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Dark days are looming.Human behavior will be adversely influenced unless the Lower Middle can prevent it. The Higher Middle, with its dark menacing leader, is growing in power, while Jon still doubts his own true purpose. He becomes more and more distant as all the women close to him die, filling him with more doubt, remorse, and uncertainty.The Higher Middle must be defeated if the balance between good and evil is to be maintained, but the Lower Middle's numbers are dwindling and they desperately need Jon, who has disappeared.To fulfil her ultimate goal in securing victory, Zelphur is putting the final touches on her master plan. Her people are in place, she has unlimited resources at her disposal, and she is wielding her power recklessly. Only the Lower Middle is standing in her way, and they are proving difficult to track down and trap, even when located by her network.Only a final face-to-face battle will decide the outcome, so Zelphur set her traps for Jon's remaining group, which they deliberately walk into. Desperate times called for desperate measures and all defenders are needed. Will Jon show up to help?This final novel in a science fiction trilogy is based on historical facts.(About the Author)David Higgins grew up and worked in London for the UK's Ministry of Defense, has lived in Germany and Saudi Arabia, and now works as director of compliance for an eye care company in Texas. Holding a master's degree in health economics, he will shortly retire to France.

Kenneth Bragan believes Christianity is approaching a time of change, one that is under pressure from changing world views. The religion is changing from a largely belief-based faith to one that is more experience-based."I present Thomas Merton as an exemplar of the latter and Laurence Freeman as an advocate of meditative Christianity, which increases in importance as it receives support from developments in neuroscience. These new directions may well bring much needed renewal," he states.The retired psychiatrist wrote New Directions Towards Christian Renewal because he feels that Christianity is no longer doing what it has the potential to do."This latter mode, that of natural spirituality (standing in contradistinction to supernatural spirituality), is the very future of a Christianity that engages with exegesis and matters of faith without the myopia of literalism, instead allowing for the allegorical and poetic dimensions of scripture to rush forward unfettered by the limitations of historical inexactitudes taken as dogma. Kenneth Bragan brilliantly and persuasively sets forth this new paradigm with rigorous scholarship, biblical analysis, and the passion of the faithful. New Directions Towards Christian Renewal is a remarkable and inspiring work, a piece that is both radically insightful and undoubtedly trailblazing." - Charles Asher, reviewer(About the Author)Born in a small coal mining town near Newcastle, England, Kenneth Bragan now resides in New Zealand, "one of earth's most beautiful places."

When a baby left by her nanny outside the local village co-op store is snatched from its pram, the only potential witness is Mary Mundy, an ex-mental patient discharged from the old asylum.Mary has spent her entire life institutionalised after being admitted for a pregnancy when she was a young girl and is now living in the community in warden-aided accommodation.Is it a chance abduction?The baby is Phoebe Devonshire, the long-awaited only child of Bernard Devonshire, a wealthy building developer, suspected by many of shady practices. He seems more concerned that Chief Inspector Mike Harvey's investigation into his daughter's disappearance is more of an intrusion into his own life than a necessity to find his child.That Bernard has a violent temper is witnessed by his attack on his wife, one intercepted by Detective Sergeant Brendon Flannery, who has zero tolerance for violence against women.Bernard Devonshire may have unscrupulous business contacts, but he also has friends in high places, and is determined to cause as much trouble for Flannery as he possibly can; although reporting his wife and nanny missing soon backfires, turning the whole investigation into a murder hunt, with some surprising results.Author Bio:British crime author Pat McDonald has lived her entire life in Nottinghamshire, England. She previously worked in law enforcement and mental health services. This is her ninth book.

