Book Preview If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn’t have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o’clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have … Read more
Book Preview This is another way the end of Feed could have gone: it picks up with the events of what would originally have been chapter twenty-five. It is not what happened. Rise up while you can. No one gets to ask us for anything more. Not now, not ever. When history looks our way—stupid, … Read more
Book Preview Countdown “The Rising is ultimately a story of humanity at both its very best, and at its very worst. If a single event were needed to represent all of human history, we could do worse than selecting the Rising.” —Mahir Gowda “People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame … Read more
Book Preview My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man—in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun—holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a … Read more
Book Preview Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. —SHAUN MASON Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. If we give that away, we may as well stop fighting, because losing that battle is what loses the war. … Read more
Book Preview It’s amazing what you can use for a ramp, given the right motivation. Someone’s collapsed fence was blocking half the road, jutting up at an angle, and I hit it at about fifty miles an hour. The handlebars shuddered in my hands like the horns of a mechanical bull, and the shocks weren’t … Read more
Book Preview David Grann The Old Man and the Gun David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z and Killers of the Flower Moon, a National Book Award finalist. Both were chosen as best books of the year by The New York Times, … Read more
Book Preview CHRONICLE ONE THE MARKED WOMAN There had been no evil to mar that propitious night, because she had listened; there had been no voice of evil; no screech owl had quaveringly disturbed the stillness. She knew this because she had listened all night. —John Joseph Mathews, Sundown There had been no evil to … Read more
Book Preview Years after my sister had died, a friend of hers told me this story: One night she and Karen had been talking of life and family and where we all were going. Karen stopped and thought for a moment, and then said, “I’m not so sure about myself, but I do know this—Kelsey’s … Read more
Book Preview For Chynna Skye Pozzessere and Steven Christie, who conceived and instigated the concept of Chad and I working together. For Michel Marrache, who was kindly willing to share so much about Brazil. And for Mauricio Ferrer, who also taught me so much about his homeland. For Chynna Skye Pozzessere and Steven Christie, … Read more
Book Preview From the Back Cover and Jacket “At 5:30 AM on July 16, 1945: a light brighter than a thousand suns illuminated the desert sands of New Mexico. One Scientist wept as he watched and exclaimed: ‘My God, we have created hell.’ From that day on our world has never been the same. We … Read more
Book Preview Foreword by Franklin Graham Chapter 1 Tree of Eternal Life: From Beginning to Unending (Genesis) Chapter 2 Eternal Deliverance: Deliverance or Defiance (Exodus) Chapter 3 One Eternal Sacrifice: The Gift of the Blood (Leviticus, Numbers) Chapter 4 Eternal Judgment: Choose Life (Deuteronomy) Chapter 5 Power Forever: Choose or Lose (Joshua) Chapter 6 Eternal … Read more
Book Preview © 1986, 1996, 2010 Billy Graham All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher. … Read more
Book Preview © 2013 William F. Graham Jr. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher. … Read more
Book Preview SECTION ONE: THE JOURNEY BEGINS 1. Welcome to the Journey 2. The Great Designer 5. Can We Start Over? 8. Heading in the Right Direction SECTION TWO: STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY 9. Preparing for the Long Haul 10. The Unending Battle 11. Our Unfailing Guide 12. Keeping in Contact 13. Traveling Together 14. … Read more
Book Preview THE HOLY SPIRIT © 1978, 1988 by Billy Graham. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission … Read more
Book Preview All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas … Read more
Book Preview Part 1: Storm Clouds on the Horizon 1. The Winds of Change 3. A Changing Landscape Part 2: The Lightning over Patmos 4. Inside the Apocalypse 5. The One Bright Hope 7. Standing Before God Part 3: In the Midst of the Tempest 8. Escape from Paradise 9. Spiritual Deception 10. The Material … Read more