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Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. The Kanes' only hope is an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon, but the magic has been lost for millennia. Nothing less than the mortal world is at stake when the Kane family fulfills its destiny in this thrilling conclusion to the Kane Chronicles.

Jack and his friends desperately search for the rest of the lost Loculi and confront the armies of Artemis in order to rescue Aly, who has been pulled back into Atlantis by King Uhla'ar.

Follows the history of the sphinx of Pharaoh Hatshepsut from its creation in ancient Egypt to New York City's Metropolitan Museum.

What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That's what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior's Peak. The Malory Price Life Plan does not include a quixotic quest - but the strangers on Warrior's Peak claim that she must find a key that will release three souls held captive by an evil god. Little does she know that the quest will bring her two new friends, the love of her life, and danger beyond...

Leonard Scheff is a lawyer and Buddhist who has used what he has learned from Buddhism to teach others to handle their anger. His approach helps the listener identify the unmet demands that trigger anger and what we can do to disslove our anger, laugh at ourselves, deal with the anger of others, and transform our anger into compassion.

"In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her 'instant classic' (Kirkus Reviews) memoir of kidnapping and rape, when a woman asked her what she would like to happen to her rapist. This collection, a meditative extension of that answer, draws from philosophy, art, literature, mythology, anthropology, film, and other fields, as well as Johnson's personal experience, to consider how our ideas about justice might be expanded beyond...