At the beginning of time, a supernatural being was spawned and she oversaw the creation of the universe. A series of environmental disasters and protonic wars have ruined the planet Zula. A space station was built to house a select group of survivors. The scientists on the space station develop new technologies, which are used to build a new spaceship. Also developed is D-stasis, a process for extending hibernation indefinitely, which could facilitate travel over intergalactic distances.When the space station is attacked by aliens, the only way to save a group of children is to launch them in the new spaceship, which has been programmed to search for a habitable planet. The mysterious spirit - Leaffe - intervenes.After a voyage of 20,000 light years, they awaken from D-stasis in a solar system consisting of nine planets and a small sun. The ship is near an ice planet, which is obviously uninhabitable. An accident with a 3-D model prompts a plan to blow up a moon, which should lead to the planet being moved to a warmer orbit. Radio contact through a black hole has enabled the receipt of messages transmitted from the space station Haven, and possible transport, giving them hope of seeing their families in the future.Their system of hibernation allows the travellers to periodically observe the planet's geological and evolutionary changes over long periods, without themselves aging. The planet is seeded with a variety of life forms, whose evolution leads to some interesting and dangerous adventures.

ABOUT THE AUTHORJim Davidson is a Christian businessman and a native of Gould in Southeast Arkansas. His career as a public speaker, author, and motivational consultant has spanned more than forty-five years. Some of his many awards and achievements include: Arkansas Salesman of the Year, Chairman of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce's Diamond Club sales organization, Justice of the Peace in Pulaski County, Chairman of Speakers Bureau of the Pulaski County United Way, Leadership Gavel recipient as voted by members of his Dale Carnegie Class, and honorary member of the DECA & GCE Clubs of Arkansas. He has also been presented with the "Good Neighbor Award" by the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce and is the 2010 "Distinguished Service Award" winner for Conway Public Schools. In November 2013, Jim was given a Senate Citation and the Conway Community Service Award by Senator Jason Rapert during a ceremony at the Faulkner County Library.In 1980, Jim began writing and producing a daily radio program titled "How to Plan Your Life." It has been broadcast by over 300 radio stations coast to coast and heard by thousands of people each weekday. Later, in 1995, he also began writing a weekly newspaper column for his hometown newspaper, the Log Cabin Democrat, in Conway, Arkansas. With over 375 newspapers in thirty-five states running his column since its inception, it is believed to be the most successful self-syndicated column in the history of American journalism. Jim was a staunch member of the Conway Noon Lions Club for over 20 years, holding every leadership position and winning all their awards, including twice being named a Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest award in Lionism. He also served as Chairman of the Annual Golf Tournament and the Harlem Ambassador Fundraiser Event.Publisher's website: http://sbprabooks.com/JimDavidson

Silver Stars and Lucky Stripes: A Collection of Poems is a religious experience. The poetry is all about enlightenment, empowerment, and inspiration.Says author Novene Thomas, "The Bible is a blessing, inspiration, reassurance, and the holistic biblical words heal and comfort me always. Hallelujah!"Author Bio:Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, Novene Thomas lived many years on the East Coast and now resides in Alaska. This is her first book of rhyming literature. It was inspired by her reading of the Bible, biblical textbooks, and other religious books.

Curious to know more about how and why life began on Earth, as well as your reason for being here?If so, you will enjoy this ultimate introspective book of knowledge, Connecting to Life's Compass: You're not lost - you just think you are, which provides an introduction about the universe and how life began.Life's Compass is truly a compass, offering a journey of going back, to go forward. It will help you to remember, taking you to the energy source of all life, past the flesh and bones to the reality of what life really means.We have been searching for the meaning of life, but first we have to be able to "understand" fully what the meaning of life encompasses.The truth lies in each and every one of us, but it is buried deep inside. This is where the treasures, stories, and mysteries of life lie.The truth is in the core of our soul, of everyone, and everything. The core is infinite and everywhere. It is in everything that you see separate from you, in every particle, and in every cell, because in material, nothing is left out.Author Bio:Dee Weldon Bird is a psychic medium. She lives with her family in Essex, England. This is her second book.

