Leader, God is calling you to model and lead a deeper prayer experience for those you serve! How frequently should a church have " altars" of simultaneous prayer? How can leaders strengthen— or start— regular responsive prayer times? More than forty experienced ministers answer your questions and concerns with wisdom, balance, and real-world advice. In Scripture, altars were sacred spaces where people met with God, often resulting to life-changing outcomes. After Jesus' resurrection, physi...

A heartbreaking, life-affirming new novel by Ethan Joella—author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope—about a young woman searching for answers about her brother’s last days.June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace—but she’s still reeling from the death of her older brother, Chip. A devastating diagnosis the summer before prompted Chip to leave home for a few months, never revealing where he went. Maggi...

“Will leave readers swooning.” —PopSugar“Utterly delicious.” —BuzzFeedTwo Vietnamese American teens fall in love amid their families’ age-old feud around their competing neighboring restaurants in this funny, smart “star-crossed-lovers rom-com” (Kirkus Reviews) perfect for fans of Lynn Painter and Ann Liang.Bao Nguyen sees himself as a rock—steady and strong but not particularly interesting...

Roald Cabot, a modern-day solo explorer made famous by his daring attempts to cross remote landscapes, is attacked by what he thinks is a Polar bear in the Arctic night. Critically injured and alone, he is forced to accept the help of a bizarre clan of nomadic huntsmen claiming to be tracking the Yeti.

Modern crocodylians—crocodiles, alligators, caiman (Central and South America), and gharials (India)—have evolved over 250 million years from a fully terrestrial, bipedal ancestor. Along with birds, crocodylians are the only living members of Archosauria, the group including nonavian dinosaurs.Ruling Reptiles features contributions on a broad range of topics surrounding crocodylian evolution and biology including osteology, osteohistology, developmental biology, myology, o...

Jacquie Pham’s transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley’s The Guest List with the historical vitality of Vanessa Chan’s The Storm We Made, and the upstairs-downstairs drama of Downton Abbey.One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agoniz...

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!It’s been three months since the colony world of Meridian was invaded by the alien theocratic alliance known as the Covenant. Under the close watch of the military, teenagers Evie, Dorian, Saskia, and Victor have been put into an accelerated training program with ONI, the Office of Naval Intelligence. And to the quartet’s surprise, ONI has a miss...

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren’t exactly friends at their small high school on the middle-of-nowhere colony world of Meridian. Each has their own problems, from absent parents to supporting their family, getting into a good college to making the next hit holo-film. But those problems were nothing next to the threat now facing their world: ...

Gateway communities that neighbour parks and protected areas are impacted by tourism, while facing unique circumstances related to protected area management. Economic dependency remains a serious challenge for these communities, especially in a climate of neoliberalism, top-down policy environments, and park closures related to environmental degradation or government budgets. The collection of works in this edited book provide bottom-up, informed, and nuanced approaches to tourism manageme...

Performed by Nancy Pearl, JeffSchwager and a multi-cast that includes book contributors Luis Alberto Urrea,Siri Hustvedt, Laurie Frankel, Vendela Vida, and Richard Ford. The Writer’sLibrary audiobook also features real conversations with Michael Chabon,Ayelet Waldman, and Laila Lalami.With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, t****wenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sea...

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered becau...

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites....