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On A Train Bound For Nowhere


Susan Leigh Carlton - 2017
    Unadopted and nearing the maximum age for the Foundling Home, Mary Catherine is given a choice by the mother superior, and decides to take the orphan train looking for a future. Trace Jennings is a shy young man who lost his father in the Civil War. Raised by his mother, he lives on a ranch in Helena, Montana. Raw from a disastrous mail order marriage, romance is not on his agenda. Faced with the obstacles life has dealt them, can Mary Catherine and Trace find romance and have a life together?

Dearest Billionaires: The Complete Romance Series Box Set


Mia Brown - 2019
     It includes the following books: Dearest Billionaire's Secret Baby Dearest Billionaire’s Bet Dearest Billionaire’s Virgin These have never been released and all have a happily ever after.

The Power of Imagination: Unlocking Your Ability to Receive from God


Andrew Wommack - 2019
    They pray for prosperity but never receive it. Why? Because they don’t know how to use a godly imagination correctly. They don’t see themselves healed. They don’t see themselves prosperous. They don’t see themselves victorious. In The Power of Imagination, Andrew Wommack will unlock the power of your imagination and explain how you can put it to work giving you hope for the future. Without it, you’ll never fulfill God’s plan for your life. Circumstances will divert you and hardship will steal from you. But with it, you won’t be able to lose for winning! Never underestimate the power of your imagination!

Love So Dangerous


Diamond D. Johnson - 2017
    Heaven was raised in a two-parent household with two very religious parents, and her father was also a well- known pastor in Miami, Florida. This was a young girl who had perfect attendance through all her years of school, always brought home straight A’s, and was always student of the month. Heaven was the perfect child and never gave her parents any problems until she met Tony Isaac. Tony is dangerous for Heaven, but there is something about him that intrigues her. Throughout her years with Tony, Heaven will have to learn the hard way that this dangerous love with Tony is something that she can’t escape. It’s something that she signed up for when she let those three beautiful words, which were, ‘I love you,” leave her mouth.

Faith Under Construction


Cherie Hill - 2013
    (Don’t try and convince yourself otherwise . . . it’s a losing battle.) And the difficult truth about faith is that it won’t answer all of your questions in life and it won’t solve all of your problems, either. Faith is about trust, not about being certain . . . and that’s not how we hoped faith worked.We talk a lot about building our faith, but when God is at work in our lives, there seems to be a lot more demolition going on. "Faith Under Construction" is a devotional that will begin the renovation of your soul and prepare it for the building that will take place throughout the rest of your life. Bestselling Christian Living author, Cherie Hill, takes your soul into the depths of faith, and the excavation will bring about a transformation of your spirit that is stable and secure, ready for anything.

Of Men and Mary: How Six Men Won the Greatest Battle of Their Lives


Christine Watkins - 2018
    Donald Calloway, MIC, calls this book, “Anointed!”, Exorcist Fr. Gary Thomas, subject of the movie, “The Rite,” says, “OF MEN AND MARY is superb. The six life testimonies contained within it are miraculous, heroic, and truly inspiring.” Certain books as this come along that have the power “to transform lives, to free people from darkness,” claims Br. Daniel Maria Klimek, T.O.R. “I plan to share this tremendous work with many through the years.” Powerful in the spirit, OF MEN AND MARY also delivers tasty doses of pure entertainment. You will find yourself inspired by a murderer, a sweet lamb who lost it all, and a man who literally died—and then came back to life. You will suddenly root for a football player tackled by the Blessed Mother, a man caught up in illicit sexual liaisons, and a man whose marriage was as good as dead. While OF MEN AND MARY may be about six males, it is for everyone, because it is also a book about a woman. In the heat of the fiercest of spiritual battles, when all seemed lost and these men were left with nothing to stand on but stormy seas, they were given a lifeboat. That lifeboat—that woman—is the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is the boat of safety for all of us, the surest and safest passage to the heart of her Son. She is our victory and sweet reassurance that God's plan is infinitely better than our own; and she is our challenge to follow her Son, no matter the cost, no matter how fierce the battle. Read the stories of these brave men, and you will inevitably come away with a desire to climb in the boat with them and sail safely home. To watch the trailer for OF MEN AND MARY and see the faces of the six men whose stories grace its pages, go to www.QueenofPeaceMedia.com/men.

Fresh Air


Chris Hodges - 2012
    But what is that energy-giving, life-breathing force that inspires and empowers us? How do we put the wind in our sails again, so we can get unstuck, reset our compass, and redirect our course? In "Fresh Air," "New York Times" bestselling author Chris Hodges reveals how breath--the breath of God--is the essence of life as it's meant to be. Fueled by the breath of God, we are not only refreshed in spirit ourselves; we have the power to create a life-giving environment of freedom and joyful purpose around us. Bold and encouraging, "Fresh Air" offers "breathing lessons" for those who long for a cool breeze to resuscitate their spirit, bring them closer to God, and make them enthusiastic, contagious life-breathers to those around them.

Renewed Love: Love on the Western Trail (Wagon Train Romance Book 5)


Linda Ford - 2021
    

The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic . . . Or Awesome?


Tripp Fuller - 2015
    Its rather absurd to identify a first-century homeless Jew as God revealed, but a bunch of us do anyway. In this book, Tripp Fuller examines the historical Jesus, the development of the doctrine of Christ, the questions that drove christological innovations through church history, contemporary constructive proposals, and the predicament of belief for the church today.Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believer but an internal struggle in the heart of many disciples, he argues that we continue to make christological claims about more than an event or simply the Jesus of history. On the other hand, C. S. Lewiss infamous liar, lunatic, and Lord scheme is no longer intellectually tenable. This may be a guide to Jesus, but for Christians, Fuller is guiding us toward a deeper understanding of God. He thinks its good newsgood news about a God who is so invested in the world that God refuses to be God without us.

