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Listen to Bruce’s story about his own Jenner/Kardashian family, and then join him in listening about everyone else’s family! You’ll recognize your own relatives in these outrageous true stories about wacky but lovable in-laws, siblings, husbands and wives, children, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and families in general. You’ll laugh and marvel at stories of funerals, weddings, holidays, and all those other times when “everyone gets together.”

The Freeway Stop Diner is open for business, offering hot food, endless refills of freshly brewed coffee, and a place to shelter while a terrible winter storm ravages outside. However, be warned: things are about to take a bone-chilling turn. A loud, earth-shaking crash in the woods behind the diner quickly brings about questions, suspicion and strange, unexplainable phenomena. And soon, the eight strangers that are all trapped by the icy, snowy hell outside begin to suspect that one of them is not who they claim to be.

The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous, and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references.

A mysterious serial killer has violently claimed the lives of five random residents in the sleepy town of Maple Oaks, Vermont. Then, all goes silent. Five years later a former resident, Joseph Givens, returns after trying to better himself and shake the demons that consumed his teenage years. And almost like a trigger, his return sparks a new series of brutal crimes. Joseph is being stalked, and the people around him are being hunted by a madman wearing a tattered pumpkin mask and wielding a sharp knife.

Who is Jesus? And why does the church He started matter today? The answers to these questions are practical, profound, and liberating - and also inextricably connected. The closer you get to Jesus, the more you love people; and the more you love people, the more you become like Jesus. Drawing on biblical teaching and over 45 years of ministry experience, Pastor Mel Mullen brings clear, practical understanding to Jesus’ message and the community of Jesus-followers we call the church.

While reporting just outside of Darfur, Stephan Faris discovered that climate change was at the root of that conflict, and he began to wonder what current and impending - and largely unanticipated - crises such changes have in store for the world. Forecast provides the answers. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. Italy has already experienced its first climate-change epidemic of a tropical disease, and malaria is gaining ground in Africa.

Blythe and Hyde have come to a makeshift compromise. Both have decided to give the other space to live and breathe. A newfound freedom neither has ever truly had before.

Can a martial art improve your life? Neko Ryu Goshin Jitsu goes farther than other martial arts. Its philosophy and principles describe a way of interacting with the world. A way compatible with Christianity, Stoicism, and Buddhism. Its principles are practical. They apply to individuals, families, and nations. This short book isn’t about “moves”. You won’t learn throws or joint locks here.

Mel Jackson's daughter presented him with a diary on Father's Day and asked him to leave a legacy of words - memories to read to her children after he was gone. The author decided to acquaint her to his father, whom she had never known. Here is an attempt to set to chronicle an experience that, to a young boy, made no sense. At times, telling his childhood stories to his children caused them to laugh. This time it is to inform, sadden, and also amuse. There is no attempt to vilify, but only describe a young boy's longing for the love of his father.

This is a rare recording of Mel Trotter (1870-1940), a former alcoholic turned evangelist who was instrumental in the founding of 65 rescue missions. He was good friends with, and often substituted for, evangelists Billy Sunday and R. A. Torrey.

Today, women have far more opportunities than their grandmothers could even imagine - they can be CEOs, astronauts, and heads of states. Yet, research shows that modern women are unhappier than ever. Through an analysis of ancient scriptures and contemporary literature, this book offers a solution. It provokes women to consider an unconventional paradigm shift to achieve the fulfillment that’s eluding them.

Zip is a mercenary for hire. When she and her team, The Job Ones, are employed to take out a group causing the local politicians too much trouble it seemed like easy money. How wrong could Zip be?

One fine sunny day, Craymer the Crab is enjoying the cool breeze and warm sand at the beach. Seacliff the Seagull makes a mewing sound just like a kitten. He smacks his beak because he’s hungry. Will he eat Craymer the Crab?

True friends are hard to find. If you can count your closest friends on just a few fingers, you should consider yourself blessed indeed. This book is about friendship - being a friend, having a friend. Few thoughts are sweeter than knowing someone is your friend. A quote by an unknown author sums up the value of friendships worth finding: "Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life and said, 'I'm here for you', and proved it."

Want to lose weight and eat the things you love? Think it's too good to be true? Well, think again.... I've personally lost and helped dozens of others lose massive amounts of weight in a sustainable, realistic way which won't interfere with your lifestyle. What does this mean for you? It means you can learn the correct and most efficient way to start and scale up with intermittent fasting and reach your goals easier.

A retelling of an Aesop fable to guess the moral. "A woman and her husband lived at the top of Gooseberry Hill. (Have you ever tasted gooseberries?) They went to their goose pen and were greatly surprised! It was the surprise of all surprises, or was it? What do you think they saw?

Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, and she sets off in search of his child. Her search is still under way when she gets a call from her father. Sam is 80 and carrying the weight of a secret he has kept from Cat all her life. He asks her to visit him in California, intending to make his peace.

The gap between the worlds was so thin in places, you could almost step across without meaning to... Lila Black can still turn into a lethal war-winning machine with the merest thought but she doesn't work for the agency any more. Problem is, she has no idea what to do next. Teazle is a demon who may have become Death's Angel. Zal is a has-been elven musician without a band. They don't add up to much and when they get together major stuff goes down.

Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts, and elementals-and their worlds are open to us. Things have been different for Special Agent Lila Black too: she's been tortured and magic-scarred by elves; rebuilt by humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fueled walking arsenal; married to a demon; and is in love with a recently-deceased elf.

We are about to take a journey into the rewarding and challenging world of the Enneagram. Those with prior knowledge of the Enneagram will instantly notice the fresh approach taken in the pages to come. With a new vantage point comes new information and application. We will examine basic concepts of psychology with a focus on those ideas of Carl Jung, whose teachings greatly influenced the founders of the Enneagram of today. We will also learn to identify personality types in order to quickly classify basic traits, strengths, and weaknesses.