"A beautifully written and deeply engaging study of loss and innocence, suffused with chilling dread. A haunting novel, a captivating debut; I loved it." —S. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to SleepJim has a touch of the Sight. It's nothing too spooky and generally useless, at least until the summer his cousin L.A. moves in with him and their grandmother. When Jim and L.A. discover the body of a girl in a field, an investigation begins that will put both ...

'Fresh, insightful and accessible... An excellent resource.' -The ReaderIf the gospel cannot be understood by everyone, then it is not good news. From the very first days of the church at Pentecost, the good news of Jesus was translated into the languages of ordinary people through the power of the Holy Spirit, spreading like wildfire to the ends of the earth.This newly typeset edition of Tom Wright's hugely popular English Bible translation featur...

'I know you're there… Miranda? Miranda!'On a summer's day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock…In Tom Wright's chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel, five performers struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher. Euphoria and terror reverberate throughout the community, as the potential for history t...

Book 1 of the Blood for Blood series.In a world where men and women teleport using air, dirt, and water...Kidnapped as an infant, Hakon is raised by the earth-empowered Terra people. Considered less than beasts, the clawed-hand warriors plot revenge against the air-empowered Alem that invaded their land centuries before.Hakon grows up with the knowledge that he is an Alem prince, tempered by the love he feels for the family that raised him.While Hakon tries ...

It was one of the most unpopular wars in history, raging halfway around the world. Yet as the body bags were mounting during the turbulent 1970s, one soldier, a mechanic-turned-helicopter crew chief, found the powerful hand of God even closer than the enemy fire. These stories of courage and faith under fire will strengthen your own faith, and touch the heart.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that arrives in a woman's early 40s and refuses to respond to the remedies that once worked without question. You sleep, or you try to, and you still wake feeling drained. Your weight shifts in directions that make no sense against the habits you have kept for years, and your mind, once reliable, now stumbles over words you have known since childhood. You mention these changes to friends and sometimes to doctors, and the answers come back wrapped in...

'It has been slowly dawning on me over many years that there is a fundamental problem deep at the heart of Christian faith and practice as I have known them . . . we have all forgotten what the four Gospels are about.'With that surprising assertion, Tom Wright launches this ground-breaking work in which he helps us to see the gospel story in radically a new light, and to acknowledge that, for many generations, the Church has been avoiding its full impact and holdin...

Set in future Austin, TX, the state forces the obedience of its population through a sophisticated drug. The Academics, the police force for the state, enforce order and ensure the drug is administered to the people. While most of the citizens are turned into drones, a token fighting force rebels against the state's military might.Kara, a soldier of the resistance, is given the daunting task of turning her old friend Matt, a captured Academic, to her side. Orem, the resistance lead...

Aisha is looking forward to the college experience: Friends, partying, and studying.But then an attack leaves her with unexpected powers. And her powers get her mixed up with the police.Aisha must use more than her superspeed to combat the racist police on her campus. Can her wit and intellect help her not only outrun the police, but outsmart them too?The Catalyza series follows Aisha as she, an African-American woman, stands against a racist police force. Quick, ac...

In the early nineteenth century, the public lecture emerged as one of the Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms. On both sides of the Atlantic, audiences and performers transformed a cultural practice with origins in the medieval cloister into an unexpected flashpoint medium of public life. In the United States, as part of the "lyceum movement," lecturing became crucial to literary and political life, multiple social reform movements, and the rise of public intellectualism, ...

Book 2 of Dino Squad...WARNING: This book contains action. Lots of action. Dinosaur-fighting action. Jurassic Park meets Transformers.The raptor war continues full throttle. Dino Squad struggles to repel the raptor invaders, but the absence of two members hurts their efforts.The two missing dinosaurs wake up to find themselves stranded. They must reunite with the team. At stake? The safety of the world.

Book 3 of Dino Squad...WARNING: This book contains action. Lots of action. Dinosaur-fighting action. Jurassic Park meets Transformers.The countdown ticks away as the raptor menace seeks to end the war on their terms, once and for all.Dino Squad mounts a rescue mission, but even if they succeed, will they be too late to stop the raptor threat?The fate of the world hangs in the balance as the two primal foes clash one last time.