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Historian Kevin Schmiesing takes you to more than two-dozen sites and events that symbolize and embody America's rich and sometimes tumultuous Catholic past, including the Santa Fe Trail, Gettysburg, and the Bourbon Trail. You'll also meet both famous and infamous Catholics—including Augustus Tolton, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and Frances Cabrini—who impacted our nation's history.

Here are the history, highlights, and heroes of one of the greatest and most respected teams in American professional baseball. This little guide holds 50 facts, stats, and much more, distilled from more than 100 years of big-league baseball in the Big Apple.

While Theo Florakis still eludes him, Aaron Holt agrees to come back to the agency once his conditions are met. His first target, though, is not so easy. Mikita Bykov is a master assassin who has slipped through the grasp of every organization and agency that has ever hunted him. To accomplish his mission, Holt may need to enlist the help of a new friend that assisted him in Singapore. Together, they’ll try to hunt Bykov down. But will they find the assassin first? Or will Bykov eliminate them before they get the chance?

Nathan’s world is defined by seven council members, keeping a harmonious balance between his remote village and the surrounding wilderness. As the village’s newly appointed Earth Keeper, Nathan’s role is to maintain that delicate balance—nurturing the land while taking what the village needs. But as strange changes sweep across the village, from unseasonable storms to failing crops, Nathan senses something far more sinister beneath the surface.

Jack Scratch is the star player for his high school basketball team, on the fast track to a college scholarship and perhaps a career in the NBA. Jack's journey takes a detour after single mother Janet is saved from a mugger by two boxers: Karl "Sweet Sugar" Brown, a former heavyweight contender who now trains fighters, and Paveli "Punch" Pangora, a Slovenian slugger seeking US citizenship.

Join Valorian, Astraea, Orionis, and Pyraxus on an unforgettable adventure in "Comic Con Chronicles"! These four friends, dressed as their favorite superheroes, set out to experience the biggest comic convention of the year. From striking poses and floating through the crowd to hunting for rare collectibles and meeting their favorite voice actors, they make the most of every moment. But amidst all the fun, they’re unaware of the sneaky germs lurking in the bustling hall.

Einstein “EJ” Johnson was born in 2030, a genetically engineered prodigy with enhanced intelligence, only to discover that he was also ageless. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, EJ left Earth to explore the cosmos, traveling beyond human imagination and encountering civilizations across the galaxy. Nearly nine centuries later, he returns to find a world transformed—a planet poised on the edge of a decision that could either secure its place among the stars or plunge it into dangerous isolation.

The author's young adulthood basically amounts to a how-to primer for addiction. Paranoia and impulsiveness, obsession, and manipulation. Throw in compulsion, false pride, fear and dishonesty, all driven by self-centered thinking. The gateway behavior for all the others. Blessed with a good memory, almost granular for certain events and circumstances, Mike Matson turns his journalist's eye on his own past and the result is an honest, unflinching look at his decades-long struggle with addiction.

Ohne die Kirche wäre ich am Arsch. Ich bin ein Priester mit einer mörderischen Vergangenheit. Ein Sünder voller Wut und Schuld. In mir lauert ein ...

In Rogue: The NPC Imp, Mike Robb flips the typical dungeon-crawler tale on its head. Meet Johnny, a mischievous imp who’s spent his life pranking humans and avoiding fights in the deadly depths of Level 9. But Johnny’s world changes when Max—a determined young rogue—outwits one of Johnny’s traps and unexpectedly piques the imp’s curiosity. Driven to figure out what makes this rogue different from the rest, Johnny begins tailing Max, drawn deeper into the dungeon and into a reluctant friendship.

Rogue: The NPC Kobold is a story of courage, friendship, and the unbreakable bond between two creatures from different worlds, who find purpose and greatness in the shadows.

The Wolf poem was inspired by William Blake's "The Tyger". It has the same regular form & meter as "The Tyger". With tempo and stanza (of the quatrain type), and is about one single animal in the natural world. Where it differs from William Blake's poem is that the "The Tyger" has more religious connotations, not surprising for the times in which it was written.

This poem was inspired by a program I saw on silkworms and their germination and metamorphosis into adult moths (which they generally never get to because of the demand for their silk).

Bridge and Nicole are given a job by Eric Happ. And like most jobs that are assigned by the government, there is more than meets the eye with this one. Their assignment seems simple enough at first. They just have to take out a man in Venezuela, who’s trying to start his own criminal empire down there. But the simple assignment will quickly become more complicated as unfriendly faces recognize Bridge, which could throw the whole job into chaos.

"Into the New Horizon" is a thrilling and emotional journey of discovery and redemption, where the future of humanity is at stake. Will they finally find peace, or will the planet’s secrets tear them apart? The final frontier awaits.

Collected here for the first time are six fantastical tales of the Swords of Eternity Super-Arc, the epic cycle that launched the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series. At the mercy of spacetime's capricious vagaries, young scientist Victory Harben finds herself hurled across worlds by a mysterious force, while pursued by a ruthless winged entity armed with a flaming sword that consumes souls. Following Victory is inventor Jason Gridley, intent on finding his goddaughter and bringing her home.

At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new tools, the thinking went, we would be free to live our best lives, connected to our communities in ways full of infinite potential. A quarter of a century on, this form of utopianism seems like a cruel mirage. So what happened? In Against Platforms, technologist and creator Mike Pepi lays out an explanation of what went wrong—and a manifesto for putting it right.

Tom Cliffe is who many young people in the 1960s want to be: not just a lover of music, a player of music. But more than an interest, more than a passion, music and a commitment to becoming an accomplished player and recognized for it will become the driving force in Tom’s life. He will give up everything, all the accommodations of the conventional life he was brought up in and educated for.

After breaking the curse of the dungeon, young Max returns to his village, only to discover that his journey is far from over. Whispers of the Sunken City—a lost sanctuary rumored to hold forbidden knowledge and ancient power—draw him into the heart of the unknown. Guided by a mysterious map, Max ventures into the city’s ruins, a place shrouded in secrets and guarded by shadows of the past.

Continue your journey in the Connected Universe with Portals to the Stars, an exploration into the mysteries of stargates, ancient sites of power, and lost civilizations. Ancient cultures around the globe held secrets of harnessing the power of the Earth, traversing the cosmos, and interacting with beings from other worlds–or, perhaps, other dimensions. What was this esoteric knowledge lost to time we're just rediscovering today?