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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always said that enslaved women were not involved, but Rebecca decides to look deeper.

Some secrets aren’t meant to be uncovered. Some are meant to survive the end of the world. When Ethan Hawthorne stumbles onto the real purpose of the Bohemian Grove, he becomes the one man alive who knows what the powerful have planned—and what they’re willing to do to keep it hidden. His evidence vanishes into the shadows of an old intelligence network… and so does he. Thousands of miles away, Brad Turing—veteran SIGINT officer and guardian of America’s continuity-of-government system—receives a codeword he’s never seen before: CERBERUS.

In this star-studded audiobook commissioned specially for audio, Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s narration is woven together with powerfully acted scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the speeches and writing of Lincoln, Emerson, and others, bringing the Civil War to dazzling, authentic new life. Riveting dialogue, personal letters, and the infamous Lincoln-Douglas debates reverberate with powerful relevance today.

Famous Catfish Stew is a timeless story of a young veterinarian (author) and an aging mentor, replete with Southern traditions. As the knife-making skill is taught, life lessons are learned, and a way of life is shared. This mentor, Mr. Andrews, is a craftsman with an artistic eye, but his eye for beauty transcends the material side.

Breaking the Cycle is a bold statement to a lost generation that lends to the strength of the phrase “Train up a Child”! With our young people being bombarded by images of violence and sex on a daily basis, this workbook is designed to help them develop the type of biblical foundation that will stand the test of time. When you build on the foundation of God’s word, not compromising to win popularity, the results in that person’s life can only be describe as power. Breaking the grip of sin requires the power of God, and only God can break this cycle of sin we’re in!

Man Made by Grace is a play on the concept of how to become a man of God and the grace that God has given to man. Acknowledging Christ in 1993 was a decision that at the time I believed that I did on my own, for myself, but nothing could have been farther from the truth. It is and was the awesome love of God that drew me into awareness of the need, but it was the foundation of love that prepared me for his grace.

A selection of short stories from the Brothers Grimm and Rudyard Kipling.

The most iconic love story of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an epic-scale tragedy of desire and revenge. Despite the bitter rivalry that exists between their families, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have fallen madly in love. But when the long-running rivalry boils over into murder, the young couple must embark on a dangerous and deadly mission to preserve their love at any cost. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Calista Flockhart as Juliet.

An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840s Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.

In the quiet Northwoods of Wisconsin, Dalton Grinder was looking for a fresh start. What he found was a town on the edge of collapse, with riots, lawlessness, and enemies closing in from the shadows. When violence erupts inside the small town of Birchwood, Dalton makes a choice that changes how the community sees him forever. No longer just the outsider, he becomes a protector, a man willing to stand between Birchwood and the dangers pressing in.

With the death of one of their own weighing on the Reaper’s minds, the harassment from Major Reece and his army of primals becomes more than Priest can take. His ambition to end Reece’s reign of terror begins to conflict with Webb’s focus on supporting Dr. Costa and the search for a cure. The indecision of what to do next leaves the two leaders divided. Not seeing eye to eye on what is important, the Light Reapers split into two factions: Team Webb continues the work with Sawyer to make progress on a cure. Team Priest believes no peace can be achieved until Reece and his army are destroyed.

Dalton Grinder's life had unraveled in a brutal series of blows. First, the Army cast him aside. Then, his wife walked out, leaving him with nothing but the hollow echo of a once-shared life. As if that wasn't enough, his last remaining relative—his grandfather—passed away, closing the final chapter of his family history. Born and bred in the heat and humidity of Florida, Dalton now finds himself heading north to the cold, unforgiving woods of Wisconsin to settle his grandfather’s affairs. But fate isn't done with him yet.

Brand Wright, a retired spy and his friend Bubba battle many enemies including The First People, Big Bill, Dragonfly plus others. The pyramid under the Antarctic ice was unlike any other on Earth. Unfortunately impossible to enter, until Brand and his team arrived. What does Red Mercury, the Philosopher's Stone and Mars have in common? Who is the Queen of Mars?

On a near-future New Year’s Eve, a disabled, malfunctioning UFO tumbles through the atmosphere and almost collides with Central Pacific Airlines Flight 855. Both ditch in the Pacific Ocean. Alone and floating in a raft, Central Pacific pilot Kup Winston decides to swim with sharks to save the life of the alien commander of the UFO he almost hit. He soon regrets his act of compassion when he learns that Earth is about to become the dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of convicts from an overcrowded alien world that has socially engineered itself out of options.

After unexpected adventures while helping DPREM determine the fate of a research submersible lost off the coast of a Hawaiian island, Logan returns home. With two demons and a homicidal elf still at large, Logan certainly has enough to worry about. After a day of exploring other worlds with his friends, he heads west with his leprechaun mentor to pursue an emergent clue that might lead to one of the demons. While the evidence is slight, it can't be ignored. Luckily for Logan, he finds groups of magic users eager to help him at every turn in his journey.

After a demon is narrowly defeated (in FUHAMMER, book one of this series), everyone wants to know how it overcame defenses that had held for over a thousand years. Logan investigates the scattered clues with the help of the fairies and leprechauns. Many findings don’t seem to fit how magic is supposed to work. Perhaps this was a one-time anomaly, never to be repeated or understood.

In his third novel, France explores the world from a new angle, delving into the emotional entanglement and self-discovery of a character with an addictive personality, searching for a way to fulfill the impulses that govern his life. When his best friend moves away the summer before his junior year, he loses the one person who keeps him grounded, and he spirals onto a dark path. As time passes, he realizes he's not only been hiding his inner demons from those he loves but also from himself.

Follow Brand Wright, a retired spy, with his friends Hector and Bubba as they battle and try to outwit 4 different enemies. Each story is complete within itself but builds on the last. The Demon seemed eternal and just having fun dishing out destruction - How can it be stopped?

Logan Bridges starts his day in a sleepy rural town with a few chores that have been hanging on his “to do” list for too long. Then he accidently discovers that magic is real. Initially this is just an incredible oddity. But before he can decide what to do with his discovery, his world starts changing, slowly at first but then faster. Soon events threaten to spiral out of control.

The Reptilian species, which has remained hidden for thousands of years, has now infiltrated every major government on the planet. They’ve decided that it's time to take back their world. This means that They wish to eradicate every human from the face of the planet. The children of the old gods, however, do not wish to allow this to happen and join the humans in stopping the reptilians.