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On the planet Elystra, the all-female Ixtrayu tribe have thrived, hidden from their world's male-dominated societies for eight centuries. Thirty-five generations of Protectresses have safeguarded their sisters from the men who would destroy them for the Elemental power they wield. But how did it all begin?

This classic text gives a broad overview of the early Christian church, how it was formed, and how it dealt with the Roman empire, which was at first hostile to Christianity, and then under Constantine the Great how it came to embrace the new faith. The author, George Hodges, also examines the many heresies that beset the church from within, and the various figures that would defend the correct definition of the faith.

"I’m a Stranger Here” could be the song title guiding Lizzie Baker’s life. In the five years she spent on Brown Mountain during the Civil War, Lizzie wanted nothing more than to find the light that transported her back in time and return to the 20th century. While fleeing from bushwhackers in 1864, Lizzie, her friend Abbie Collins, and fiancé Josh Hampton encounter a light Lizzie believes is hers. Hoping to get to safety, she pushes Abbie into the light, expecting Josh to follow. She and Abbie wake to find that this is not the Brown Mountain they remember.

It's been a stressful couple of months for Bartender Hope Foster, so her best friend Ruby treats her to an afternoon of holistic pampering with Therapist Pandora Williams. But what should be a relaxing getaway turns into a murder scene when Hope and Ruby stumble across Pandora’s lifeless body in the kitchen next to a killer cocktail. Hope is convinced that the police are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to suspects. But as she digs further into Pandora's past, it's seems she's opening the proverbial box.

Jill O'Leary's December has all the hallmarks of a feel-good holiday special. She's a successful Los Angeles career woman summoned home to small town Ohio to save the family business. There, she'll have to navigate a White Elephant gift exchange, decorate the tree, and meet not one but two tall dark handsome strangers. But it will take a miracle to make this Christmas merry and bright. Jill's baggage is waiting for her at home. When you cross a conventional Christmas plot with Shakespeare's King Lear, you get Unstable Felicity.

Help Is Here: When a Resident Has Dementia is for staff members in senior residences who are caring for residents with dementia. This book is full of examples of situations that happen at senior residences and how to effectively handle those situations.

Behind the walls of respectability is a world exploding with crime, sin, and the darkest magic of all. The rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets. A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but a zombie, a vessel emptied by voodoo sorcery and poured full of another's will. This is the land of lace curtains and Mardi Gras. This is the world of the bayou, and sizzling crawfish, and a man in white who can kill at any distance.

Every organization, regardless of the industry, possesses a hidden operational treasure. It exists everywhere and is embedded in each and every process. Unlike a shiny coin, this raw gold is dull and dirty, providing no reason to be noticed, but it’s there. There are “process jewels” buried deep inside your day-to-day activities - rough and uncut, just below the surface, but they are there. The potential they possess can only be realized when you find them, but their combined value is beyond estimation.

Middle school is all about fitting in, and about not standing out. After all, kids can be cruel. Sophie Devereaux doesn't fit in. She and her two best friends, Marissa and Michelle, are seen as misfits. Things only get worse when Sophie conflicts with Alexis, the most popular girl in school. Ayden Saunders doesn't fit in. Tragedies have caused him to retreat into the shadows, where he watches his classmates from afar and fantasizes about being a superhero. When Ayden overhears a plot to ruin Sophie's life, he knows he can no longer sit on the sidelines.

Russell Mann is one of the brightest young talents in the National Basketball Association, and he’s on the verge of signing a new contract worth $100 million or more. But people close to him keep turning up dead. In the third installment of the best-selling Billy Beckett Series, Billy finds himself representing the troubled star, a young man he has shepherded from the tough streets of the Bronx to the bright lights of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. Despite Billy’s guidance, violence seems to stalk Russell at every turn.

In my practice, I work with people who are struggling every day. They all have their battles. Some of them are miserable because of obsessive fears that prevent them from getting out of their homes. Some are convinced they have to become skinny if they want someone to love them. Some believe they are fighting for their lives during terrible attacks, which are just panic episodes. And I get it. I understand them all. Some of them tell me, "You don't get it. You can't understand what I'm going through." But I do. I really do. Because I've been there, done that.

Although Lizzie Baker wants nothing more than to return to her time 110 years in the future, she remains stuck on Brown Mountain, NC, during the time of the Civil War - the bloodiest conflict in American history. An abolitionist, Lizzie lives in a state that has seceded from the Union and finds herself, as a woman of that era, unable to protect slaves being mistreated by their plantation owners, as well as women who suffer at the hands of their husbands, without rights or laws to protect them.

You wouldn’t think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of millions of miles distant, would have anything to do with each other. When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor’s tool shed and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through. You wouldn’t think that the serial murders of children and the one who got away would have any connection with the strange fate of one of Jupiter’s moons.

Amazon best-selling author Allyson Hodge presents the remarkable findings of the impact of minimalism on our mental health and how to incorporate it into our daily lives. Based on her expertise of over 15 years of working with clients as well as her personal experience of transformation from a sufferer of anxiety and panic attacks to a perfectly healthy and satisfied individual, Allyson answers the question: How can minimalism impact our mental health?

This is a short book - it's just a story. Life is like that...a series of stories. In the end, when you listen to the last few words and finish the book, you've taken a journey, and if it's a good book, you'll be happy you did!

We each inhabit many worlds, often at the same time. From worlds on the inside to the world on a cosmic scale. Worlds imposed on us, and worlds of our own making. In time, though, all worlds will end. With Skidding Into Oblivion, his fifth collection, award-winning author Brian Hodge brings together his most concentrated assortment yet. It includes all of the best picks and awards finalists. All stories have one thing in common: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we don’t feel fine at all.

Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its fourth annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2018 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos. Salud! Sleep well. If you can.

A collection of 13 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California fish and game wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.

A collection of 13 award winning short stories the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.

Help Is Here: When Someone You Love Has Dementia is written specifically for family caregivers of people who have dementia. Both a notebook and guide, Help is Here provides practical problem solving techniques as well as vital information about dementia that will benefit both the patient and the caregiver.