Rose Bretano's world has fallen apart. Not only does her boyfriend leave, but the pillars of her working world also crumble. Unexpectedly gifted with a temporary, out-of-the-ordinary love experience, Rose's life takes a twist. She sets out to find meaning, not aware that her life has become a microcosm of a world in transition.Caught in a tug-of-war between her old world and a new one, she faces the ups and downs of a pioneer. When the pull threatens to tear her apart, Rose exiles herself from democracy. Leaving Germany for England, she spends happy years as a writer, but then her money runs out. Cut short from her life as an artist and unable to merge back to her old life, she's confronted with a devastating decision.Jeff Wagner, a good-looking American, who's divorced, a thwarted poet and journalist, crosses her path and tries to liberate Rose from her fate. She refuses, but leaves him her manuscript with the words, "Read, and if you still think you can help, come back!"On a quest to find the key to Rose's heart, Jeff must first confront his own past. "True liberation for women implies the liberation of men," he reads. It dawns on him that Rose's betterment requires his own evolution. Can he live up to the hopes of a woman equipped with a road map for the future? And, will he agree to the changing role for men in the dawning era of women?About the Author: Insa Rose Vermeeren describes her novel as the outcome of a two-decade growth process. The first-time author is a self-imposed exile from democracy.

We ask of both ourselves and of our traditions, how does anxiety work? Why does it assail us in this or that place, but never in all places all at once? It is at once the Nothing of the existentialists, but it is more than that. Since it seems all too easy to be more than nothing, we need to immediately note that a capital "N" in Nothing is quite something after all. It is the very ardor of all that we never had; yet more so, all that we never could have. The zero sum of our failed endeavors is what we carry around within ourselves. The question of how anxiety works and does not work is at the very heart of the human experience. This is the question that is the subject of this book.Social philosopher G.V. Loewen is the author of over thirty-five books on ethics, education, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysical fiction. He was a professor of the interdisciplinary human sciences for two decades.History has replaced morality. Not in point-to-point substitution, but in that something could be timeless, either in principle or practice. It's likely that the old anxiety concerning one's "fate" is now itself a mask. It is interesting to imagine that a metaphysical source of angst can be more comforting than a quotidian one. We are most intolerant of anyone who seeks to be as we are and have what we have, yet this too remains somehow a throwback to the previous age of caste, child chattel, and misogyny, so the soteriological sensibility remains compelling. It is, if anything, a much larger mystery than it was before. Now, and for the first time, we must save ourselves.Praise for the author's 2015 book Place Meant; hermeneutic landscapes of the spatial self: "The book concludes with an ontology of man, a space where the possibility seduces the fundamental aspect of humanity by restricting it to a social climate. The contemporaneity is reigned by inaction, it can spawn a holocaust where the aspiration is to take over the liability of the other. The hermeneutic autotopology develops its compass capacity in a world of meanings."

The booklet Soul Disclosure: 100% Access presents an overview into the future, while at the same time looks back at life on Planet Earth, at the collective whole in the present.Dee Weldon Bird's two previous books are Connecting to Life's Compass: You're not lost - you just think you are! and The Map of The Universe: A Traveler's Guide.Her book Connecting to Life's Compass will take you back to the past when life on Earth began, which leads to The Map of the Universe, a traveler's guide that brings you to the present shift, which some call the new paradigm.All three books may appear to be separate, but only when pieced together can you see the bigger picture of our connection to the universe.This handy keepsake guide was written for any soul, whether reading it from the past, the present, or the future, never forgetting who you are now.Author Bio:Dee Weldon Bird is a psychic medium who lives with her family in Essex, England. This is her fourth book.

The Map of the Universe: A Traveler's Guide is being published in connection with another of author Dee Weldon Bird's books, Connecting to Life's Compass - You're not lost you just think you are, which introduced Earth's past history and why we are here.The Map of the Universe explains why so many changes are occurring on Earth and in our lives personally, often called a shift or a new paradigm.Are you ready to remember the knowledge of the universe and what it means to have a soul?These remarkable books represent your own traveler's guide to the universe, with valuable information to understand not only the past and present, but a bigger picture of the future.You will remember who you are not just physically, but infinitely.The author's newly published booklet Soul Disclosure: 100% Access also presents an overview into the future, and at the same time looks back at life on Planet Earth, and at the collective whole in the present.The three publications continue the journey of sharing the universe in all its wisdom and knowledge, although each book can be read individually. But when pieced together, they show the bigger picture of our connection to the universe.Author Bio:Dee Weldon Bird is a psychic medium who lives with her family in Essex, England. This is her third book.

