An essential resource for Christian parents wondering how to respond when a child identifies as LGBT.Children of all ages face social pressures, negative influences, and questions about identity, including sexuality and gender. As a parent, you long to stay connected to your child while upholding biblical truth. When Grace Meets Conviction provides the guidance parents need when it comes to responding with compassion and care rather than hurt or fear. Writ...

THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024WINNER OF THE BLUE PLANET PRIZE 2025'Argues persuasively . . . nothing less than eye-opening' Financial TimesCan we really restore the earth’s atmosphere within our lifetime?Whether through sustainable technologies such as fossil-free steel production, hydrogen-powered ships and electric motorbikes, or natural solutions like rewilding peatlands, pe...

Writing especially for people who've tuned out the environmental debate, Rob Jackson persuasively argues that we're at a crucial turning point in environmental history, where choices we make now will determine the quality of life into the unforeseeable future. Laying out the scientific facts in plain language and with flashes of humor, he shows how the escalation of population growth and resource consumption in the twentieth century caused problems from ozone depletion to global warming, h...

A handful of men escape a Russian POW camp and make their way to Poland to alert whatever governments are left that the Russians are planning a strike simply called Operation A, They discover a world that has changed, devastated by plague and war, but where some groups are struggling to rebuild civilization while others continue to serve dead ideologies.The group becomes "Recon Nine" and sets out to track down the higher command from the prison camp who are instrumental in Operatio...

Recon 9, a group formed by veteran Air Force pilots who'd escaped a Russian POW camp, faces a world devastated by plague, a desultory worldwar, and a widespread civic collapse.Recon 9 follows a trail of bodies across Texas, discovering that west Texas put the wild in the wild west.To catch the Russian agent they have to deal with bandit gangs, groups of homicidal maniacs, and military holdouts.The agent is carrying out a program called Operation A or Operatio...

The survivors of Recon 9 are needed in the Ozarks where some home-grown autocrats have taken over parts of Arkansas and Missouri. They've looted National Guard armories and hoarded weapons, ammunition, and vital supplies, just waiting for the opportunity to take over the area. While most of their transport, armor, and aircraft are obsolete, they face people with no protection against such deadly equipment. And they're trying to get the local natural resources to gain control of weapons eve...

The poetry shared throughout these writings of poems will entice the reader, to want more. The poems will reflect on your life experiences, the experiences of an individual you know as family, friends, co-workers and that person that sits next to you in church on Sundays. The four chapters, Praise His Name, Romantic Stuff, Friends and Family and Open Mic will crave your desire to read and discuss these poems with family and friends.

The poems written in this book will challenge the readers walk with Jesus Christ and create thought-provoking conversations among Christians and non-Christians alike. These poems are real: life events and circumstances that occur inside and outside of the church. For the believers and non-believers, these poems will take you to another level in Christianity and open your heart to want Christ in your life on a daily basis.

Brought to you by Penguin.Can we really restore the earth’s atmosphere within our lifetime?Whether through sustainable technologies such as fossil-free steel production, hydrogen-powered ships and electric motorbikes, or natural solutions like rewilding peatlands, people all over the world are finding new ways to travel, feed themselves and drive industry while safeguarding a liveable planet for future generations.Drawing on decades of research and ...

Brought to you by Penguin.As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers. He crafted life-size replicas in an abandoned cemetery, carefully bringing them to life with paper and paint. Today he is a botanist at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and has dedicated his life to studying the biology of such extraordinary plants, working alongside botanists and foresters in Southeast Asia to document t...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him**This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem. As a child, he played in its shadow and explored the little world within the camp. As he grew older, he began questioning the boun...

Brought to you by Penguin.'I'm black, so you don't have to be,' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible; he would shake off the burden he believed his parents' generation had carried. The reality turned out to be very different.This is a memoir told through a series of intimate interge...