Bøger af Paul Johnston

The smell of beans baking in her oven transports a lady back to her teen years and a very special family reunion in her small hometown in a valley among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. God placed a very special burden on her heart as a girl for her two wayward uncles. This inspirational Christian tale will carry you on a non-stop journey to a most unusual ending. Packed with authentic Appalachian dialect by an author who spoke it as his native tongue, these lovable characters will win your heart as their stories unfold. This is one that you'll want to read in one sitting without putting it down.

Billy had it all. He was president of his school class, the high school basketball star, had six cheerleaders fighting over him, and drove a shiny new Corvette to school everyday. Then one day it all came crashing down. People said his family was just a bunch of crooks and his money and car went away. Most of his so-called friends turned their backs on him. He even had his own brush with the law that landed him in community service at a gospel mission. Watch as Billy grows as a person and struggles with the deep issues of a personal faith in God. This story written in a modified screenplay format will draw you into the story and leave you feeling better when you put this book down than when you picked it up.

Martin and Mary is a sequel to The Other Martin Dempsey. The former faith based book told the story of Martin Dempsey, a crippled, deformed, and dwarfed teen who was isolated from all his classmates for more than eleven years because of the threats of the school bully. When a new boy arrives at school who will not be intimidated into observing the rule, "no one talks to the freak", Martin's school mates begin to see him as a human being. Martin searches for his purpose in life and reason for living and the story ends at the end of his senior year of high school as he is preparing to go away to college. This sequel begins at Martin's graduation from college and follows his life's journey and amazing accomplishments over the next 36 years.

Rory McSpade was born with a mutated gene that caused him to look different from other people. Even as a child he had hair growing on portions of his face that are normally bare. He also had hair growing on the backs of his hands. This tall skinny red headed Irish youth faced ridicule and bullying from other children who believed him to be cursed. They tormented him with their "doggy noises". When faced with the sorrows of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's and a need to provide a home for not only himself, but also for his two younger sisters, he risked his life to sail to America. America was the land of dreams and gave him his only hope of being able to provide for his family. Follow this young man's strange journey and see how God used what Rory considered a curse to work good in his life and the lives of others because of him. Cheer for this ultimate underdog as he finds his way in life in this fictional feel good story of faith and inspiration

Only a few residents remain in the fictional dying former coal mining town of Willow Branch Creek, Kentucky. Deacon Jedidiah Malone is one of those remaining residents. Deacon Jedidiah is a harsh man who insists on getting his way. This not so good deacon has a few skeletons of his own in his closet. This is a sometimes dark tale of evil in a small town where young preachers come to preach, but often disappear. Like every dark cloud, this book too has its silver lining. Come and spend some time in the hills of eastern Kentucky and at the end of your journey you too might experience the joy that one reader described. To paraphrase his sentiments, "By the end I felt like doing cartwheels, a couple of them. This was an insanely good book."

This book takes the reader on a fictional journey to listen in on the conversation between Jesus and his disciples on the road to Emmaus. This account gives a fictional first person account to the events that happened around the time of the death of Christ on Calvary. It looks at the prophecies that were given hundreds of years earlier that came true with uncanny accuracy.

This is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston skillfully demonstrates how much of recent moral philosophy runs aground on the issue of whether we can make correct judgements.

Offers a comprehensive account of Wittgenstein's work on the subject of the Inner self, and presents a challenge to contemporary views. The author has employed a non-technical style, in an attempt to throw new light on Wittgenstein's research on the problem of the Inner self.

This book discusses some of the major threats facing marine ecosystems by cons- ering a range of topics, under chapters discussing biodiversity (Chapter 1), fisheries (Chapter 2), aquaculture (Chapter 3), pollution (Chapter 4) and the impacts of increasing greenhouse gas emissions (Chapter 5).

This book discusses some of the major threats facing marine ecosystems by cons- ering a range of topics, under chapters discussing biodiversity (Chapter 1), fisheries (Chapter 2), aquaculture (Chapter 3), pollution (Chapter 4) and the impacts of increasing greenhouse gas emissions (Chapter 5).

This is the first book to examine comprehensively the chlorine industry and its effects on the environment. Individual chapters are dedicated to subjects such as releases of organochlorines into the environment, and the environmental impact of ozone depletion, providing simple explanations of these complex issues.