Search query: this present darkness

Product: This Is Happiness
Description: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE
A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing.
You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed.
The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.
This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries.
Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.
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Product: The Lie
Description: A Christian Spiritual Warfare Suspense Novel.
An unseen conspiracy. A supernatural battle to keep it concealed. The Man who unveils the truth behind the lie... Are you ready or will you fall?
Evensmore isn't a regular town.
But then Jack Daley isn't a regular guy.
An ancient truth kept secret for nearly 200 years...
Until now.
When Jack moves from the big city to Evensmore, his curiosity sees him delve deeper to uncover the truth. But his revelations seem to be leading him to a single terrible and unthinkable Lie.

Jack suddenly finds himself battling a decision harder than he has ever faced before, to see this through or to run.
The Lie is a gripping story that entwines both the spiritual and physical worlds as combat intensifies between forces of good and evil to stop Jack revealing the truth.
What other readers are saying about The Lie (from Amazon Australia and elsewhere):

Couldn't put the book down!...I read the whole book in less than 2 days...
This one took me by surprise, it's brilliant! ...it set me on a path to discover for myself, the truth about my faith...
I love this book! ...If you want to read something that challenges you, then this is the book...
A Thrilling Read ...with graphic descriptions of spiritual battles taking place behind the scenes, makes for a thrilling read.
Extremely engaging and exciting ...couldn't put it down and it brought up a lot of thoughts to ponder on. Very well written.
An intriguing read! ... A brilliant, multi-layered story that leaves you thinking and pondering beyond the book itself.

The Lie is also available on Amazon in Paperback format (387 pages).
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Product: It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
Description: New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances and shows readers how to live assured when life doesn't turn out like they expected.

What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His promises doubtful?

Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a moment, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned, and we quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness.

Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to:

Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations.
Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes.
Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle.
Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us.
Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God's truth.
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Product: Invitation (Harbingers): Cycle One of the Harbingers Series
Description: Four Bestselling Authors Team Up for Thrilling Supernatural Suspense
Gathering four stories from four bestselling author friends, Invitation is the first collection in the ongoing Harbingers series.

In "The Call" by Bill Myers, four strangers are drawn together to help a student at the mysterious Institute for Advanced Psychic Studies. His gifts are supposedly being honed to assist world leaders . . . but there are some very disturbing strings attached. Frank Peretti's "The Haunted" confronts a supernatural mystery, a case of murder, and an exploration into the darkness of the human heart, all centering around a mysterious house.
In Angela Hunt's "The Sentinels," animals around the world are mysteriously dying. What could it mean? When the tragedy begins to touch Andi's dreams, she discovers a terrifying theory. "The Girl" by Alton Gansky is a gripping tale of a young barefoot girl found holding a scroll in the snowy Oregon mountains. She is sweet, innocent--apparently not of this world--and something wants to kill her.
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Product: The Days of Noah, The Complete Box Set: A Novel of the End Times in America
Description: A hidden conspiracy. A shadow government. The CIA analyst who uncovers it all.

In an off-site CIA facility outside of Langley, rookie analyst Everett Carroll discovers he’s not being told the whole truth. He’s instructed to disregard troubling information uncovered by his research. Everett ignores his directive and keeps digging. What he finds goes against everything he’s been taught to believe. Unfortunately, his curiosity doesn’t escape the attention of his superiors, and it may cost him his life.

Meanwhile, Tennessee public school teacher, Noah Parker, like many in the United States, has been asleep at the wheel. During his complacency, the founding precepts of America have been systematically destroyed by a conspiracy that dates back hundreds of years.

Cassandra Parker, Noah’s wife, has diligently followed end-times prophecy and the shifting tide against freedom in America. Noah has tried to avoid the subject, but when charges are filed against him for deviating from the approved curriculum in his school, he quickly understands the seriousness of the situation. The signs can no longer be ignored, and Noah is forced to prepare for the cataclysmic period of financial and political upheaval ahead.

Watch through the eyes of Noah Parker and Everett Carroll as the world descends into chaos, a global empire takes shape, ancient writings are fulfilled, and the last days fall upon the once-great United States of America.

The Days of Noah, by Mark Goodwin, is a fast-paced fiction thriller, which looks at how modern conspiracies could play into Biblical prophecy concerning the end times. Buy your copy and jump into this near-future, post-apocalyptic adventure today!

This is the complete, three-book box set. Book One: Conspiracy, Book Two: Persecution, and Book Three: Perdition. The individual books in the series spent months at the top of multiple best-seller lists and have accumulated over 1,000 Five-Star Reviews to date.

As with all books by Mark Goodwin, this book contains no profanity and no embarrassing sex scenes. However, if you’re offended by conservative principles and references to Scripture, this book might not be for you.
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Product: The Fire Series: Bones Of Fire, Trial By Fire, and Saints On Fire (Spiritual Warfare Novels Trilogy Box Set: Books 1 - 3)
Description: Three popular spiritual warfare novels now in one box set, PLUS bonus chapters from The Spirit Of Fear.

