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Nadia Kablukov does not want to go home, and neither does her brother Milo. But when their eldest sibling, Nik, calls in his emergency favor and enlists their help with opening his new brewery, they both head back, dreading the memories of their difficult childhood. For Nadia, this means facing her former next-door neighbor, her once best friend, and first loveAleks.Nadia knew Aleks was going to be aroundhe is Niks business partner, after allbut seeing Aleks standing on her brothers front porch, all handsome and smiley, she realizes her feelings for him are not entirely gone.Aleks longs for simpler days, when Nadia was only a stones throw away and life was less overwhelming. So, when she offers to help him with a project at the brewery, hes eager to accept. Despite the time and distance between them, Nadia and Aleks find themselves falling back into old routines. Aleks is still able to see through Nadias hardened exterior and shes still able to get him out of his ruminating thoughts like no one else can.As feelings resurface and grow to an unmanageable point, theyre faced with reality: Nadia has never considered moving back home and Aleks has never considered leaving. So giving in to anything more between them will only cause more pain when its time to say goodbye again, right?

A propulsive and thrilling chase through the multiverse as a washed-up writer joins an elite crew of scouts on a mission to stop terrorists destroying entire realities. Perfect for fans of character-driven multiverse adventures such as The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, and The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen BaxterTim Drake is bottoming out. Having failed to sell his new book he finds himself without a publisher, an agent, a partner, and now a job, something needs to change. But when they do, its the wrong things the cafe on the corner, the bank thats now a burger restaurant, maybe even who hes meant to be.Suddenly broken off from his reality, Tim finds himself wheeling through new worlds. Dangerous places, worlds that have no place for him.And when his path leads him to Fred, a grizzled soldier who travels between worlds, and Zhue, a mysterious person sent back from 5,000 years in the future, he discovers events far greater than his next book are at stake.Zhue and Fred are on the trail of John Cho, a man who is destroying entire worlds, and who killed Freds last team. And with no way home, Tim must join them on a deadly pursuit through realities and time, or risk losing his entire world.

Stitching Together Stories of Freedom and CourageDiscover the extraordinary courage and resilience of formerly enslaved women and men who changed the course of history through their acts of bravery during the Underground Railroad era.Written and illustrated by textile artist Sandra Scott-Revelle, this middle-grade book transforms historical accounts into vivid, accessible stories that help readers ages eight through twelve understand the complex realities of enslavement, survival, and the Underground Railroad. Working with personal accounts from the Works Progress Administration and William Still's The Underground Railroad, Scott-Revelle shows the bravery and sacrifices of people who fought for freedomnot only for themselves but for others as well.What you'll find in Threads of Freedom:Over twenty figures from history featured, from well-known figures like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth to lesser-known ones like Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Charles Gilbert, Arnold Gragston, and the Still familyUnique textile art illustrations created by the author, a professional quilter and textile artistHistorical context and background to help readers understand complex historical periodsUnderground Railroad map for geographic reference and learningComprehensive glossary to support vocabulary development and comprehensionEducational resource perfect for homeschooling, classroom use, and independent readingThis book invites readers to listen carefully to voices that have too often gone unheard. It is perfect for readers interested in Black history, the Underground Railroad, folk art, and stories of overcoming obstacles, and it is an invaluable resource for librarians, social studies teachers, and educators seeking entry-level books that present the time period from enslaved people's perspectives.Threads of Freedom aims to start readers on a journey of discovery, stretch their curiosity, and inspire their creativity. By weaving these often-forgotten narratives into their own understanding, readers do more than just learn history; they walk alongside those who lived it, honoring their sacred journeys with the compassion and listening their stories have always deserved.

Ceramic implants mark a turning point in the field of dental implantology. Zirconia can offer not only remarkable biocompatibility and esthetics but also exceptional strength and durability. Titanium has long been considered the gold standard, but under the right indications, zirconia can truly be the superior choice. Patients have higher esthetic expectations than ever before, and some want to avoid introducing metals into their bodies. This text covers the biomechanical and biologic properties of ceramic dental materials, the challenges that remain in the field, and practical considerations such as material selection and surgical implementation, so you can confidently meet the diverse needs and wants of every patient who walks through your door.

