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Commitment is the story of a couple sent to unravel the mystery of a failing construction project. Patrick and Josefina, partners in life who first came together in Forgiven, are tasked with putting a project in Puerto Rico back on track at the behest of their boss and mentor, Sandeep. Along the way, the danger and corruption afflicting the project puts stress on both their professional lives and their marriage. Aided by the friends they cultivated...

The highly educated son of an ex-North Korean agent is tasked to kill North Korean spies hiding in Seoul to save his kidnapped younger sister.

Commitment to a Deceitful Liar is a look inside the life of the author, raised in a West Indian home with all its beliefs and myths. Simpson struggled with telling all for this book, but the truth is the story, and Simpson reveals all of hers: sexual abuse, being raised with a stepfather, domestic violence and various struggles within the Black community unravels. Her old self would have worried about what people thought, but her new self believes...

What's love got to do with it? Everything, according to Richard Isay's informed and illuminating look at the role of romance in modern gay life. I highly recommend this book for people of any generation and partnership status. -Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D., author of The Science of Desire and The God Gene "Richard Isay offers something far better than simple bromides and false hope. In this book, he challenges us with a provocative, illuminating, and ultimately...

The author chronicles how the U.S. government gave her and her Brazilian-born lover, Felipe, an ultimatum, marry or Felipe cannot enter the country again; and how she tackled her fears through research and personal reflection on the enduring institution of marriage.

"For over 200 years, the US Marine Corps has trained America's men and women to fill the ranks of the world's most elite fighting force, and although technology and training techniques have changed, the spirit of the Marine Corps remains the same: Honor. Courage. Commitment. Making Marines follows recruits from day one on Parris Island to the final, grueling 54-hour test of mental and physical endurance, The Crucible. Witness the life-changing transformation...

"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...

This is a short but inspiring book on how to follow Christ with your whole heart. We must put Christ at the center of our lives and live for him and through him alone. He was an iconoclast among Evangelicals. One who sought to please God and not man. In this way, he made many friends and many enemies. But, everything that drove him was for the betterment of the human race in general and the Church in particular.