Over 1200 hundred pages of thrills and suspense. The regular price is $11.97; the box set price is $6.99. That's three books for the price of two! Come on! Find out why these books have 395 five-star reviews among them.

BONES OF FIRE: (Book 1)

The Styles family is about to be sucked into a whirlwind.

Reverend Edwin Styles is a good man, but totally unprepared for the spiritual warfare that is about to overwhelm him and his family. He doesn’t believe in demons or warlocks. He only theoretically believes in angels. But his ignorance of spiritual warfare won’t shield him from being chosen by God for a mission so critical that the angel who commanded the forces at The Battle of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ has been assigned to help him.

And Edwin will need all the help this famed warrior angel can offer. For the kingdom of darkness has assigned the Mighty Bashnar, one of its most ruthless demons and cunning military strategists, to thwart God’s plan and to destroy this man of God. He and his family will soon learn from painful experience why this cruel warrior spirit was granted the title, Mighty.

But is the Mighty Bashnar as strong as he thinks he is? Or will he discover that “God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty”? (1 Corinthians 1:27)

TRIAL BY FIRE: (Book 2)

Reverend Edwin Styles and his family were battered and bruised in the onslaught they suffered in Bones of Fire. They learned that there is a terrible price to pay for not understanding, and for not engaging in, spiritual warfare.

Now in Trial by Fire, the battle for Atlanta continues. The Mighty Bashnar is back with special authority from heaven to overwhelm the Styles family. It’s his Job Strategy. The plan is simple: Overwhelm and destroy them with non-stop troubles and tragedies.

Will the Mighty Bashnar have his way? Or will the people of God use the weapons of their warfare to cast down strongholds?

SAINTS ON FIRE: (Book 3)

A new spiritual warfare battle simmers to a devastating boil in the Olympic city of Atlanta.

Annihilation and Slavery are two ruler spirits who have together ruthlessly dominated Atlanta’s dangerous inner city communities of The Bluff and Mayhem. The Bluff is known nationwide for its high-potency heroin. And Mayhem has a name that perfectly describes the wildly violent environment of its several-thousand-strong public housing project residents.

Both demons are confident that the church is too uninterested or intimidated to bother the residents they consider property. Then the unthinkable happens. The mysterious blue mist of the Holy Spirit invades. He selects and uses a most unlikely person to show the church and the dark powers that His light shines brightest where it is most dark.
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Product: This Present Darkness (2 Book Series)
Description: From Book 1: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
After the film in her camera is mysteriously destroyed at a small-town festival, reporter Bernice Kreuger knows she’s found something worth covering up. She brings the investigation to her boss, Marshall Hogan. Along with the local pastor of a struggling church, Hank Busch, they find something much bigger than they expected—a demonic plot to enslave their town and, eventually, the world.

The tiny college town of Ashton becomes the unlikely battleground in a cosmic clash between good and evil. Unseen by the human protagonists, armies of angels and demons wage war against one another in the spiritual realm for the souls of the people of Ashton. Up against supernatural forces, the future of the town seems bleak – but the power of prayer might be able to influence the outcome of the fight.

This fast-paced thriller birthed an entirely new genre, setting the standard for spiritual suspense. It has since sold over 2 million copies worldwide, sparking a renewed interest in the concept of spiritual warfare.
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Product: The Oath
Description: An ancient evil. A long-forgotten oath. A town with a deadly secret. The result unfolds in this gripping thriller with over one million copies sold.

Something evil is at work in Hyde River, an isolated mining town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.

Under the cover of darkness, a predator strikes without warning—taking life in the most chilling and savage fashion.

The community of Hyde River watches in terror as residents suddenly vanish. Yet, the more locals are pressed for information, the more they close ranks, sworn to secrecy by their forefathers’ hidden sins.

Only when Hyde River’s secrets are exposed is the true extent of the danger fully revealed. What the town discovers is something far more deadly than anything they’d imagined. Something that doesn’t just stalk its victims—it has the power to turn hearts black with decay as it slowly fills their souls with darkness.

Stand-alone thriller
Book length: approximately 100,000 words
Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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Product: Noah Primeval (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 1)
Description: Nephilim Giants, Watchers, Archangels. This is Not Your Sunday School Noah’s Ark.

A novel of the Genesis Bible story of Noah based on ancient historical research.

In an ancient world of darkness, fallen angels called Watchers rule as gods and breed giants called Nephilim.

Noah, a tribal leader and good family man, just wants to be left alone to make a living off the land with his wife and sons.

But he soon learns that evil never leaves you alone. It comes after you--and your family--with a vengeance.

Now Noah must rescue his family from the grip of supernatural evil before the Deluge comes and carries them all away.

