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We live in a world in crisis. A world where greed turns the wheels of state. A world where environmental concerns take a back seat to the vast machine of global commerce. Billionaire ecophilanthropist Charles Langham is determined to change that. Langham implores the United Nations General Assembly to take a more active role in combating famine and the deforestation of rainforests, reversing extinction rates, and promoting alternative fuels.

Four friends and aspiring filmmakers (Randy, Chris, Jack, and Bianca) are funded for a surfing shoot by two devious Hollywood producers now residing in Australia. The producers have sent the young crew down to film at the Great Australian Bite with a conniving motive in mind. On the crew's journey through South Australian desert, their vehicle is immobilized. While seeking shelter in an old, abandoned church, they are stalked and hunted by an unthinkable killer. One night of unspeakable terror has left one dead and the three other three crew members running for their lives.

Evee-Rose is a small girl and her parents have been called out to one of Great Britain's colonies. While in the care of her grandparents, she discovers that England's waterways offer children a myriad of new sights, sounds, and adventures. Also that there is so much that Mother Nature and her beautiful country offers for free to those who spend the time to take notice. Her life on the water soon demonstrates how fragile the world is and how wonderful are her people.

Paul and Angelina are old friends who dated in college, briefly, years ago, and recently reconnected via email. During their correspondence, they realized that they both regretted not taking up with each other back then, especially given their difficult and tumultuous first marriages after college. When Angelina is killed, she is offered a choice of what to do next and opts to have both of them return to when she and Paul first arrived at college and do it over again.

Chaplains of ANZAC: New Zealand's Fallen Chaplains of the Great War tells the story of seven New Zealand Expeditionary Force chaplains who served and died during the Great War. The beautiful collection of stories in this book tell the oft-overlooked tales of the chaplains who left New Zealand and served their god, king and country on foreign fields of battle. In all, over 140 chaplains served as part of the NZEF. This book contains the stories of seven of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

What happens when you mix a mad druid with a fae female? The answer: Kynate. This new species feeds on emotions to enter the supernatural world. And what happens when you mix Kynate with a human female whose emotions are both a curse and a blessing? Samantha is human and considered food by the Kynate. Blaer is a Kynate "prince" on exile from his own lands because of his views. Their meeting is brought on by accident and they have to cooperate for the sake of their lives. On the run from both CIA and the Kynate, can they overcome their deep seated mistrust and fight to save each other and the ones that matter most to them?

The journey begins with a scandalous murder. The tragedy reveals how painful family secrets injure the soul. Dixon, Alabama is a small, quiet southern town. However, a contentious storm disturbs the peace in the form of the beautiful and fiery Mimi Cooper. She rebuffs her lover's blackmail plot by refusing to disclose their affair to her fiancé. The argument escalates, which ends in an accidental murder.

My Many Miracles: A Spiritual Journey describes a dozen actual miraculous events which occurred to the author of the book over many decades of his life. Each of these events helped to shape a life and are unexplainable by any ordinary means. These events began in the 1940s and have continued to the present decade; they cover a very wide range of situations and behaviors - and they are all described accurately, thoroughly, and convincingly.

Efosa is a contemporary story that explores a few deep seated issues which have plagued the sacred Sistah circle for quite some time. Taboo subjects rooted in pain and shame leave scars on the soul that continue to injure friendships today. Colorism and discrimination are problems which simmer below the surface in the lives of Nikki, Toni, Sharron, and Jade.

Against profiles of other leaders, drawn from different times in history, Jesus emerges as a role model whose example resonates powerfully with all of us leaders - in corporate boardrooms, in government, in social causes, in sports teams, in families, in every facet of life.

Sixteen-year-old Jenny is struggling with the loss of her friend, Sam. On the day he was kidnapped, by the most horrible sea witch ever imaginable, she vowed to find him. "I’ll travel to the ends of the Earth, Sam, if needs be. Where ever she takes you, I will follow." It’s a promise that weighs heavily on her heart. She has no way of getting to him.

Waking in a strange bed, David finds himself unable to remember how he got there. He’s been hospitalized and soon witnesses a brutal attack on a fellow patient by a late visitor to the ward. After accidentally killing the intruder, he flees with the attacked patient to a farmhouse in the Bergerac region of the Dordogne, where he finds out more mysterious details behind the attack.

From DeWayne Twitchell, the author of Asian Haze, comes his first collection of short fiction, Night's Plutonian Shore and Other Stories. The eight stories in this collection, never before published in any magazine or book anthology, run the gamut from science fiction to fantasy. In the title story, humanity receives a mysterious message from the stars. A message that brings about the ultimate madness to those who attempt to decipher its meaning.

The Mysterious Worlds of Jackson Nash is a young adult novel about 13-year-old Jackson's journey to self-discovery. Jackson lives in the small town of Peach Grove, Georgia. He lived a somewhat normal life until the night of his 13th birthday. Ancient visitors reveal that he is of a special lineage, a descendant of an ageless African tribe, the Asutu. Once responsible for maintaining the balance between mankind and nature, the tribe is believed to be a myth. Jackson, however, is more than a descendant.

This true story is for anyone whose plans have veered alarmingly off-piste. It will make you laugh. It might also make you cry. Jennifer Gardner quickly discovers that going to Hong Kong to live a beautiful and rich new expatriate life is, as the Chinese proverb says, like looking for ivory in a dog's mouth. Her new home, unlike those of her favorite authors, is not Tuscany or Provence. Neither is it toddler-free. She should have seen it coming, really. Enduring extreme heat, isolation, and strange expatriates turns out as easy as a snake trying to swallow an elephant.

DeWayne Twitchell has released his latest novel about secrets, drugs, and mystery. This book captures the listener quickly into the storyline and captures the heart of the listener.

Life is like a patchwork quilt with each square telling a different story, but the entirety making a compilation of one's life. I have randomly selected different periods of my life that I found noteworthy and attempted to accumulate them into a fragment of my imagination. I have included stories from my childhood through adult, and by no means exhausted the well that supplied them. The quilt will be complete when the stories end and that will be at my demise. We all have a quilt we're working on, whether we know it or not.

Follow the story of Tony Franco who goes from a convicted criminal to an ordained priest. Tony commits a crime and is locked up in a prison and yet, ultimately, becomes a priest. How did he go from one extreme to another after the death of a young boy? Against the Wind tells the story of the reconciliation of a man's soul through the healing of another.

You and Me and Cancer Makes Three is a poetical journey about survival from cancer. An uplifting and enduring tale of his journey with cancer. John held his hands around his own mortality, yet leaves the clinic whole, with much more than he ever expected: he discovers the true meaning of friendship, redemption, and hope as told in his poetry.

For years I have tried to make sense of Bible end-time prophecy, but had not been able to join all the dots together. Some ideas seemed to fit together while others made no sense at all. What made things so confusing was that the church had many different opinions concerning end times. Why were/are there so many different opinions? Why can't church leaders give us a "Thus saith the Lord" on the subject? Is God keeping the truth from us for some unknown reason or do you need a PhD in theology?