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“MY MOMMY IS GOING TO DIE,” SHAINA SOBBED INTO THE PHONE.When Piper Streyle failed to show up for work, a coworker called her home. Piper’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Shaina, answered and said, “A mean man carried Mommy away.” Then the line went dead. In the tranquil region of southeast South Dakota, word of the young mother who was brazenly abducted from her home in broad daylight shocked residents. Piper was the second woman to vanish, following the startling incident of a young woman who narrowly escaped abduction by fighting for her life on a dark and secluded highway.An intensive search by an elite team of investigators uncovered a secret crime location, but the discovery of a nightshirt cut in half, a burnt candle, and a homemade bondage board revealed the chilling truth behind the missing women. With the help of a quick-witted and streetwise maximum security prison inmate, prosecutor Larry Long and his team were able to piece together the sinister facts of the diabolical crimes.Bestselling authors PHIL AND SANDY HAMMAN, along with former Attorney General LARRY LONG, dive into the grim and demented world of Robert Leroy Anderson,  a sexual sadist, rapist, and murderer. Duct Tape Killer is also the story of perseverance and proof that love will not be extinguished by the ruinous evil that seeks to take root in our world.

LA isn't the easiest place to find goodness in humanity, and the six square downtown blocks Packer and Jack call home aren't the friendliest. Packer never had much choice; while going for ice cream, he was orphaned and took to misquoting the Bible to explain the unexplainable. Jack, wanting only to maintain the status quo, was abruptly shunted out the door of a twenty-year marriage. After a month in Beverly Park sanitarium, she learned to dine from samples on Safeway's deli counter and hide in plain sight dressed as a man. When the two meet at Sunday Breakfast, Packer takes an interest. On the street, he is the more capable of the two, having created out of a chaotic world his own peaceable kingdom. Jack is so frightened she can't even admit to her gender. After several years of self-pity, Jack cleans up but must own her current reality before she can claim her future. Both Packer and Jack reveal secrets, strategies, internal pain, true goodness, and love. The understanding and acceptance that permit both Packer and Jack to let go and grow--those lessons are universal.

Burnt Offerings is filled with poems about life and death, family and faith, hope and despair, creativity and questions. From Billy Collins and Smokey the Bear to Jesus, from kombucha to the Eucharist, from kindling and forest fires to ash and ember, Cathy Warner employs metaphor, humility, and humor to explore the spiritual life.

Fledgling Song traces the thought life and wanderings of Claire Sivert, a young Canadian woman living and studying biology in France. Caught between the wilderness landscapes of her native Manitoba and the winter-gray cityscapes of Paris, she struggles to find a firm footing. Besides yearning for a sense of place, she is also caught between two eras of her life. Painfully vivid memories from her childhood and tentative hopes rooted in the present intermingle as she moves through her days and records her musings in her faithful journal. Full of wonder and yet delicately unsure of herself, Claire learns through several encounters with new friends how to be bold and face her past and present, however imperfect.

Young Otto Kerchner dreams of escaping his father's Wisconsin dairy farm and becoming a flier like his hero Charles Lindbergh. When a small airport is built on an adjoining property, Otto trades odd jobs for flight lessons and becomes a pilot at 16. When World War II breaks out, he enlists in the Army Air Corps and finds himself a year later high over Germany at the controls of a B-17. Otto and his crew fly 23 missions untouched, but then his world shatters, and he must draw on reserves of faith and courage he never imagined.On Wings of the Morning brings to life the ordinary men and women of the Greatest Generation who, stirred by fate and fortune, accomplished extraordinary things. Faithful in its depiction of events and evocative across a spectrum of emotions, this gentle but incisive tale will engage, inform and move readers of all ages.

"...so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?'" Luke 10:29In a society that is so thoroughly self-centered, that question becomes more pertinent than ever before. In this book of collected essays, articles, poetry, and devotionals, author Dana Yost explores not only the idea of regarding even "the least of these" as a "neighbor" by also emulating the life of Christ in acting as the "Good Shepherd" for those around us that are in need.

