His sermons, I bring to you, words filled with reasoning and kindness. Words, which we may never have heard before. These words are universal, Christians as well as non-Christians alike. Such are his words, when followed to guide our lives; we enter a new realm, filling our lives with happiness and peace.Jesus Christ, one of the most popular saints of all times, was an icon of love, compassion, mercy, kindness and care. One need not be a Christian to respect and admire the sermons of Jesus Christ; his words flowed with reasoning and were always logical. This is why I sometimes cannot correlate Jesus with the Bible. Sometimes, I feel with the passing of time, some two millenniums, the Bible may have been edited and misinterpreted to meet with the need of time. This issue always disturbed my mind until one day Jesus visited me in my sleep and revealed to me the true sermons which were never revealed to mankind ever. He exuded warmth and his eyes comforted with kindness; such was his appearance, words cannot describe. His sermons, I bring to you, words filled with reasoning and kindness. Words, which we may never have heard before. These words are universal, Christians as well as non-Christians alike. Such are his words, when followed to guide our lives; we enter a new realm, filling our lives with happiness and peace.

This eBook is a collection of three short stories by Erika Kocher. The collection focuses on fantasy themes in varying levels and all with strong female characters, whether they are the main character or not.DAY OUT WITH FRIENDS is a story about a young woman named Amelia who speaks with her hallucinations of two men and a young girl and they help her to create street art through having them pose is different positions. But, what will they do when they meet up with some not so nice onlookers?FIRE DANCE starts with our main character completely hidden from everyone as they move through the crowd. The people gather celebrating with their king, queen, and young princess overlooking the festivities. The stage it set for a memorable day for our mysterious figure as they make their way towards the massive stage in front of the royalty.INTERTWINED SOULS has a young demon performing a ritual as people look on. He cries out for the young woman he remembers and puts all of his magical energy into the ritual. Through the ritual he sees her once again, but not in the way that he or she had wanted.

A collection of sci-fi, fantasy poetry, short stories and children stories .A collection of Sci Fi, Fantasy poetry, short stories and children stories, Illustrations by Angela Gonyea. Three poems previously unpublished, Shifting Moonlight, and Peace of Cake, previously published in the January 2014 issue of Far Horizons Magazine, Eradication, previously published in the Feb. 2014 issue of Far Horizons magazine. and a children's story, Mrs. Sheffer and Makenna, previously unpublished.

BREATHING FIRE & OTHER STORIES by Courtney Wallace is a collection of three short stories that show you the darker side of the human creed. A darkness abounds within each story, taking viewers through gut-wrenching history and into the dystopia future. Humans can truly be terrifying little creatures.“Breathing Fire” How do you explain war to a child? Annie doesn’t need it explained, she’s grown up in it for as long as she can remember. Set in London, during the German Blitz attacks in World War II, Annie watches her home being threatened every night. The great German dragons come to blow fire down on the Englishmen as they run for the shelters. It never seems to end and Annie is often found wondering what life looks like without the threat of death. Without the threat of gas chambers and extinction. “The High Card” Doug was never a fast learner. It took him years to learn to read and even longer to perform any basic math but there are some things in life that are, unfortunately, very obvious. Like, when the sun sets the moon rises, or if you stand out in the rain you will get wet, and especially that if your wife becomes distant and leaves at odd hours she’s probably cheating. Doug was slow but he wasn’t stupid, he saw the looks and caresses between his wife and best friend. He thinks, it’s about time he did something about it. “Genticae Experimenta” In the future germs, infections, and bacteria rule over all. Antibiotics and immunizations have failed us and the entire human population is being picked off. The Abbott Organization has come to the rescue, hiring the best scientists from across the globe to find cures to these superbugs, by any means necessary. Quickly, the project takes a darker turn. Humans and animals are brutally experimented on, leaving physical and emotional scars. But who is to blame? The desperate scientists or the ambitious and ruthless CEO who created the project?

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape and Essence is Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.

A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations. The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. Stripped of all comforts, hoping for a passage home that may never appear, the castaways must band together or perish. For Rod and his fellow survivors, this is one test where failure is not an option....

“Morgan Rice's imagination is limitless. In another series that promises to be as entertaining as the previous ones, A THRONE OF SISTERS presents us with the tale of two sisters (Sophia and Kate), orphans, fighting to survive in a cruel and demanding world of an orphanage. An instant success. I can hardly wait to put my hands on the second and third books!” --Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos) From #1 Bestseller Morgan Rice comes an unforgettable new fantasy series. In A SONG FOR ORPHANS (A Throne for Sisters—Book Three), Sophia, 17, journeys in search of her parents. Her quest takes her to foreign and strange lands—and to a shocking secret she could never imagine. Kate, 15, is summoned by the witch, as her time has come to repay the favor. But Kate is changing, coming of age, become ever more powerful—and what will become of Kate if she makes a deal with darkness? Sebastian, a romantic, follows his heart, throwing it all away to reject his family and find Sophia. But Lady D’Angelica is still bent on killing her—and may have other plans. A SONG FOR ORPHANS (A Throne for Sisters—Book Three) is the third book in a dazzling new fantasy series rife with love, heartbreak, tragedy, action, adventure, magic, swords, sorcery, dragons, fate and heart-pounding suspense. A page turner, it is filled with characters that will make you fall in love, and a world you will never forget. Book #4 in the series will be released soon. “[A THRONE FOR SISTERS is a] powerful opener to a series [that] will produce a combination of feisty protagonists and challenging circumstances to thoroughly involve not just young adults, but adult fantasy fans who seek epic stories fueled by powerful friendships and adversaries.” --Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan)

