Fresh start? Check. Quirky neighbors? Check. Finding a dead body? Absolutely NOT in the plan.Forty-something divorcee Anne Freemont traded her high-pressure city life for the charming mountain town of Carolan Springs, Colorado. Her plan: renovate a Victorian fixer-upper, breathe some fresh mountain air, and enjoy zero drama.Then a runaway chicken changes everything.When Anne's goofy and sweet neighbor, Kandi, is accused of murdering the neighborhood...

A cozy mystery where Texas grit, homemade pie, and quiet faith meet small-town secrets.Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and returns home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest, help Pop, and finally have time to try out some pie recipes. What she finds instead is a community with long memories, a mystery that keeps pulling her in, and people who became family before she’d quite noticed it happening. Set against the warm, wide...

Discipleship is one of the key words used in the churches today and there are many initiatives in the mainstream churches to enable people to grow as disciples of Christ.

Writing Methods in Theological Reflection offers a stimulating, provocative and accessible book that will be of use to students and practitioners who are seeking ways to use their own experience in the work of spiritual and theological reflection.

Helps readers to explore the concept of discipleship beginning with the New Testament, and through examining snapshots of various patterns of discipleship as well as reflecting on discipleship in our contemporary context and setting.

Spiritual Life Writing sets out various ways of reflecting upon spiritual experience when writing from everyday life. It draws upon the history of spiritual autobiography as well as more recent forms of creative nonfiction and provides a worked example drawn from the author’s own spiritual life writing.

Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn offers a sustained, critical interrogation of the turn towards social research and methodologies in Practical Theology which has transformed the discipline over the past forty years. It places the discipline’s current research practices within the context of wider theoretical and methodological developments and the climate disaster. The work maintains that current circumstances require a radical reassessment of the goals and processes of practic...

An electrifying and “provocative, rich, and assured” (Vogue) debut novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour.“A packed time capsule that doubles as a stick of dynamite.” —The New York Times Book ReviewOpal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in he...

In this “sure-fire all-American success story” (The New York Times Book Review), the founder of Wal-Mart describes the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to build the largest retailer in the world.“[A] wise and inspiring autobiography—Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes.”—San Francisco ChronicleMeet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespu...

A Relaxing Pet-sitting Gig in Mexico... Until Danger Strikes at DawnViviane Masters is celebrating her sixties with a new lease on life as a globetrotting pet-sitter. But her inaugural assignment in a sleepy ex-pat town in Mexico turns sinister when threatening notes appear at the casa.Against her daughter’s wishes, the spunky senior has embarked on this adventure seeking excitement and freedom. But Viviane quickly senses a dark undercurrent in the seemingl...

The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author delivers a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence.Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles.It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will. It's a miracle that he's friends with Pico della Mirandola, the Count of Concordia. When Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy, Girolamo meets him in the field,...

The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing “unpr...