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Elizabeth Klein, assistant professor of theology at the Augustine Institute, leads us through a soul-inspiring exploration of Catholic teaching on angels and saints and why they matter to us as individuals and to the Church. Throughout the book, Klein answers common questions about the angels and saints in order to give us a deeper understanding and appreciation of the role they play in our lives, the Mass, and in the life of the Church.

Who is God? If we want to love God and make him the center of our lives, we would do well to settle this question at least in some small way. This audiobook serves as a starting point for understanding what Christians mean when they say ''God", and to whom they are referring when they use this name. This audiobook addresses three major concepts - the nature of God, the Trinity, and the Incarnation - so that we may strengthen our faith and our ability to communicate it to other people.

Surviving a disintegrating planet. The aftermath is even worse. After earthquakes nearly destroy the sky cities, a small colony of sky-born migrate to the drought-stricken surface of Tara, where each day is a struggle just to stay alive. They try and eke out a semblance of a normal life, but they haven’t factored in the dangers lurking on the surface, as well as a hostile race of earth-born living nearby, whose presence creates trauma for some in the colony. The story explores the challenges of surviving with little or no water and food, and attacks by unknown creatures in a hostile ...

Newly arrived at Spells Meadow, England, and still grieving his mother’s disappearance, 17-year-old Cody discovers an old key near an enormous hedge that changes his life forever. Instead of tossing it away, he and his friend Newt unwittingly activate an ancient curse that awakens a griffin which almost destroys them. Cody suspects an elaborate cover-up of something even more sinister occurring at the local high school, a cover-up that involves the enigmatic principal. He soon discovers Spells Meadow is a place with a twisted past and a bizarre future.

Some books should never be left open, not ever! Long ago, a book was discovered in a tin box in the garden. No one suspected it had a powerful life force until many years later when inexplicable events beset the tiny sea-side town of Petticoat Bay. Are there really monkeys, enormous biting insects and red-eyed wolves haunting Goblin Wood? Annabelle Fox discovers the terrible secrets surrounding her new house, Jade Meadow, which is cursed according to the locals. Annabelle and her brother, Marcus, go in search of the truth from the previous owner, Pandora, but she appears to have her mind ...

Surviving venomous plants and a turbulent journey downriver pursued by black wolves, Dougray, Robbie and Belle arrive at Syone, the fabled sanctuary of Healers. It offers warmth and welcome, and a respite from the ravages of the untaming. Or does it? As Dougray and Robbie discover their parents may still be alive, they also uncover a dark truth about the healing sanctuary. When its walls are breached by monsters, they are forced to flee under the mountain. Narrowly escaping ravenous arthropods, they are captured by a self-appointed tyrant and taken to Wychwyre as his prisoners. Here they ...

Immerse yourself in ten, exciting short stories with memorable characters that will enthral and entertain you. From an enigmatic stranger in black who rids the town of monsters, to a dragon whose night out hunting backfires in an unexpectedly horrible way, or a gathering of gnomes who select an unlikely candidate as their new king, this book is a must for lovers of fantasy adventures.

Can portals into the past exist on the lonely English moors? Is something wrong with the mist-shrouded roads along the coast? Injured in a car crash, Fran Gilbert discovers that terrifying reality when she travels back to 1940 and WW 2 has well and truly begun. But that's not her only problem. One of the caretakers at the creepy estate where she's recovering is a serial killer who preys on anyone that wanders through the mist. Will she become his next victim? And how does her dead grandmother's ring fit into the enigmatic dreams she's been having of King Arthur and his knights? The terrible...

These light-hearted short stories are perfect to read at bedtime and focus on the funny situations that happen to Max Nutt, a young mouse who lives in a hole in the wall of a barn. Max is clever, headstrong and adventurous. He wants to invent the cleverest invention, write and publish a book and explore the Wild Bushes, a place the fairies call enchanted. But what happens when he meets a dragon there and becomes lost? Who will save him?

Wars. Now plagues. Strange shape-shifters roaming the countryside. The age of peace that has reigned across Galfane is now ended and blood-sworn oaths that once created a barrier of safety against invasion have collapsed. Morgran’s armies are cutting a bloody swathe wherever his terrible magic is wielded by the unsuspecting. As Princess of Gallenbreigh, a kingdom still standing firm against Morgran’s advances, Mistrelle Evanspay shirks her responsibilities and goes horse-riding instead. When she is overtaken by a storm, her frightened horse throws her and she is discovered by the ...