A wild ride of spiritual redemption and action-adventure that takes the reader on a journey from the heights of heaven to the depths of the underworld.

Written by respected Christian and best-selling Biblical author, Brian Godawa.

Learn About the Historical and Biblical Research Behind the Novel

Noah Primeval has appendices that provide an explanation of Biblical concepts in the novel such as the Sons of God, Watchers, Nephilim, Giants, Leviathan, and fallen angels.

On The Age Appropriateness Of The Novels

This Biblical Fiction series is rated PG-13, appropriate for mature teens and above, similar to the Bible and The Lord of the Rings.
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Product: Piercing the Darkness: A Novel (This Present Darkness Book 2)
Description: Now in ebook, the classic sequel to bestseller This Present Darkness, about another small town in the midst of an unseen supernatural battle for truth.
This sequel to This Present Darkness follows the supernatural battle over the small town of Bacon’s Corner, where, once again, armies of angels and demons are at war. Sally Beth Roe is trying to escape her past and struggling to find the truth, while Tom Harris finds himself embroiled in a battle to save a Christian school threatened by outside forces.
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Product: Prophet: A Novel
Description: Now in ebook, a classic from bestselling author Frank Peretti about a TV anchorman whose life is turned upside down as he starts hearing voices and discovers supernatural forces at play.
John Barrett, popular anchorman, finds himself suddenly lost in the comfortable world he thought he understood.
His producer seems to be hiding something big and lying to cover her tracks. His father’s “accidental” death isn’t looking quite so accidental. And his estranged son has returned search for the truth. On top of all this, John is starting to hear mysterious voices.
Prophet has all the hallmarks of Peretti’s fast-paced blockbuster fiction, and his clear understanding of the vast spiritual struggle over moral authority marks every page.
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Product: This Present Darkness: A Novel
Description: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
After the film in her camera is mysteriously destroyed at a small-town festival, reporter Bernice Kreuger knows she’s found something worth covering up. She brings the investigation to her boss, Marshall Hogan. Along with the local pastor of a struggling church, Hank Busch, they find something much bigger than they expected—a demonic plot to enslave their town and, eventually, the world.

The tiny college town of Ashton becomes the unlikely battleground in a cosmic clash between good and evil. Unseen by the human protagonists, armies of angels and demons wage war against one another in the spiritual realm for the souls of the people of Ashton. Up against supernatural forces, the future of the town seems bleak – but the power of prayer might be able to influence the outcome of the fight.

This fast-paced thriller birthed an entirely new genre, setting the standard for spiritual suspense. It has since sold over 2 million copies worldwide, sparking a renewed interest in the concept of spiritual warfare.
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Product: The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse
Description: They could be anyone, anywhere . . . even the person walking by you right now.

The Veritas Project is their code name—but only a handful of people know teens Elijah and Elisha Springfield have been covertly commissioned by the President to investigate strange mysteries that delve into the paranormal and supernatural. Their charge is to find out not only what happened, but why—the veritas (Latin for truth) behind the seemingly impossible phenomena.

Their new assignment: Hangman's Curse

In Baker, Washington, three popular student athletes lie in an incoherent coma, with loss of muscle coordination, severe paranoia, and hallucinations. It's whispered that they're victims of Abel Frye—a curse that's haunted the school since a student died there in the 1930s. Now the curse is spreading, and students are running scared. The Veritas Project must go undercover to find the truth . . . before it's too late.
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Product: Monster
Description: The suspense is bone-chilling when you realize the monsters are real . . .

Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwester woods. They are surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness.

During their first night camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then something emerges from the dense woods. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed—except the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying his wife into the darkness.

Enter into deep wilderness where the rules of civilization no longer apply. A world where strange shadows lurk. Where creatures long attributed to overactive imaginations and nightmares are the hunters . . . and people are the hunted.

New York Times bestseller
Full length, standalone novel
Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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Product: The Visitation
Description: National best-selling author Frank Peretti has been hailed as the undisputed master of supernatural thrillers. The New York Times calls him "the dean of the genre." His books have sold more than nine million copies and The Visitation alone has sold more than half a million.

The small town of Antioch, Washington, is a hotbed for spiritual activity. Burned-out minister Travis Jordan has been replaced by a charismatic man who looks and behaves like Christ. Suddenly, the town is abuzz with reports of miracles and religious sightings. But Travis believes the new minister is a false messiah and senses the ominous presence of pure evil.

Filled with thrilling action, The Visitation is also the author’s most personal work. Says Peretti, "It is a searching of my own heart…." Narrator Richard Ferrone delivers a rich, animated performance.
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Product: Piercing the Darkness
Description: Across a vast panorama of heart-stopping action, Sally Roe flees for her life. Her journey is a penetrating portrayal of our times, and a vivid reminder of the redemptive power of the Cross.
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