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When the ultimate answer to life is not 42! Loki listens to the conversations of Midgard and looks for people to help. But the god of mischief has spent many years on parole, serving his punishment to save humanity, and realizes he must make his own fun. Yet even that has become mundane and, dare he say, boring.

In the story, Ana is an eight-year-old girl who sometimes struggles with telling the truth and her self-esteem. One day during a difficult family moment, Ana’s adoptive mother shares with her the attributes and life cycle of a dandelion, explaining that though the dandelion looks like a flower, some consider it a weed, not understanding its value—the way that Ana sometimes feels.

I tried to make each prayer, poem, or inspirational story stand on its own merit. However, you may find that some are interconnected. How appropriate, since we are all interconnected with each other through God.

This is an autobiography of my last years of high school. It is about young innocent love, fun times, breakups, and betrayal. It does have some throwbacks to younger me....

Run to Freedom is the first of a trilogy set on an 18th century Jamaican plantation. Thirteen-year-old Kofi is an enslaved African who works in the pickney gang on McDermott Plantation. His father Kwame secretly trains him in tribal knowledge and hunting skills, and embeds the urge to escape the plantation in Kofi's psyche.

After losing her grandmother, Tori distances herself from everyone she knows and falls into a deep depression while losing control of her life.With the gift of being able to visit heaven and the guidance of her nanny, she is able to get back on track with her life and even find love.

Nadine's family waits for her to awaken after destroying her nemesis. They wait in fear because they are unsure which Nadine they will find when she wakes, the Nadine they had come to know or the old wild child they all dreaded. They are worried because Nadine has some of her memories back. Meanwhile, Nadine's friends and family in the Real have no idea what has happened to her. All they know is Nadine is in a coma and it is a mystery if she will ever wake up.

Suzume left Kaito behind to find answers. But the break isn’t clean on either side. As they both return to their separate homes, neither finds what they were expecting.

In 1917, Madeline Fairbanks is an herbalist healer devoted to the people of Jamesville, a dying town in the Southern Appalachians. Renetta Morgan—with whom it is taboo to fraternize because of race—is her apprentice. Maddie’s precocious granddaughter, Hannah Tillman, is mesmerized by an ancestral box in Maddie’s possession that contains hints of a mystical heritage.

Ember has spent the last 20 years of her life in a dance with the devil. Derek is a broken and narcissistic man, but Ember wants nothing more than to make things work with him.

A generation after a nerve agent decimated the planet, legendary Barbara Hanson's children, Summer and Amon, attempt to discover the dark secrets of the past. Tall tales and gossip have destroyed their mother's credibility and it's up to them to make it right. But, will they be banished for their curiosity? A quote from the Old Testament may hold the key.

Frankie Alvarez has built a life for herself in Fortune Bay, has a good job teaching at the high school and a bungalow on the lake. Although she hasn't spoken to her father in three years, every month he sends her a check. And every month she rips it up.

The fate of the world rests on Suzume’s shoulders—if she doesn’t set it on fire first. As she struggles to master her abilities, she must also contend with an overprotective dragon. Kaito only sees her as a princess in need of saving, but she is anything but. When a mysterious stranger unlocks new potential in Suzume, it drives an even bigger wedge between Kaito and her. But despite the warnings of her allies, Suzume chooses a dangerous path to power. Can she learn to control her gift before it consumes her and the entire world?

N65 was designed to give the US and its allies the upper hand by decimating its enemies' young and intelligent citizens, leaving only those with fewer neurons—the elderly, the limited, the psychotic—behind. They didn't count on the gas affecting the entire planet. Or that the Earth itself would revolt. Will those that remain be able to survive the New World? Or will civilization come to an end?

If you are in the throes of a battle, don't surrender your hope. Encourage yourself in the Lord, and say "I can, and I will do all things through Christ who strengthens me." God has great plans for you. The moment has come to go through till you break through so you can be through. Let this be your battle cry—I can, and I will—and then tunnel through to victory!"

In her debut work, Dawn Washington vulnerably chronicles the dark nights of fumbling through faith to the beautiful radiance of finding faith. From losing her mom to cancer at 15 years old to the kind of public failures that would make anyone want to run and hide, Dawn brings you to the sofa of life to have an honest conversation about faith. In The Breaking of Dawn, Dawn helps you identify the context clues in the paragraphs of your life that were designed to reveal, reflect, and ultimately reassure you of the light and love of God.

Read by the author. In a culture where so many people think of middle age as a downward slope into comfy sneakers and quiet, meaningless existence, we can redefine the second half of life, shaping it into decades of fulfillment, fun, strength, and purpose. In our forties, fifties, and beyond...

For the animals and plants of the Arizona desert, every day is about staying alive. But it’s all the other stuff—desire, fidelity, hope, envy, grief, betrayal—that bridges the gap between science and fiction, and highlights the interconnectedness of the human and natural worlds. A wealthy Gila monster suffers from halitosis. A young peccary chooses a side in war. A rattlesnake upends the historic enmity between serpent and man. A subterranean termite princess comes home. These and dozens more characters run, hop, slither, and fly through captivating storylines.

Xander is just a kid trying to avoid his bullies at school and maybe forget about Milo, the childhood best friend who disappeared years ago. He doesn't know anything about prophecies and griffins, or giant kings or dragon swords until the talking stone griffin and talking Crow from another world arrive, seeking his help.

Can this family survive the truth? Closure should have come swiftly with the funeral and nailing of the casket, but instead of finding peace, the old man’s death reopened old wounds left to fester for decades. Sahar Abdulaziz’s haunting women’s contemporary fiction novel, As One Door Closes, is a stark and dramatic testament to the devastation that comes with hiding sexual abuse, and protecting the "secret" rather than the victim. Will five very different women finally heal the damage, bring closure, and bury the secrets they have been forced to carry and protect?