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Lucius Coelius Felix has everything a Roman nobleman could desire—wealth, honor, a retinue of clients, and the chance to rise at last into elite society in Antioch-near-Pisidia (a Roman colony in central Turkey). All he lacks is a sound body. When a mysterious illness robs him of his strength, he turns to the Greek healing god Asklepios, journeying hundreds of miles to his sanctuary at Pergamon in search of a miracle.

So just what does a cargo broker do? Quite simply, a cargo broker is a person or a business, which brings together a shipper with products to transport with a licensed motor carrier, which wishes to supply that service. A freight broker falls into the class of transportation intermediary, which will be a business which is neither a shipper nor an asset-owning carrier, but plays a vital part in the motion of cargo.

Petra, a young, carefree wild horse, after a life-changing event, finds out that she is not like any of the other horses - she has wings! Disoriented and seemingly disadvantaged, Petra wishes that she could be just like everyone else. But with the help of her friends and family, Petra learns how to use her wings for the good of her herd, and learns that it is okay to be different!

In this short introduction, Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson, two theologians who care deeply about the witness of ordinary Christians and the ministry of the church, show what theology is, what tools theology uses, why every believer (advanced degrees or not) is a theologian, and how the theological enterprise can be productive and satisfying. Their clear, easily understood book is ideal for students, church study groups, and individual Christians who want to strengthen understanding, belief, and commitment by coming to know God more fully.

What pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know about modern medicine.... It seems like every time we turn around, there is a new "wonder drug" on the market. We've become conditioned to ignore the lengthy list of side effects at the end of medication ads. Why then, are people still suffering from the pains and illnesses these medications claim to fix? We'd like to think medicine and greed cannot coexist, but we have all had to pay for exorbitantly priced treatments that cost corporations a few pennies to make.

You think you’re doing everything right. You switched to whole-grain varieties, you avoid red meat, and you only buy low-fat dairy products. Most nutritionists and dietary experts would congratulate you on doing a great job. But what they don’t know (or pretend to not know) is that such “healthy” diets may harm your body immensely and can cause a spectrum of inflammatory diseases.

Karen Stanley spent eight years raising two kids by herself, while running a business and struggling to find real love. After years of frustration, Karen had a breakthrough. She knew something had to change. She realized she needed to cultivate self-worth and self-confidence if she wanted to reach her goals, and when she did this for business it started with a strategic plan - one with easy-to-implement, actionable steps. Could a plan like this work for building self-worth?

Cathar Blood offers a taut recount of one of the bloodiest moments in the Earth's religious history. Dirty dealings by a Pope and a King led to the savage annihilation of an entire culture with the 4th Crusade. Cathar Blood offers a victim's view of the rampant subterfuge that had fathers sending sons and daughters to the pyre. This is a love story framed by knightly virtue and lust. Once begun, Cathar Blood is a fast action-filled romp to an unexpected conclusion.

She was ready for a change when her life took an unexpected turn, but she had no way of knowing her sanity escape to the scenic hamlet of Glacier would mean putting her hobby into practice. How did her uncle's pastry baker end up dead in her freezer? And how can she prove her barista uncle had nothing to do with the cold-blooded murder?

Divorce or the death of a dream can sometimes be as devastating as the death of a loved one. This book wasn’t written to encourage or discourage divorce, but to help people who are going through it to realize that it’s OK if this is how you feel. Divorce is complicated. Some may rejoice while others feel like they just lost their best friend. There is no “one size fits all”, and it’s OK to grieve. My parents got divorced when I was twenty years old and it has been the single most traumatic event in my life.

After a hiking accident, Sauerwein was in a nearly comatose state for two years. During this time, his wife died and, miraculously, he began to recover. On regaining consciousness, he was overcome with guilt for not being present with her at her death. He resolved to contact her on the other side.

Tesla called it his Death Ray. Before he died he hid the secret to his super weapon in an engraving sent to his illegitimate grand daughter. Now, decades later, a black ops group using HAARP technology to employ their version of his weapon, is close to discovering the secret frequency. So is a competing Russian science cabal that has tested their own system and caused deadly earthquakes. Both realize using the wrong frequency could destroy the Earth but the attractive power of the penultimate death ray is too enticing.

Multi-Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Shane Stanley writes a book anyone and everyone should hear if they want an entertainment industry insider's professional guidance on how to create a movie. This book is an especially invaluable tool for those who have or plan to, attend a college or university film school. It's your complete guide to (independent) filmmaking.

A cunning and formidable lawbreaker, Bill Miner spent half his life behind bars and the other half planning ways to execute his crimes. Billy used his robberies to fuel his love of fancy clothes, expensive restaurants, and wild nights in brothels. Or to fund his version of the high life he enjoyed, when he could play the role of a wealthy mining mogul lavishly entertaining, enticing, and seducing young men.

Purple Daffodils is a book of treasures. Small, short stories that sing to your heart; vignettes that squeeze profound thoughts from a few words.

Margaret Lally Murray came to Canada in a homemade dress with pictures of cowboys she might marry. But instead of a quiet prairie existence, she found a life filled with politics, printer's ink, and possibilities always vergin' on the verge. She was a 100 percent emancipated woman and British Columbia's first and most memorable female publisher.

There has never been a con-man trickster in American history as devious, or as likeable, as Randolph "Soapy" Smith. He was a sociopath with a smile that could melt the hardest heart. He was a man without a conscience, a natural criminal quite willing to steal from the hapless poor and the greedy rich with an equally shameless eagerness. Soapy’s only measure of man was the wallet he could empty from the day he learned how to cheat at cards, hide the pea in a shell game, or invent a scam.

An adventurer in the truest sense, Joe Whiteside Boyle never turned from a challenge. He blazed the White Pass to the Yukon before gold seekers flooded the hills, boxed with a world heavy weight champion, and made millions selling lumber and dredging creeks in the Klondike. In World War I, he paid is own way to Europe to spy for the British, helped the Russians with their revolution, rescued the Romanian crown jewels on a stolen treasure train, lunched with the King of England, and spanked a prince.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so, too. Listen to Miniatures: A Little Book of Poems and enjoy this short book of poignant poems.

When Sophie, a beautiful 16-year-old girl, is found sequestered in a cage-like room, she can recall only the red flag at the end of her drive and the warnings about a curse. She has known only a desolate and snowy home. Her new relatives, whom she had never met, insist on calling call her Callidora, and she wonders why they insist on calling her by this strange new name.