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In the mid-20th century, a routine mission to the moon resulted in an unmanned rocket missing its mark and tumbling toward the sun. The rocket was presumed lost. Life went on. A century later, the rocket came back. Believed at first to be a piece of space debris, it was soon confirmed to match the description of the ship from the long-lost moon mission. It looks like our rocket, it feels like our rocket, but it is not our rocket. What is it? How did it get here? Who sent it? And why... Debris is a science-fiction story full of mystery, adventure, and contemplation on the human condition and...

In 1912, an obsessed scientist, searching for a away to cure aging, accidentally develops a serum that turns the living into the undead. On the run from a zealous private inspector, the scientist and his poor assistant book passage on the first ship out of England. Meanwhile, the heiress to a peanut butter empire is wooed by a shady socialite, claiming to be an extended member of the Royal Family. An American wedding is decided and the would-be bride and groom, along with a meddling step-aunt, book passage on the first ship out of England. The fates of both parties, and many more, cross ...

In the distant future, at the edge of the solar system, something is preying on spaceships. When the civilian ship, The Solonius, goes out on a field trip with a boatload of children on board, that same something strikes, forcing a handful of the survivors to pick up the pieces and solve the mystery. Where it takes them is to the wider galaxy, to worlds beyond our star, and to the terrors that exist twenty-thousand lightyears from Earth!

The wind has been stolen. As the Kingdom of Yumea endures the terrible curse, a shocking coup brings turmoil to the land. With the castle on fire, the only prince still alive is secretly carried away to Humao, the Isle of the Dishonored, to be trained by the King's last living loyalist. He is their final hope, but before he is ready to claim the throne that was stolen from him, he must earn the respect of the people he hopes to lead. If he does not, the Kingdom will fall, and he will go down in history as the LAST SON OF YUMEA!

The Gospel of John is written with one goal: To show that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God. To do that, John focuses on two key themes: The amazing miracles He did and His atoning death, burial and triumphant resurrection from the grave. The first eleven chapters discuss key miracles He performed during His ministry: Turning water into wine, healing a child near death, healing a paralyzed man, feeding 5,000, walking on water, healing a man born blind, raising a man from death. The final ten chapters focus on Jesus death and life again, as well as the final words He left His Apostles ...

It is the year 2083. Fifty years ago a miracle drug was developed for patients thirty years old and younger, granting them relative immortality. You had just turned thirty and missed the window.You're now living in a nursing home with the rest of the "dying generation," being cared for by twenty-year old-looking seventy-year olds. It's festivus and the miracle drug's side-effects have finally kicked in. Every worker in the home has collapsed, shriveled into a prune, and become a mindless killing machine. It's up to you to save the nursing home.

"You ought to know by now that every town has its secrets. There are three kinds of people: Those who make the secrets, those who keep the secrets, and those who die trying to leak the secrets. There's a secret in that old house. Don't ask me what the secret is. It might be something simple. It might be something truly horrifying. That's for you to figure out..." Arnold Gillespie moves his family back to his childhood home, a place of repressed memories and unresolved trauma. They are not alone. Arnold denies it. His son, Teddy, suspects it. And a semi-retired police officer with ties to ...

Frustrated with teaching and seeking a life of adventure, Albert Einstein builds a time machine intending to visit the 19th century and trade places with his natural doppelganger, Mark Twain. Unbeknownst to him, Nazi scientists have secretly been developing their own time travel plans with ambitions to conquer the world two generations earlier using an army of reanimated corpses from the first World War! It's up to the world's greatest scientist to save history, but he's going to need help from a cantankerous writer to do it... This is part three in the Farcical Zombie Trilogy. This is A ...

From Paradise to Paradise breaks down the concept of salvation from a variety of different angles. The nature of God, the promise of the Messiah, the establishment of Jesus' Kingdom, and frequently asked questions are all discussed. The reader will open the book seeking answers to the most important questions ever asked. When the book is finished, many of those critical questions will be resolved.

The village of Dowery is in danger, not from imps, serpent kings, giant spiders, fat witches, or wolfcats, but from the worst monsters in all the land. Trolls, great hulking beasts, descend annually from the nearby mountain, stealing the harvest food and wreaking havoc. Every year a warrior goes up the mountain to fight the troll and every year the man disappears and a new troll descends. When a series of accidents, calamities, and childish bad decisions cause the harvest storehouse to be ruined, young Willem realizes he has doomed his home to the wrath of an unfed troll. Rashly, he takes ...

