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There is a familiar passage of scripture, Matthew 10:16, that is greatly misunderstood. Jesus is sending the apostles out on their first evangelistic mission and he tells them, “I am sending you out as sheep among wolves.” A major part of the misunderstanding comes from the fact that these were grown men, despite referring to them as lambs. Jesus wasn’t sending out lambs, he was sending out rams (adult male sheep), and rams aren’t weak or passive.

“50 Things to Know About Becoming a Professional Basketball Player” by author Baptiste Chazelas offers an approach to the life of a pro athlete in the deepest details. Most books on professional sport tell you the habits of only the elite of the discipline. Although there’s nothing wrong with that, you could find value in understanding the life of the people that you are most likely to relate to. The percentage of the so-called “elite” is slim to none, but it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any options for you out there.

Shadow Soldiers is a series of novellas focused on exploring the world of the soldier, especially how their code of ethics is affected by the challenges of real evil in the world today. More morality plays than action-adventure, these episodic stories ask the audience to judge their role in the world's challenges.

Edna believes herself to be a worthless servant. Sir Andrew knows himself to be the most respected and valuable knight. One event will cause both to discover where their value truly lies. When Princess Gail is on her way to visit friends, some men kidnap the princess to demand a ransom. They don’t realize that they’ve made a mistake and who they have is not the pampered princess, but her faithful servant, Edna. Carried far from home, Edna knows that no matter what she does, she won’t survive.

Jacob’s brother is king and married. His sister is about to be. His younger sister is happy in her home. But where does he fit in? Is he too young for the job his brother has given him? A story of faith, family, and identity. A sequel short story to Courage and Corruption.

This is the third book in a series of novellas that explore the world of the mercenary and the challenges they face keeping evil from overrunning society. "Domestic Guard" - Angel cannot board a plane back to her West Texas home while this child's horrible murder remains unsolved in a potter's grave. "Wayward Merc" - Peter Altront, Megs, and Emily join forces in Mexico to recover two kidnapped women. Also: "Lost Soul" and much more.

Second book in the series of novellas that explore the world of the mercenary and the challenges they face keeping evil from overrunning society. "Payday Blues" is another romp around the globe with Sergeant James Terrance (JT) Welder introducing a ton of new friends to add to the party! "Tarnished Guardians" is a murder mystery that explodes into an international thriller as one of the best from our country's investigative services guides a new detective through the puppet masters seeking world domination.

Alfred has been told by his mother his whole life that he is a prince, but he never believed her. His family are peasants and never ceases to be a disgrace to the community. His sisters squabble, his mother complains, and his father deserted them long ago. Alfred hopes the quest to find some bandits will give him a perfect opportunity to redeem his family name or slip away just like his father did.

The town of Maraud has been taken over by aliens. It’s been a gradual process. At the turn of the century, this was a logging town. But as the logging industry died out, so too did the town. The arrival of strangers was welcomed, especially as they seemed friendly and had brought their own means to survive - they seem to have a knack for finding gemstones.

Dry Creek Patrol Officer Alex Landon is about to be promoted to Narcotics Detective. With only a few weekend graveyard shifts left in his Patrol tenure, he learns DCPD’s narcotics unit and the DEA believe the source of a high-grade methamphetamine is operating in Dry Creek. Alex has already seen how the cost of powerful addictions are measured in lives lost: victims addicted and overdosed, conspirators and rivals killed, informants murdered.

With the help and encouragement of her teachers and mentors, 16-year-old Princess Peralta has almost succeeded in redefining herself from "aspiring drop-out" to "college-bound honors student". When she's reported absent from Dry Creek High School without explanation, school resource officer Javier Ramirez knows something's wrong. After he learns no one's seen Princess for 48 hours, he immediately teams up with Detective Alex Landon to investigate. What they soon uncover leads them on a desperate interstate search to rescue Princess, who they're convinced has been kidnapped.

Fourteen-year old Eador has never remembered a time he wasn't a slave to the goblins. In their dark kingdom underground, he works blindly at their tasks while suffering their belittlement. Finally, though, two warriors named Thorsen and Coreon rescue Eador from the creatures' grasp. The three humans journey to the village on the rocks of Tyvar River, but not everything is as it seems.

A frantic 911 call from a farmer sends firefighters and patrol officers to a hayfield to investigate a late-model Mustang coupe fully engulfed in flames. As the flames recede, the discovery of two burned corpses inside the coupe's trunk shifts the investigation and priorities for everyone involved. While Landon and his team work to learn the motive and find those responsible for the murders, he can't shake a haunting suspicion that forces inside the Dry Creek Police Department are working against him.

While following leads to identify and arrest an international drug trafficker, Detective Alex Landon is called to lead a mass murder investigation after the unholy marriage of a drug trafficking cartel and the Taliban has a less-than-amicable beginning. A lone witness claims to have heard two last words that strike fear in heart of everyone involved: "Allah Akbar!" Investigators frantically search the Phoenix Valley for a team of unidentified foreign terrorists but fear making the investigation public would risk mass hysteria and vigilante violence.

The first thing to be said about the new exhibition at the British Museum, Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art, is that it is genuinely spectacular and deserves the hosannas it has already been greeted with in the press. The second thing is that it is highly political. It is political in all sorts of ways. The most obvious of these can be found in the fact that it plucks a number of the so-called "Elgin marbles".

With its long history at the center of empires, Istanbul offers a wealth of historic and religious places to take in.

For the past few months, Detective Alex Landon had seen retired US Army Captain Jonathan McDougal as both a sympathetic suspect and a less-than-cooperative informant. But, when a local hate group acquires explosives and the circumstantial evidence indicates McDougal's potential involvement, their relationship sours and grows distrustful.

Arizona drug task force detectives and SWAT teams begin using coordinated, small-unit military tactics to combat human trafficking and narcoterrorism, and quickly make several multimillion dollar seizures. When the Mexican drug cartels retaliate by viciously targeting the officers and their families, how can the cops protect the community while fighting to defend themselves? Homicide detectives identify the lone suspect in a heinous double murder as the victims' son, a recently paroled meth-addict, adamantly professes his innocence and blames an unidentified killer.

Father Michael Thomas vowed to risk his own life to offer final absolution to the greatest evils that walk among us. He swore to protect our safety and dignity, with the understanding that he would serve as a last resort after all other reconciliation methods had failed. With his clandestine training program and first assignment complete, Michael receives orders to investigate a member of Austria’s high society. Meanwhile, betrayal within their own ranks threatens to expose the organization to the world and destroy their efforts to cleanse evil from the Earth.

As he plunged his attacker’s blade deep into the man’s abdomen, Father Michael Thomas thought he understood the difference between murder and justifiable homicide. After Church officials learn what happened in that dark back-alley amid the slums of Bogota, they urgently whisked Michael away to an isolated compound in rural Wyoming. Alongside a handful of trainees, he lives under an assumed name, learns the skills of a moral investigator and clandestine operative, and faces the ethical dilemma repeatedly placed before him: When is a deliberate death a righteous act?