Rick Grimes is no longer in charge, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Ordinary student Sora has been summoned to another world as one of seven chosen heroes meant to battle the Demon King. While the other six are blessed with grandiose titles and superlative stats, Sora is stuck with no title, no level, and a single, underwhelming skill: he never gets tired from walking. After being judged useless to the cause, Sora is thrown out into the streets and left to fend for himself. Nevertheless, he grows determined to turn...

As X-rated stars descend on the Beaumont Hotel, someone takes a shot at its owner Terrified of flying, Beaumont Hotel owner George Battle hasn't seen America in seventeen years, instead spending his days on the Riviera, counting his money. But pressing business calls him back to the United States: a seven million dollar investment in the latest epic directed by Maxwell Zorn, king of highbrow celluloid smut. It's the kind of motion picture that even...

"You only die once, too." To my classmates, I'm a celebrated player; bold, mysterious, and ready to party. But my childhood was the stuff of nightmares-pure evil. What they don't know can't hurt me, and I'd rather die than have their pity. I thrive on canned coffee, cigarettes, and whatever leftovers Makoto brings when he hauls my ass to school. Once I turn 18, I can stop lying about my age at work, and hiding the fact I live on my own.I've got scars,...

This short story follows the life of a young widow named Joan as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her husband and the challenges of being a single mother in a small Karoo town.

Greece. Politics. Love. Danger. Reeling from a failed marriage and spurred on by a burgeoning sense of feminism, twenty-five-year-old Kate accepts a position as a speech therapist in a center for children with cerebral palsy in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is 1974, and the recent end of Greece's seven-year dictatorship has ignited a fiery anti-American sentiment within the country. Despite this, as her Greek improves, Kate teaches communication to severely...

For eons they have wandered the world with little purpose, hiding from their own past and the monstrosities which created them, only coming together once every thousands of years for the Gathering, a time of meeting, a time of conflict.Now one has propped himself up as the ruler of a city, the only city, and when one of his brothers comes calling, it is a sign a Gathering is imminent.This time, however, there are outside players, some mortal, some...

Preaching to Those Walking Away will help pastors adapt to a world of YouTube, TED Talks, and video marketing in which traditional preaching styles no longer feel authoritative, engaging, or compelling. N. Graham Standish has long been passionate about reaching out to those who call themselves "spiritual but not religious." Determined to help the church connect with them, he shares methods he has tested, refined, and proven effective-approaches to...

After growing up in abject poverty in a dysfunctional alcoholic environment and being terrorized by a boarder who lived in the root cellar, Athena Demetrios repressed her traumatic memories-thrusting her into a downward spiral of melancholy and despair. But when, as an adult, she had a powerful spiritual experience that opened doors into other dimensions, she began an odyssey in which truth became stranger than fiction-a journey through hypnotic regression...

This free-form poetry book captures a lifetime of rich experiences from the perspective of a doctor, nature lover, and teacher, reflecting on life, growth, healing, and the deep connections with nature and learning.