Where there’s always darkness; never daylight. Does magic still linger in the mist-shrouded places of Scotland? Ash Wood’s aunt certainly believed it existed in the village of Eldon Vale. Being a midwife to the Faery realm, she dabbled in the Old Ways that the rest of her pragmatic, disbelieving family scorned. With his aunt’s untimely death, Ash inherits her cottage and becomes the next custodian of a mirror she always kept secret in the attic, a mirror she claimed once belonged to Snow White’s evil stepmother. Ash always suspected it had a personality of its own, one that felt ...

Eat Like a Local–Reno-Tahoe by Elizabeth Klein offers the inside scoop on food in the Reno-Tahoe area.

Armies are gathering from distant lands. In the midst of imminent war, two orphaned brothers, Dougray and Robbie, and their travelling companion Belle, have sought shelter with the elves. But even in their idyllic world, peace is short-lived when monstrous shrieks are unleashed into their treetop homes and destroy everything in their paths. The brothers are forced to flee with Navarre, the healer that once knew their parents. On the way to Twendlemark to obtain horses for their journey, they are given a cryptic prophecy about their future and narrowly escape Morgranus, an evil demon hunting...

When an assassin infiltrates a secret meeting and people are killed, brothers Robbie and Dougray are plunged into a fast-paced journey of discovery. Their quest leads them to the other side of the Black Mountain, forbidden territory, where an Elf girl named Belle Song rescues them from Trolls and accompanies them. The future of their quest becomes doubtful when an enormous spider called Queen Shara captures Robbie. After a frightening battle, they manage to defeat the spider and rescue him from her lair. Through their mutual hardships, Dougray and Belle discover they have a common destiny, ...

This story can be summed up as a boy's adventure in all its quirky day-dreaminess and fascination with spies, flamboyant villains who own islands and wear white suits and a mutinous, but very dead pirate. When half of a treasure map ends up in a box of books at the local fete, Jock McLock decides to visit the donator. He's heard plenty of strange tales about her from the kids at school, but it's nothing like meeting Mrs Trelawney in the flesh. It's all connected to his mother winning a holiday to the Bahamas, which turns out to be full of perils for poor Jock, a wild treasure hunt with ...

Evil hunts brothers Dougray and Robbie as they seek the invisible Citadel of Gallenbreigh for the next crystal. Traps await them and time is slipping away. Soon all the demons will overrun Galfane as Morgran grows more powerful. Will they find the Citadel in time and escape the clutches of a lethal demon pursuing them which is poisoning everything in its wake?

Against his will, Sam Flynn is sent on a crazy mission by a bumbling fairy godmother to save a colony of mermaids. Instead, a group of pirates capture him and force him to become a member of their motley crew. To top off his bad luck, he’s snatched away in the middle of the night by a hideous beast and carried off to its castle. It’s a story that sounds all too familiar to Sam, except for the part where the daughter of a rose thief promised to the beast falls in love with him instead. Will he survive the Beast’s wrath long enough to save the mermaids?

With the arrival of mysterious Aunt Maude on Christmas Day, young Samuel Flynn learns that his innocent removal of two objects from the fairy tale world has thrown it into turmoil which only he can resolve. Upon his return, he is captured by Rumpelstiltskin and he meets Rose, a fellow-captive. Working together, they escape and flee to the sanctuary of a quirky village overrun by white rabbits. They are invited to a strange tea party where they are befriended by Fred Bassett, a hound with a very odorous problem who later accompanies them. Sam soon learns that the spell of the sorcerer’s ...

Demons are swarming everywhere and no place is safe. With insurmountable odds stacked against them, the trio attempt to fulfil ancient prophecies and release Bethloria and Galfane from Morgran’s evil grip. But all hope seems lost when Morgran captures Dougray, and Belle and Robbie are under siege. This powerful, fast-paced fantasy series will leave you aching for more. Oracle of the Dragon is the seventh volume in Elizabeth Klein’s Bethloria fantasy series which began with the award-winning Firelight of Heaven.

Dreamscape: Looking for Altheda is a psychological fantasy quest entwined with a wide range of traditional stories and themes that’ll be sure to evoke some genuine scares in young readers. Amid the absurdity of negotiating a fairy tale world that exists inside a wooden chest, the young protagonist, Samuel Flynn, unspools an impossible adventure with heart-racing perils that unfold in the land of Dreamscape. The story takes many turns with humorous situations that’ll surely make readers giggle and gasp right up until the climax when Sam battles it out with an evil queen and saves not ...