Mountain Saint

Gage Stewart has spent five years trying to overcome his past. Once an abused and troubled teenager, he has worked tirelessly to move beyond the fateful day he was manipulated into holding a group of teenagers hostage. Now, with a new identity and a college degree in criminal psychology, he accepts an unlikely job teaching others what to do during mass shootings.

This book, "The Rocky Mountain Saints," stands as a crucial contemporaneous source, delving deep into the historical accounts of the Mormon movement during a time of great uncertainty and change in the American West.

The media portrayed the military operation as a complete success, but Navy SEAL Jay Wellman wouldn’t describe it that way. He was there. As he tries to come to terms with his role that fateful night, he notices something different about his teammates and wonders if there may be more to their beliefs than he first thought.

Sienna Blake is used to chaos. As a well-known movie star, she thought she’d seen it all. But that was before she fell in love with Craig Simmons, a navy SEAL and member of the Saint Squad. The path to matrimony has been strewn with postponements and disruptions, but wedding bells are finally going to ring—until Craig disappears just ahead of the most important day of their lives, leaving Sienna to evaluate whether she’s really cut out for the uncertainty of life as a military wife.

An Epic Tale of Adventure and Courage, of white water rapids, hostile Indians, freezing snows, lack of food and water, moving 500-pound wagons over the Rocky Mountains... In 1856, a dream of a new life in the Salt Lake Valley propels 500 English converts into an extraordinary adventure. Lacking funds for a traditional journey, they devise a daring plan: sail to Boston, take a train to Iowa City, and then, with hand-built carts, embark on a grueling 1,300-mile trek to their promised land. Leading this audacious expedition is Edmund Lovell Ellsworth, chosen by the church’s president for his...

Meditation is the key to finding the Self, and Easwaran recommends this prayer, which begins "Lord make me an instrument of thy peace . . . ," as the first passage to use when learning to meditate. In this talk Easwaran explores the four pillars of wisdom and then gives a line-by-line commentary on the prayer.

The author leaves his comfortable North American home to walk over 800 kilometres across France on one of the ancient pilgrimage paths--les Chemins de Saint-Jacques--that lead to the Pyrenees, then into Spain to connect to the Camino de Santiago. His first start is a disaster. After only 130 kilometres, on the high plateaus of the Massif Central, he abandons the attempt in the face of what he believes is a life-threatening illness. After several months of investigation, his cardiovascular system is pronounced healthy--but he has been diagnosed with diabetes, which is easily treated. The ...

Journey into the heart of one of the most fascinating natural events in history! This book takes young readers on an adventure through the story of Mount St. Helens, from its quiet beginnings to its explosive eruption in 1980, and the remarkable recovery that followed. Packed with captivating details, it explores how volcanoes form, the power of tectonic plates, and the surprising ways nature rebuilds after devastation. Along the way, kids will meet the scientists who monitor volcanoes, learn tips for staying safe near them, and discover how the eruption impacted the environment, wildlife, ...

A compelling history of the savage combat that turned a single forested ridge into the scene of a disappointing attack, a humiliating surrender, and a final grinding victory. In the bitterly cold forests along Germany’s western frontier, the 8-mile ridge of the Schnee Eifel became the unlikely...

Je suis amoureuse d'un homme que je n'ai jamais rencontré. Rory : Tout a commencé il y a six mois quand j'ai accidentellement envoyé un e-mail à la mauvaise personne. Dès le premier e-mail, j'étais accro. Au cours des six derniers mois, nous avons créé une connexion. Nous sommes devenus amis et avons tout partagé. De là, nous sommes devenus meilleurs amis, mais maintenant j'espère que, peut-être, nous pourrions être plus que ça. Nos e-mails sont passés du badinage nerveux à l'amusement et au flirt, il était donc logique pour moi que nous passions à l'étape suivante de ...

Corrag and Ben, the brave-yet-doomed lovers of The Victor’s Heritage, are reunited. But now, humanity faces a crisis - the last of the free-brained, creative folk have risen against the enslaved people of the Augment and their elite Republican Homeland overlords. It is 2072, and falling creative information flows in the Augment system mean there is little time to reach full power status and launch the planetary cover before the incoming Oort Cloud asteroids destroy civilization.