Handsome Jack is a logger, nomad, and born dreamer. His young wife, Simone, has too many kids and never enough money to support or protect them. The family keeps on the move, shedding a grand total of twenty-seven homes. Their first child, Randy, is sensitive and brilliant and bold, protector of his younger siblings, the fearless star of their childhood adventures and misadventures—until something snaps inside him. The second child who comes a year after him, our narrator Barbara, is the l...

PRAYERS THAT AVAIL MUCH MORE by Barbara A. Williams is an effective, Christian Prayer Manual that has been used by intercessors for over 25 years. People who have used this manual have seen numerous miracles including physical and emotional healing, financial breakthrough, family reconciliation, and much more. If you have a desire to pray and receive answers, this book is for you!These manuals are intended as working tools for intercessors. Whether you call yourself an intercessor ...

Christian Book Award® programOutreach Resource of the YearHave you ever felt too progressive for conservatives, but too conservative for progressives?Too often, political questions areframed in impossible ways for the faithful Christian: we're forced to choose between social justice and biblical values, between supporting women and opposing abortion. As a result, it's easy for Christians to grow disillusioned with civic enga...

A Woman Wild is a compelling multi-generational sage, following an African American family from the days of slavery to our contemporary world, with characters who are by turns tragic, strong, resilient, and triumphant.

Markie's Pockets is a sweet story of a little boy. He walks around his neighborhood with his mom every day. On his short journeys, he finds ordinary objects that he places in his pockets to take home. These are his treasures. Your child will enjoy seeing what Markie finds and how, when his pockets are full, he manages to transport his treasures home. At the completion of the story, there is a memory question for your child to answer. Your child will feel proud realizing how much he remembe...

Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art, and traced her own physical and psychological transformation from cultivated Englishwoman to hard-working pioneer settler. She became an exceptionally influential member of the community, developi...

The idea for Shoot-out at Jasper Creek came from a story circulated in my grandmothers neighborhood when I was a child. As the story goes, a thirty-something mystery man who had, somehow, lost a good deal of his face, walked around the back roads of the area at night, talking to himself and his dog. His looks were shocking. His face and neck were bright red with waves of scaly scar tissue buckling it in all directions. His looks frightened children to the point that they were afraid to wan...

Andrew was hoping that the surprise from his aunt would be ths shiny, new mountaing bike, but the surprise turns out to be a dog named Blue. Andrew is tired of adults making decisions for him. He rejects the dog and is determined even more to make his own choices.

Too often, political questions are framed in impossible ways for the faithful Christian: we're forced to choose between social justice and biblical values, between supporting women and opposing abortion. As a result, it's easy for Christians to grow disillusioned with civic engagement or fall back into tribal extremes. This state of affairs has damaged Christian public witness and divided the church.The authors of this book represent the AND Campaign, which exists to educate and or...

Biblical womanhood—the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers—pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. It was born in a series of clearly definable historical moments.This book moves the conversation ab...

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens...

A down on her luck pregnant teen finds herself living in a shopping center in this Oprah's Book Club selection that inspired the film starring Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman.Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in th...