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Exiled for 2,000 years God must retake the Earth from the clutches of his nemesis using a man caught between life and death as His vessel. God is in exile. The only man who can help is clinically dead. Herb Asher, an audio engineer by trade, is in suspended animation following a car accident that appears to have taken his life. As he floats in cryonic suspension he awaits his new spleen and dreams back through the last six years of his life which reveal much of his bizarre journey and the battle with Belial, the force of evil that will stop at nothing to achieve its goal.

Transcending religious boundaries to offer a deeply human perspective on the life, teachings, and enduring legacy of the revered figure, Gibran brings to life the story of Jesus Chris. He presents a fictionalized account of the life of Jesus Christ, through the eyes of 79 different accounts. A beautiful exploration of Jesus teachings, actions, and the influence he had on those around him.

New & revised edition! An award-winning magical journey of self-discovery set in 16th century Italy. Berka was raised by her hermit father in the wild, secluded from human society. At the dawn of her fifteenth summer she meets a faun, a being from a different realm. The two are instantly drawn to each other, but their secret meetings are soon disturbed by the arrival of a group of bandits. The threat intensifies when the group’s leader establishes an alliance with evil spirits from the underworld. Berka’s father comes up with an escape plan, but she doesn’t want to leave and so she ...

Kaya Thornton killed her best friend. On the run since the tender age of thirteen, she left the safety of her Community’s magicked walls and tried to disappear in the human world. Four years later, she’s found and dragged back kicking and screaming by Auden, her best friend’s older brother. The second Prince of the Wardwell line is antagonistic and unforgiving, but surprisingly gentle as he forces her home to face the judgement of his father and the Council. She expected hatred and bitter punishment, not private training with a hot and cold Prince and…demonology courses?

Loving Oneness Barry Thomas Bechta CHAPTER ONE red rain The rain darkened the midnight sky and limited Martin's vision as it cascaded down the windshield of his car in one solid sheet. The wiper blades did very little to clear the waterfall away. The streetlights refracted through the water and blinded Martin every few seconds. He could not see clearly, even so, he still drove too fast. Martin fiddled with the car radio and switched from station to station searching for an adrenaline rushing song. He could not find one so he began pulling CDs from the glove compartment. He read their titles...

Nicholas is a profoundly lonely man, mourning the loss of a dead wife and a daughter who no longer loves him. His best and only friend is Lillie, a spirit who is always at his side. They do everything together, he just can't see her. Lillie has been Nicholas' spirit guide for a long time, and knows everything about him. She understands his pain, forgives his mistakes, and knows his wishes... and it's her job to make them come true. This novella is a spinoff of the YA series School for Spirits, and can be read as a standalone story.

I never asked to be a part of the Academy of Dragons, but they forced me into this place where no one can escape. And now, I'm faced with a dilemma - how do I bring down the very men I'm drawn to? The Blood of Dragons is the first book in the Academy of Dragons series, and it's a wild ride. I'm the badass heroine caught in the middle of a reverse harem of three demi-dragons who are as handsome as they are jealous. There will be heart-pounding action, mysteries to uncover, and forbidden romances to navigate, all set against the backdrop of this exclusive academy. If you're a fan of Vampire ...

Centuries ago, four queens ruled the magical world of witches, from the four corners of the world. One fateful night they came together to unite their world as one. The Prescott Queen was the only one who didn't want to give her power to someone she felt was unworthy of her magic. In secret, she cast a powerful spell that would deny one female to become queen and rule them all. Centuries passed, legends and myths grew, but the Prescott's never forgot that their queen never wanted one to rule them all. Greed and power over witches worldwide were how they would proceed with her wishes. They ...

“Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery!” shouts the angel Prapura to a formless soul. The soul hasn’t been kicked out of the cycle of rebirth just yet - he’s been given a second chance. He must recall the biggest mistake of his past life while on "homestay" in the body of 14-year-old Makoto Kobayashi. It looks like Makoto doesn’t have a single friend, and his family don’t seem to care about him at all. But as the soul begins to live Makoto’s life on his own terms, he grows closer to the family and the people around him and sees their true colors more clearly.

Liz Kendall wouldn't hurt a fly. Even when times get tough, she's devoted to bringing up her kids in a loving home. But there's another side to Liz, one that's dark and malicious. A version of her that will do anything to get her way - no matter how extreme. And when this other side of her takes control, the consequences are devastating. From the author of the million-copy best seller The Girl with All the Gifts comes an utterly unique thriller with a twist....

The sequel to Guarding Angel As a child, Angel cast out a demon from her abusive mother. Now, she and Pastor Moore are called to Iowa to evaluate a twelve-year-old boy whose parents fear he’s possessed. On the trip there, they meet a variety of people, including a strange Native American woman who warns her that she is in danger and “things aren’t always as they seem.” But when they interview the family, Angel is suspicious the boy is being abused. She gives him her cell phone number and tells him to call her if he’s in danger. During the night, he does. She hears shouting in the ...

When Lily, a little girl with psychic abilities, is terrorized by Shadow People, she and her family seek the help of experienced psychic medium Edith MacKenzie. Together they navigate portals, vortexes, time travel, and encounter Ancient Egyptian Gods who help them open a Stargate to rid the Earth of a dark entity brought forth by a military experiment gone terribly wrong.

Joey Whitmore longs to escape her dead-end world. Facing a midlife crisis at age 42 and still living with her mother, getting fired from yet another job is the proverbial last straw. So when a fae trickster in human guise offers a chance at changing her history, she figures there’s nothing left to lose. Though skeptical of his magic, Joey accepts the sly prince’s enchanted hourglass and begins a reckless journey back in time. But as she tries to act as her own fairy godmother and reverse her mistakes, her blundering interference causes a chain of catastrophic consequences.

The Gap in the Curtain is a supernatural story full of suspense. Guests at a country house party are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of an issue of the Times dated a year ahead of time.

Cult favorite Tony Vigorito invokes a kind of chaos theory in Nine Kinds of Naked that gleefully turns any expectation of time, space, or plot on its head.

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

Unabridged narration with soundtrack consisting of ambient sounds and music. Hermann Hesse's great story brilliantly narrated by Sean Pratt and Susan Hanfield. With an accompanying ambient soundtrack by Kate Hopkins and the Emmy, Golden Reel, and BAFTA winning team at Wounded Buffalo, sound designers for the David Attenborough BBC series Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Dynasties; with music by Jane Harbour.

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories which focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice and faith which were near and dear to his heart.

On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie "family" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift - "the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies" - tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but "cineautistic," sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he's haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith.

Since its release in 1991, Mindwalk has become a cult classic, showing not only in theaters, but in college courses and business seminars. Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard play the leads who meet on the tidal island of Mont-Saint-Michel in France and enter into a philosophical discussion. Social and environmental concerns are at the heart of the film, which proposes alternative solutions based on Systems Theory, along with insights into Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics. The film is based on Fritjof Capra's book The Turning Point (1982).