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Holloway preached a powerful and very personal brand of sermon at Gray's Inn, and elsewhere, between 1997 and his death in office in 2010. Such was his following that it went without question that a selection of the 190 sermons he left should be published, not only for the benefit of those who heard them delivered, but to reach the much wider audience for whom these unique essays will provide guidance and entertainment, as well as human and spiritual wisdom.
In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into a landscape of shadows, spectres and great strangeness. Six years later, after Deakin's early death, Macfarlane returned to the holloway with the artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards. This book is about those journeys and that landscape.
When Jordan finds a pretty jet-black cat on the way home from school, he notices something oddthe cat is panting and wagging its tail, just like a dog! Jordan wants a pet more than anything, so he takes the cat home, hoping that his mom and dad will let him keep it. As his parents try to find out whether the cat has an owner, Jordan realizes that the cat can fetch and sit and beg and lie down, just like a dog! Hes very excited, even though he knows he might not be able to keep the cat for good. After all, someone must be looking for this well-trained kitty. Then one day Jordan gets in trouble, and nobody is around to help himexcept for the cat that thinks it is a dog. In this illustrated childrens story, a young boy meets a very special cat that changes his life forever.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box. Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to make a fresh start. His impulsive act out on the bayou is heroic, but it puts Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him is practice, his family and even his life. Before he can untangle the mystery that stretches to the highest reaches of corporate power, he must confront the demons of his past. A provocative thriller with an exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.
Shay Cooper was good at her job. As an FBI agent she broke criminals—until they broke her. Recovery seems unlikely until her mentor proposes she return to work at the training academy near her hometown of Chicago. Life in the slow lane definitely appeals, but her contentment lasts only until she meets the academy's biggest challenge: Agent Kate Harris. Kate Harris has made her mistakes and carries her own secrets. Her former partner—a brilliant profiler and author of true crime blockbusters—has disappeared. She's determined to find him, orders for more training be damned. The horror she uncovers collides with Shay's own nightmarish past. The only thing they agree on is that they can't trust anyone, not even each other. Sara Marx, author of the breakout hit Before I Died, returns with an unforgettable thriller teeming with the risks of passion and love.
A lush tangle of small-town life branches out in this engrossing collection of short stories. -Kirkus Discoveries Each of Simolke's stories lets us look into the lives of some of the most interesting characters I have ever read about. -Amos Lassen, Literary Pride The ability to depict such a wide cross section of humanity, including details of each character's breadth of knowledge and experience, takes a talented, insightful author, and Duane Simolke is such a writer. -E. Conley, Betty's Books "A well-crafted collection of short stories." -L. L. Lee, author of Taxing Tallula "It was a real pleasure to read about the fictional town of Acorn, Texas, and get to meet all the different and varied...
When you pray, are you talking to a God who exists? Or is God nothing more than your 'imaginary friend,' like a playmate contrived by a lonely and imaginative child? When author Sam Harris attacked Christianity in Letter to a Christian Nation, reviewers called the book 'marvelous' and a generation of readers---hundreds of thousands of them---were drawn to his message. Deeply troubled, Dr. Ravi Zacharias knew that he had to respond. In The End of Reason, Zacharias underscores the dependability of the Bible along with his belief in the power and goodness of God. He confidently refutes Harris's claims that God is nothing more than a figment of one's imagination and that Christians regularly practice intolerance and hatred around the globe. If you found Sam Harris's Letter to a Christian Nation compelling, the book you are holding is exactly what you need. Dr. Zacharias exposes 'the utter bankruptcy of this worldview.' And if you haven't read Harris' book, Ravi's response remains a powerful, passionate, irrefutably sound set of arguments for Christian thought. The clarity and hope in these pages reach out to readers who know and follow God as well as to those who reject God.
Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author is more qualified to explain its power and promise than Marvin Olasky, described by The New York Times as "the godfather of compassionate conservatism." Compassionate conservatism offers a new paradigm for how the government can and should intervene in the economy. It begins with a long-lost premise about human behavior: economics, by itself, is not what changes lives. Only faith, and deeply held ...
'Elm Street' has satisfied America's quest for a pastoral urbanism since the time of Jefferson.
A mysterious “ghost” bypasses the security system of Yavapai Courthouse Museum and makes off with four precious Native American relics. The mystery searchers, at the invitation of curator Dr. William Wasson, jump into the case and deploy a range of technology tools to discover the ghost’s secrets. If the ghost strikes again, the museum’s very future is in doubt. A dangerous game of cat and mouse ensues.