Welling up from deep inside the soul of the poet Morgan, these poems are the sum of experiences, both personal and recounted by those with whom he has come into contact. Descriptive of the journey, the trials, the travails, and the triumphs of true love, the emotions that leap from these pages ring true for lovers of all ages and stages of the life journey.Brimming with both agony and ecstasy, Thoughts of the Soul is intended to assist the reader in finding new ways to express love more passionately, more deeply, and more viscerally than ever before.And maybe, just maybe, the words "I love you" will carry a new, more vibrant meaning for you and those you love - and especially those who love you......unconditionally.

Adam and an unnamed woman build a language and a world to share. Unfortunately, they must be wounded in pursuit of each other. Mortally.Inspired by the experimental tradition of scripture, Shakespeare, Italo Calvino, Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, Jorges Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and others, this peculiar story begins in the Garden of Eden with a man, a woman, and a serpent. Breaking tradition, the woman flees the garden to travel through time and space. "Why were we taken away from the nothing we so perfectly were?" she wondered.

Proof of Divine presents the journey of author Andrew Murtagh as he straddles the fence between faith and cynicism in an all-or-none look at the greatest story ever told. Blending his family's incredible stories of survival, faith, hope, and love, matched with his own walk from hockey player to coach to husband, father, and career man, he embarks on a five-year expedition towards the intersection of faith and reason. Is there a God? Are science and faith mutually exclusive? What is truth and what of logic, morality, and meaning? Who is the historical Jesus, and why Christianity? The faith of scientists, the science of skeptics, the questions of time, life, and purpose, Murtagh looks back at his own life and the inspiring lives of his forefathers to decide if he is an accident or an intention. The graze of a bullet, a soldier surrounded, an armed robbery, and a fateful desert drive-Murtagh puts the faith of his youth to the ultimate test: the Proof of Divine.

Hues of Darkness, Hues of Light contains the pieces of a soul as she tries to make sense of the world and her life in it. Born Catholic, she might have found those answers earlier in her religion, but circumstances dictated that she emphasize her education; she became a poet, eventually a PhD in English. In reality she seeks goodness and kindness in places where there may not be much, and puzzling through her experiences has led her to making poems that reflect them. Sometimes she digs deep into herself; others, she observes what is around her. Her adventures may be small, but they become important in her writings.

The Scent of Her is a story about redemption, forgiveness and longing as told by a young girl who needed to mother her own mother. It is a poignant reflection of childhood images and desires within one of the most important of relationships, that of a mother and her daughter. The journey continues for the daughter as she becomes a mother herself, and she reaches toward extraordinary acceptance and understanding of the woman she loves; the woman who has loved her in the only way she could.It is a story of survival and it becomes an inspiring and heartwarming message of hope for relationships of all kinds.

Step into your virtual time machine and set the controls for 1961. Then sit back, put your feet up, and relax as you join nine-year-old Karen Schmidt in her attempts to navigate Crab Hollow Road amidst the overwhelming male majority who beleaguer her at every opportunity. Does Karen have the fortitude to weather toadnappings, midnight escapades, false impersonation, and more? Along the way, relive the people, products, music, sports, and headlines of the early 1960s.

The year is 2325 - three hundred years after the Great Catastrophe, which wiped out most of Krinton. It's now a world ruled by the legendary emperor, Treanthor, where technology is limited, education is discouraged and children become adults on their thirteenth birthday.Marcus MacMillan embarks on an uncertain quest with his best friend, Rindel, driven by the pursuit of a crazy vision concerning PathOne - the route that is detailed in The Book Beyond Time, a mysterious ancient volume.Ever since a new Era of Pleasure was announced in Krinton, gadgets, games and grench ports have been on the rise - made possible by the power of xanth crystals. The common Wryxl tribes are a happy people, and stuff like the feel-good sekrin is easily available. Why should Marcus tackle all kinds of challenges and danger, when everyone else is getting on and enjoying life?So many voices and choices are demanding his attention. What will Marcus choose?The Book Beyond Time is a fantasy adventure for a new generation of pre-teens as they prepare to navigate the tricky pitfalls ahead and explore issues of faith.

From the number of figures on our paychecks to the digits staring back at us from the bathroom scale, we often gauge our success by the numerical standards of this world - but there are some things that cannot be measured. Immeasurable is the personal story of a young woman who has found freedom from "measuring up" by seeking the One who numbers and names the stars, the One who gives graciously from the overflowing abundance of His love.

