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Perfecta: the Game is straightforward. The Game is played by the best professional killers in the business. The rules: Ten names go on a list. Place a bet of one million dollars. Pick the exact order in which the victims will be killed. Collect the pot. Perfecta: the town no longer exists. A church and a bar are all that remain of what was once Perfecta, Texas. Two brothers and one renegade live there, divided, as dissimilar as the two building left standing. Eugene Green, a would-be preacher, attempts to uphold the unattainable family legacy. His twin Gordon, just wants to drink his problems away. Gene's friend Yugi Onita, just wants to hide from his past. Perfecta comes to Perfecta, as the final stage of the deadliest game on the planet comes to the remnants of the Texas town with the arrival of two strangers. One, Rebecca, a young girl running for her life. The other, a callous killer known only as Taylor, who has followed Rebecca to Perfecta. Perhaps the most terrifying revelation comes when the preacher and his friends discover that there are more sinister killers coming, and Taylor may even be on their side.
From bestselling author Shelley Kassian comes A Mountain Leads Home, the second book in the Places in the Heart series—a heartwarming tale of unexpected encounters, ethical dilemmas, and the sacrifices made for a chance at love. When Australian Taylor Quinn travels to the Canadian Rockies, his snowboarding holiday takes an unexpected turn after a serious accident derails his plans. Though his injury halts his winter sports adventure, the hospital becomes the setting for an optimistic connection with Sarah Evans, a trauma nurse who supports his recovery and takes a chance on a budding friendship. Sarah Evans yearns for more than just caring for another patient. When she meets Taylor, his ki...
Temple and Empire explores the theme of temple piety in Luke-Acts and 1 Clement in historical context. Mina Monier argues that situating both works in Trajanic Rome, and reading them through the lens of Roman imperial ideology explains their peculiarly positive presentation of the Temple as a form of reverence toward ancient worship and ancestral customs that would not offend, but would appeal to traditional Roman sensibilities.
Issues for 1860, 1866-67, 1869, 1872 include directories of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.