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It is the year 2083. Fifty years ago a miracle drug was developed for patients thirty years old and younger, granting them relative immortality. You had just turned thirty and missed the window.You're now living in a nursing home with the rest of the "dying generation," being cared for by twenty-year old-looking seventy-year olds. It's festivus and the miracle drug's side-effects have finally kicked in. Every worker in the home has collapsed, shriveled into a prune, and become a mindless killing machine. It's up to you to save the nursing home.

The three letters of Paul, written to Timothy and Titus offer tremendous insight into the work of the first century evangelist. This book offers a verse by verse study of those letters, breaking down the text in an easy to follow way.

Frustrated with teaching and seeking a life of adventure, Albert Einstein builds a time machine intending to visit the 19th century and trade places with his natural doppelganger, Mark Twain. Unbeknownst to him, Nazi scientists have secretly been developing their own time travel plans with ambitions to conquer the world two generations earlier using an army of reanimated corpses from the first World War! It's up to the world's greatest scientist to save history, but he's going to need help from a cantankerous writer to do it... This is part three in the Farcical Zombie Trilogy. This is A ...

The final book in the Chumpty Dumpty trilogy begins with a scandalous kidnapping, continues with an innocent (egg)man being framed, and ends with an epic battle between fire magic, ice magic, armies of soldiers, escaped prisoners, and more! The Impossible Quest is what Chumpty is faced with, as he and his friends Art and Betty plunge into the dreaded "Curse'd Woods," where a person's worst fears come to life.Adventure, friendship, comedy, thrills, scares, and more await in the exciting conclusion to the Chumpty Dumpty fairy tale series!

Inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, El Dorado tells the story of a southern American falsely accused, wrongfully convicted, and harshly imprisoned. An oil discovery in Confederate Arkansas promised to make Edward Danvers one of the wealthiest men in the South. Instead, he is framed for treason, arrested, and after a sham of a trial, is sentenced to die in a Confederate Prison in Virginia. In prison, Edward meets a man named Abe Farrow, an elderly veteran of the War of 1812, who knows of a city filled with riches, hidden deep within the Andes Mountains of Colombia. Too old to escape and ...

The town of Helena, Nevada had once been a booming site for gold rushers looking to rest on their way to the Pacific Coast. That was fifty years ago, however, and now Helena is a town on its last legs. No one visits, no one settles, and no one shops, despite the train station and tracks that run right through the heart of their community. Everything changes, however, when out of work Broadway actor Wendell Lodge visits, looking to start a new life. Recruited to bring a little excitement to their sleepy village, Lodge brings a taste of the theatrical to Helena, marketing it to travelers as ...

"You ought to know by now that every town has its secrets. There are three kinds of people: Those who make the secrets, those who keep the secrets, and those who die trying to leak the secrets. There's a secret in that old house. Don't ask me what the secret is. It might be something simple. It might be something truly horrifying. That's for you to figure out..." Arnold Gillespie moves his family back to his childhood home, a place of repressed memories and unresolved trauma. They are not alone. Arnold denies it. His son, Teddy, suspects it. And a semi-retired police officer with ties to ...

The Curse of the Demon Prince is set in the backdrop of a fantastical, alternate-history version of feudal Japan (called Shoto), where honor can be stolen and only returned when and if justice is served. Seven companions (a wizard, a shinobi, two warriors loyal to opposing kings, a peasant that is more than he seems, and a pair of boys from Humao, the Isle of the Dishonored) risk death as they trek across the land of Shoto, seeking a sacred altar. There they hope to perform a sacrifice that will stop a Celtic demon from destroying their island home. Six of them know the truth...and the ...

Paul's two inspired letters to the church at Corinth are explored in this commentary, which studies the text in detail, on a verse-by-verse basis. Both beginners and well-studied readers of the Word of God can find value in this helpful companion to two of the Apostle's great inspired works.

The final epistles of the New Testament a variety of lessons and instruction for readers of all ages. Hodgepodge Holiness is a verse-by-verse study of the letters written by James, Peter, John and Jude. It is designed to help a new student of the Bible better understand these often-under studied books and grow in the wisdom that comes with them.