When youve spent your life trying to be perfect, how easy is it to let go?Marion Marksharp is the undisputed queen of Penmenna and has the perfect life - ask anyone. Doting husband? Hmm, maybe not... Well-behaved, angelic children? Definitely not. A network of close, supportive friends? Not so much, it turns out.Marion sets out to change her bossy ways by starting up a wedding planning enterprise in the village. But between her husbands suspicious absences, her PTA frenemies and her own perfectionist tendencies, organising the dream wedding for her friend isnt going smoothly, and shes running out of time to pull it off...In this final book in the Cornish Village School series, the village comes together one last time to make sure everyone gets their happy ever after.A second-chance romance perfect for fans of Tilly Tennant and Cathy Bramley.

Rebellion and ruin await in the gripping second installment of Evan Leikams debut fantasy series, perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, R.F. Kuang, and Nicholas Eames.The king is dead. Shes still alive. The revolution is yet to come... The riveting adventure continues in the sequel to Evan Leikams breakout fantasy debut Anji Kills a King.Anji has survived a dozen different deaths. The king is dead, her family is dead, the fabled mercenaries of the Menagerie are deadand shes still here, the price that was on her head now jingling as coins in her own pocket.In the wake of her journey, the city she once called home has changed, and a revolution is brewing in a camp on the riverbank. A revolution Anjis new windfall was meant to fund, and still could if she can forgive them for being willing to throw her life away to do it. But building a bright new kingdom wont be as simple as cutting one kings throat... and in a city of dark alleys and desperate times, her path will take her to shadowy places she never could have expected.

The second volume of the official novelization of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, the latest franchise from legendary game-creator Hideo Kojima.After restoring a shattered America in Death Stranding, Sam has vanished from the public eye, quietly living a peaceful life with Lou. But when an unimaginable tragedy strikes, everything changes.Overcoming sorrow, Sam embarks on a new missionthis time to save humanity from extinction. Joined by Fragile and new allies, his journey spans from Mexico to the Australian continent.What new threats and mysteries await Sam on this perilous path?

Internationally recognized as a socially important work of gay literature Roger Austen. Originally published in Europe in the 50s to avoid prosecution for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important lost gay novels. Set in New Orleans and featuring a colourful cast of louche but loveable characters, the story follows Titania aka Thomas Schwartz through the backstreets, bars and club of the French Quarter in search of the perfect lover the Gaudy Image. A beautifully written story that is both elegant and caustically humorous, erotic and sympathetic

From the New York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackey, fan favourite Vanyel returns as the protagonist to a Valdemar novel for the first time in over 30 years in a magical adventure of friendship and intrigue.Herald-Mage Vanyel has been good friends with the acerbic, take-no-prisoners Healer Vixen for quite some time, since they shared a circuit on the Pelagirs Border. He tempers her somewhat prickly demeanor; she has no patience with his Byronic Brooding. Theyve often run into each other out in the borderlands where he is most needed, and in a crisis, they work together like the proverbial well-oiled machine.And a crisis is what seems to be occurring, this time in the south, in the unclaimed lands between Valdemar and with Rethwellan. Someone, or several someones, its not clear yet, is possibly coordinating attacks both physical and magical across the border, but the attacks are seemingly at random, and without rhyme or reason.Discovering what is truly going on will take as much spycraft as magic, and will need someone who will be welcome without question outside of Valdemar. That is where Vixen comes in: even prickly-tempered Healers are welcome everywhere. This will be the first time they have been paired up for what looks to be a long mission. Can their friendship handle that much close contact? Will they uncover what is really going on in the south?And what if this is all a trap, designed specifically to trap Vanyel, the most powerful Herald-Mage Valdemar has to protect the Crown?

Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award Logos Association Bookstore Award Bookw.ise's Favorite Books of the Year Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year "McHugh predicates this marvelous book on what lousy listeners we are, then proceeds to offer means for changing our habits. . . . McHugh writes humbly about learning to hear deeply, because 'the beginning of discipleship is listening.' Publishers WeeklyDiscover the Power of Listening in a World of Noise "Be quick to listen, slow to speak."James 1:19 How would your life change if you approached each momentwith the intention of listening first?In our noisy and distracting world, true listening is rare and precious. Though many long to be heard, we constantly talk past each other, and few experience what it means to feel truly understood. Listening is not only an essential skill for healthy relationships with God and othersit is a way of life.In The Listening Life, Adam McHugh invites you to place listening at the heart of your spirituality, your relationships, and your mission in the world. Because God is the One who hears, you too can learn to hear what God is saying through creation, through Scripture, and through people.By cultivating a life attuned to listening, we are shaped and equipped to discover greater connection, compassion, and readiness to serve those in need.What You'll Find in The Listening Life: Practical guidance for listening to God and othersHow better listening can strengthen your relationships and faithWise insights, scriptural truths, and relatable storytelling that inspire transformationA valuable resource for personal growth, ministry contexts, and even academic settingsWhat's New in the Second Edition This edition includes new material on listening in our cultural context, a new foreword by Ruth Haley Barton, and a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.Let The Listening Life become your companion on the path to spiritual growth, relational depth, and a more compassionate presence in the world. Let your life become qualitatively differentindeed, betteras you heed the call to the listening life and hear what God is doing in you and in the world.

Em um tempo de pressa, exaustão parental e excesso de informações, educar com consciência e propósito tornou-se um desafio urgente, e também uma oportunidade transformadora.Sob coordenação editorial

When Nazi forces invade Oslo, quiet librarian Liv Dahl becomes an unlikely resistance leader, risking everything to safeguard secrets and lives. As danger tightens around her, Liv must outwit Gestapo agents, protect hidden allies, and navigate a forbidden romance with a mysterious spy. But when betrayal strikes and Liv is deported to Ravensbr ck concentration camp, survival becomes her only mission. An unforgettable heart-wrenching story of a woman who dares to resist, and the quiet heroism that changes the course of lives including her own.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

The Latest Edition of a Comprehensive, Classic Guide to Christian Ethics What should we do or not do? Can we be good without God? What is the highest good, the purpose of human existence? These kinds of enduring questions are at the heart of the study of ethics. This classic textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers a distinct approach to ethics grounded in and structured around Gods revelation in Scripture. It provides a thorough overview of biblical ethics that addresses the life of love and wisdom to be lived out by Christians as virtuous individuals, as well as their calling in community, in society, and throughout Gods creation. Paul Copan and Robertson McQuilkin explore a wide range of ethical issues organized around the Ten Commandments and themes springing from themloving God and loving others. In this essential resource, Copan and McQuilkin lay a foundation by discussing key topics of love, law, sin, and virtue; compare ethical alternatives such as relativism, social contract, utilitarianism, and evolutionary ethics; examine contemporary issues in light of objective moral truths from Scripture; present differing views in areas where Christians often disagree; and include recommended reading in each chapter for further study. An essential textbook for undergraduate and seminary ethics courses, this book is also a valuable guide for pastors and ministry leaders who are navigating complex ethical questions in their ministry. The authors stay focused on the question of how we are fulfilling Gods purposes for our livesa will that is for our good. This comprehensive study is the ideal place to begin on the journey of living wisely, faithfully, and obediently. Whats New in the Fourth Edition The fourth edition features an expanded comparison of ethical theories and covers new, timely topics such as deification, church and state, immigration, Old Testament ethical challenges, just war theory, stewardship of creation, gay marriage, gender identity, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism.

