Addie is a normal guy trying his best to transform from an average and unlucky creature to a powerful and conquering superman. His transformation begins on a trek up Mount Bedlam, where he encounters beasts and demons, as well as people of different virtues, powerful angels, and all types of fears and phobias.Addie is challenged to overcome the vices and temptations offered within the three civilizations through which he travels. He summits the mountain, discovering the secrets for...

"CW Young's life began inside a fourth generation homestead during the waning days of the Great Depression. Born into a family, not of wealth, not of privilege, but on of values, of honesty, hard work, personal responsibility, and respect for others. Endowed with a basic education from the one room community school, Young, at the age of ten, determined to add extra value to his life, started selling things. He sold whatever items the residents of Branch LaHave might be encouraged to buy. He n...

From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process.Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelat...

Forgiveness is the mark of love, ultimate love. And it is the forgetting with the forgiving that is the mark of forgiveness.Forgiveness has the power to transform ones life and heal wounds of the heart and mind. As we forgive ourselves, we will be able to forgive others. As we forgive others, we will be forgiven…

This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They also focus on the internal and micro issues – the ending of a marriage, the hope of new relationships, and the daily politics of being a partner, woman and mother. The collection meditates ...

I write this in the hope that no reader will be offended. It is an explanation of the 7 types of people you will encounter in life.In the business world it will give you an edge.It is fun at party's and can be used in all relationships.It can be used no matter where you are in our world.How much money you make or your job,living situation makes no difference.Take a risk, read it and have some fun!

This book shares the spiritual insights and healing the author found in the beauty and power of the Himalayas. With photos capturing the spectacular and the simple, we follow her trek from Kathmandu to Mt. Everest. Each scene opens a world of encouragement and insight, as the author connects the natural world with our world of human experience. We are reminded of our importance to each other and to God, helping us to view life and its experiences in a new and exhilarating way.

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen “Idiot Psalms,” surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet. “Idiot Psalm 1” O God Belovéd if obliquely so, dimly apprehended in the midst of this, the fraught obscuring fog of my insufficiently capacious ken, Ostensible Lover of our kind—while apparently aloof—allow that I might glimpse once more Your shadow in the land, avail for me, a second time, the sense of dire Presence in the pulsing hollo...

Rachel has always tried to do the right thing and has never intentionally tried to hurt anyone. She lives her life with certain integrity and won't bend her moral rules for anybody. However, Rachel is about to quickly discover that a slight moment of hesitation in trying to do the right thing could end catastrophically

"Burrett's imagination is as fertile as that of Jorge Luis Borges's, and he's more readable, and funnier." —The Independent on Sunday (London)A debut collection of tales that explores the weird what-ifs of evolution, devotion, and universal disasterIn a voice so unfailingly chipper it's suspicious, Alex Burrett poses in fiction some disturbing yet certainly possible futures for the human race (and other ambitious, earthbound mammal...

This book is a REVISED dedication to black women that never wavered in their faith or personal relationship with God. In this revised edition, you have black women sharing their personal experiences of pain, depression, hurt, and how God replaced their complexities with happiness and positive change. Black women and their faith in God have always had tremendous success in changing the conditions of their family, community and social concerns. This Revised Edition book conveys more importan...

My Beloved is a series of meditations and reflections meant to facilitate the everyday practice of the presence of God and inspire the intimate sharing of God's Holy Love.