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One day, Nick Winters gets a package in the mail. Inside is a hat. However, this hat is more than just a black fedora. It is infused with the latest technology that will enhance Nick's already amazing abilities to near-superhuman levels. The problem is that some other people want that technology back. People who helped design it but now want to use it for nefarious purposes. Oh, and each time he uses the hat, it's also slowly killing him.

The two dragons have slept for 2,000 long years. They embody the worst of humanity's fears. They have dreamt of destruction and fire and smoke. Now they're heading out west, these two blasts from the past. Their intentions are cruel. The die has been cast. But a quest has begun for a shield and a spear - the long-missing marvels the two dragons fear. And the prince and his friends join this perilous quest to discover the weapons and rescue the West.

Captured by bandits! Things couldn't get worse for Prince Martin and Ray in this story in verse! They're unarmed. They're tied up. No one knows they've been caught! These thieves are bad news, and their leader has got a most dastardly plan for the prince and Sir Ray.... They should never have entered the forest that day! Now they're hanging from snares that are tied to a tree. But sometimes things happen we cannot foresee.... What if one act of kindness can alter events? What if payback is owed to Sir Ray and the prince?

In the town of Littleworth, Shannon is desperate to take herself and her only brother away from the drugs and gangs that have overrun the town. With the law enforcement making the area a no-go zone, the corruption is rife. With one of her brothers and both parents dead, she has no intention of losing the only sibling she has left. Unfortunately for her, her brother has no intention of leaving.

It’s time to wake the sleeping giant in our world, in our communities, in our churches, and in our homes. There’s a revolution brewing, a sleeping giant coming out of a long slumber. For years, men have been sitting to the side, minding their own business, nursing their own wounds. But that time is reaching its end. Our wounds must surely be tended to, and our business must surely be minded. We are meant for greater things than these, and the world can no longer indulge our slumber.

Discerning a calling is a messy undertaking. You are already involved in many good things now, even as you are being called to many good things in your future. The good life - good work, good relationships, good citizenship, good faith - is to be enjoyed now and pursued on every horizon. We are living out the Kingdom of God even as we seek it.

What exactly is failing freely? It's a path to become the best possible version of yourself. It's the way to make every day an amazing day to be alive! It's how you become fulfilled by being mentally and physically healthy, growing and improving each day, and enjoying the journey of life. In The Journey To Failing Freely, Brandon LaBella dives into critical areas of life that we have allowed to slip out of our control and into society's hands. He explores questions like: How can I free myself from self-doubt and insecurity? How can I find my purpose?

The fun, sexy sleaze that really goes on at a movie set.

Sex, Hair, and Billionaires is about a Hollywood hairstylist whose life is catapulted into the high-end world of rock stars, billionaires, and celebrities. It's a behind the scenes look into the lives of some of the most famous and powerful people in the world. It's like being a trusted fly on the wall, but these walls are made of gold. As a hairstylist, you are exposed to your clients' lives in a way that most people never get to experience. The salon chair is better than alcohol, because when the blow dryer turns on, the gossip flows!

This biography of a seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Myrlie Evers-Williams (Evers's widow), his two remaining siblings, friends, grade-school-to-college schoolmates, and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father. Extensive archival work in the Evers Papers, the NAACP Papers, oral history collections, FBI files, Citizen Council collections, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Papers, to list a few, provides a detailed account of Evers's NAACP work and more.

Will has got a secret. He keeps that secret hidden in the field out back behind his house. Sam and Artie will do just whatever Will tells them to do because they know what Will's secret is, and they will do anything to make sure that Will doesn't lose his temper on them.

This is an extreme examination of fiction books. We take excerpts from popular novels from various chapters and we read them, trying to understand the writer's voice, writing structure, and more. Enjoy! Oh, and, if you were wondering, the main purpose of this is to learn how to write better fiction.

A young African American millennial filmmaker's funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City - a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious, life-threatening process" of gentrification.

Rob arrives in his home town to discover it is falling apart - literally. The plant life has suddenly overgrown the entire village and buildings are crumbling for no apparent reason. He thinks he's in town for a class reunion, but soon finds out he's been beckoned for a much darker reason.

Authentic leadership comes from inside - a place where logic meets emotion, where people connect with people, where character is contagious, strategy is simple, and people believe they are making a difference and are changing the world they live in.

When Scott Douglas found that his own image of Jesus was based more on culture than on fact, he wanted more. Join his search for the 100 percent organic, additive-free Jesus as he gently pokes fun at the culture that has grown up around Christianity. Entertaining, historically informative, and genuine, #OrganicJesus will serve as both a wake-up call and a guide to lead you to a faith rooted in truth, not hype.

Based on a lucid dream, this short story was inspired by Jack London's The Star Rover.

If you think you're getting out of control when you are angry then check out this guide.

For 18 years, Venathryn has been afflicted with the dreamplague. Slowly it has been festering in her mind, wreaking irrevocable damage to her in a place of supposed reverie. Finally having enough, her family employs the services of Maravek, the dreamwalker. Together, the two elves will find what horrors haunt Venathryn's dreams, and they will discover just how reliable our dreams are when they are plagued by guilt and regret.

Jim fumbled for the door lock, but it was too late. Malik had jumped inside. Malik didn't remember pulling the gun out of his waistband, but now it was pointed straight at Jim. "C'mon, man!" Malik yelled as he half ducked under the dash. "They're gonna kill me! Get us outta here!" So begins a night of tension, anxiety, and difficult conversations for Malik, a young black man from the inner city, and Jim, a middle-aged white man from the suburbs. Brought together by tragic circumstances, they must learn to trust each other....