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For centuries, people have been fascinated by stories of angel sightings, yet many contemporary beliefs about them are based on misconception and myth rather than solid, biblical truth. Responding to our modern cultural interest in angels, popular Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah provides an in-depth, biblical look at these agents of heaven and their role in our world and our lives.

To be a bookseller or librarian...you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'. In this love letter to the heroes of literacy, James Patterson uncovers true stories from booksellers and librarians.

Challenging times will come, but great leaders know how to lead their teams and emerge even stronger - prepare yourself now using this helpful guide to personal and professional success.

You’ve strived to be your best in every step of your career. Now you’re starting a new leadership role, one with more responsibility in areas and organizations where your experience is limited. The template for success you’ve always relied on may no longer apply. In Changing Altitude, Dennis O’Neil and Greg Hiebert provide you with a framework for optimizing your impact and maximizing growth. Dennis and Greg show you how to identify values that underscore who you are as a leader, define what success means to your organization, and take your team into the future.

Vocational discernment, says R. Paul Stevens, is a lifelong process - one that takes on even more significance in later life. Stevens argues that our calling does not end with formal retirement; to the contrary, we do well to keep on working, if possible, till life’s end. Stevens delves into matters of calling, spirituality, and legacy in retirement, showing that we must continue to discern our vocation as we grow older in order to remain meaningfully engaged for the rest of our lives. He reframes retirement as a time of continued calling and productivity.

We each have a unique purpose in this life, one embedded within us by the Creator of the universe before time began. Yet we rarely experience this greatness because the glory of God within us is still waiting to be uncovered. So we spend our lives running after the wrong goals. However, Stephen Chandler believes God created everyone, including you, for greatness . . . and doesn’t want anything to get in the way of that destiny. In Stop Waiting for Permission, you’ll discover the keys to unlock your unique calling and activate your innate, God-given strengths.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victims' spirits to the hereafter. They are asked by their captain to help his brother-in-law once again. It seems the company has a job to clean out an abandoned mental asylum in northern Michigan under restoration. The workers won't go in the buildings, fearing the ghost inhabiting four buildings.

Detroit homicide detective Russ Baker has been sent to work the Cold Case Division due to a screwup he committed on a case. He was all alone in the basement office until he was visited by an unlikely partner. A dead former detective who was now an annoying ghost. Would the ghost help him solve the cold cases, allowing the murdered victims to go on to the hereafter?

How We Can Build a Better World is a practical guide for building a better world. This is a realistic objective because, with the awakening catalyzed by the global crisis, we can now change the world. This manual shows how we can change it effectively and for the better.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter. Mary receives a call from her mother telling her that her father had died. Mary and Russ go back to Mary's home town and discover more than the heart attack that was reported. They dig into the death and find it was murder.

In today’s polarized context, Christians often have committed, biblical rationales for very different positions. How can Christians navigate disagreements with both truth and love? Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer provide lessons from conflict theory and church history on how to negotiate differing biblical convictions in order to move toward Christian unity.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases, and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victims' spirits to the hereafter. Their captain comes to them with a problem: It seems that the old Michigan Central Train Station has ghosts haunting the workers who are trying to clean out the station for renovation. They find seven ghosts who all have cases of murder forcing them to haunt the station.

Getting bored with residential real estate? Do the exact same thing in the commercial space for ten times the profit—with no extra time, money, risk, or corporate red tape. Most commercial real estate books leave you with plenty of information but no idea where to start. That’s why Commercial Real Estate Investing provides one simple, proven, step-by-step roadmap for doing your first commercial deal. Stop competing against rookies who watched an HGTV episode and decided they were house flippers. Everything you need to find and fund your first deal is right here.

The year is 2023, and things are bad—bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they’re leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it’s Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of Cold Cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim's spirits to the hereafter.

1871—Manistee County, Michigan. The lumber industry is the predominant and most powerful business in Northern Michigan and is used to doing whatever it wants to do, wherever it wants. It is trampling on the rights of a small group of homesteaders whose small 80-acre farms surround Portage Lake. A dam is used to operate a water wheel-driven sawmill, and when the dam's gates are closed, Portage Lake floods the homesteaders' otherwise tillable land. The Cut tells the David and Goliath story of the farmers' resolve to overcome Big Lumber's abuse.

Jake Wyler bought a cemetery. It was one of those impulse buys and now he was having to spend a large portion of his life savings to be a property owner. He had returned to his hometown to find his life turned upside down and involved in murder, missing money, and love letters. He meets an old high school classmate, and she handles his money in the bank where she works. Jake has no idea how to run a cemetery, and since the former owner was murdered, he was now really lost.

US Army Major David Keller was already identified as one of those leaders who would one day become a general. A West Point graduate with six combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was the consummate professional soldier - until a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences. Then, he would end his wheelchair-bound agony by taking his own life. But his family, community, and a woman, Maggie McCall - someone he tried to forget - begin to show him otherwise.

Core values are the things we care about. Jack Fallon has based the foundation of his company, Total Life Changes (TLC) on his personal core values. Jack wants to share with others how these seven core values became the driving force of how he lives his life and manages his company. Each chapter highlights one core value and provides insight into his life, the people who mean the most to him, along with the journey to get him where he is today. Jack hopes to inspire others by sharing his personal story.

With Ultimate Vacation, Randy Carver shares the personal vision planning process that he and his team have developed and refined to help thousands of clients maintain and advance their standard of living. You'll learn how to define what's important today and create a vision for what the future looks like.