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This book explains the gospel of the grace of God (God's unmerited favor extended to everyone, everywhere) and is designed to empower individual Christians to stand confidently and securely in the favor of God. 

Camp Lakewood seems the perfect place for Ginny and her students to learn survival tactics. The camp is serene and peaceful, at least it seems that way. But Camp Lakewood holds a very gruesome and deadly past which Ginny is unaware of. The terror is unleashed on the campers as soon as they arrive. Terrifying sights can be seen in the water, a man with a knife terrorizes the campers, and a couple bearing horrific wounds beg for help. Ginny soon believes she is losing her mind as the terror reigns on. 

It's the early twentieth century, and the tragic deaths of her mother and two younger siblings have left Grace Harmon responsible for raising her sister Miriam and protecting her from their abusive father Luther, a zealot preacher with a penchant for speaking in Biblical verse who is on a downward spiral toward insanity. In the midst of his delusions, Luther believes God has abandoned him and devises a plan to get back into His good graces.

It is the late 1800s, and a shameful time in American history. The US Government has mandated native tribes send their young people to Indian schools where they are stripped of their native heritage by people they think of as The Others. Otter and Sun Song are betrothed to be married when they turn 18. But when they are sent east to school, Otter, renamed Gideon, tries to adapt, while Sun Song does not, resulting in brutal attacks from the school headmaster. Gideon turns for comfort to Wendy Thatcher, the daughter of a wealthy school patron.

James-Cyrus Hoffmann has just inherited his grandfather's farm, and with it a mysterious cabin deep in the woods on Hoffmann mountain, a cabin he has dreamed about since childhood. When James-Cyrus enters the cabin, he is vaulted back through time to the Civil War era, where he meets Elizabeth, the brave young woman who lives there, and Malachi, a runaway slave.

Out of the Darkness and into the Light is an examination of the power of the human soul and spirit, as seen through the eyes of those who have faced up to their own inner demons - and won the battle between good and evil.

Charlie has risked his academic career, and his relationship with his son, to pursue the legendary creature known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Charlie's son Rick thinks Bigfoot is a hoax, but at the same time he wants to connect with his father - and with Katy, Charlie's new protege. Katy believes in Bigfoot and desperately wants to see one face-to-face.

Famous novelist Rhys Carter loved to take long walks through his beech tree forest. It was relaxing, and the walks helped him think through the writer's block that oft times visited him while working on a novel. Today though, was different. This time he had been following the smell and sight of a stream of smoke coming from his woods. What had brought him here today was the need to find the source of the smoke. Where it led him was to something he had never seen before.

Overcoming fear is not about getting rid of everything scary in your life. Living life without fear is not about locking out emotions so that you don't feel fear. It isn't even about tricking your mind into believing there is nothing to be afraid of. So what is it about? Some of us deal with the fear of something to the point it becomes a phobia. Others of us accept our fear as a normal part of life, not realizing how much it is holding us back from a better life. The list of potential things to fear is long.

Equal parts riveting and stirring, Carter takes a staple of campfires and rainy nights - the ghost story - into surprising new territory in this collection. No gore or gratuitous splatter here - these tales are meant to raise the hairs on the back of the neck and leave the reader feeling quietly discomfited hours after reading. These five tales have all the makings of good ghost stories with a touch of strange thrown in for good measure.

While students and townsfolk gallantly fight a hoard of infected zombies, a voodoo princess leads a hilarious quest to locate ghost zombies, eradicate the undead dead, and set the zombiefied spirits free. Because what could be worse than a ghost town without any ghosts?

Thirty-four years have passed since Kevin Reynolds perpetrated the most heinous crime the citizens of Carver, Montana had ever witnessed in their small, alpine community. Now, Kevin's great nephew, Mitch, has found a bundle of old letters written by Kevin to his father in 2001, the year of Kevin's execution. His curiosity piqued, Mitch has recruited two of his good friends to hike up to the Blind Valley caldera and scout out the scene of the crimes of 1969 and to try to find the hidden cave where the old mountain man, Sam Elliott, once lived.

Anthony Saxon, a mysterious troubleshooter better known as The Man with the Green Eyes, suddenly finds himself and his two aides involved in the mystery of the Purple Goblin and his unholy plans to spread death and destruction across the land.

This work is an examination of Darwin's theory of evolution, in particular his belief in competition as the driving force behind human development.

Lucid dreaming sounds like something out of the occultic spiritual text, or even something out of a futuristic novel about the capabilities of our species. But it is something very real! Even old mainstream religious texts and modern science cannot deny its existence. It is a way to explore ourselves, and some speculate the entire universe. Many arguments exist on the capabilities of the dream world, but no one can argue that it doesn't exist. In this book, we will explore lucid dreaming and, most importantly, how to do it.

A heavy equipment operator discovers an artificial cave while cutting blocks from a limestone quarry. He plans to investigate alone, but an archaeology student bullies him into letting her join his underground foray. The two declare an uneasy truce when an ancient installation that predates humans unexpectedly sends them through a wormhole to another planet—one with creatures from Earth’s past.

Ask any kid in Rumors Mill and they’ll tell you the same thing. Playing anywhere around the old Monkey Farm was completely off limits. The dark branches of the woods surrounding the abandoned lab held whispers of secret government experiments, and creatures that lurked the property at night on both two legs and four. So it was no real surprise when Effin and his friends decided to spend one fateful summer day in those same woods, one of them didn’t make it out alive.