This Invitational Life


Steve Carter - 2016
    Inviting others to faith requires leaning in to your own story, overcoming fear, and stepping out. But the good news is for everyone, always. And you can help keep it going.Using Scripture and story, Steve Carter casts a vision for non-threatening conversations that point people to Christ. Most significantly, Steve shows that only through risking it all will we discover what God is truly like.

Accidental Weatherman


Sam Mac - 2021
    

Loved by a Memphis Hoodlum 2


B. Love - 2018
    In part one of 'Loved by a Memphis Hoodlum', Ivory commits the worst betrayal of all. Part two picks up with the Gaye sisters dealing with their father's actions in different ways. For Ives, she's focused on her life and her man... refusing to let her father cause anymore havoc in her life. For Wren, she's focused on proving to her father that she's worthy of the throne in Ives' place. For Maverick, she's focused on the consistent mental battle of good versus evil. Revenge versus karma. Love and life versus death. Three different sisters, three different reactions and one betrayal, far greater than their father's, that threatens to pull the family and their relationships with the Humphreys brothers even further apart.

Enticed by a Thug Love


Kelly Marie - 2019
    Well, that's what happens when three women cross paths with the Ramsey men. Kanada Alton is a twenty-six-year-old mother who finds herself homeless by the hands of her baby father. Her only hope is to her parents who moved to another state, so she sets out for New York, where she crosses paths with Alvaro 'Wrath' Ramsey - the King of New York. Their meeting is anything but pleasant when Kanada makes a mistake, which leads Wrath to believe she's an unfit mother. Still, he helps the young mother, and soon, Kanada finds herself falling for the rude Wrath. But is her past really that? And can Wrath overlook what brought them together? A'Moya Morse is in the wrong place at the wrong time, which leads her in the path of Pharaoh 'Legion' Ramsey - or was it destiny? Their worlds collide on that one night, and despite Legion being a man who is carrying too many demons and believes he's too damaged to love, A'Moya finds herself drawn to him, even when he tries to push her away. However, eventually, he gives in. However, when he reveals a life-changing secret to her, will she discover that he was right when he said that he was too damaged for love? Nothing in life usually bothers Dior Alfred except drug dealers. She hates everything about them and what they do, for personal reasons. So when she meets Jashawn 'Surge' Ramsey he is the prime example of why she hates them so much. But soon Surge's life is in danger, and the same person who hates him ends up helping him. And while doing so, Dior falls for the same person she grew to hate. Their connection is real, and neither is willing to let the other go, but their paths were connected long before they met, and in a way they didn't expect. So, what happens when they have no choice but to walk away? Take a ride with Kanada, A'Moya, and Dior, whose lives are turned upside down when they find themselves enticed by a thug love.

Awakened


D.L. Harrison - 2019
    She was heavily malnourished, atrophied to the point she couldn’t walk, and the only survivor of a massacre. She also doesn’t remember a thing about her past.After months of sweat and hard work, she was out on her own. She was able to walk again and independent, and working to regain a life, although the lack of a past haunted her in her dreams and nightmares. Then everything changed one night as she was attacked in an alley. No one was more surprised than Lily, when she wound up being the stronger predator.Join Lily, as she learns of the existence of the supernatural world, and she tries to uncover the truth of her past. Where vampires, shifters, witches and warlocks are nothing like the legends or Hollywood fictions, and she’s stranger than all of them. Author’s note: This is the first book in an urban fantasy trilogy. There will be no major cliffhangers, but there will be several plot threads left unresolved until the final book.

Stellar Survival Quest


Jalf Whitemage - 2019
    With no hype building announcements, no history of any Alpha, or beta, or even as much as a leaked snapshot they released a first-generation fully immersive virtual reality pod and their bundled game Stellar Survival Quest. Even being 20 years ahead of anything else out, a new entertainment media is not typically world shattering. Especially, when players reported not being able to recall their time playing. The company made claims of not allowing meta-gaming, Thus keeping the game world pure. After every gaming session regardless of length the player could watch a short video of their session. Each video was only three minutes of randomly recorded footage from every hour played. Thus, a nearly impenetrable wall of secret gameplay was maintained.However, when that first generation of gamers left the white-grey egg-shaped gaming pods, they gave the world an even bigger shock! The technology was amazing, true VR with all five senses was outrageous, the stuff of fiction novels! No, what really sent the world reeling was skills learned in game translated to real life skills! Overnight the world was thrown on its heels. A new player could log into the game to be given a job in some way decided by the game and come out an ivy league educated scientist, or special ops level soldier. As the world reels from these first-generation gamers suddenly becoming some of the most highly skilled individuals in the world, more gamers clamor to buy their own expensive pod and hop into space!Nathan Tyrone Rogers or Bubba to his friends and family awoke on a small transport. Freshly landed on an ancient space station. As the first Human to be spawned outside the Sol System, Nathan is vastly unprepared and overwhelmed for the task. With a cryptic message that he needs to claim the solar system of Epsilon Indi before one of the other 12 alien species; whom were also spawned in system can. Some of which will supposedly be hostile to humanity. Nathan attempts to survive in the completely unforgiving environment of space. All the while trying to choose a path for himself, avoid being eaten by monstrous alien women, and growing more and more annoyed with his “real self” still back on Earth.Nathan’s first step to claiming the Solar system is simple to say, hard to do. He must survive!***This is the first Sci-Fi LitRPG in the Stellar Survival Quest series set in Jalf Whitemages Total Expanse Universe. This book contains adult themes, mild harem themes, base building, and real time strategy elements. It is not recommended for those new to the Lit Genre, and definitely not anyone who is easily offended by … well anything. You have been warned 