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In the glittering shadow of the Las Vegas Strip, where millions of tourists flock annually to test their luck at the tables, a different kind of gamble is taking place. The Adventure Punks, a gripping new thriller by Chad Rice, explores the treacherous territory where elite athleticism meets organized crime, and where the line between hero and villain becomes dangerously blurred. The novel opens with a seemingly routine 911 call on a Monday night in November. Officer Mike Delaney of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department responds to a fight outside a bar in the trendy Arts District, unaware that this mundane arrest will unravel into something far more complex. The man he takes into custody, Angelo Russo, claims to be a confidential informant for the FBI, and his information leads to an investigation that will consume the lives of everyone involved. At the heart of this story is Officer Nick Lane, a 29-year-old climber who traded the Army for a badge and never lost his love for the v...

  Faith is easy to speak about when life is peaceful. It becomes something entirely different when a person is standing in the middle of grief, disappointment, physical pain, guilt, fear, broken relationships, or circumstances they never imagined they would have to endure. Women and the Atonement of Jesus Christ , compiled by LeAnn Emery, enters those difficult places through the voices of women who have lived them. Rather than approaching the Atonement only as a theological subject, the book brings together personal experiences and testimonies. Its contributors speak about moments when faith was no longer simply something they believed—it became something they needed. The collection grew from Emery's desire to gather women's personal stories about how the Atonement of Jesus Christ had affected their lives. Some women chose to share their names, while others remained anonymous because their experiences were deeply personal or sacred. Stories of Pain, Forgiveness, Loss, ...

  Faith is often discussed through sermons, scripture, and doctrine, but some of its most powerful expressions emerge through lived experience. In Women and the Atonement of Jesus Christ , compiler LeAnn Emery brings those experiences together through a collection centered on women's personal encounters with faith, adversity, forgiveness, healing, and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. The book features numerous named contributors as well as women who chose to remain anonymous, reflecting the personal and, in some cases, sensitive nature of the experiences being shared. The result is not one woman's story but a collection of perspectives. Throughout the book, readers encounter accounts dealing with physical pain, family relationships, grief, repentance, spiritual conversion, emotional suffering, forgiveness, personal weakness, service, and hope. The subjects vary considerably, yet the testimonies share a central question: What happens when a person turns toward Jesus Christ i...

Looking back on a life that has taken me from the prairies of Alberta to the Arctic ice, from the deserts of Niger to the mountains of Kenya, I am often asked what I have learned from all those years of travel. The answer is simple: almost every person on Earth is fair, honest, helpful, and affable. I did not always know this. As a boy in Castor, Alberta, I was skeptical of the wider world. But travel has a way of breaking down barriers. Here are a few moments that changed my perspective. One night in rural Japan, I arrived at a train station, wet and cold. I found a small Japanese inn. The man on duty gave me a dry kimono and a room. He returned later and waved his hand up and down, which I mistook for a signal to lie down and sleep. The next morning, I learned that he had prepared a meal for me and was inviting me to join him. In the Orient, waving an extended arm up and down means "come" or "follow." I had made a cultural mistake, but the man's kindness...

  Dr. Russell Schnell grew up in Castor, Alberta, a small prairie town where he spent his youth raking hay with horses, playing "stretch" with hunting knives, and crawling into the hollowed-out carcass of a dead cow on a dare. He collected wild bird eggs, delivered the Edmonton Journal on cold winter nights, and worked as a printer's apprentice for 30 cents an hour. By all accounts, he was a typical small-town boy living a free-range childhood in the 1950s. But young Russell had big dreams. He told anyone who asked that he would see the world, learn to fly an airplane, get a science degree by age 21, join the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Medical Doctor, marry after 30, and retire at 60. Remarkably, many of these childhood fantasies came true—though not always in the way he expected. His new autobiography,  A Prairie Boy Growing Up in Castor, Alberta; And Then the World , chronicles his journey from the dusty streets of Castor to the global stage as a climate scientis...

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