When most people meet Jesus for the first time, they are wild and free, passionate and ready to embrace their Savior, which also means coming face-to-face with their brokenness. They are not ashamed to admit that they need Jesus to fix them. However, over time in their Christian walk, they start to forget the simple fact that all people are shattered glass and in constant need for Jesus to be the glue to hold them together. They start to play God and fashion themselves to be a perfect picture of what they think a Christian should look like in order to fit into the kingdom of God and do His work. The danger in this downward spiral is that not only does it cause Christ followers to fall because they are trying to fix themselves, but it also keeps new people from coming into the kingdom of God. Nonbelievers may feel as if they are not good enough. Playing the perfect Christian or church is a dangerous playground. The bride of Christ must embrace its constant need for the Savior so that more people will fall in love with Him, the one who seeks the broken to heal them and set them free. Do you find yourself running the hamster wheel of trying to be the perfect Christian? Are you exhausted and feel like if you let your foot slip just once, you will disappoint Jesus and turn the church away from your side? Trust me when I say that you can be free from the vicious cycle of perfectionism. Are you ready to embrace your brokenness and your constant need for a Savior? Only by learning this truth will you truly be set free. Freedom is near. Can you feel it?"

THE SOLDIER. THE LEGEND. THE HUNTED. When he woke up this morning he was just "a" suspect. Suddenly, Terran Defense Directorate Captain Daniel Briggs is the "only" suspect. Wanted for questioning in the murder of his ex-wife Anjelica, Daniel plunges headfirst into a quest meant to prove his innocence. What he finds instead are lies stacked upon half-truths and deceit. In the decadent back streets of Boomtown he begins an epic journey that will lead him into the very bowels of treachery. Armed only with his handicapped paranatural powers and a mind steeled by years of extraterrestrial combat, he combs the shadows of the city's underbelly in search of the truth, trying desperately to stay one step ahead of those who would stop him from discovering it. With the odds stacked against him, it seems a quest meant to fail from the start. But those who Daniel best, know to fear him, for it is when he's cornered that he is the most resilient. Will his legendary resilience be enough? How will he fare when the whole world seems bent on stopping him? Somewhere amidst it all, an invisible clock begins its countdown. When it reaches zero, mankind is doomed.

The high adventure of James Rollins meets the gripping suspense of Matthew Reilly in Robinson's explosive new thriller about an ex-Navy SEAL turned NCIS Special Agent sent to the world's only sub-oceanic research facility located off the Florida Keys.

This is a collection of metaphorical short stories created from bits of my life. When you have a negative experience, do you replay it over and over, allowing it to build upon itself, thereby magnifying those negative feelings? On the other hand, when you have a positive experience, do you replay that over and over, allowing it to build upon itself more and more feelings of joy? Do you find yourself attributing more aspects of good to the experience because of the uplifting feelings it brought to you? Couples who are in love often do this. In either case, the event is technically over with. Have you let those experiences go, or are you still living within them as if they were happening now? If the experience was negative, did you resolve it, or did you just bury it within the deep recesses of your mind, where it may be awakened from time to time in reaction to lifes continuing experiences? If it was positive, do you keep replaying it over and over as if there will be no more, thereby preventing yourself from creating and enjoying even better ones? Since the experiences, however you would describe them, have already happened, you can now rewrite the memory, or story, of any of them in a way that allows you to let them go using the information and understanding you have assimilated since then. If negative, you can take the bitter foods of those experiences, the spinach, turnips, and liver, then add spices and sauces of understanding, forgiveness, and love and let them pass out of your consciousness leaving you free to create a buffet of even more tasteful and delicious life experiences! The metaphorical foods that came my way may not have been ones I would have consciously chosen, yet I have now made them palatable adding value to my life and allowing me to let them go and move on. So can you. This is a portion of my buffet of stories. What are yours?

Trish Adams never imagined her new job at Audlin Motors would alter her life trajectory so profoundly. It was there she met, fellow design engineer, Solomon Voss. He, quite incidentally, invents a technology that could potentially change the course of human history. An invention that gets the unwanted attention of corporations that stand to lose billions if Solomon's invention were to be revealed to the world. The unscrupulous oil giant - Glaxon - is the first of the corporations to put measures in place to steal Solomon's technology. To hide it away in a secret underground warehouse, where it will only gather dust, never to see the light of day. But is that enough? Trish teams up with Roberta Voss, Solomon's sister, as they are embroiled in a high stakes game of cat and mouse as attempts are made to erase the invention, and eventually the inventor, from existence.