For Sophie Hanes, life is predictable and relatively uneventful, until . . . . . . she finds an old diary in her grandmother's attic, written in the unfamiliar Irish language, Gaelic. In her quest to know more, she sets out to find an interpreter and runs into the sexy New Yorker, Kevin Gates, who is more than happy to help interpret the language. Kevin finds himself moving too close, too fast, falling in love with a woman who may be too preoccupied to share his feelings. There is another man bidding for Sophie's attention: a History Professor in Ireland, well versed in the diary's language. As events unfold, Sophie finds out too late she's been targeted in a sinister scheme. The diary pulls Sophie into the life of Ms. Anya O'Connell, the young woman who writes of her fate and discloses the dark behavior of those who surround her. Sophie's only hope may be a spirit-guide, the one they call Three. If she is willing to believe, he is willing to assist her in a journey she won't soon forget.

Sometime in the near future, Jack Pence finds himself in New York City . . .. . . ALONE.A sole survivor, apparently, of an unstoppable pandemic. He begins a journey west, hoping to find someone-anyone-who has also survived.The search proves fruitless, and Jack stops in the tiny hamlet of Luna, New Mexico, slipping into despondency, and then despair, on the brink of defeat.But when he suddenly finds he is not alone after all, what happens next re-ignites his consciousness, provides him a home, and launches him on an unforgettable mission.

What happens when FANTASY & FIDELITY collide?Leah Westwood loves her husband Jacob with all her heart, even as the smoldering glances of her ex-flame Vincent Miller continue to affect her. What she once shared with Vincent threatens to rip apart the bonds she is trying to build with her husband.Jacob's heart belongs to Leah, but his body refuses to accept that. Rachel is the one who has been his mainstay at the most difficult times in his life. How could he leave her alone?Vincent wants Leah back and all he has to do is watch and wait as Jacob and Leah's relationship unravels.Ultimately, Leah must make a choice . . .. . . between FANTASY & FIDELITY.

A mysterious manuscript reveals a stunning, centuries-old mystery . . .The Church . . .The Inquisition . . .Witchcraft . . .Martin, a Dominican friar and inquisitor, is summoned by Werner of Finkelstein to conduct the trial of a young woman accused of witchcraft during the time of the Great Plague. The Second Death is Martin's story--his confession--written after he sequesters himself in a monastery, having taken a vow of silence.Now, six centuries later, in the pages of the Dummstein Manuscript, his silence is shattered.

Deeply rooted in Appalachia, Hills of Home offers a rich literary patchwork of reflection, memoir, and humor. The story opens in the 1950s in the remote community of Munday in Wirt County, West Virginia. Though comprised of a mosaic of individual stories, the compilation reads like a novel, and is characterized uniquely with the author's personal diary entries and a sailor's letters home. Hills of Home is filled with light-hearted adventures, coming-of-age romances, pie socials, county fairs, older brother pranks, frog gigging, chicken canning, persimmon picking, porch sitting, and reunion going. Harsh winter survivals, personal family struggles, and humorous folklore, which have been handed down through generations, also grace the pages.In Hills of Home, readers will discover that mountaineers have pride in their heritage as well as the natural resources of their state. They will discover people who are fiercely independent, hardworking, have a love for family, and a keen sense of loyalty to neighbors. Most of all, readers will find gracious friends, families, and neighbors who help one another in times of need, a quality which has proved sufficient to preserve their way of life in the hills. Praise for Hills of Home "I think the book is a valuable detailed and most honest documentation of a part of Appalachia that has not been celebrated so well until now."--Earl Hamner, Jr., bestselling author of Spencer's Mountain and creator of the beloved The Waltons television series

Chad Thomas Johnston's Nightmarriage is a whimsical memoir that explores the terrors of marriage and the perils of parenthood. Adapted from Johnston's blog series of the same name, Nightmarriage proves that, when two people marry, their flaws tie the knot, too. In essays such as "My Wife, the Black Hole," "Hearts and Jumper Cables," "Knives and Wives," "Honeymoonwalking (to Jail)," and "Blessed Are the Tentmakers," Johnston weaves stories on his literary loom that are equal parts luminous and lunatic. Writing as only a minister's son with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder can, Johnston has crafted an observational ode to both the blunders and wonders of wedlock, and his writing is punctuated accordingly with absurd alliteration, appalling puns, and madcap metaphors. Nightmarriage is a must-read for fans of David Sedaris, Robert Fulghum, and Anne Lamott. While Johnston created the cover art himself, the interior of the book features original work by artists BARRR, Dan Billen, Ben Chlapek, Megan Frauenhoffer, Danny Joe Gibson, Mark Montgomery, and Darin M. White. The appendices of the book also include Twitter stream excerpts, recipes, artist information, and other miscellany from the world of Chad Thomas Johnston.

