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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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

 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 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.

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. 

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?

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 victim's spirits to the hereafter.

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.

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.

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.

How would you cope if everything and everybody you ever loved - your friends, your family, your very identity - were suddenly gone? Hans Kokx was born in a small town in the suburbs of Detroit to a middle-class family. Life should have been easy: go to school, do well, go to college, get a job, have a family, grow old, and die surrounded by loved ones. Life rarely happens the way we expect it to, though. 

Sarah Keller and her live-in boyfriend, Sheriff Dave Chandler figured it was all over with the serial killer following Sarah from their last adventure. They had no idea of the danger from this new serial killer now stalking their sleepy little town dropping headless bodies all over the place. He claims they are gifts for Dave and after a threatening note, Dave must also protect Sarah. Along with two FBI agents and a bounty hunter, they go after the killer before he can take his revenge out on Dave and Sarah in this second of the Fatal Murder series.

Doyle decides to take a huge windfall of money from recovering Egyptian artifacts and take a vacation. He closes the business and go to Paradise, Hawaii. His new girlfriend, Poppy Drake, has decided to go along, and Doyle's secretary, Marge, is invited. Now in Hawaii, on a very secluded, private island, Doyle, Poppy, and Marge are loving the sun, sand, and the ocean, but they are drawn into the murders of guests. Doyle realizes he must solve the killings before Poppy, Marge, or himself become victims. Will he save Paradise before it becomes a living hell?

In this third of the Doyle, P.I. books, Doyle is hired by the curator of a Detroit Art Gallery. It seems nine valuable Egyptian statues were stolen from the gallery. They were replaced with fakes, and the gallery doesn't want the Egyptians to know their artifacts are missing. So Doyle and his partner Oscar Drew go on a hunt for the missing objects.