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PR extraordinaire Blake Hamner (the n is silent) put off his honeymoon for his big break: joining a major political campaign for president. Now, the "Hammer" struggles to make time for his marriage as crisis communications manager for Our Leader, who, since taking power, has become increasingly mad and totalitarian.

The far-reaching impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected organizations of all types, including the church. It’s changed the way these entities serve their communities today, and how they’ll continue to serve them throughout the post-pandemic era.

Mark believes he is alone in the world. Rejected by his parents as a child, he spent his childhood bouncing from one foster home to another. The loss of his beloved little brother, Davey, makes him believe he has nothing left to live for. Mark finds himself on a destructive path after agreeing to help a person from his childhood.

School children are taught by robots - also known as T.C.H.E.R.s. These machines were seen as more efficient, and because of their programming, it was guaranteed that every student would be given the exact same education. Complacent that their children were getting the best education possible, no one thought to check what they were actually being taught - until the students across the country suddenly revolted.

Hamelin finally makes it across the footbridge only to learn that his quest to find his parents and learn his true identity will not be quickly done or easy to fulfill. The Great Eagle leads him through the dangerous waters of death and life and into the land of gloaming, where Hamelin is thrown into the midst of a war already being waged between the evil Chimera and the mysterious ancient one.

Afraid of being caught by trackers from another world, a young mother abandons her baby boy in a tomato box inside the screened porch of a children's home. The staff at the orphanage name him Hamelin Stoop, but he grows up longing to learn his real name, find his parents, and thus discover his true identity.

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As a musician at the popular college café Coed Joe's, high school senior Kai Manter is never lacking for male attention. Out, proud, free-spirited, and sexually aware, Kai sets his sights on his darkly Gothic and undeniably bad-tempered coworker, Jamie Arlotta, a freshman at the local arts university. Sporting long hair and alluring hippie style, Kai expects his interest will be reciprocated, with satisfying sex as the end goal. That's what usually happens. But Jamie's lessons in life have been harsher.

A NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas...

Peggy Iverson fears working at the camp with Gavin McKenzie, but she agrees to it since he convinces her he is a new man. Gavin is counseled by Reverend Billy Croft, and learns some truths that change his life. He hates that Peggy fears him, and he sets out to show her he is reborn in Christ. One thing leads to another at camp, and he ends up asking Peggy if he can court her in order to convince Violet to forgive and forget, but he falls in love with Peggy in the process. Violet gives him an impossible ultimatum, instead. Which offer will he chose?

The Main World, the Nether, and the End That's right: Minecraft has not one, not two, but three different worlds for you to explore. The Main World is the one you start out in, and where you'll be spending most of your time. As the game progresses, however, you'll find ways into the Nether, which is a dark, mysterious place full of unique resources for you to use to improve your tools, equipment, and other creations and is accessed through Nether portals.

Matt Moyer is an orphaned teen growing up on a primitive farm in the Pennsylvania coal region. He's homeschooled by his eccentric and philosophical great-uncle, who's a stickler for logic, reason, and intellectual honesty. Despite his uncle's reverence for veracity, inconsistencies arise regarding the old man's shady past and the teen's parents. Through a harrowing sequence of events, Matt is forced to attend a public school. The feral teen finds it difficult to cope with the hypocrisy, propaganda, and misinformation that adults and children so readily accept.

It's Emmy and Daniel's first wedding anniversary. They're having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. Some people recognize Emmy for being in charge of the biggest change in Sky Valley's police department, courtesy of the sacking of Lena McMahon, the woman who almost destroyed Emmy's life during the past year. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room: a woman has died.

Disruption - the brutal roiling of markets, the decline of long-established brands and products, and the rise of new upstarts - drives business failure and success. Most people think technology causes disruption, but technology merely enables it. Changing customer needs cause disruptions, and too many businesses get caught unaware. Suman Sarkar offers proven strategies that will enable any business to stay radically close to its customers and address their evolving needs.

In the year 2089, man's first faster-than-light space flight is about to begin, but where it ends will be filled with action, adventure, and the unknown! The Cagliostro is an experimental space craft that is destined to begin man's first faster-than-light voyage beyond his solar system and into a greater universe filled with dangerous adversaries, intrigue, and a deadly conspiracy set to tear humanity apart!

Dr. Peter Kalos has no idea that he’s about to find himself at odds with a vicious drug dealer when his work at the hospital leads him to discover a heinous crime perpetrated against a child. Clint Wolf, an infamous hitman known as “The Black Stallion” is brought in to silence the physician, now the lone witness for the prosecution. Clint’s style of murder branded a natural kill relies on high-tech surveillance. He stalks his prey, finds their weaknesses, and then orchestrates a death that seems to be from natural causes.

Carter Lynch was an outsider, an army brat transfer. He had what it took to be a star. He was focused, talented...violent. Carter didn’t join the football team to make friends or win championships. He didn’t care about anything but taking a starting spot, earning a scholarship, and leaving. Until he met Sara and Ben. Ben was desperate to fit in, desperate for the same starting spot, and desperate for the same girl. The uneasy friends were on a collision course that would change everything.

In A Surgeon under Israeli Occupation, author Dr. Shawki Harb chronicles his experiences about life, Palestine, and medicine that he’s witnessed throughout 50 years of a surgical practice.

Mark believes he has finally shed his destructive past. Reunited with the brother he had believed to be dead for most of his life, Mark's life detours again when he learns of a younger sister also abandoned by their parents. Desperate to find her, Mark and Davey travel thousands of miles turning over the rocks of their past. Discovering the truth veiled behind layers of lies is daunting, but the Brewer brothers vow to leave no stone unturned.

A handsome, young urban professional awakens inside his cavernous high-rise apartment. He is an emotionless drone of a man content with his self-structured regiment and amazing wealth, and he is totally oblivious to his abnormal lifestyle. He keeps reliving the same day over and over, barely able to remember anything from the day before and unable to maintain mental order as he stumbles through his strange existence. One day, his routine is interrupted when seven strangers separately appear. Everything slams to a halt as they tell him that his physical body is in a coma and his consciousness is currently in a purgatory-like realm.