Live Hard

PAST AND FUTURE CLASH in the final book of the globe-spanning paleontology thriller that began with Living Memory. The threat of extinction by killer organism leads to world war as national powers vie to control the powerful technology uncovered in Thailand. Samira and her team are on the run from the United States, even as a Chinese scientist mirrors their discoveries and resists her own government's demands. Will the ancient creatures they found turn the tide and save humanity before it tears itself apart?

With refreshing honesty, candor, grace, and ease, Johnny Sirpilla—a master storyteller—serves as our guide through a life story that seems too traumatic to be true, yet true it is. Johnny and Susan Sirpilla were a happily married couple. Like so many couples, they wanted to be parents. This is their astonishing story that included 13 different scenarios to build a family.

What is your purpose in life? This is the question we ask ourselves far too often. In Lean Forward Into Your Life, author Mary Anne Radmacher invites you to find a new way to live: by leaning forward. When you’re trying to see something better, you lean toward it. When you are listening to someone and can barely hear, you lean in. When the really exciting part of a basketball game comes, you lean forward in your seat. When you’re trying to catch, to see, to listen to the best bits—you lean forward.

Teen years can feel like a rollercoaster—pressures from school, friendships, and family. It's a lot to handle. One moment you're up, the next you're crashing down. If you often feel overwhelmed by anxiety or stress, this guide will help you regain control. What if you had the tools to manage your emotions? What if anxiety and stress no longer ruled you? This groundbreaking audiobook is packed with techniques designed just for teens to help you navigate life's challenges.

Ken Goldman, author of more than 650 published stories, brings you a chapbook containing two dark novellas and three of his best twisted tales.

Sometimes I Forget invites us to know God more intimately, so we can trust Him more deeply. Inspired by her own experiences of desperation, Julie weaves a prayer of lament and hope through sixty attributes of God. The simple prayers, real stories, and powerful reminders, offer comforting reassurance that God will be faithful in all He promises.

With honesty and humor, Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory will help you take a breather and find reassurance as you face the bullies of perfectionism, performancism, people-pleasing, and procrastination. Self-assessments and personal stories will guide you from panic to peace as you learn to pick battles worthy of your time and energy; embrace the freedom of a carefully considered "no"; recognize your strengths and weaknesses in the quest for balance; use authenticity as a weapon to battle bullies; and release yourself from the endless pressure of pleasing others.

Inspired by the first season of the Hard Things podcast, this book is a heartfelt journey through the real struggles and triumphs of motherhood and marriage—rooted in faith, obedience, and God’s divine purpose. As wives and mothers, we face overwhelming responsibilities, tough decisions, and moments of doubt. But through every challenge, God calls us to trust Him, seek His wisdom, and walk in obedience—even when it doesn’t make sense.

El avance tecnológico y la decadencia moral crecen vertiginosamente. Y es que en su búsqueda de satisfacción, muchos hombres han perdido el significado de la hombría, rindiendo sus ideales por cosas inmorales, ilegales, irresponsables y sin ningún tipo de ética. De allí que hoy sea más necesario que nunca que se levanten hombres de valor, integridad y de verdadera hombría, que se paren firmes ante el avance del mal y superen las filosofías peligrosas que se expanden como un virus.

If you think it takes long hours of stress-inducing, brain-numbing, back-breaking work to build a successful career or business, this book will change your mind. The simple truth: Once you put your mind to it, you can do just about anything. You can build a business that is not only profitable but sustainable, too. You can take your career to higher and higher levels, grow your profits quarter by quarter, increase your income year after year. And the best part: You can do it with ease!

the NEW Payton Sherwood Mystery Novel, sequel to EAST OF A New 2011 eBook Edition with BONUS mystery story "East Village Noir" Down-and-out East Village private eye Payton Sherwood finds himself once again at the bottom of a pig-pile of murder, lust, and greed on Manhattan's Lower East Side. By the author of EAST OF A, this is another modern-update of the classic hardboiled private eye novel. A complex, fast-paced murder mystery with a high body count. "[O]ne of the best private eye novels of recent years...fast and funny and contemporary." James Reasoner, ROUGH EDGES blogspot

Tine to Table is a fascinating look at white-tailed deer hunting and wild-game cooking through the eyes of a wildlife biologist, veteran traditional bowhunter, and award-winning author.

If you think it takes long hours of stress-inducing, brain-numbing, back-breaking work to build a successful career or business, this book will change your mind. The simple truth: Once you put your mind to it, you can do just about anything. You can build a business that is not only profitable but sustainable, too. You can take your career to higher and higher levels, grow your profits quarter by quarter, increase your income year after year. And the best part: You can do it with ease!

The Christian Capitalist explores various scriptural references that support twin pillars of Christian belief: 1) working hard to make a productive benefit from talents and materials that God has provided all people; and 2) giving generously to share those benefits with our neighbors in the name of Jesus Christ. Through a discussion of Holy Scripture, it analyzes various passages that relate to these concepts of productivity and generosity, along with two thousand years of history discussing the good works of Christians as examples.

Crafted in the early days of the pandemic of 2020, the words of the poet-King David speak directly to the anxiety, fears, and troubles of our own day. And as the psalm leads to green pastures, still waters, and pathways ahead, the listener will find their confidence and faith in God renewed and refreshed. When the Lord is My Shepherd makes the ancient psalm sing a new song in our own day.

This beloved classic by A.W. Tozer is for the spiritually dissatisfied, for the passionate, for the hungry. If your hunger and thirst can only be satisfied by God himself, and the desire for the piercing sweetness of the love of Christ overrides all competing desires, then Pursuit of God will intoxicate you. You cannot afford to not listen to this book. Chapters include discussions on the bliss of following hard after God, the sacrament of living, the blessedness of possessing nothing, as well as the paradox of the simultaneous pursuit of God while being pursued by Him.

God is not distant when we’re facing difficult days. In fact, it is precisely when we struggle to see and hear him, when we’re crushed under life’s disappointments, that God is nearer than you know.

If life hasn't turned out the way you planned, you're not alone. Cancer comes. Loved ones die. Spouses leave. Dreams slip through our fingers. Anxiety and depression steal precious seasons. But what if you knew you weren't alone in your pain and that sorrow isn't in the end of the story? In this 100-day devotional, the (in)courage community comes alongside you when your heart is grieving, your faith is shaking, or it's just one of those mundane hard days. In these vulnerable stories, you won't find tidy bows or trite quick fixes, but you will find arrows pointing you straight to Jesus.

There comes a point in the game of life when you have to decide whether you are going to play the cards you have been given or fold. Adversity can break you, leaving you in a constant state of emptiness and self-perpetuating cycles, or it can be the catalyst for a new life. Top-performing insurance agent, trainer, and speaker Jack Jameson invites readers into a deeply personal, edge-of-your-seat memoir of his upbringing, learning in the school of hard knocks, to a life radically transformed.

Jude Samuel Shook lived through only one sunset and one sunrise. Just one rotation of the planet...and he went home to be with God. Yet the way Jude unwrapped the divine gift of his one day changed the way his grandparents now live every day. A little boy who lived on this earth for just a handful of hard-fought hours caused Kerry and Chris to wonder, How many of our days make a breath of difference to those around us?