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We aren't meant to wait for holiness—we're meant to pursue it. God commands Christians to actively "be holy," but what does that look like in daily life? Rather than overwhelming legalism or loose boundaries, Don Whitney encourages us to find a practical middle ground through biblical habits. Don Whitney's convicting insight on spiritual disciplines will challenge you to grow in new ways as a Christian. Now updated and revised, this edition offers practical suggestions for cultivating spiritual growth.

This guide from the American Academy of Pediatrics offers authoritative, accessible advice that parents can trust. Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Parent Needs to Know helps parents understand how ASDs are defined and diagnosed and offers an overview of the most current behavioral and developmental therapies. Topics covered include: symptoms, frequency, and types of ASDs; accessing care; services in the community; behavioral and developmental treatment; the role of complementary and alternative medicine; screening tools; and adolescence and transitioning into adulthood.

Depression - whether circumstantial and fleeting or persistent and long term - impacts most people at some point in their lives. Puritan Pastor Richard Baxter spent most of his ministry caring for depressed and discouraged souls, and his timeless counsel still speaks to us today. In this book, psychiatrist Michael S. Lundy and theologian J. I. Packer present Baxter’s writings in order to comfort, instruct, and strengthen all who struggle with depression.

After quitting her job as a therapist, Tess's life became pretty slow. A tad boring, even. It thus came as no small shock to her when she was chosen by a god. Suddenly thrust into a new world where magic, monsters, and character levels are par for the course, Tess will find that simply surviving can be a challenge. It doesn't help that dark forces are stirring, she's woefully underpowered, and spiders keep trying to claw her face off.

Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex is for sexual pioneers and enthusiastic novices. Unabashedly erotic, the book covers a lot of territory, allowing listeners to sample the whole smorgasbord or just nibble at what they see as the choicest bits. To start things off, Nina includes explicitly detailed chapters on foreplay, oral sex, masturbation, toys, and games. Sexual adventurers (and voyeurs) will find chapters on swinging, three-ways, anal sex, erotic domination, sensual submission, and much more.

After spending an unknown number of days caged, chained, and tortured by men wearing hoods in the darkness of a root cellar who insist he robbed a bank and killed several women, 25-year-old Ben Hawthorne is rescued by four men. But who are these men and why were they looking for him - the son of Eli and Cora Hawthorne, born on a ranch outside of Nacogdoches, Texas, orphaned at 10 when his parents were killed by Comanches, and then taken by the Comanches who gave him his Indian name, Newcomer?

Wrathful kings. Dark gods. Conniving guards. None of them will keep Tess from what little normalcy she's managed to find. After being thrust into a foreign city under a false identity, things are finally starting to settle down for Tess. Now, her biggest concerns are celebrating her birthday and making it through her second semester of classes. Of course, not everything can be so peaceful. Between her days of idle crafting and building up her settlement, Tess is put through brutal training and forced to battle her way through vicious dungeons.

The threat of dark gods has passed. The forest is safe. The deadlands have stopped expanding. Now, all Tess really wants is a vacation. Unfortunately for her, fate has other plans. Quickly discovering that she's in far more danger than she ever knew, Tess will have to train, level up, and protect herself at all costs. So when an unexpected benefactor shows up with an unlikely solution to her problems, how can she refuse? Follow Tess as she battles monsters, explores new cities, delves into dungeons, and builds up her settlement, all while meeting a strange new cast of characters along the way.

Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he has little use for his mission—uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency against the monarchy. Then Collins meets Almaisa, a beautiful and enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain most expats never experience, to questions he never thought to ask.

In 1960, Dr. Maxwell Maltz introduced his revolutionary theory of psycho-cybernetics: the science of using self-image psychology, visualization and action to achieve your goals. These ground-breaking concepts established him as a pioneer in the self-development field and transformed the lives and careers of people all over the world. Dr. Maltz’s works, including Psycho-Cyberntics, have reached more than thirty-five million listeners.

For Lovers of Speculative Fiction Paranoid Droid by Kayelle Allen Dragon Hunt by Claudia Blood Vinyl by Claudia Blood Searchers by Marc Neuffer Trespass by Marc Neuffer Last Mission by SA Gibson & JI Rogers Punching the Clock by Howard Loring Clash of the Red Heads by Howard Loring Space Paint by David Viner The Alpha Pavonis Meltdown by Philip Cahill Unspeakable Words by Philip Cahill The Case of Prickly Melon Poisoning by Jon Anthony Perrotti Gratitude by John Bowers This anthology is a collection of 13 new science fiction stories written by ten authors in four countries. All are members ...

Queen bee Honey Williams and burnout Sadie Greer haven't spoken since middle school, when a huge fight ended their lifelong friendship and sent the girls down wildly different paths. All of this changes when Honey turns up at 3 am to ask Sadie to help her bury a body and kill the indie band that turned her into a vampire. It's the tail end of summer vacation. They've got the band's tour dates, a full tank of gas, and two weeks before senior year starts. But Honey's newfound hunger is insatiable, and the road trip gets even gorier than they anticipated.

Two weeks before graduation, Henry "Babe" Simmons is resurrected by his best friend (and secret crush) Eugene "Dude" Marsh. Consequences include freaking out a town who just buried you, an overwhelming hunger for human flesh, and a monster who will step in if you ignore that hunger too long. Thankfully they have Kate Higgins on their side, a whiskey-drinking lesbian police chief who is all too eager to get rid of the town riff-raff.

Honey and Sadie have a plan: get back home and take senior year by storm. Out and proud girlfriends, secret vampires. They can rock this new undead life if they stick together. Right? But the past doesn't die easily. A revealing video from a true crime YouTuber forces the girls to come up with a new plan: say they were home all summer and avoid each other in the hallways until everything blows over.

Senior year is almost over and secret girlfriends Frankie and Ivy are itching to escape their dying town and start their new lives in New York. But Bulldeen won't let go of them yet. After a sudden attack, Ivy gets . . . strange. Fainting spells and bloody noses and speaking in a voice that isn't hers. Something is setting up roots in Ivy, and it wants Frankie gone. Will the girls make it to graduation, or will Bulldeen finally get its way?

When offered a chance to avoid summer school, goth girl Frankie Tanner reluctantly agrees to help Ivy Wexler, a cheerleader who has just resurrected her cat in preparation for bigger and better (dead) things. Perfect for people who wanted The Craft to be sapphic.

From the author of Pitching Around Fidel and Far Afield comes a tragic but ultimately uplifting account of the accidental death of minor league first base coach Mike Coolbaugh, illustrating the many ways in which baseball still has a hold on America.

Nightmares slither from the shadows in Scare Street’s latest spine-tingling collection. Thirteen tales of the macabre await in this chilling new volume - a never-ending stream of ghosts, ghouls, and other horrors to haunt your dreams.

Secret girlfriends Ivy and Frankie just want to get through high school and escape their dying town. But Bulldeen's dark magic isn't done with them yet—animals die mysteriously, ex-boyfriends loom, and secrets strain to be revealed. And in the midst of everything: Homecoming. Will the girls be able to steal a dance, or will darkness bury them before they make it underneath the disco ball?

What better way to celebrate spring break than another romantic murder road trip? The search for Honey's sire has finally heated up again, and Sadie and Honey have a foolproof plan: track that sucker down so Honey can kill him and go back to her normal human life. But what about Sadie? Can she follow Honey to college after senior year ends, or is she too dangerous to keep around? Sadie is just as hungry as the day Honey turned her. Honey is keeping secrets. And their road trip is about to get an unwelcome tag-along who could change everything . . .