action (or something very much like that). A ripping yarn told from the point of view of them who went there. "I tried to imagine a situation where a cast of several, are in fact one and the same. An individual trapped alone in space surrounded by versions of themselves, each with their own separate opinions. If it takes a village to raise a child, it would at least take a handful to trek through space (even if only imaginary).

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Cambridge Archaeology Professor Alex Harker is drawn back into the twisted clutches of the Mithras, who are seeking to unearth a knowledge lost to humankind since the dawn of civilization. His journey will take him from the Bay of Bengal to the murky depths of the Gibraltar strait, from the Swiss Alps to an island untouched for over 30,000 years, all in pursuit of this fateful knowledge.

At a remote farmhouse outside Turin, a mysterious religious exorcism goes horribly wrong, setting in motion a series of catastrophic events, that threatens to bring the world to its knees... Meanwhile, Professor Alex Harker is settling into his new life in the Templar Brotherhood, when he is suddenly whisked away to the Tower of London. There he learns of a disturbing murder, and a strange riddle hinting at a sinister truth.

When a family loses everything, what is left? The only thing they have now is each other! Steve is a good man, but the trials and tribulations of life are almost insurmountable. Without the help of kind strangers, would they make it back from the brink? They travel together on a road that is paved with promises of a new start, but it is a path that is filled with pitfalls and hidden dangers. They find Sanctuary, finally safe, but all is not as it seems. His time here could change everything, but will it be for the better?

In this thrilling short story "Sin", a bartender tries to comfort a mysterious young man who enters his local bar. Their interactions together triggers the bartender to reflect on his own past of regrets as a young man. Sin is part of the "The Lost Collection Short Stories," a collection of short stories of mystery, suspense, horror, and thrills.