Beyond My Father's House Is a novel about a friendship forged in India and renewed in the USA during the time of the Oklahoma bombing in 1995, which took 168 lives. It delves into the complexities of cross-cultural relationships, personal growth, and the enduring power of friendship.My first book, My Father's House (MFH), is a memoir-based book published in 2024. My Father's House, set in the bustling Bomb...

Simpli Ma's Story (SMS) spans several decades. It starts with an accident: the youngest of the family, Rachel or Rahel, is seen on stage as a child, chasing butterflies behind her home in Travancore (now Kerala). She falls on a sharp rock and slips into a coma for days. The Vaidya, the Ayurvedic doctor, next door, restores her, only for poverty to force her out of school at twelve.That relentless, never-give-up twelve-year-old in the mid-1920s, turned the script an...

My Father's House is set in the bustling Bombay of the 1950s and narrated by Mathew, the youngest in an Orthodox Christian family. Led by his generous and resilient parents, Daniel and Rachel, the family of five and two or three job-seeking guests at a time live in a cramped, third-floor tenement whose windows overlook the city's engaging chaos, which, in Mathew's observation, imitates their own lives, the quiet confidence running in the background like a silent river, ami...

Steeplechase and Other Stories (SOS) is a collection of tales, somewhat biographical, spanning over seven decades, set across highways, porches, and turning points. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, these stories tug at memory and tilt the lens on everyday truths.You'll meet Monarchs who refused to migrate and families that stayed intact not because the odds said so, but because a stubborn father, on the way to an office picnic, refused to exit after he severed his arm nea...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The cuisinart slow cooker offers versatility and convenience, transforming your culinary experience. With its multi-cooker capabilities, you can create a variety of dishes effortlessly, ensuring flavorful and nutritious meals every time.Discover a world of culinary delights with the cuisinart slow cooker. From appetizers and snacks to hearty main courses like beef, pork, and poultry, and even vegetarian and side...

The magnificent and enduring spine of the United States, the Rocky Mountains are host to thousands of flora and fauna species, as well as rugged topography and rich and varied habitats. Comprehensive yet portable, this beautiful guide describes trees and shrubs, flowering plants and ferns, fungi and lichens, insects and fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals, rocks, and even the changing mountain climates and the ecological effects of forest fires.Naturalist and writer Da...

A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more.Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of ...

This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and historical development of the Kaifeng community, as well as the unique cultural synthesis it e...

“A love poem to the living things that inhabit the mountains and rivers of Washington, coastal Oregon, and southwestern British Columbia.” —Saul Weisberg, executive director, North Cascades InstituteMore than just a field guide, Cascadia Revealed is the essential trailside reference for naturalists, hikers, and campers. With engaging prose and precise science, Dan Mathews brings the mountains alive with stories of their formation and profiles of the plants...

Using the theological work of Karl Barth as a resource for present-day inquiry, the contributors in this volume discuss the complex interconnections between the religious and the political designated by the term theo-politics. Speaking from various political and cultural contexts (Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China) and different disciplinary perspectives (Protestant Theology, Political Sciences, and Sociology), the contrib...

Text-Driven Preaching features essays by Daniel L. Akin, Paige Patterson, David Alan Black, Jerry Vines, Hershael York, David L. Allen, Bill Bennett, Ned L. Mathews, Robert Vogel, and Jim Shaddix urging pastors to commit to presenting true expository preaching from the pulpit. Concerned over what some church leaders even consider to be expository preaching today, they agree, “This book rests firmly on the biblical and theological foundation for exposition: God has spoken.”...

Ten full-cast dramas featuring some of the best known names in British comedy.In these ten witty, dark and disturbing episodes some of Britain’s best comedians come together to perform simultaneously hilarious and unsettling stories that will have you gripped. Sticky situations on ski slopes, placating an unruly ghost, a boy stuck at the bottom of well and an unusual adventure weekend with romantic overtones - are just some of the scenarios from comedy writers Mark...