Reaching Your Eternal Destination! When you decide to travel or go on a journey, you have an itinerary in mind. You have a proposed outline, plan, travel diary, traveler's guide, or Global Positioning System (GPS) that's going to help you reach your final destination. You take into account where you're going, how you're going to get there, and what it's going to take to get you there. What steps are you taking to reach your eternal destination? God is concerned with every aspect of your life, including your soul and your eternal joy and happiness. Because of God's agape love toward us, he doesn't want any of us to perish. He says in Matthew 18:14 (NKJV), "Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish", and in John 3:16 (NKJV), "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Before you can get on board, you need a Savior and Mediator--that is, you must draw nearer and become acquainted with and have a spiritual relationship with Jesus, the only One who can save you. The only One who can meet all your needs: spiritual, directional, emotional, physical and eternal. You have to trust him and place your eternal destiny in his hand. When that time comes, he wants you to spend eternity with him. He has a purpose and plan for you to reach your eternal destination. Jesus tells us in Matthew 6:33 (NKJV), "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." The master plan has already been established, and the preparation is being made. Jesus wants you to experience the fullness of his glory, to have the right to the tree of life, and to drink from the fountain of the water of life freely. When you meet the King of kings and the Lord of lords face-to-face, he will say: "Well done, my good and faithful servant. Come, my beloved, and spend eternity with me in paradise, you may enter into the gate of the new holy city."

Pursuing a dream is hard work, but the right words delivered at the right time—by people who’ve been there and done that—can give us just the motivation we need. The right words can rekindle our enthusiasm, re-energize our efforts, dispel doubt, let us know we’re not alone, and show us that the fight is worth it—and winnable. Kathryn and Ross Petras are masters at choosing and delivering just the right words. Their books—such as “Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You’re a Cheese” and “Dance First. Think Later.”—and bestselling calendar, The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said, have over 5.2 million copies in print. Now comes a book for dreamers and doers, plus writers, entrepreneurs, graduates, artists, future movers and shakers. Collecting the hard-won, brilliantly expressed advice from pioneers who have paved the way, including everyone from Rumi to Steve Jobs, Michelangelo to Oprah to Tina Fey, “It Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Done” is like a rousing locker-room speech, inspiring courage, commitment, and perseverance. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan “Go for it, baby! Life ain’t no dress rehearsal.” —Tallulah Bankhead “Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.” —Neil Gaiman “If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” —T. S. Eliot “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela

After It’s Done (AID) is about a family who is rippled with unfortunate events that lead to many unfortunate deaths. With the many different examples of it being too late to fix is what makes this story so different. This story is where revenge meets regret. You are surprised at the end to find out how everybody is connected to each other. A young man named Steve Smith, who is led to believe that he is dying of the unforgiving illness, takes matters into his own hands, only to later find out that everything he was told was a lie. As much as one thinks it follows Steve, it’s his father, Antwon, who really is the focus of this entire series. Before this event, you learn about his family and what leads to his son’s untimely incarceration. Maybe one of the greatest stories ever told, but I will let you make that decision. By the time you finish reading this, you will already be saying to yourself when the next one is coming.

An Iranian-American explains the history and heritage of his people, in both the old world and the new. From Persia to Tehr Angeles is a fascinating look at everything from Persia’s ancient past to the modern world of Persian-American immigrants in places like Los Angeles—offering a rich, rounded view a culture many are unfamiliar with. For those who are part of this history, their friends and families, or anyone interested in this corner of the world, it’s an enlightening look at traditions, food, religion, and other aspects of this complex society over many generations.

City of Roses is a serialized epic very firmly set in Portland, Oregon—an urban fantasy mixing magical realism with gonzo noirish prose, where duels are fought in Pioneer Square and union meetings are beseiged by ghost bicycles. —Jo Maguire, a highly strung, underemployed telemarketer, has been knighted in the mysterious Court of Roses. Her roommate, Ysabel, is a Princess of the Court, and the intended Bride of the King Come Back (whomever that turns out to be). Together they must face the threats of bad dreams, changelings, surly exes, jealous lovers, intemperate peers, shabby magicians in ill-fitting suits, abstruse oracles, unemployment, eviction, and the nothing-time of three in the morning, when dawn seems so far off. Collecting chapters 12 - 22 of the critically acclaimed fantasy serial, Vol. 2, The Dazzle of Day, concludes most of the story begun in Vol. 1, "Wake up..."