A life form was trapped, nearly burned out of existence. Transported from a warzone to this earth, different timeline, it was infused with human DNA to be raised as human to survive. It grew rapidly, more rapidly than geneticists had expected. Yet, it was aware, just unsure of current surroundings in an alien culture. It was rescued too soon from healing crèche for it to reconstruct complete memory of existence but could learn, adapt. Always had. She was female, pleasingly; it felt right. She was called Katherine, here, a human designation. Ironically, even different, the only obstacle apparent was her difficulty in vocally copying human speech. Even instinctually understanding all languages, here or elsewhere, this human English with its double meanings of words was befuddling.In growing, learning rules, she's drawn to a dark professor, feeling kinship despite opposite color of outer shell. He's not rebuffed by her vocal disability as are others! He learns signing to communicate, yet actually understands her sounds of high-pitched chirrups. She feels closely interconnected with him-she knows his scent, feels she found her rightfully chosen mate after all this time. She feels his thoughts. He truly loves her even against his learned human nature! Details didn't matter; they'd relearn, together ... but something went wrong. These human creatures were still mucking about the timeline ... again. Raised in Michigan, Susan Katrinka Butler resides in Lakeland, Florida. She's an accountant for the present; though other careers have led to some unique stories. She's writing yet another novel, perhaps a variant into another world?

During the 1950s and '60s, Buddy McLean had the reputation as the toughest man walking the streets of Boston. Hundreds challenged him. No one could take him.In the same time span, the young truck driver/longshoreman from Somerville began building a criminal enterprise. Years later, it became known as the Winter Hill Gang. In 1961, Buddy faced confrontation with the ruthless and violent McLaughlin brothers of nearby Charlestown. When he wouldn't concede to them, a feud started. More than sixty people died.From those who knew Buddy McLean best, this is his life story.(About the Author)Larry Leavitt once lived in Everett, Massachusetts, close to Somerville, where Buddy McLean lived. He had relatives in Somerville who were friendly with Buddy. The author currently lives in Peabody, Massachusetts, where he teaches physical education in the public-school system. He is married, and has a daughter and two sons. This is his first book.

Ellen Groovy is an actress, and she improvises her life, which reads like a B-movie.She is a mother who adds products into shops without telling anybody. She is haunted by a mysterious purple woman. She has been to the future, which is west of Bacchus Marsh, and to the past, to the origins of fast food.She makes many friends, and even her enemies really like her. She would love to meet you!About the Author: Othniel Poole lives near the sea, southeast of Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys bushwalking, writing, music, and history. This is his eleventh book. "Bacchus Marsh is a suburb of Melbourne, and features in Ellen Groovy, the future being west of there, according to the text. I started writing this story in 2006 and was inspired by B-movies from the 1950s, like Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space," and from my Dad's sense of humour. I would make jokes going to movies, and a lot of the jokes are in this book. I also used to look up the history of businesses, and history of man. It all paid off."

"Beware the time the golden mist seeks you; For one of you shall taste of death and you shall not return." This was the warning of the Great Hobber to the Children of Earth many years ago.The warning came with David and Tanya's first visit to the Lands of the Adoni. Now young adults, the mist seeks them out on this visit. But when they arrive in Dula, they find Queen Dianna missing.The Children of Earth are called into the Lands of the Adoni just as the Last Trumpet sounds upon the earth and the Rapture takes place. David and Tanya must assume the throne and prepare the kingdom for all-out war with their long-time enemy, Magar, and the Dark Lord himself, to prepare the way for The Return of the Adoni.As they assume their final roles as the Steward/Stewardess of the throne of Dula, they discover as many enemies within the walls of the palace as without. Assuming the throne was easy, but holding the throne may cost them their lives. Can they hold it until the Adoni return?This is the sixth and final book of the Dulan Archives series.Author Bio : Dennis Knotts lives with his wife and their daughter, Shalom, in Riverside, California. This is his eleventh book.