It's easy to be positive when the seas of life are calm and peaceful. But when we are thrown into the turmoil of a chaotic circumstance, such as a life-threatening disease, can unflappable positivity be maintained? Join talent agent, musician, and author Karl B. Sanger as he details the long and arduous journey he walked with his wife Teresa through her diagnosis and battle with Hepatitis C. Through their faith in God and the support of family and friends, Sanger concludes that "Absolute Positivity" can only be found when we tap into the source of all good things: the Creator of the Universe.

"Changing the world". It's a concept that gets thrown around in political campaigns and Miss America pageants. But what does it really take to spark real change? In his book, Tales of the Taylor: Songs that Changed the World, Ethan D. Bryan shows us just what one person can do, as well as the truth of the saying: "A journey of one million miles begins with a single step." Join Ethan as he meets former KC Royals great Frank White, future leaders of America and prisoners who have had very visceral encounters with the living Christ.

Eighteen-year-old Virginia leaves her childhood Idaho farm with her sister Nellie, and they head to California to support the fighting forces of the United States. Nothing about their promising new life, working as war plane riveters, turns out as planned. Neither girl intended to fall in love, but who can really plan for love? Virginia fights heart wrenching battles when she has to choose between her fun-loving sailor and her down-to-earth marine. Nellie s sailor is charming; he s her true love, but his involvement in the secret service turns her life upside down.Innocence was blown out of the trenches during WWII. It didn t matter if it was the trenches of war, or the trenches of love. It was a time to find out what you were made of; a time to learn who you were. Bravery and valor were braided between flesh and soul.Some people call them the greatest generation. Maybe they were simply the generation of greatness. It was everything for God, Country, and Family or nothing at all. True love fell easily, and it stayed where it landed because they were always faithful Semper Fidelis.

The Holocaust Case, which ruled the gassing of Jews by Hitler was "simply a fact" and "not reasonably subject to dispute," was featured in the movie, Never Forget, but the real story has never been told.Now, for the first time, the true facts are revealed by William John Cox, the public-interest lawyer who represented a Nazi death camp survivor and sued the radical organizations that denied the Holocaust. In retaliation, Cox was sued for defamation by the reclusive leader of a shadowy consortium that earned millions peddling historical lies and bizarre theories of racial superiority. His recollection of these matters is supplemented by official court records.In a poignant personal memoir, the author details his path from an orphan named "Billy Jack" to a police officer to a representative of a secret client in the publication of the suppressed Dead Sea Scrolls.Along his circuitous life path, Cox meets another orphan-one who could never forget the extermination of his entire family by the Nazis. The survivor had been taunted by the deniers to prove the truth of the Holocaust. Together, the two accept the challenge and make history.Cox discusses his unconventional practice of law, in which he undertook these landmark cases without charging a fee, and tells why he did it. He derives lessons from the Holocaust and explains how the insights relate to current social and political conditions.Reviews of The Holocaust Case: Defeat of DenialWhile many of us have met Mel Mermelstein and knew of his stubborn stand against the Institute for Historical Review's bigotry paraded as scholarship, few of us knew of William Cox's vital, self-sacrificial role in the long struggle to silence the IHR. Nor did most of us understand how critical was the judge's judicial notice that the Holocaust was simply a fact-an opinion he skillfully elicited in his brief. There are many unsung heroes in the fight against the bigotry implicit in Holocaust denial.Solomon Littman, Visiting Scholar, Judaic Studies, University of Arizona, and author of Holocaust Denial: Bigotry in the Guise of ScholarshipThe Holocaust Case tells about one groundbreaking court case that shows where freedom of speech gives way to deliberately hurtful hate-speech. It shows that adversarial processes have a place in airing history and establishing the truth.David Brin, Futurist and author of The Transparent Society

