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Orphaned in NY, five teenagers are nearly killed by the man who made them orphans. They are saved at the last minute by Roman Centurions, long feared destroyed. The five uncover the details of their parents' death, the origin of their inherited abilities, and the truth about the darkness that comes for them all.

Word Come Alive: is an expanded translation of the New Testament of the Bible by respected editor Martin Manser; supplies linking phrases and background information to help make its message more immediately understandable; aims to express the sense of the original in contemporary, natural English that will have a powerful effect on listeners with a fresh, incisive quality that will make listeners sit up and think.

From respected editor Martin Manser comes Ephesians: Word Come Alive, an expanded translation of the New Testament of the Bible. Ephesians: Word Come Alive aims to help make its message more immediately understandable by expressing the sense of the original in contemporary, natural English that will have a powerful effect on listeners. Its fresh, incisive quality will make listeners sit up and think.

Featuring Steve Carell and Amy Morton, Sin is a contemporary morality play about a helicopter traffic reporter who is trying to keep herself above life's messiness. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband is a charming alcoholic, her roommate is a glutton, she's trapped daily in a helicopter with an envious coworker, and her blind dates are disasters. It takes her dying brother to make her see that pride is the deadliest of sins, and it takes an Act of God to bring her back down to Earth.

Celina had never meant to fall in love–certainly with a Gaelorian. As soon as she had given her heart to Gorvan, he had shattered it upon the wall of her tavern for all to see. Love was for fools, she realized, and she had become the grand jester in a court of misery. Cynical and guarded, she held her secrets close. But when the crazed monk Rogart arrived–cursed with dreams of what was to come--she realized she had been discovered. The demons of Nolagarg were close, and once they found her, she would be a slave to them once more.

As soon as Gorvan became ruler of the desolate backwater town of Teargarden, a host of new refugees flooded in—every one of them desperate, hungry, and their own unique brand of trouble.

In The Boy King’s Tale, two entwined love stories, young and old, lead to betrayal, murder and the near overthrow of a kingdom in this epic story of son and bride, mother and lover, in the extraordinary true story adventure of the earliest days of one of England’s most revered kings, Edward III.

An heiress who is terrified of glass, a failed actor facing a gunman on a rooftop, a dentist up a tree, first love, honeymoon romance at the tomb of the Aga Khan, the surprising secrets of a very old lady....

Six original tales of terror to chill the blood and delight the soul. A man finds himself terrified of going upstairs. Disturbing events take place after a stranger checks into a lonely hotel. Two schoolboys learn about an unexpected horror of the battlefields of World War I. An old lady daren't go into her own garden because of what she fears is waiting for her. A birdwatcher sees something that opens the door on a chilling tragedy that is not yet over. A couple set off on a round-the-world cruise unaware that it will also prove to be their last.

When the wild Sanjeror Rastag killed her family, Maldara swore revenge. She tracks him to the Xordom of Teargarden, a mysterious city where Murks and humans live together surrounded by untrustworthy merchants and evil Sanjerors.

The redemption of the Erimocan Manaar had been incomplete. They had sought vindication, from any connections they had to the Reaping, through the eradication of the evil that they had failed to contain. But the true redemption of the Erimocans would never exist without a return to balance. The Immersion at the Windbeck County Fair was only the beginning of a struggle for that balance.

Therolim despaired to see what Xorvan was becoming. For the past decade, the Xor's mood was turning dark, and now he was threatening to destroy the Empire. Xorvan was supposed to be the Zordaedre—the one foretold in prophecy who would one day change the world. But change it into what? Am I fighting for the wrong side? Therolim wondered, but in his heart he knew a terrible truth: There was only one way for Teargarden to survive. He must assassinate Xorvan....