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Before finding out about girls, Patrick MacKenna had aspired to join the priesthood...the whole good against evil thing intrigued him as a kid growing up in Central New York. Now after marrying young and going through a divorce he’s trying to make it as a cop in his home town of Camillus...but he’s treading water on whether he’ll keep his job on the force. Worse than that, Mac thought all cops were the good guys...he’s slowly finding out on his journey that this might not exactly be the case, and that some true blue brothers weren’t what they were supposed to be at all!

At the age of 17, Aaron was diagnosed with Kallmann Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by a failure to start puberty. The disorder and its treatment worsened his depression, which continued for 15 years while he served in churches as a minister, youth pastor, and missionary. Eventually, depression got the better of him and Aaron was admitted into a psychiatric hospital for observation and treatment. While detailing Aaron's path to recovery, this gripping memoir erases the stigma of mental illness and gives hope and practical advice to those seeking to become whole.

The eldest of three siblings to Irish working-class parents living in Manchester, England, Richard Brian Nicholas Bookmark, a name that is such a mouthful his parents gave him the acronym Ribban (RBN) instead, is a child unable to find his way in life. His near-untimely arrival in the bathtub was merely a foretaste of things to come. Fortunately for him, his mother did not throw the baby out with the bathwater, but more often than not, he wished she had!

Náidin, a young, dwarven bard, finds himself the target of an assassination plot. He must make it home before the assassin finds him. He is accompanied by Ariena, an elf from the Star Paths who was there at the beginning of his world and the creation of his people. Together, they find their destiny.

After Joel splashes mud from his utility truck on a pretty woman who works at the mall, he wonders how he can ever make it up to her. Holli Segal can't wait for her first big break to design the Christmas display window for Schroder Toys. But when a circuit breaker blows, she's sunk. Will Joel be able to light up Holli's Christmas in more ways than one

Yakima Henry has been dealt more than his share of trouble, even for a half-white, half-Indian man in the West. Now he's running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, and he thinks he may have finally found his share of peace and prosperity. But Bill Thornton still has the wound from where Faith - once his most valuable working girl - shot him before Yakima carried her off. And he has a heart full of hatred. Yakima's violent past is about to come calling.

Yakima Henry left his ranch in the White Mountains for supplies, and rode right into a bloody shootout between Saber Creek townsfolk and a gang of banditos who just robbed a stagecoach. But what really riles Yakima is the banditos making off with his prized stallion, Wolf, and a pretty saloon girl.

Lou Prophet's life as a bounty hunter has taught him one rule: You don't stop riding 'til the job is finished. Louisa Bonaventure gives that rule a whole new meaning. After seeing her family slaughtered by Dave Duvall and his Red River Gang, she and Prophet have tracked down and wiped out every last murderer - except for Duvall.

In the Texas backlands in 1885, 12-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin - Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by a murderous villain in a scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.

From a woman who lays claim to Chet's heart to a land ripe for grazing, the Arizona territory begins to open its arms to the dauntless determination of the Byrnes family. But with every success there comes a rising danger. There’s a sheriff who refuses to do his job. Trigger happy outlaws competing to kill them. And a mysterious rancher who’s hell bent on running a herd across Chet's land - and forcing the Texan into a war...

Chet Byrnes is building a new life in Arizona Territory as he expands his cattle ranching operation - but trouble just keeps coming. A brutal Apache attack on his cattle drive. A friend's young daughter is abducted, and the search leads Chet and his men to the wild town of Tombstone and ultimately south of the border, where everything comes with a price...and life is cheap. 

Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, Daniel Dixon returns to Wyoming’s Powder River country to start anew. It’s the end of the 19th century and the Indians are gone. The growing city of Buffalo, just a stone’s throw from the ruins of Fort Phil Kearny, seems a peaceful place to start a medical practice and raise his sons, Harry and Cal, and his willful daughter, Lorna. But the peace Dixon seeks eludes him. Johnson County is soon engulfed in a bloody range war that will draw in the Dixon family in ways he could never have imagined.

Fort Kearney, Nebraska is the gateway to the west for a new breed of pioneers. Civil War veterans and widows, card sharps and Indian agents, and drifters — they arrive every day hoping to forge their destiny. Colonel Henry B. Carrington of the US Calvary is assigned the unenviable task of securing a trio of forts in the dangerous Dakota Territory. At his command is a rising young officer Mark Reynolds and his spirited bride Rose, who longs for danger and excitement. 

Ryan and his friends become the subjects in a deadly experiment when they're taken captive inside a redoubt at the South Pole. A team of scientists is convinced the Earth must be purified of mutants, and now they have the perfect lab rats to test their powerful bioweapon. Within Antarctica's harsh and unstable conditions, the companions must fight the odds and take down the whitecoats before millions are killed. But in this uncompromising landscape, defeating the enemy may be just another step toward a different kind of death....

It is no secret; housing has reached unprecedented levels of unaffordability. Anybody participating in or paying attention to this market has likely been taken aback by the current state of affairs. Why is this happening? Who is to blame? Can we expect it to settle down? These are but a few of the questions answered in this exciting book about the current state of the housing market. Filled with both analytical data and anecdotes alike, you can come away with a new depth of understanding into the differing aspects affecting our housing market.

Have you ever felt like the ordinary, everyday life is just not the right life for you? Have you ever felt like you were destined for great and wonderful things? Has life beaten you down to a point where it all seems pointless, like a waste of time? I have! In order to dig myself out of that dreadful pit of despair, I had to destroy the person I was, to become the person I wanted to be. In this book, I will go over the practices and philosophies that have helped me through those difficult times and made me into the person I truly wanted to be.

Just when ten-year-old Maria Della Notte becomes comfortable with her surrogate mother and their surroundings she discovers an unsettling truth about her origin. Who is she? How did she get here? Why does she have a surrogate mother? Who left her in the care of a surrogate mother and why? Where did she come from? Why is she forced to leave? Can she learn to live in a new country without family or friends where language, customs and traditions are unfamiliar and intimidating? Whom can she trust? Will she ever love and be loved? Will she find answers to her endless questions?

Through the guidance of prayer and church teaching, Jonathon Vogel delivers this second instalment in this reflective series on God’s love for us. He explores what it means to truly live out the calling we all have to become saints in our everyday lives. Vogel mentions, “As I’ve continued this series on the Trinity, one profound realization I’ve learned is that everything begins and ends in love...I find the deepest peace, joy, and meaning in Jesus that I simply can’t find anywhere else (and believe me, I’ve tried).”

We all have desires and want to fill them. Like a treasure map, our desires show us the treasure we seek. We often want the treasure without delay or suffering. What if we studied the map a little?

Based on Church teaching, Jonathon Vogel leads us on a journey of faith in discovering the love of God the Father. A message for our times, Vogel highlights the core tenets of Christian faith as a fresh reminder of our call to pursue love, virtue, and the faith in the Father's love.