How to Kill Your Batman uses the character Batman to help heal male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.Using material from his previous award-winning self-help book, Heroes, Villains, and Healing: A Guide for Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Using D.C. Comic Superheroes and Villains, author Kenneth Rogers Jr. this time focuses on the character Batman, to help male survivors understand the pitfalls of hypervigilance after being sexually abused.The trauma of childhood sexual abuse is related to the childhood trauma in Batman's story, when a young Bruce Wayne witnesses the death of his parents. In the first part of the book, the author explores the term "Boy Code" and the societal norms of being a "real" man.In part two, the harms of hypervigilance are explained, using Batman and the development of cognitive distortions by male survivors as a result of being sexually abused.Part three helps survivors understand how to "kill their Batman," allowing them to explore the need for intimacy and healing rather than hypervigilance. Throughout each part, Kenneth includes autobiographical stories of his own struggles with hypervigilance as a sexual abuse survivor striving to heal, grow, and become a "good" man rather than a "real" man.About the Author: A native of Peoria, Illinois, Kenneth Rogers, Jr. teaches secondary English. How to Kill Your Batman is his ninth book. Over the span of eleven years as an author, he has won six national indie book awards. How to Kill Your Batman is the first in the How to Kill Your Superhero series. His next book in the series will be How to Kill Your Superman.Publisher's website: www.sbpra.com/KennethRogersJr

A true story in the life of Marion, a suburban Johannesburg housewife, this is a spellbinding account of a woman's triumph in escaping the clutches of a cross-dressing psychopath. She cannot bring herself to walk away from his emotional and sexual perversions and is caught in a web of love and deceit.As a man, Just Alan has strong committed feelings towards his lover. However, as Cylk, her mood changes to wanting to hurt the woman in her life. As Alan's hormonal change develops, he makes love but wants to punish her first.Marion, on the other hand, has the need for him to revert to a normal man again. Their love affair continues for some years with Marion forgiving his strange behavior. The reader is caught up in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies as the story unfolds and ends in a climax of revenge.

Retired astronomer Thomas Wm. Hamilton has written six books on astronomy. But science always changes. His most recent book, Moons of the Solar System, has just been revised to incorporate the newest research and information on these amazing bodies in the sky. The new title is Moons of the Solar System, Revised Second Edition: Incorporating the Latest Discoveries in Our Solar System as well as Suspected Exomoons.Having once worked on the Apollo Project, the author has long been fascinated in studying moons. From Galileo's discoveries in 1610, to the latest returns from the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn, four centuries of discoveries in the solar system are summarized, complete with the names of those responsible for finding them.The 185 known moons of the planets and dwarf planets in the solar system are described in great detail, from how they were discovered, and by whom, to information about their sizes and orbits.The strange and exotic origins of the moons' names make for astonishing stories. Moons of the Solar System also includes the possible dangers faced by human travel in space.About the Author: Thomas Wm. Hamilton taught astronomy for 32 years. He has devoted his efforts since retiring to writing about astronomy as well as three books of science fiction. The author lived most of his life in big cities including San Francisco and New York, "which are about as bad for viewing the sky as living in a cave. The year I spent in New Hampshire was the best time for getting personally acquainted with the night sky. The asteroid 4897 was named by the International Astronomical Union Tomhamilton for me."

In 1989 the Brazilian student Paulo Roberto was abducted by a "flying saucer". His captors are representatives of a super developed civilization inhabiting the star Cygni 61, which they call Omeron. This is civilization-parent of the terrestrial one. For an earth man such as Paulo this is a strange and completely unaccustomed world in every respect. On this planet money and states do not exist. They have withered away; the same way as verbal speech has withered away, too, replaced by telepathy. In this civilization things are accomplished by the direct exchange of energy - without money, as well as the direct exchange of information - without speech; all are united in a common energy-info exchange. These humans look somehow not so solid, not so heavy, pale, and faintly gauzy. They are an odd society of slightly lucent at times yogis. They have a transparent blood and unknown metabolism. But even the bravest visionary's dreams cannot vie with this reality - for these humans can fly! Yes! These nondescript supermen, almost imperishable and ethereal, soar through the air like biblical angels. In 2023 Paulo comes back to the Earth. What does he find here and what happens with him then?

