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After so many years of peace, a forgotten war awakens making all life that comes in contact with it a faded memory. This story takes place when a high school student named Andy looks forward to start his last year of high school.

Bumps and Bruises is a book of principles formulated over 28 years of observation, experience, and counsel, with thousands of individuals coping with disappointments, failed expectations, strained relationships, and broken dreams. From the vantage point of a physician, Dr. Hoer approaches the challenges we face in life much like treating a sickness. We first have to make the correct diagnosis to understand the origin of our discomfort. We then make the best treatment plan, a plan of action to get better, and learn habits and practices to prevent the ill health that plagues us all.

When escaping, one should make a plan. Someone should have told past-me that first.... I also need to fix a little issue or four if I ever escape. "Surprise, I have a caster for mate" wasn’t exactly how I saw my wedding going. I also didn’t see this. He betrayed me. Now that I’ve found my powers, you’d think I know what I’m doing. The betrayal among the wolves is worse than ever, and I’m not sure how to end it. Add in that my past is catching up to me and I just have more questions.

Autonomy is either relational or it does not exist at all. Absolute individualism is a mental construct abstracted from an irreducibly relational biosphere. Human life finds itself in and is realized by relationships with other beings. This book gazes on the fact that individualism is irredeemably contingent on relationality. Significant as self-consciousness is, consciousness of the other as a fellow self is a higher consciousness. It is the consciousness of the other selves that is the basis of ethics and morality.

Lost in the bush for 84 hours at the age of three, recovery was slow. During the doctor's visit when she was seven, she overhears the physician tell her mother, "Your daughter is cognitively deficient." Years of mental calisthenics and low self-esteem ensue, God's interventions teach her not to believe the lies people tell her and the bigger lies she tells herself. The sudden loss of an older brother carves a hole in her life so deep; it disconnects her from God. This story is about faith, family, love, tragedy, and trusting God even when you're mad at him.

Depression has only one goal: to kill you. Be it by the means of a swift and intentional act or by a long, drawn-out process of slowly taking your life with alcohol and drug abuse, it only wants you dead. Those who fight depression with a bottle of gin or a needle in the arm are losing the fight. They're currently killing themselves slowly, just like depression wants them to. Every antidepressant has a possible side effect of making your depression worse.

Upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 1918, Col Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years away. In the midst of telling his children a bedtime story, we learn of Artaban, a Magi priest, and the fourth wise man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a result of dissension among his fellow Magians, Artaban has no other choice but to embark on this journey alone. Though his quest is fraught with challenges along the way that test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never wavers.

Today as you listen, look, see, forgive, and understand that this life of events is not just yours. This is my world too and so many others like us so let me in to share my peace with you, one jewel to another. Sit, listen, and allow yourself to touch, find, be, enjoy and may you be greatly blessed. Until next time.

Interuniversalism is a science-based mystical practice based upon direct experience. It is the purpose and the ultimate goal of this practice to raise our collective consciousness to heal humanity at every level, answer basic questions about creation, and help humanity walk the path to inner completion.

Derek Owens joined the Marine Corps to make a difference in the world. After being seriously wounded in battle, he was given convalescent leave. While on leave, he visited the families of Marines who served with him and were killed in action.

“The shortest distance between a human being and the truth,” so goes the saying, “is a story.” These stories, told by Dr. Scott Abramson based on his 40 years of medical experience and from coaching colleagues in the mission of physician communication, embody some of these human truths: truths about listening, connection, faith, bereavement, death, teamwork, empathy, courage, grace, joy, leadership, parenting, burnout, the challenges of work-life balance, and the secret of happiness.

On a cold winter’s night, a pair of runaway lovers stop to refuel their car in a remote Pennsylvania town hours away from any major population center. The town has gone to rot after the death of its main industry, and the remaining citizens are kept in line by a powerful few who refuse to let the dwindling community die, no matter what the cost. The rare wayward travelers who come to the town are rarely ever allowed to leave, as the lovers discover when they are forced to play a deadly game of kill or be killed. A game called The Gauntlet.

We Are Creators reveals the truth about who are, why we were created, and how to unlock the unlimited abilities that we possess. It explains the power of our self-image and how our self-image will determine what we achieve or even attempt to achieve in life. It goes on to explain how we can change our self-image. There are so many hurting people in this world, and many have accepted depression, sickness, fear, loneliness, abuse, and poverty as a way of life

Let Rev. John take you through the purpose, logics, and importance of Christian life. His inspiring and in-depth discussions and teachings based on Biblical facts will give you new and enlightening insights into Christian living, enabling you in your walk with Christ. The inspiration for this book is the dire need he has experienced among Christian families around the world for a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Christianity, especially baptism.