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Agents Still and Hollahan are on a special assignment-neutralizing a mysterious terrorist mission known only as Crescent Fire. The terrorists' weapon is a Scud missile - and their target is the White House. Good thing these boys know how to work under pressure.

The Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over Mapp family land. Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, searches for his own place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable, while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.

Instantly captivated by his female coworker, he soon learns of her relationship to his boss. Lust, desire, temptation, forbidden touches...when playing with his boss' girl he must remember one thing...In life, there are no happy endings.

Have you ever needed to stand up for yourself? Have you ever been disappointed because you failed to defend what is right? Be Defiant takes an unconventional look at a topic that is seldom explored in everyday life and gives you permission to stand up and push back without apology.

Angelus Domini. Angel of the Lord. A messenger of God is a being who delivers a word of prominence unto select souls directly from Heaven’s throne. Reports that are momentous in the highest rapport always regard the coming Messiah. Tidings of such immeasurable revelation were entrusted to one angel of apparent uniqueness. Among the only two angels identified by name in the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel himself is the herald most revealed in both Old and New Testaments.

Deliverance is in the details. Intricate, specific, instructive, explicit words not commonly evoked when we reminisce the greatest gift of mercy given. Calvary’s requirements were not our cup to bear. We need simply just to receive its grace. The memorial of the work done on the Cross, in fact, preceded it prophetically at Passover. A day that was later instituted for the Jews to give reverence for their freedom from Egyptian bondage also pointed to the ultimate day of hallmark, for all peoples to be released from the wages of sin.

As the stories of the Bible are read in awe, God’s hand of mercy often goes unnoticed within the context of the phenomenal. One of those instances can be found when observing the life of Cain. He was the firstborn son, the first procreated human being of the first man and woman of time, Adam and Eve. Remarkable as that is, he is most infamously known for being the first murderer on Earth. Cain’s jealousy led to rebellion which led to a violent act that ended the life of his brother, Abel.

Embrace! Respect! Submit! The State is the last and only symbol of control in the not-so-distant future. Fear is the only existence most know. Servitude is the brand upon all. The Resistance is the last, and only semblance of hope; of freedom. Journey with the struggles of the protagonist, Agent 216, as he makes the tumultuous transition from top Agent of the State to the eventual leader of the Resistance.

The life we live today is highly artificial. Convenience has brought with it countless drawbacks including health complications such as heart diseases, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, cancer and many other lifestyle diseases that are slowly becoming a norm contrary to what was happening in the past. Do you know why this is so? The reason for all that is what we eat. The modern diet is filled with pasta, grains and lots of processed stuff that has pushed our primal bodies to confusion.

In his macabre debut, C.D. Bennett takes us into the heart of a tortured soul at the end of his rope, feeling the sting of every slice as if it were our own through graphic and disturbing imagery that will haunt the reader for the rest of their days.

This is the first volume of a new comedy series that delivers a next generation twist on stand-up. An entertaining hour where reality meets stand-up comedy via performances and profiles of the next generation of great African American comics. We Got Next takes you into the talent scout lab of Bob Sumner (Founder/Producer/Lead Talent Scout of Def Comedy Jam series with Russell Simmons on HBO) as he sets out to answer the question, “Who’s next?”

With the help of NASA, a computer glitch, and a ghost, Bram Morrison, a robotics engineer, may have given science a new means to put death on hold. But despite the new landscape he’s opened up, the Great Beyond is still territory with no solid ground for science to stand on. Still helping Torula Jackson realize her dream of studying what happens to consciousness after death, Bram risks his reputation and future by revealing his growing belief in the bizarre. It will take more than apparitions in 3D glass chambers to convince scientists and doctors that the afterlife exists.