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Robots are in. Humans are out. Can one teenager steal her way to a better future?Pen Davis just lost her internship to a robot. As supercomputers take over all the jobs in the world, the lonely teen doesn't see a future. Desperate to escape the coming robo-pocalpyse, she devises a plot to steal millions from her former boss. It's payback for laying her off, and the only way Pen can see how to scrape together enough cash to survive.But her plan...

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What might reconciliation and forgiveness mean in relation to various forms of personal, structural, and historical violence across the African continent? This volume of essays seeks to engage these complex, and contested, ethical issues from three different disciplinary perspectives - Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology and Practical Theology. Each of the authors reflected on aspects of reconciliation, forgiveness and violence from within t...

One day while driving, Todd Salzman drifted toward a bridge abutment-fully ensnared in the dragon's grip. An outside observer would have been shocked, because he was at the top of his personal and professional career. Deep down, however, he could barely take hold of his own life, and the realization that he almost took it drove him to seek help. In this guide to slaying the dragon, he gives the reader a glimpse into the often unknown and compl...

It's the summer of '63, and eight-year-old Mercy Walker struggles with a disturbing truth -her best friend, Laura, is living a terrible secret. Mercy's goal is to help rescue her friend. But then her parents announce they are moving in with her ailing grandparents, and Mercy will be sent to live with three elderly aunts. Now all hope for Laura is lost. After arriving at the Aunts' house, Mercy discovers a world of oddball characters. Two of th...

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Johann Gunther is a German immigrant, a West Point graduate, ex-US Army officer and former Texas lawman. He fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American War in 1898 and in the Great Game in Afghanistan in 1906. Now Gunther, with the help of his life-long friend Jefe, runs Remedies Detective Agency. During a routine mission to purchase guns for a security job, Gunther, Jefe, and the Whittle boys head to Tremboro, Texas, near the Rio...

What is the link, if any, between race and disease? How did the term baster as 'mixed race' come to be mistranslated from 'incest' in the Hebrew Bible? What are the roots of racial thinking in South African universities? How does music fall on the ear of black and white listeners? Are new developmentsin genetics simply a backdoor for the return of eugenics? For the first time, leading scholars in South Africa from different disciplines take on...

That Magical Horror Light Show Continues!Willow, Georgia and Emma have accidentally wrapped both Tillie and Aaron into their magical girl shenanigans much to their chagrin. However, things seem to be getting even harder to keep quiet as these magical powers have turned from intriguing to infectious. Between daylight daydreams, tanking a track star, bathroom breakdowns and betrayal from within - our quarreling quintet might be in bigger trouble...

Der kleine Eisdrache Maximo und seine beste Freundin Mia, das Glühwürmchen, leben im "Wald der tausend Möglichkeiten". Die beiden schlafen jede nacht unter der Aufsicht von Herrn Mond, behütet in den Armen der geschichten-Bäume. Jede Nacht bringen sie ihnen atemberaubende Geschichten, die die beiden gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden, den anderen Waldbewohnern, erleben dürfen. Dabei bewältigen sie Abenteuer, finden neue Freunde, entdecken ihre Wel...

Madison Links, Hallie Jonshire, and Jamie Benson are the best of friends-that is, until troublemaker Taylor Nelson shows up. After Madison's journal is discovered by Taylor, the girls' relationship is tested. Will their friendship survive? Will Madison overcome her jealousy of Taylor? Read along as Madison pours her heart out to God in hopes of mending the situation before it's too late.

A missing shipment of drugs, an underground ring of camgirls, and the Knights of Satan motorcycle club are all caught in a tangle of deals gone bad with one thing in common: Bree Wells, a small-town teenager who recently vanished into the summer night.When Deputy Meg Shaw finds a connection between the missing girl and a murdered backwoods drug dealer, she fears the worst. As she follows Bree's trail, she enters a web of exploitation and viole...

As the basis for the popular James Bond stories, Sidney Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy - but was he also a Soviet double-agent? Author John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail-and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925...

What happens when a girl from the slums dares to dream? She bags an engineering degree and an executive education from Harvard Business School, she becomes a leader in the telecommunications industry, and she mentors other girls and women to do the same.In Be Fearless: Give Yourself Permission to Be You, Jane Egerton-Idehen draws from her more than 15 years of experience as a telecommunication executive in West Africa to help women build lasti...

The Protestant Reformation was a very important event in history. This book's goal is to prayerfully open hearts and minds to understanding the biblical foundation for this event, by taking a look at each of the five solas through the lens of the Christ-centered Scriptures. The teachings of the Protestant Reformation are still important today.

Born in the Bronx, Jorge Tellado, aka Geo/Envelopecityink, found art through his older brother and then turned his passion into an escape from his troubled youth and the streets and turmoil that would surround him. His art is a colorful pallet of expressions, both surreal and illuminating. Filled with hidden messages, the mind is allowed to wander off to another world, another place in time to interpret things the way one wishes to see it. Emo...

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When Ted-D's daddy wants to take Ted-D and Momma to the park to play on Ted-D's birthday, Ted-D doesn't want to go. Why? Because this is the first time ever that Ted-D will be celebrating his birthday without Grandma and Grandpa. With a little talk from his friend, Alec-the-Cat, Ted-D tries his best at being a "big boy" and goes to the park with his parents.At the park, Ted-D begins to understand that when we lose someone we love, either throu...

This engaging tale takes us on a journey with an executive in a multinational corporation, who, along with her team, had to skillfully navigate what seemed to them insurmountable challenges and difficulties in a corporate culture ripe with lust, deceit, greed and an insatiable desire for power. The story follows the obstacles they encountered and details how the characters employed biblical principles, corporate strategies, and academics to re...