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The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Moral Choices: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points...

What would you trade for love? Your dreams? Wynn and Dyfan have escaped the pits of Cwm Or, but there is no safety in their homeland, Rhosan. When a desperate flight leaves them stranded on the other side of the world, they'll be forced to choose between fighting for something they don't believe in or being outcasts again.

When snow falls, sparks fly in this irresistible queer romance from Schneider Family Book Award and Stonewall Honor winner Mariama J. Lockington—for fans of She Gets the Girl and Jennifer Dugan. High school senior Lyric has always found Christmas to be the hardest season. While other kids got...

Pain. Cold. Falling. Floating. And then, a set of emerald green eyes staring down at me. Death was supposed to be easy. It was what I’ve been longing for, what I’ve been working towards. The last thing I expected was for me to fight harder in death than I ever did in life. It’s been three months since I joined my mates in the Underworld. Three months of training my powers, my deadly affinity, with the blue-haired demon who likes to garden. But I still can’t defeat him. King Balthazar.

Lauren Rae thought she had it all sussed out. Leaving her awkward teenage years in the past, the future was hers for the taking. Why shouldn’t she have it all? Dream job, beautiful home, perfect man, great friends… Like Whitney said, ‘I’m Every Woman’―and that’s just who Lauren would be too. But growing up a young black woman in the early noughties wasn’t quite the dream Lauren had envisioned. Unpaid internships, disappointing men and lying friends challenged her mental strength and pushed her towards the wine bottle.

This audiobook is a collection of posts from the author's blog, Leading the Follower. The goal of this blog is to work towards removing the animosity that exists between followers of Christ who subscribe to different doctrinal approaches and beliefs about what is expected of a "good" Christian.

Two centuries ago, nearly half the North American diet was foraged, hunted, or caught in the wild. Today, so-called “wild foods” are becoming expensive luxuries, served to the wealthy in top restaurants. Meanwhile, people who depend on wild foods for survival and sustenance find their lives forever changed as new markets and roads invade the world’s last untamed landscapes. In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods.

Grief: Poetry of Loss & the Love Left Behind is a raw and intimate collection of poems and illustrations that explores the many shapes grief takes when love has nowhere else to go. Written in spare, aching language, Kaylin Wingfield traces loss through moments both quiet and unbearable: the weight of memory, the absence of touch, the future that never arrived, and the love that refuses to disappear. These poems speak to the grief of losing a sibling, husband, child, a parent, grandparent, friend, a partner, a beloved animal, and even the living who are no longer reachable.

A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself "A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood." —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood Growing...

Elias Cain has always been loyal to The Bloodtide and its ruthless captain, Redmond. But when Isla Marlowe, a merchant’s daughter, is taken captive, Elias’s hardened exterior begins to crack. Torn between his growing affection for Isla and his loyalty to the crew, Elias faces an impossible choice when Redmond decides to sell her to a rival pirate lord.

The walls hold secrets no one else can hear. The mirror shows a perfect life—beauty, wealth, happiness. But behind the door, the truth is far darker. The air feels heavy, every moment filled with quiet threats. Every step is careful, every breath fragile. He’s always watching. Always waiting. "Sometimes, doing the right thing means breaking everything you’ve ever stood for. There’s only so much a person can take. The lies, the hurt, the pressure to keep everything together—it can break you." This isn’t a story with a happy ending. It’s about survival.

Why do so many organizations struggle with leadership? It's not because employees lack intelligence or motivation. It's because the system is broken. Leaders are often chosen for the wrong reasons: they've been around the longest, they excelled as individual contributors, or someone simply had to fill the role. Rarely are they promoted because they were intentionally developed, taught to think critically, or given the chance to practice ownership before stepping into authority.

What should we do? That is the question at the heart of the Christian life. Outlining the distinctive elements of Christian ethics, this updated edition of Moral Choices Video Lectures, designed to go alongside the Moral Choices, 5th Edition textbook, reflects upon a variety of ethical issues to...

How many loves do you get in a lifetime? And are Magnolia and BJ each other's one and only? It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and since then it seems like everything has changed. Magnolia has a life...

Carolyn Summers was a well known author who wrote steamy, romantic books, even though her own love life was less than satisfactory. Perhaps that was why she was having these interactions with people while on her retreat to write. Her agent had rented a cabin near the Sequoia National Forest so she would have solitude and quiet to get the next book completed on time. The problem was all these interruptions! People knocking on the cabin door, pulling her from her computer, and throwing drama into her life. But these were not normal unknown people! And why were they showing up now of all times?

Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series! How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia and BJ are in the stars, but is that enough? Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what’s been dubbed “the...

In this heartwarming and hilarious memoir, former humor columnist and newspaper publisher Anne Spry shares decades of personal columns that shine a humorous light on the everyday struggles and joys of parenting, aging, home repair gone wrong, and life with a city-boy-turned-country-husband.

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history. It is undeniable that President Barack Obama has changed the United States...

This YA Dystopian Fantasy follows Layden Prier, a timid yet determined girl, competing to join the ruling-elite, whose visions lead her to uncover their secrets instead. Layden Prier, a timid yet determined girl from the Outlayers, has always believed in the Council’s mission. To her, they are humanity’s lifeboat, and joining their ranks is her only chance at a life worth living. But to do so, she must survive the Generational Trials—a grueling competition where her mind is transferred into the body of a Host, and her goal, to prove her worth at any cost.

You didn't see it coming. Somewhere along the way, people who never took the time to know you decided they knew everything about you—your motives, your worth, your integrity. Your character is up for debate, and you weren't invited to the conversation. In an age where character attacks have become routine, we're expected to brush it off and keep going. But if this is the new normal, what comes next? What do we lose when destroying someone's reputation carries no weight?