Annemarie “Shug” Wilcox is clever and brave and true (on the inside anyway). And she’s about to become your new best friend in this enchanting middle grade novel from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!), Jenny Han. Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too freckled, and way too flat-chested. Shug is sure that there's not one good or amazing thing about her. And now she has to start junior high, where the friends she counts most dear aren't acting so dear anymore -- especially Mark...

Gavin Guile is dying. He’d thought he had five years left—now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole sixteen years ago.

The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor. But what if—as Sibyl's assistant later charges—the patient wasn't already dead, and it was Sibyl who inadvertently killed her? As recounted by Sibyl's precocious fourteen-year-old daughter, Connie, the ensuing trial bears the earmarks of a witch hunt except for the fact that all its participants are acting from the highest motives—and the defendant increasingly appears to be guilty. As Sibyl Danforth faces the antagonism of the law, the hostility of traditional doctors, and the accusations of her own conscience, Midwives engages, moves, and transfixes us as only the very best novels ever do.

*King of the Asheville Coven can be read as a standalone Vampire Romance, or as a spinoff of T. S. Joyce's International Bestselling Harper's Mountains series* Aric Teague is the king of the local coven, and trying to do a better job than the last leader. Add to that a new job at the Winterset Fire Department, and the last thing he needs is to complicate his life further. But when he lays eyes on a fiercely beautiful Sadey, all bets are off the table. She’s an unregistered shifter, and his coven is bound to be furious, but he wants to know more about the sassy beauty with all the secrets. Sadey Lowen is a rare shifter in hiding. All she wants is to keep her life simple, but an accident puts her right in the path of a handsome firefighter with terrifying eyes and fangs to match. Every instinct is screaming for her to run, but the King of the Asheville Coven is slowly working his way into her mind, and her heart. Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy vampire and shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences.

Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Bad Deeds, the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Would you bleed for the one you love? To save his family empire from the grip of the drug cartel, Shane is pushed to the edge of darkness, forced to make choices he might never make. His father is dying. His brother is desperate to rule the empire and this means war and all gloves are off. His brother only thought he knew what dirty meant. Shane is about to give it new meaning. There is another war brewing though, and that one, is inside him, his battle between right and wrong, light and dark, and in the heat of the night, it is Emily he turns to for escape. Driving her to new limits, pushing her to accept a part of him that even he cannot. In every one of Shane's seductive demands, Emily can taste and feel, his torment, his struggle to save his family and not lose himself. But he is losing himself, and that is a problem just as dangerous as her secret, that still lurk in the shadows, a threat to the Brandon Family waiting to erupt. No matter where she and Shane have traveled, or will travel in the future, she can't just sit back and watch him become everything he hates, everything he never wanted to become, everything she tried to save him from when she tried to run. It could be their undoing, the end. His end. This is war, blood will spill, and someone in the heart of the Brandon family will not survive.... This is book THREE of FOUR in Shane and Emily's story.

Jack Burns is a cowboy and a man out of time. He has a steadfast refusal to accept the what he perceives as the tyranny of the twentieth century world he lives in and instead, Burns opts to ride his feisty chestnut mare across the New West--what was once a beautiful, unblemished land but that is now tarnished by airstrips and superhighways. He rejects contemporary society, refuses to register for the draft, and cuts down any and all fences he encounters. It is this personal code of ethics and way of being that get Jack into trouble with the law, and soon enough he finds himself running from the very thing that could break his spirit--a fight for his freedom which, if caught, he may have to swap for the confinement of a grubby jail cell. The novel was adapted into the 1962 film Lonely Are the Brave starring Kirk Douglas.

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction

A TASTE OF ROMANCE LEADS NANCY TO A RENDEZVOUS WITH DANGER! Esme Moore, America's hottest romance writer, has come to River Heights, and the rumors are swirling. She's written her autobiography, a book of true confessions, and the scandals are sure to explode off the page. But someone has vowed to kill the book -- or Esme -- before her revelations come to light. It's up to Nancy to find the source of the threat. Speaking of scandals, Nancy may be on the verge of starting one of her own. A handsome young River Heights detective has joined her on the case, and Nancy's beginning to wonder if romance is simply in the air. But for now, she must attend to the intrigue at hand: the web of jealousy, suspicion, and betrayal that threatens to destroy Esme Moore.

