Are you ready for nuclear armageddon?Harry Marsham survives when his yacht is rammed one night in the Caribbean by a ship without lightsHe becomes an unwitting pawn in a dirty and extremely dangerous game, sucked into the terror of kidnap, nuclear weapons and the secret world of the CIA: a world where the US Navy Seals must fight to stop the evil plans of the terrorist, Hakeem Khan, who is preparing to attack the soft underbelly of America, turning the Gulf of Mexico and the...

Haunted by a secret tragedy, Edwin, son of the richest family in a small Southern town, fights to overcome his addiction to morphine and face the truth that his parents have worked to obscure.This timeless debut novel of master Southern storyteller Michael Parker takes readers to a small Southern town in the 1950s where Edwin Keane suffers from the lasting effects of a horrible accident—a broken back, a morphine addiction, and a town of enabling eccentrics. Redempt...

Shadow Over Paris — A synopsisCharlotte de la Cour is French and has studied languages at Oxford. She chose to study in England because her widowed, English mother wanted to be with her while she was studying for her degree.With the collapse of France looming, Charlotte decides to remain in England but looks for employment as a translator at the Inter Service Bureau in Baker Street. She spends a couple of hours with a Mr. Jefson who persuades her to conside...

Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in the twentieth century had hardly changed since the first century. Consequently, he was able to reinterpret Jesus's parables and life experiences through this traditional culture. In a remarkabl...

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. Rehearsal stories from legends and everyday heroes to inspire any performance“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately under rehearsed” Sean O’Casey.Churchill knew it. Demosthenes believed in it. Taylor Swift lives by it. The importance of rehearsal. Virtuoso violinist to Olympic gold medallist, business leaders to teachers, their fascinating stories capture the physical, and the mental rehearsal essential to being your best when it matters.

“A GUT PUNCH OF A NOVEL—lyrical, mordantly funny, and wrenching.” —Kelly Link, author of Get in TroubleThe searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man’s life.In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl—a loner, dreamer, lover of music and words—meets and is quickly infatuated with Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother ...

A Vision for the Aging Christian is an essential resource for Christian laypersons, clergy, and caregivers. Aging impacts all people, and this work serves as partner on the journey by providing extensive research, profound spiritual insight, and the gift of life experience. In a follow-up to A Vision for the Aging Church, Jim Houston and Michael Parker provide a countercultural guide to aging successfully in a world that often diminishes this gift. In doing so, Houston and Parker demonstra...

Get over yourself. A catch phrase that couldn’t be more apt for an Olympic hurdler (with issues).These have been addressed and, to some extent, resolved in writing this memoir- Michael Parker’s life’s difficulties from childhood and ultimate success as an adult. From being sent to boarding school on his fifth birthday, to a career at Saatchi, to helping send the first Briton into space, this is the story of the hurdles experienced, from World War 2 till world pandemic now. The witty, poign...

The Unseen Heroes of the Global Missionary MovementThe Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was a Protestant missionary recruiting organization.Launched in the late nineteenth century, it played an indispensable role in the creation of the modern missionary movement.While it was influenced by the optimism and expansiveness that characterized Americans at the turn of the century, it also mirrored the period's provincialism and ethnocentrism.Th...

South Uist in the Outer Hebrides has some of the best preserved archaeological remains within Britain and even further afield. Three distinct ecological zones - grassland machair plain, peaty blackland and mountains - each bear the imprint of human occupation over many millennia. The machair strip, long uninhabited, is filled with hundreds of settlement mounds, occupied from the Beaker period 4,000 years ago until a few centuries ago. The blacklands bear the traces of past farming practice...

Are we ready for the opportunities and challenges facing the aging church?Now is the time for the church to offer ministry to its increasing numbers of seniors and to benefit from ministry they can offer. In this book James M. Houston and Michael Parker issue an urgent call to reconceive the place and part of the elderly and seniors in the local church congregation.Confronting the idea that the aging are mostly a burden on the church, they boldly address the moral issues re...

Whether ferrying slowly across an eastern Naorth Carolina river or reaching out to touch a train that' s not about to stop, the wanderers in these stories yearn for what they can' t quite grasp. It might be what they' ve left behind or what lies ahead, but whatever it is, it won' t leave them alone. Regret and marvel, trouble and love— it' s Everything, Then and Since.