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We often encounter unexpected questions and complexities that can challenge our faith. Faith is Not Blind offers fresh concepts and tools that will help readers learn from these experiences, rather than feeling disillusioned by them. Award-winning authors Bruce and Marie Hafen draw upon a lifetime of experiences in Church service, college teaching, and parenthood to help listeners embrace both the spiritual and the intellectual aspects of the gospel.

He was my best friend before he was my enemy. I’m a nobody at Black Falls High. When the school’s mean queen forces me to my knees in front of the student body, everything changes. Now, I’m back on my former best friend’s radar. And this time, he has his new crew and “no” isn’t part of their vocabulary. When a night out puts me in a compromising position, I’m at their mercy. If they don’t keep my secret, it could destroy more than my friendship. They own me. And my former best friend is making it his mission to ruin me. But not if I ruin them first.

In this landmark modern-day rendition of the ancient Taoist classic, Ursula K. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment: find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

Dans Ubik, Philip K. Dick réunit tous les grands thèmes de la SF : la télépathie, le voyage dans le temps, la porosité entre le monde des vivants et celui des morts, et le développement des machines automatiques. Joe Chip, spécialisé dans la traque des télépathes, est envoyé sur la Lune avec d'autres agents pour neutraliser une autre équipe qui pourrait nuire à leur intérêt. Ce voyage sera-t-il irréversible ?

I feel like I've been fighting my whole life, and tapping out has never been an option. I can live with owing money to the Morettis. I can even live with the constant guilt that my brother is the one paralyzed in a hospital bed while I live his dream. What I can't live with is Elio Moretti, second in command to the infamous crime family, showing up to all my fights, sitting in the front row, watching me like he can't look away, and barging into the locker room to patch up my wounds and invade my space.

Ahsoka Tano, leal aprendiz Jedi de Anakin Skywalker, planejou passar o resto de sua vida servindo à Ordem Jedi. Mas, após uma dolorosa traição, deixou a Ordem e seguiu seu próprio caminho; imaginando que Anakin e os outros Jedi ainda estariam lá sempre que precisasse deles–ou eles precisassem dela. Então o Imperador assumiu a galáxia, e os Jedi foram cruelmente assassinados. Agora Ahsoka está realmente sozinha, sentindo-se incapaz de fazer parte de algo maior novamente.

Is there such thing as love at first bar fight? I may be small and pretty, but what I lack in intimidation factor, I make up for in violence. I made a vow five years ago that the motorcycle club responsible for my brother’s death would pay the price, and I’m finally ready to collect. May God have mercy on the men who hurt my brother, because I don’t plan to.

Eight months ago, I was a naive, small-town farm girl nursing a shattered heart. Then hotel billionaire Henry Wolf picked me up off the ground (literally), and my entire life changed. Now, I live in a luxurious Manhattan penthouse, and I'm starting my first company while planning a beautiful wedding to the man of my dreams. I knew these first months would bring plenty of drama. I expected the savage media attention surrounding our engagement, and I braced myself for Mama's theatrics about the wedding.

Investigative reporter June Reilly has been searching for reclusive billionaire Dom Logane for years. It shouldn't be possible for someone so rich and famous to just vanish off the map, and yet somehow he has. When a mysterious contact tells her that she knows exactly where the billionaire is, many possibilities occur about what the man might be up too. What she isn't prepared for, though, is to be taken to an underwater facility, built by Logane in secret, stocked with terrifying aquatic creatures from prehistory and myth from every corner of the world.

I thought once we released the curse, I'd only have one enemy to contend with. Wrong. The queen lives. Not only that, but she knowingly hid herself from me and the rest of this kingdom until the moment the curse was broken. Now she is back, and her desires aren't clear. Neither are her motives.

When the band manager, Archer, hires Bennett to keep me from screwing up while the band is on hiatus, I may have finally met someone who won’t take my attitude lying down. With the three of us cooped up together for weeks on end, I have a feeling things might get interesting.

The kingdom stands on the brink of chaos. Atticus's grip on the realm is faltering, and as threats arise ever closer to home he is driven to increasingly desperate acts to hold onto power. With Islor's fate now in the balance, Zander stands to defend the Rift from the oncoming Ybarisan army. With the king's forces scattered, he must risk unlikely new alliances. And behind the walls of Ulysede, secrets wait for its new queen. Romeria knows that the paths of the hidden city will lead her to answers. But will they be enough to save the realm—or is their fate already sealed?

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

Once, there was a girl named Kiki, who found a fish on the asphalt. The fish was very hot and very dry. But when Kiki put it in the bathtub, it started swimming, and growing, and . . . speaking? "I want to grant you a wish for saving me," it said. A wish-granting fish! Alas, this fish was only a fish of small wishes, and Kiki’s wish was too big. Unless . . . there was a way for both their dreams to come true.

Tudo começou com o convite. Para o novo casamento do meu ex-noivo. Deveria tê-lo ignorado. Jogado fora ou ateado fogo. Mas não fiz nada disso. Eu respondi dizendo que iria e levaria um acompanhante. E então, acidentalmente, minha assistente o enviou pelo correio. É aí que Hayes Whitley entra em cena. Estrela de cinema. O homem que conquistou o coração de milhões de pessoas. Entreguei o meu a ele há anos. Ele foi meu primeiro amor. Era meu tudo. Bem, até ir embora para correr atrás dos seus sonhos sem nem me dizer adeus.

I signed on the dotted line. A marriage contract to seal my union with the devil. I thought I knew what I was doing. His money and name were mine for the taking. But Camden Percy always gets exactly what he wants. And what he wants is me - my body, my obedience, my surrender. He wants to break me. But I'm Katherine Van Pelt. I'll never break. I'll never beg. I'll never give in. Except I promised him one more thing - a baby.

City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker.

"Compartes los pensamientos y las emociones con el Señor Tenebroso. El director cree que no es conveniente que eso continúe ocurriendo. Quiere que te enseñe a cerrar tu mente al Señor Tenebroso." La oscuridad se ciñe sobre Hogwarts. Tras el ataque de los dementores a su primo Dudley, Harry Potter sabe que Voldemort no se detendrá ante nada hasta dar con él. Hay muchos que niegan la vuelta del Señor Tenebroso, pero Harry no está solo.