Franck, il s'appelle Franck parce que sa mère et sa grand-mère adoraient Frank Alamo (Biche, oh ma biche, Da doo ron ron, Allô Maillot 38-37 et tout ça) (si, si, ça existe...) et moi, je m'appelle Billie parce que ma mère était jolie de Michael Jackson (Billie Jean is not my lover / She's just a girl etc.). Autant dire qu'on ne partait pas avec les mêmes marraines dans la vie et qu'on n'était pas programmés pour se fréquenter un jour... Non seulement Franck et Billie n'étaient pas programmés pour fredonner les mêmes refrains, mais en plus, ils avaient tout ce qu'il faut en magasin pour se farcir une bonne grosse vie de merde bien ficelée dans la misère - misère physique, misère morale et misère intellectuelle. Vraiment tout. Et puis voilà qu'un beau jour (leur premier), ils se rencontrent. Ils se rencontrent grâce à la pièce On ne badine pas avec l'amour d'Alfred de Musset. Billie a été tirée au sort pour jouer Camille et Franck, Perdican. A un moment, dans cette scène qu'ils doivent apprendre par coeur et déclamer devant les autres élèves de leur classe, Camille lance à Franck : Lève la tête, Perdican ! et à un autre, un peu plus loin, Perdican finit par avouer à Billie : Que tu es belle, Camille, lorsque tes yeux s'animent ! eh bien voilà, tout est là et tout est dit : ce livre ne raconte rien d'autre qu'une immense histoire d'amour entre deux vilains petits canards, lesquels, à force de s'obliger mutuellement à lever la tête et à se rappeler l'un l'autre qu'ils sont beaux, finissent par devenir de grands cygnes majestueux. En fait, on dirait du Cyrulnik, mais en moins raffiné. Là où Boris aurait employé les mots «gouffre» ou «résilience», Billie, quand elle est heureuse, lâche en ricanant : Et tac. Encore niquêe, la vie. Bah... À chacun, ses maux et sa façon de les écrire... A. G. "Billie, ma Billie, cette petite princesse à l’enfance fracassée qui se fraye un chemin dans la vie avec un fusil de chasse dans une main et On ne badine pas avec l’amour dans l’autre est la plus jolie chose qui me soit arrivée depuis que j’écris".

The harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift. There are other kids, too... The seven-book mega-series begun by Scott Westerfeld (Uglies) reaches a pivotal turning point as only New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jude Watson could deliver! Bonus: Play the action-packed HORIZON game for free on your browser, tablet, or phone. Each book in the series unlocks exclusive rewards. Do you have what it takes to survive?

Jung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet she yearns and continuously strives for her parents' love. Her stepmother is vindictive and cruel and her father dismissive. Jung-ling grows up to be an academic child, with a natural ability for writing. Only her aunt and grandfather offer her any love and kindness. The story is of survival in the light of the mental and physical cruelty of her stepmother and the disloyalty of her siblings. Jung-ling blossoms in spite of everything and the story ends as her father agrees to let her study in England. A Puffin Modern Classic edition of this bestselling autobiography, celebrating ten years of publication.

歷經多年爭戰後，移動城市聯盟和綠色風暴終於達成休戰協定。但在城市相互蠶食鯨吞的世界裡，危機不曾遠離，主和派與主戰派的爭議正在權力中心悄悄發酵。 面對海絲特的離去，提姆與女兒蕾恩試圖打起精神沿著飛鳥之路旅行，卻意外發現倫敦城的殘骸。在忍痛背離家園的二十年後，突如其來的發現激起提姆探索倫敦的興趣。 然而，他們並非唯一動身前往查探倫敦的人。這座曾是世上最偉大的移動城市，如今僅存破敗殘骸躺在無人荒地裡，被世人遺忘已久。未料，關於殘骸裡藏著神祕力量的傳言卻開始甚囂塵上…… 在所有人爭先恐後亟欲獨佔倫敦力量之際，海絲特追蹤到殘破不堪但一息尚存的方至尊行跡。面對永無止盡的鬥爭，這名潛行戰士已經找到一個最壞也最好的方法——只要解開錫書之謎、喚醒沉睡的奧丁，就能「永遠終結」這個世界的存在。

Amy Prochenko has spent most of fifth grade avoiding both the bully Katilyn Walker, whose bark is as bad as her bite, and Sean Gorman, the only kid less popular than Amy. As if life isn't hard enough, along comes Sherlock. After escaping from a research laboratory, all Sherlock wants is to be an ordinary dog. But Sherlock is anything but normal: he can talk. And when he asks Amy for help, she says yes. But Amy may have bitten off more than she can chew! Soon she finds herself tangled up in dangerous schemes and hanging out with people she never would have before. For the first time, thanks to Sherlock, Amy's popular! Even better, Sherlock is the best friend she's wanted. But Amy's not sure she can save him. Will this dog ever have his day?

...embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...The Dominator. Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of lingering evil. But the graveyard that was once the Barrowland contains more secrets than dead. All who would possess the power of the Dominator are drawn to the spike. A foolhardy band of thieves is the first to reach it, and a rapacious and malign spirit is unleashed on an unwary world. The forces gather, sides are drawn, and mortal men can only die as the Dark Lords battle for domination.