During the 1950s and '60s, Buddy McLean had the reputation as the toughest man walking the streets of Boston. Hundreds challenged him. No one could take him.In the same time span, the young truck driver/longshoreman from Somerville began building a criminal enterprise. Years later, it became known as the Winter Hill Gang. In 1961, Buddy faced confrontation with the ruthless and violent McLaughlin brothers of nearby Charlestown. When he wouldn't concede to them, a feud started. More than sixty people died.From those who knew Buddy McLean best, this is his life story.Larry Leavitt once lived in Everett, Massachusetts, close to Somerville, where Buddy McLean lived. He had relatives in Somerville who were friendly with Buddy. The author currently lives in Peabody, Massachusetts, where he teaches physical education in the public-school system. He is married, and has a daughter and two sons. This is his first book.

Ignorance of the particularity and the peculiarity of the exclusive material of the Gospel of Matthew lead to a serious misunderstanding of the essential thrust of the Gospel. The ongoing attempt to read the Gospel without clarity, especially as it relates to the meaning, purpose, and function of the Matthean M, is an injustice to the Matthean community and its effort to advance the Gospel of liberation of Jesus, the Messiah of God. Ultimately, this research into the meaning, reason, and function of the Matthean M is a call for a rethinking of all the Gospels. To do so would require a revisit to the evangelistic thrust of each Gospel and to review what might be considered the hidden function of the Gospels.The most striking injustice to the Message of the Gospels is the failure on the part of succeeding generations to mistakenly read the Gospels without due consideration for the socio-moral-theological journey of the religious group.Those who joined the group in its journey caused a continuous evolution of the socio-moral-theological practices and beliefs, to the end that sometimes it was not clear as to what came first: the message of Jesus or the socio-moral-theological adaptation of the dynamics that define the point and time of the journey.The mistake is made in limiting the socio-moral-theological premise to the impact of the Gospel on the people, while at the heart of the mission, the people revolutionized the Gospel. The journey continues. Readers are challenged to read the Gospel through new eyes, and to recognize the diversity to engage and to embrace a new strategic mission community.Dr. Livingstone R. Malcolm, a Methodist minister, taught New/Old Testament and theological ethics, and currently has a practice in clinical pastoral counseling.

There is romantic, erotic love. There is game-playing, uncommitted love. There is obsessive, possessive love, and there is friendship-based love. There is pragmatic, practical love, and there is gentle, caring, unconditional love. Where does self-love fit in? Just Passing Thru is a tale of a self-absorbed and wealthy ladies' man and an emotionally immature, but brilliant and successful corporate consultant who crash into one another in a passionate attraction that intertwines them, yet confuses them. Belinda and Anton are caught in negative and positive powerful pulls that thrust them onto the same path and then forcibly pull them apart again and again as they just pass through different types of love that could lead them down the path to self-actualization or down the path to self-destruction. Just Passing Thru is an account of the romance, confusion and inevitable growth that can result when alcoholism and co-dependency get mixed up with self-empowerment and intelligence as the driving and conflicting forces. Who has the most to lose? Who has the most to gain? The church girl or the party boy? Belinda wants to gain true love. Will she find it with Anton? A good partner will ride with you until hell freezes over and even a little while on the ice. But when will enough be more than enough?

Two men obsessed with the same woman both want to control her.One is filled with love, devotion, and an overpowering desire to win her mentally and physically for life. The other is possessed with an overwhelming fantasy to see her suffer, and to destroy her both mentally and physically.The novel centers on how relationships, backgrounds, and mental obsession compel, guide, and shape the way men might view life as a result of their past experiences. It is also a tale of how intentions can become obsessive, racing on parallel paths toward a totally unexpected conclusion.Yet, the suspense is relieved by humor and a remarkable love affair guaranteed to beneficially affect virtually any man/woman relationship.