Now you're a Christian. You've given your life to Christ. Naturally, you have questions. "What have I done?" is a big one. "How do I be a Disciple?" is common. "What if I sin?" is one we all must consider. "How do I study the Bible?" is important to ask. Becoming a Christian is not the end, but the beginning. You have questions (a lot of them). That's okay. The Bible has the answers. Let's talk about it...

This verse-by-verse study of GENESIS takes the reader on a journey spanning over two-thousand years of human history. Man's beginnings in the garden, his first exposure to temptation and sin, the flood of Noah, the call of Abraham, the offering of Isaac, the trials and tribulations of Jacob, and the faithfulness of Joseph, and so much more is brought to life in this study. Fundemental questions that people have asked for ages are answered here: Are we alone? Why are we here? Do we matter? Genesis has the answers, and they point us to the Maker and Master of everything, the One who formed us...

The epic fantasy story begins with a sword in a stone, waiting for its rightful wielder to claim it. While a new Kingdom blossoms in France, an aggressive King, bitter over a secret in his past, campaigns across Europe, determined to see the world to submit to his rule. Two Knights hold his ear, one who swears by a code of valor and another who lives only for bloodshed. Politics, ambition, betrayal and more fill the pages of the first book in the six-part KINGDOM OF ARTHUR series...

The Gospel of John is written with one goal: To show that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God. To do that, John focuses on two key themes: The amazing miracles He did and His atoning death, burial and triumphant resurrection from the grave. The first eleven chapters discuss key miracles He performed during His ministry: Turning water into wine, healing a child near death, healing a paralyzed man, feeding 5,000, walking on water, healing a man born blind, raising a man from death. The final ten chapters focus on Jesus death and life again, as well as the final words He left His Apostles ...

Sebastian J. Mouse was tired of being stuck in a lab. He wanted what every mouse wants: Freedom. Night after night he plotted, day after day he planned, but no matter what he tried, he could never find a way out. Either the lab workers would catch him, or the lab's pet cat would chase him back to his cage. But then, one fateful morning, a new mouse joined the party...except this wasn't a mouse, it was a guinea pig named Ralph. Bigger, stronger, faster than all the other mice in the lab, Sebastian looked at Ralph and knew he'd found his ticket out. There was only one problem...Ralph liked ...

In BILLY RICHMOND AND THE SOMETIMES SCARY FANTASY ADVENTURE, Young Billy Richmond and his friends stumble upon a book hidden away for ages, going back to the days of warlocks, mummies, and other frightening spooksters. Opening the book accidentally set loose a horrible curse and now it’s up to Billy to put the evil back in its leather-bound prison before his town (and possibly the world) goes up in smoke!

After an experiment goes horribly wrong, a brilliant but obsessive scientist spends decades perfecting a way to alter history and correct his mistake. His time-tampering efforts draw the attention of an old rival, who likewise seeks to alter time for his own nefarious purposes. For a Better Yesterday takes readers on a history-bending journey across space and time, and culminates in an ending that defies reality itself!

You do not have to search too intensely to find devotional articles, journal manuscripts, lectureship transcripts, YouTube videos, academic dissertations, and in-depth study books discussing the nature, work, origins, and existence of "The Devil." The enemy of God and man has been a source of discussion for ages. Frustratingly, many discussions place a tremendous amount of focus on extra-Biblical resources, delving deep into secular mythology, ancient poetry, and speculation rooted more in popular culture than in inspired Truth.

Sixteen-year-old albino Drake Stevenson lives a life alone in his world of video games and comic books, dreaming of one day saving a real princess. But fantasy becomes reality when his lawyer father suffers a heart attack, and the Stevensons are forced to move to flyover country in order to take up the family business: stewardship of the oldest and largest cemetery in the state.

A verse by verse commentary on the book of Isaiah (chapters 1-39), taking special care to notice the local circumstances surrounding the writing (the threat of Assyria, the growth of Babylon, the sins of Judah), while allowing the many references to the coming-Christ serve as the sizzle to the steak of the letter.