The Trinity is revealed at last, but the key to unlocking its power remains unknown. Tor and Alyssa are surrounded by danger. Old enemies return, and a new threat is looming: a god has installed himself on the throne and is determined to kill Tor and those he loves.The battle lines are drawn for the final confrontation between the two most powerful sentients ever to walk the land. Was Tor doomed from the start, or can he protect Tallinor from its ultimate enemy?

In this fascinating novel, one of the masters of impossible crime fiction takes on one of the greatest criminals of all time. Sticking scrupulously to the facts, Paul Halter explores the Jack the Ripper murders and offers his own theories about the identity of the monster, what drove him, and how he was able to vanish under the noses of the police during the spree of escalating horror which sent the citizens of fog-ridden London into paroxysms of fear in the autumn of 1888.But the year before Saucy Jacky began his reign of terror, someone started to investigate an astonishing impossible murder committed in the country village of Blackfield nine years earlier. That, too, involved a monstrous murderer who slaughtered witnesses and vanished under the noses of his pursuers. Is there a connection with the Ripper cases which followed?Paul Halter, who has been fascinated by Jack the Ripper from a tender age, won the coveted French Prix du Roman dAventures in 1988 and the prestigious Japanese Hunkaku Mystery Award 2005 for Le Brouillard Rouge (The Crimson Fog).

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a London theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been ritually mutilated? As Rex digs deeper into the crime scene, the investigation begins to unravel, refusing the logic of a conventional murder inquiry.Clues fracture into symbols, witnesses contradict themselves, and the case starts to mirror Rexs own buried past. The search for the victims identity becomes inseparable from a more troubling question: who, beneath the certainty of his badge and rank, is Rex King himself?Shifting between Holborn Police Station, an abandoned village in rural 1980s France, and the violent clash between state power and counterculture at Stonehenges Battle of the Beanfield, The Fountain in the Forest reimagines the crime novel as something stranger and more daring. At once a gripping police procedural, an avant-garde experiment in language, and a philosophical meditation on liberty and identity, it is an iconoclastic novel of rare ambition.

When a dead man appears in his waiting room, Bergen private detective Varg Veum finds himself investigating a controversial death from fourteen years earlier. The internationally bestselling Varg Veum series continues `As searing and gripping as they come New York Times`One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors Ian Rankin`The Norwegian Chandler Jo Nesb_________There was a dead man sitting in my waiting room.So begins another unsettling case for Bergen private detective, Varg Veum.The identity of the dead man soon becomes clear. He had come to see Veum about a case of his own, one rooted in a death on the Mre coast fourteen years earlier. A woman walked into the sea and never returned. The verdict was suicide, but not everyone believed it.As Veum follows the trail his silent visitor left behind, the investigation leads back to a radical student collective in Bergen in the 1970s, where political loyalties, personal rivalries and old decisions still cast long shadows. Someone has gone to great lengths to keep that past concealed, and the price of digging too deep has already proved fatal.Tense, atmospheric and uncompromising, Face to Face is Gunnar Staalesen at his very, very best.________

Dennis Orphen is a young, clever novelist with a keen eye for a good story. This time, however, his material is drawn from the romantic woes of his closest friend, Effie Callingham. More than a decade earlier, Effies husband-the superstar writer Andrew Callingham-abandoned her for a younger, prettier woman. In the years since, Effie has stubbornly defended his reputation, clinging to the desperate hope that he might one day come to his senses and return.When Denniss novel is published, their friendship is put to the test. In his thinly veiled portrait, Effies private pain is exposed to a scandal-hungry literary society, while Andrew is unmasked as a womanising egoist. Meanwhile, Dennis finds himself entangled in romantic troubles of his own, locked in an uneasy relationship with Corinne, a married woman whose presence provokes both longing and jealousy.Together, Dennis and Effie are forced to confront unpalatable truths about themselves in this immensely entertaining yet deeply poignant satire, set in the seedy underbelly of New York society, from brandy-drenched nightclubs to cab-lined curbs.