You are about to embark on a truly weird, interesting, and entertaining experience...So begins the "odyssey of awkwardness" that is Call Me Clumsy, the my-life-so-far memoir of Matthew Weinrich. Through utterly humbling experiences that span the decades of his life, Weinrich provides anecdotes that are equally cringe-inducing and laugh-out-loud funny. From his experience as a consummate slacker to his marriage proposal gone horribly awry to an unfortunate run-in with the fine men and women of the TSA, Weinrich brings you along as he strolls down memory lane, for better or for worse.Ultimately, Weinrich gives us a heart-warming picture of the humility of a child of God who knows, without a doubt, that the old adage applies to him: God is God, and I am not......not even close.

Mosey on over to the campfire, take a load off, and let me tell you about the adventures of J-Bar and me, Fret Maverick.J-Bar is my dad, a multi-state cowboy action shooting champion.To the best of my recollection, in nearly forty years, I had shot guns twice in my life.Returning home from a family vacation, I suddenly felt compelled to take a risk and try something completely new. So, I joined my recently retired father in playing the cowboy action game. Competing under the alias "Fret Maverick," I was introduced to a slice of Americana I would have never known otherwise. The Cowboy Year is a quirky and beautiful, Midwest-set, father-and-son memoir.But ultimately, The Cowboy Year is a story about having the courage to tell new stories.

Letting the spirit enter her was only the beginning...Drusilla, a first-century Philippian slave girl, is forced to admit a spirit of prophecy into her body at the Temple of Apollo. Upon her return to Philippi, her master forces her to serve as a fortune teller to make him wealthy. Her life settles into a predictable pattern until a group of itinerant Jewish preachers visits her town, proclaiming a new religion. Lydia, a friend of her family, converts to the new faith, and urges Drusilla's master to free her.When he refuses, the spirit within Drusilla begins to shout out prophecies no one-including Drusilla-ever expected to hear.

Attorney Landon Kingsley never fails to meet expectations or fulfill responsibilities, living a well-ordered life in his hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee. Recently engaged to the beautiful nursing student, April May, Landon's new fiancée is everything he could want in a wife. She is devoted to her faith and family and truly loves him.April's cousin, Ella Casey, has returned to Kingsport after ten years of pursuing stardom as a country music singer in Nashville. Ella's failed career and affair with a married music producer scandalizes her in the eyes of the town, but her legal troubles drive her to Landon for help. Landon finds himself increasingly attracted to Ella and more discontent than ever with the path he has chosen for his life. Amid a firestorm of family and town gossip, Landon is tormented by his past and the complicated decision of whether to listen to God's voice or follow his own desires.A retelling of Edith Wharton's classic novel The Age of Innocence, Song from the Ashes explores the struggle with contentment in marriage and the dilemma between striving for personal happiness versus acceptance of God's perfect plan.

SALVATION IS ONLY THE BEGINNING . . .Does your life look the same as it did the day you put your faith in Jesus Christ? Or have you discovered the power of the Spirit within you enabling you to live a holy, righteous life? For that matter, is it even possible to be holy?Many Christians today are wading in the shallow end of the infinite relationship God desires to have with His children. They are strangled by addictions and idolatry, or distracted from the pursuit of spiritual maturity by a cheap imitation of moralism. Whatever the reason, their spiritual growth has been stunted; they've never gone beyond mere belief in Jesus Christ.Beyond Belief: Jesus Saved You...Now What? explores what God has in store for you and what He wants from you. With a firm foundation on the centrality of Christ, this book will help you see exactly who you are and what you are called to, based on, and enabled by, His righteousness alone. Through intense study and humbling application of both the Old and New Testaments, Beyond Belief, will show you what a mature Christian life looks like and what it takes to get there.

Victor is not just a name . . .V as in Victor is the story of an American minister and his family in a small pastorate in England between the World Wars and their subsequent life in the United States during and after World War II. More importantly, it is the story of a man whose struggles might have destroyed him, but did not. This uplifting tale of a man's ongoing quest for the chance to serve his church and his earnest desire to live a life according to the precepts of his religion will both inspire you, challenge you, and touch your heart.