“He’s going to be a great responsibility and he’s not going to change...” The story of a dyslexic 18-year-old, who just happend to be gay, and how with love he did change, not only his own life but the lives of those around him.

'Dear Damian Lewis, I have seen all your television series and really admire your work. I especially liked you in Band of Brothers, and think you're a very good actor. It would be wonderful if we ever had the chance to meet up, perhaps at a social function?' Love, Becky x. After watching Band of Brothers on television Ruby Reed develops a crush on the actor Damian Lewis and becomes convinced that it is their destiny to meet. She enlists the reluctant help of TV Documentary Producer, Jack Green, and her hapless friend Sally. "e;.... so I am going to write something and invite Damian Lewis to be in it"e;. "e;Ah!"e; said Jack simply. She creates her alter ego, Becky, who tells the story through her eyes. (It then becomes a screenplay within a story and a film within a book.) Becky imagines a letter from Damian Lewis; 'Dear Becky, I was thrilled to get your letter and thank you for your comments about my work. I am passing your area of East Sheen and may well drop by if you say it is ok. Damian. Kiss. P.S. Is it ok if I wear my World War Two uniform?' 'Your book sounds hilarious' Toby Young, Author How to Lose Friends and Alienate People '****ing excellent' Jimmy McGovern, Screenwriter extraordinaire creator of The Street.

Learning To Love...Again Idyllic Goose Harbor, Michigan, offers a fresh start for broken-hearted Paige Windom. In addition to securing a teaching job at the high school, she'll fulfill her dream of helping at-risk teens in a nearby inner-city mentoring program. But Caleb Beck, a handsome yet overprotective widower and the center's founder, doesn't want Paige anywhere near the place. He's afraid she'll get hurt--just like his late wife. Paige knows she can do a lot of good--for the kids and Caleb himself. If only she can show him how to let go of his fear, maybe they'll both find a way to reopen their wounded hearts. Goose Harbor: Love is in big supply on the shores of Lake Michigan.

"The dark humor, a small community in a regional mystery, and a strong supporting cast of believable characters will appeal to Margaret Maron's readers." —Library Journal STARRED review Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved—anything! First, the Grand Marshal, NC Secretary of Agriculture Graham James, is attacked by a gunman and Barry's Uncle Wayne is critically wounded in the melee. The assailant is killed. Then, when the body of a convenience store owner is discovered less than an hour later with the gunman's food stamp card in his wallet, the case escalates. Two men dead. What is the connection? Barry and Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins swiftly learn their small town offers no protection against big-time crime. The body count rises as the scope of their homicide investigation crosses into the realm of the U.S. Marshals and their secretive Witness Protection Program. To penetrate its walls, Barry and Tommy Lee resort to a most unlikely ally: Archie. Is the insurance agent, generally a victim of his own hare-brained schemes, capable of breaking the case, or will Archie find a way to become another of its casualties? The trio's secret undertaking into a convoluted conspiracy becomes a fight for survival in a world filled with betrayals where it's impossible to know which people to trust.

College senior Lily Hammilton is on the verge of earning her psychology degree and starting a career as a general therapist. But during class, she receives an urgent message from her brother. The news is not good: their father, terminally ill from cancer, has passed away. At the reading of the will, Lily discovers she has inherited all her father’s money. The strangest item she receives, however, is a ferry ticket to Nantucket. As a child, Lily and her father traveled to the island every summer. But why would her father want her to go now, without him? Regardless of his motives, Lily seizes on the opportunity to get away for a while and regroup. Once on the island, she lands a summer job at a bookstore; finds a new friend in Regina, a fun-spirited teacher looking for adventure; and becomes inundated with childhood memories. Yet matters of the heart begin to ensnare her when she meets Ryan, a handsome, shy young man who instantly captivates her. But Lily soon discovers that becoming the woman she was meant to be means finding herself while also embracing those around her—a task that proves easier said than done.