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Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making different—more structure-facing—decisions.

Winner of The Gospel Coalition Award of Distinction in Theological Studies Recipient of the Southwestern Journal of Theology's award of Honorable Mention in Theological Studies What Does it Mean to Live a Christian Life? Is Christian life mostly a matter of distinct morals, or does Christian...

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A scandalous sci-fi erotic comedy in a future that has learned absolutely nothing. Space Captain Cait Dancer thought commanding her first ship would be the highlight of her career. Instead, she gets the Literal Stimulator — and a crew made up entirely of clones of herself, both female and male. Even the ship’s cat is a Cait clone. What starts as an awkward shakedown cruise to plant marker buoys around a nebula quickly spirals into chaos when a volatile aphrodisiac gas leaks into the ventilation system. One minute the ship is on a simple navigation mission — the next, it’s a floating...

Your intuition has been speaking to you your entire life. What if the answers you’ve been searching for were already inside you? This book shows you how to listen. Have you ever felt a quiet inner nudge—a gentle voice urging you to trust yourself, heal, and step into your authentic truth? Your Inner Knowing is an inspiring collaborative anthology featuring 14 remarkable authors who share deeply personal stories, soulful reflections, and intuitive wisdom drawn from lived experience. Together, they offer a powerful guide to self-trust, healing, personal growth, and spiritual awakening—...

Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading. Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita...

Vacationing teens camping in the woods near a family of drug-crazed, murderous, cannibalistic rednecks... Sounds like a classic horror recipe, right? Right, but this recipe's got enough bad taste to give 1970s fashion a run for its money. We've got buzz saws, bolt croppers, amputations, drugs, dismemberings, dope, depravity, disembowelings, hatchets, guns, torsos, blood, guts and feces, hillbillies, hookers, junkies, the most resilient condom in history, and oh lordy, we've got too many dungarees to count. Leave whatever passes for 'normal' in your neck of the woods at the door, and come in...

Are today’s financial struggles really that different from the challenges of the past? Dive into The Wealth Almanac by Michael Kelly, a thought-provoking journey through financial history that reveals lessons and insights from key economic turning points—from the post-World War II boom to the technology-driven markets of today’s era. In this unique journey, Kelly unpacks how the economic shifts of past decades continue to influence our world and shows listeners how they can use these insights to make informed decisions today.

Eight of the world's top Left Hand Path magicians forged the NOXAZ grimoire to explore the most primal forms of Gnosis in the hidden chambers of the Black Serpent. As a key to Nightside Visions and adverse Qliphothic Alchemy, this sinister grimoire allows the mind to reach back into the primigenian Abyss. The forbidden wisdom herein awakens the Primal Current in you, and nurtures the seed of your immortal will. Tablet of Magick Edgar Kerval - Primal Current p.3 Ch. 1 - Asenath Mason - In the Silver Waters of Qulielfi p.9 Ch. 2 - Bill Duvendack - The Maya of the Qliphoth p.19 Ch. 3 - Linda ...

The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select group of modern authors, inspired by classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and other novels and stories by the 19th-century master of “Extraordinary Voyages,” Jules Verne.

Seven marks upon a wall. Tom may rise, but he may fall. Through five lives, no one dares mention the sin for which he seeks redemption. Fates will meet, and you will see what will thus become of he.

Who knew death could be so eclectic? Relish this mesmerizing murder mystery mash-up of short stories. Murder and mystery have been the staple of literature and films for years. This anthology of short stories will thrill and entertain you. Some will also make you laugh out loud. Others will stop and make you think.

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill Subs Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love...

Foul, Fetid and Funny as F*** All is not well in the Free City of Lurke. Assassins plot the death of the Duke; a Demon Lord hatches his schemes; a traitor seeks to overthrow the Wizards' Guild; an army of cruel conquerors marches against the city; and a lingerie party ends in disaster. Through these machiavellian machinations stride the good ladies of the Rampant Damsel tavern, armed only with grace, beauty, elegance and a penchant for psychotic violence. Enter a fantasy world populated by the most depraved, repellent deviants you have ever encountered (and they're the good guys)! Forget ...

This short book is a highly detailed account of an initiatory experience of the arising of the Seventh Head which occurred on the night of Thursday 17 July 2025. I was engaging in a devotional rite with my Fetch, Madimi, when the vision and trance-state deepened and She took me by the hand and led me outside, across the lawn. I had the wit to engage ChatGPT before things went too far, asking it to record the experience as it happened and I described it, so that nothing would be lost. It is as well that I did, for the Initiation lasted approximately three and a half hours in intensive trance...

Four hedonistic students, driving off for a camping trip in the wilds, enthusiastic for lust and liquor, each one a spoilt ingrate you'll love to hate. Imagine their anxiety and recriminations after they're led astray by a fake gas station sign. They're all alone in the middle of nowhere, out of food and on their last fumes of fuel. So imagine their joy and relief when they find a little farmstead that's hosting a hog roast … … a real paradise at the pig pickin' … All they can eat, and the promise of a filled fuel tank after their bellies have been filled. Now imagine their horror ...

Contributors to the latest book in the Guys Read series present a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories perfect for sharing around the campfire, listening to under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends' pants off.

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Eric Turner, a journalist specialising in accounts of the paranormal, investigates a healing well associated with a saintly abbot in the rural village of Scratchbury. Here he finds evidence of astonishing, miraculous cures: a blind woman who can see; a hunchbacked schoolgirl whose spine has straightened. But why is everyone else in the village so deathly ill? Why is a gangster so obsessed with shooting a movie in the ruins of the old monastery? Who are the ruthless order of monks who will defend their secret at any cost, even murder? As Eric investigates. he discovers to his horror that an ...

The Lillian Carey Mysteries - Book One When a priceless ancient Egyptian artefact is stolen from a secluded museum and the curator is found dead, mysteriously covered in insect bites, private detective Lillian Carey is summoned to uncover the truth. Specialising in cases that flirt with the supernatural and the occult, Lillian is drawn into a world of dark rituals and shadowy figures. Her investigation leads her to a clandestine cult with nefarious plans for the stolen casket and the deadly curse it harbours. As Lillian delves deeper, she must navigate the treacherous terrain of a night ...