Everyone needs a mentor. We buy books, programs, take classes, and attend seminars searching for answers to life’s toughest questions. But what if the answers are found in the One that created you? Not the institutional religion that we are accustomed to, but a radical direct connection to Jesus? In My Mentor Walks on Water, Donna helps you discover how to connect who you are with how God sees you, dig deeper in Scripture, how to seek out mentorship, and why it matters. Readers will learn about: - Reconciling our self-identity - Transforming our future lives by writing a new story for the past - Deepening our understanding and knowledge of who Jesus is and His love for us - Exploring the ways we can be mentored by Scripture, the Spirit, and other people - Seeking out discipleship in every area of your life - What it means to walk on water and leave a legacy Through the pages of My Mentor Walks on Water, you’ll not only find answers to lifelong questions but encounter Jesus in a way that creates a renewed purpose and vision. When you step out and leave the comfort of being a boat sitter behind, you’ll cause a ripple effect that impacts the world around you. So, what are you waiting for? Don’t stay in the boat. It’s time to lock eyes with Jesus and be a water walker.

Are you prepared for the inevitable? At some point in your life, you will contemplate the end and question what it is like to depart from the only thing you’ve known. Hesitation and uncertainty might consume you to the core, or a sensation of comfort and contentment will set you free. In Four Seasons, Chris Widener shares the relatable journey of Jonathan Blake and his family through a year in their life, confronted with unavoidable tragedy. After he is diagnosed with cancer, Jonathan reflects on the growth of his children, watching them take life into their own hands and create light in the darkest of times. The Blakes encounter the grandest of joys through the celebrations marking the passing of special events, as well as the withering burden of the painful paths we are all expected to travel at different times. With life coming to a halt, he cherishes every waking moment and doesn’t allow fate to slow him down or hold him back from making change. Honest and heartfelt, delicate and intense, Four Seasons is both a beautiful celebration and a shocking aftermath. The four seasons of life are guaranteed; they will come eventually to everyone. This is the story of how the four seasons came to one family and how they lived through them with courage, strength, and purpose. Jonathan’s journey reminds us that there is a balance in life—celebrating the joys it brings and the sorrows of death. Now it’s up to you... will you take your turn putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, visualizing life through the perspective of another? Are you ready to see a glimpse of reality?

When Cin lost her father, she thought her world had been torn apart. Little did she know it was just the beginning of her story… Being the sole heir to the d’Rella family fortune placed a target on Cin’s back that she wasn’t prepared to deal with at the age of ten. Luckily for her, she had a mysterious godfather looking out for her best interests who whisked her away from her selfish step-family and helped Cin discover her true destiny as a Thorn within the formidable Circle of the Rose. Thorns are an elite fighting force trained at an early age to protect Briar Rose and search for a way to awaken her from a seemingly eternal slumber. The city of Briardale has been cut off from the rest of the world for a hundred years by a spell no one seems to be able to break. Only by finding a cure to awaken Briar Rose will the city be released from the magical curse and its citizens allowed to rejoin the world of Faloria. Her mission is clear until a chance encounter with the dashing Coltan Prince turns her world upside down. For decades, his family has been sabotaging the Thorns’ efforts to awaken Briar Rose. Although Cin knows Coltan is the enemy, she is inexplicably charmed by him. When Coltan goes to the Thorns with information about the whereabouts of the fabled Water of Life, Cin must decide if she can trust a man she has been taught to hate.

From a rising voice in post-Apartheid literature comes I Wish I Knew My Mentor, thesecond novel by Percy Makhuba, author of Cries of the Forgotten. In 1935 as Johannesburg is expanding into the major metropolitan city of South Africa, Mandla Sithole, a young Zulu workman on a crew building Johannesburg’s historic underground postal tunnels comes across a book hidden amongst the stones. On the first page is a stark warning for anyone underground to leave immediately. Alarmed for his safety and that of his fellow workers, Mandla, is forced to put aside ethnic rivalries and accept the help of Qhawe Nondela, an odd but courteous Xhosa co-worker, to smuggle the book out of the work site and begin reading it on the sly. Within its covers is a story that not only explains in great depth the events leading up to the reason for the author’swarning, but one which also changes the course of Mandla’s life forever. Against the backdrop of burgeoning Apartheid and ethnic rivalries, Percy Makhuba presents a world in which the lines between the living and the dead are blurred by thecommon restlessness of being human and where not only the exploitation of native African lands by the monumentally ambitious Boer population scars the lives of all in their path, but the Earth herself secretly nurses her pain and passes judgment on those who cut into her belly. I Wish I Knew My Mentor takes to task the greed and ambition that led to Apartheid, one of the world’s darkest examples of human beings’ capacity for cruelty and yet alsocelebrates the possibilities within the human heart and spirit of the emotional transformation of hatred into a force for inner strength and real, abiding social change.

“For a real insider’s look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.”—Sophie Beach, The Economist Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, “to get rich is glorious.” In only a few years, China’s capital is transformed. With “considerable cultural and linguistic resources” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, funny memoir” (People), and “readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver’s seat”(Elle).

The hybrid mates, Blair and Pryce, have just woken up from sleeping and are surprised to know that thirty years have passed since the last time they were awake. Things were about to change in their lives as they had to cope with the things in the new era. Old-looking old friends and new people to meet, new ways of living, new schools, new status, new powers, new roles, new problems, and new almost everything. How can they survive if their new lives are about to be destroyed by old enemies?

Romance is not work when you get it right. It is inspiring, magnatic and everybody want to know your secret. Do you desire to reignite the fire you felt in those early dates before life got more complex and routine replaced romance? This book will help fan that spark into a flame that grows, matures, and lasts a lifetime. So many people are looking for personal development and excellence in their lives, especially as it relates to relationships. We'll show you how small adjustments can make a significant difference and impact your trajectory together. Buck the status quo. Dream big. Avoid mediocrity. Create an enduring bond. Join us on this quest for An Exceptional Romance.

Torry Martin—a comedian, actor, and hippie—fled from California to the wilderness of Alaska, searching for answers to life's big questions. He found what he was looking for...and a lot more! A moose got its head stuck in Torry's window. A reindeer was trapped in his kitchen. A bear almost prevented him from reaching his airplane. He once woke up frozen to his cabin floor. Like the Israelites of old, Torry experienced plenty of miracles and mishaps in the wilderness. And like them, he came face-to-face with God and was changed forever. Each of these true stories of Torry's hilarious blunders and misfortunes contains a nugget of truth, but one theme prevails: If God can reclaim and repurpose Torry Martin's life, He can do the same for you and those you love.

On a faraway planet shrouded in obscurity from ancient history, a powerful race lives. Led by the benevolent and evil King Distar, the Annunaki have been preparing for their eventual return to Earth. Only this time, they will not be teachers or the Gods the ancestors once worshipped. It is December 21, 2012. Seventeen-year-old Adam Dolby is about to have his world torn asunder. As the Annunaki begin to invade and decimate the Earths resources, Adams parents confess that they are not his biological parents, but instead are appointed guardians who have been instructed to watch over and protect him from the Annunaki people, who want nothing more than to destroy him. Minutes later, his parents are deadthe victims of a vicious attack on his home. With the help of a mysterious and eccentric old man named Mentor, Adam is soon propelled into a mythical adventure where his mission is to uncover the origins of the universe and a race of beings called Eternals. In this exciting sci-fi adventure tale, a young man awaits in the shadows to learn the truth of his existence and the fate of the human race.