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Welcome to the 40-Day Worship Experience, a transformative journey in God’s presence each morning. Mark Jones shares forty devotional thoughts that are designed to be a launchpad for your daily time alone with the Lord. All you need are your Bible, worship music, and a journal to jot down your thoughts. As you spend time in God’s presence, you’ll discover peace, joy, and a real relationship with Him that will change you from the inside out and set each day up for success.

Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again, to get there. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine competition. They brought back a battle cruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they, ultimately, founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

Bienvenido a la Experiencia de Adoración de 40 Días, un viaje personal y transformador en la presencia de Dios cada mañana. El Dr. Mark Jones, autor de Estar con Jesús 365, comparte cuarenta pensamientos devocionales diseñados como un punto de partida para tu tiempo diario a solas con el Señor. Todo lo que necesitas es tu Biblia, música de adoración y un diario para anotar tus pensamientos. A medida que pasas tiempo en la presencia de Dios, descubrirás paz, alegría y una relación fresca con Él que te transformará de adentro hacia afuera y preparará cada día para el éxito.

Caution: Dragons ahead. Prepare to delve into fiery worlds full of dragons. From hatchlings to ancients. From tame to wild. Many have their own goals, and most want to see the world reduced to ash. To reshape the world in their own reptilian image. Others struggle to survive, but heroes rise among them. Which side will you choose? Featuring 25 stories by the following authors: Virginia Babcock, Gemma D. Buell, Mark F. Owens, Virgo Kevontè, Barend Nieuwstraten III, V.L. Jones, Neil A. Wilson, Diana Parrilla, Ana Cordoba, Clara Ngu, J. VanZile, Kiera Kearsey, K.R. Gorham, Larry Hodges, Matt ...

A wolf in gentlemen's clothing tracks his prey. It is 1968, and the secretive Group of 30 has resisted the new Czech regime installed after the Prague Spring. Professor Valentýn Hrubý leads this campus group, fighting for the reforms crushed by Russian tanks. Hrubý keeps lists to help his forgetfulness, and the authorities find one of these lists, one that shows the names of his associates. The new government hires an assassin to track and dispose of the group’s members. Dressed in a three-piece suit and topped by his ever-present black fedora, Karanosz Tasev stalks his prey.

A unique collection of historic recordings covering the events of 1915, from the first Zeppelin raids to the ultimate failure at Gallipoli. In this selection of authentic eyewitness accounts, survivors describe the sinking of the Lusitania; the author Compton McKenzie remembers the Gallipoli disaster; and Violet Bonham Carter pays tribute to Rupert Brooke, who died en route to that campaign.

Junior Detective Henry Ike Pierce is hired to reassess cold-case killings. On the third day of his new job, a dismembered body appears in a local park. The corpse's desecration is like slayings from over two decades ago, and his boss assigns Henry to his first investigation. Henry seeks a killer within a community of rival ethnic groups, refugees from the 1990s Balkan Wars. Rumors point to a killer called "the hooded one". As his investigation unfolds, the young man from Western Virginia's coal country discovers that "trust" has a flexible definition.

In their long-awaited debut, the Map Men bring their highly infectious enthusiasm for everything map-related to the printed page for the very first time, in a brilliantly entertaining and eye-catching tome…

At midnight on 4 August, Britain had declared war on Germany. The pacifist Bertrand Russell was shocked by the pro-war euphoria on the streets, yet young men enlisted willingly because "it would all be over by Christmas". It was not. Instead the opposing armies had become entrenched. It was the beginning of a long and bitter stalemate.

Is fate stronger than a young woman’s desires? Miomir ìl Kurić wants money, power, and to be feared, but unburdened by her past. Her Uncle Karanosz insists she remains a part of their unique family, one which harbors special skills… and connections to evil. Miomir seeks to silence the old knowledge along with those who remember it.

Just when Nicks is settling in to her new life, a routine mission to recover a stolen weapon codenamed Project Starfire turns deadly. Nicks is ambushed, and she and her team suddenly find themselves in the middle of a lethal international conspiracy—stretching from the streets of Los Angeles to the hidden islands of Japan. As the investigation widens, all leads point to a criminal syndicate whose mastermind has a dark connection to Nicks’s past.

Deep research on high-conviction contrarian bets against the market on a stock by stock basis.

Professor Filíp Nekola’s wife dies unexpectedly in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and his troubled teenage foster daughter, Miomir, comes under suspicion. Filíp must protect his two other wards, younger siblings brought to him six years earlier when an assassin, Karanosz Tasev, killed the children’s parents. A detective appears, telling Filíp he has learned of Tasev’s hunt for Miomir.

During a mission to recover a truckload of newly developed ground sensors, Natalie Nicks stumbles upon a more deadly piece of futuristic technology - an autonomous robotic animal that's savagely killing everything in its path - but the Pantherix is just the tip of the iceberg. With her old army friend, Sheriff Brett Diaz, by her side, Nicks uncovers a connection to a new drug cartel with a penchant for state-of-the-art technology - and plans that threaten the security of America’s southern border. Can the vicious El Draco be stopped?

The astonishing story of the critical year 1923—the year when the French illegally and brutally occupied Germany's economic heartland, the Ruhr; when hyperinflation wrought havoc with the German economy and plunged millions into poverty; and when Hitler staged his abortive yet pivotal putsch in a Munich beer hall. This period saw the rise of nationalism as the intra-European consensus broke down, populist rhetoric translated into actual violence on the streets and the forces of liberalism underestimate the strength of their enemies.

The events of the Crucifixion continue to fascinate biblical scholars and artists alike. Amongst the drama of that momentous day was a humble request and the reply that it received, an incident that manages to crystalize something of the essence of Christianity. Dismas - The Penitent Thief: An Introduction seeks to explore what is known of the individual who made that request and discover his story, his significance, and how he continues to inspire others

'We Churchills die at forty,' said Winston in 1908, 'and I want to put something more on the slate before then.' By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full. From his earliest days Churchill was an ambitious character, eager for action. He achieved fame and popularity through his dispatches from the Boer War, and in 1900 was elected MP for Oldham. Until the outbreak of war in 1939 Churchill was loved and loathed in equal measure.

A unique collection of historic recordings covering the events of 1916, from the final evacuation of Gallipoli to the aftermath of the Somme. These fascinating and often poignant firsthand accounts describe the humiliating retreat by Allied forces from Gallipoli, starvation during the Siege of Kut-al-Amara in Mesopotamia, the Easter Rising - viewed from both sides of the Irish divide - and the costly battles of Jutland and the Somme.

Unless we give ourselves permission to thoroughly enjoy our lives and create practical operational ecosystems for our well-being, it will be improbable that we will ever be able to actually do so.

Firsthand accounts by those who planned and took part in the Normandy landings, and eyewitness reports from BBC correspondents travelling with the troops on 6 June, 1944. In 1940, after the evacuation of the British army from Dunkirk, Winston Churchill vowed that Allied Forces would return to "cleanse Europe of the Nazi Pestilence". The logistics of Operation Overlord were daunting, but an inspired campaign of deception successfully diverted Hitler’s attention away from the Normandy beaches until it was too late.