The Curse of the Demon Prince is set in the backdrop of a fantastical, alternate-history version of feudal Japan (called Shoto), where honor can be stolen and only returned when and if justice is served. Seven companions (a wizard, a shinobi, two warriors loyal to opposing kings, a peasant that is more than he seems, and a pair of boys from Humao, the Isle of the Dishonored) risk death as they trek across the land of Shoto, seeking a sacred altar. There they hope to perform a sacrifice that will stop a Celtic demon from destroying their island home. Six of them know the truth...and the ...

In BILLY RICHMOND AND THE SOMETIMES SCARY FANTASY ADVENTURE, Young Billy Richmond and his friends stumble upon a book hidden away for ages, going back to the days of warlocks, mummies, and other frightening spooksters. Opening the book accidentally set loose a horrible curse and now it’s up to Billy to put the evil back in its leather-bound prison before his town (and possibly the world) goes up in smoke!

A verse by verse commentary on the book of Isaiah (chapters 1-39), taking special care to notice the local circumstances surrounding the writing (the threat of Assyria, the growth of Babylon, the sins of Judah), while allowing the many references to the coming-Christ serve as the sizzle to the steak of the letter.

After an experiment goes horribly wrong, a brilliant but obsessive scientist spends decades perfecting a way to alter history and correct his mistake. His time-tampering efforts draw the attention of an old rival, who likewise seeks to alter time for his own nefarious purposes. For a Better Yesterday takes readers on a history-bending journey across space and time, and culminates in an ending that defies reality itself!

THE DAUGHTER OF HACHIMAN is a story set on the dishonored island of Humao, long after the events of the first book in the Dishonored Anthology. When a cruel Governor goes too far to root out troublemakers, he stirs up a rebellion led by a thrill-seeking, mischievous hero. This story is a tale of two halves, the first of which is adventurous and light-hearted, and the second is full of heartbreak, revenge, and the ugliness of war.

The epic fantasy story begins with a sword in a stone, waiting for its rightful wielder to claim it. While a new Kingdom blossoms in France, an aggressive King, bitter over a secret in his past, campaigns across Europe, determined to see the world to submit to his rule. Two Knights hold his ear, one who swears by a code of valor and another who lives only for bloodshed. Politics, ambition, betrayal and more fill the pages of the first book in the six-part KINGDOM OF ARTHUR series...

The epic fantasy series continues with a child of fate afraid to face the destiny that calls to him. While a tyrant from England presses his army deep into Europe, a new Kingdom rises in France, ready to resist. Meanwhile, an ancient Magi searches for help, finding it a man on the run from his shameful past, forced to choose between what is easy and what is right. Wizardry, gallantry, adventure and heroism fill the pages of the second book in the six-part KINGDOM OF ARTHUR series…

Explore the Life of Jesus, as told by the inspired writers Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Their three Gospel accounts are combined into one comprehensive study that examines the birth, life, sermons, miracles, trial, death, resurrection, and ascension of the amazing Son of Man. Volume Two and Three are combined into this one book, which explores the second and third year of Jesus' Ministry...

Alberto Erimos, a humble and reclusive inventor, tinkers away as he designs "helper bots," the most advanced artificial creations the world has ever seen...except the world hasn't seen it, because they're not for sale, not for show, and certainly not for use by the military industrial complex. But when a neighboring country is overtaken by a power-hungry dictator, Alberto discovers his designs are being used to mechanize the warlord's army. All his plans for a quiet life, a legacy of creation, and a quiet hope for love are upended, forcing the inventor to confront the world outside his ...

This verse-by-verse study of GENESIS takes the reader on a journey spanning over two-thousand years of human history. Man's beginnings in the garden, his first exposure to temptation and sin, the flood of Noah, the call of Abraham, the offering of Isaac, the trials and tribulations of Jacob, and the faithfulness of Joseph, and so much more is brought to life in this study. Fundemental questions that people have asked for ages are answered here: Are we alone? Why are we here? Do we matter? Genesis has the answers, and they point us to the Maker and Master of everything, the One who formed us...