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After ten people reach the end of their earthly life they awaken to find themselves in strangely familiar surroundings. In a realm where the past, present and future flow freely in and out of each other without contradiction they encounter a mysterious woman named Brianna who greets them in their soul's journey. From an innocent child to a vicious serial killer, from a lovingly faithful wife to an unrepentant sex addict, all are directed to a destination woven from the fabric of their own individual histories and personal life stories. Contained in these pages is a powerful glimpse of what ...

When Steven Lane walks into the receptionist's office at Wellington University to apply for a maintenance job listed in the newspaper, he's mistaken for Professor Thomas Lane and quickly finds himself led into an auditorium where hundreds of people are seated. All assume he's the main protagonist in the discussion that's about to begin. Far from being embarrassed or intimidated, when he hears the topic to be debated he chooses to embrace the unexpected challenge. The question of whether or not God exists is a subject that Steven Lane has been writing about for several years and the sudden ...

"Mckinney offers a novel that mixes the science fiction of a first contact encounter with the political intrigue of a thriller." Kirkus Review June 2021 When the President of the United States stands before thousands in Miami, Florida welcoming the world to the start of the Summer Olympic games, the global event is watched by uncounted millions. No one could've foreseen the astonishingly dramatic events that will play out before spectators and be televised throughout the world. Instead of the expected games, the high-speed approach of an object that eclipses the moon and soon lands less ...

This book is for any one facing a prison sentence and is a "must read" for developing strategies to manage the emotional and psychological stress of incarceration. It offers useful strategies an inmate can employ to take the weight and drudgery of doing time and turn it into an opportunity for change, self-enrichment and personal growth. It describes in detail how any prisoner can transform their mind through reading and learning, and thereby transform how they experience their incarceration. The central aim of this work is to provide useful techniques and strategies that reduce the ...

Three men go to sleep and have a similar dream. In it, a young woman appears to them. While they know nothing of her, she knows quite a lot about them. One is a judge; one is an ambitious businessman and the third is a man struggling to find meaning in his life's work. None of them suspect that the strange woman they meet in their dreams will affect their lives in ways that prove to be fatefully consequential. Her name is Perpetua, a young woman and mother arrested, condemned and executed in North Africa in the first decade of the third century, a time when Roman law sanctioned the public ...

Cassandra's Gift is a story about a fifteen year old girl with a very unusual quality. She discovers a mysterious force of healing power within her and is irresistibly drawn to those who will benefit from her remarkable ability. Touched with a mild case of Down's syndrome, her ungainly appearance helps conceal her strange condition and gives the impression to those who know her that she's nothing more than completely normal. A loving father and protective sister are closest to Cassandra, but when a newly installed step-mother enters the scene, conflict arises. Her crusted religious beliefs ...

"An often well-reasoned, if sometimes speculative, challenge to American political orthodoxy." Kirkus Review June 2021 This book is an effort to bring some measure of conciliation, and common ground to the bitterly opposed camps of political opinion that currently divides the nation. These essays address the most contentious issues that face Americans with the aim of finding common ground to diminish the acrimony and personal vitriol that presently animates our national politics. The economy, energy policy, education, abortion, gun control, health care, and international relations are ...

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