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When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, nothing could have prepared them for the twisted nightmare they would endure. During the year-long struggle to take their newly adopted little boy from the post-Soviet country's corrupt social service and judicial systems, de Blecourt was insulted, physically assaulted and arrested. Her fear and loneliness drove her to the brink of spiritual despair, but God had no intention of abandoning her or her family. Her amazing story offers dramatic proof that God's light shines on even in the deepest darkness.

In her dynamic new devotional, international speaker and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer provides you with powerful "starting points" for every day of the year. Each day's devotion is filled with practical advice and help from Meyer along with life-changing promises from God's Word that you can quickly and easily apply in your own life.

While covertly investigating a controversial neurological research program, exposé filmmaker Jevin Banks is drawn into a far-reaching conspiracy involving one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms. After giving up his career as an escape artist and illusionist in the wake of his wife and sons' tragic death, Jevin is seeking not only answers about the questionable mind-to-mind communication program, but also answers to why his family suffered as they did.

This 90-day devotional incorporates excerpts from EVERY DAY A FRIDAY, emphasizing faith-building messages day to day, along with additional supportive and encouraging material in the form of key Bible verses, daily prayers and daily thoughts. Divided into seven key sections, each building on the next, the format helps readers to put events and circumstances in perspective, and to give them a mental, emotional and spiritual lift each and every day.

Everything that Brek Cuttler has ever known disappears when she finds herself standing on a deserted train platform, covered in blood. A man from her past explains that she has been chosen to join the elite team of lawyers charged with prosecuting and defending souls at the Final Judgment. As Brek struggles to find her way back to her husband and daughter, she will discover that her first client holds the shocking secret of her fate.

Everyone dreams about places to see, people to meet, and things to do in their lifetime. But too often we lose sight of those dreams and get buried in everyday busyness and demands. MORE THAN A BUCKET LIST will inspire you to seize and act on a range of dreams and includes ideas to make lasting memories. The compilation is divided thematically and blended with Scripture and personal stories to help you create your own bucket list.

Marian Parsons shares dozens of new projects, ideas, and DIY adventures, reminding us that homes don't have to be magazine material to be special, comfortable, and inviting. The goal you're working toward is home: one whose walls and rooms tell the story of the family who lives there. So uncover your God-given creativity ---- be encouraged, be willing, and be inspired.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of AMERICAN LION and FRANKLIN AND WINSTON brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. THE ART OF POWER gives us Thomas Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

It’s the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades --- an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. However, a key element of the prototype is missing, and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes burned bodies are found aboard. It is up to NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team to go on a desperate international chase to find the truth.

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondacks town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a loving but fiercely independent woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, and so Clara built a new life for herself, far from her roots and the world she had always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become increasingly forgetful, and can no longer live on her own.