Pastoral work can be stressful, tough, demanding, sometimes misunderstood, and often underappreciated and underpaid. Ministers devote themselves to caring for their congregations, often at the expense of caring for themselves. Studies consistently show that physical health among clergy is significantly worse than among adults who are not in ministry. Flourishing in Ministry offers clergy and those who support them practical advice for not just surviving this grueling profession, but thrivi...

Getting into "a good kind of trouble!" This fourth book in the Hello, My Name is Bunny! series finds Bunny in Tokyo where her trademark curiosity leads her to escape her apartment, this time in pursuit of new friendships. She instead finds herself whisker-to-whisker with more danger than she'd imagined, including a run-in with an-imposing-looking falcon and two street cat gangs who consider her a "pampered puss" that they'd rather fight than be friends with. It takes all Bunny's c...

Patrick and April are a young married couple struggling to make ends meet. So Patrick has enough to worry about when he meets Susan, a beautiful girl he is so determined not to fall for that he doesn't know his own affair when it's staring him in the face.Striking Out is a comedy about love, marriage and stupidity.

Meet Bunny Bloom: irrepressible, international feline do-gooder. This first book in the Hello, My Name is Bunny! chapter book series finds a recently adopted Bunny escaping her comfy apartment in a daring attempt to rescue a New York City Central Park carriage horse from its mean owner. Helped by her new friends, Mike the Mouse, Polly the Pigeon, and Peter the Deliveryman, Bunny sets out to prove there's no such thing as impossible!The Hello, My Name is Bunny! cha...

Foxes in peril! In this second book in the Hello, My Name is Bunny! chapter book series, Bunny teams up with 10-year-old Lily Hayward, Rocky the lazy tabby cat, and Goldy, the mischievous Labrador puppy on a nighttime adventure to save London's foxes. When Lily faces a confidence crisis spurred by school bullies, Bunny is by her side to help her see that with a positive outlook and smart thinking, you can be unstoppable!This chapter book series for young readers also inclu...

Disaster! Mona Lisa, the world's most famous painting, has been stolen and is being held for ransom by a pair of dastardly art thieves. This third installment in the award-winning Hello, My Name is Bunny! chapter book series brings Bunny together with an ensemble of characters who know what it means to play hard and work hard! Violette, the lovable Jack Russell, Sam the Swallow, Carl the Catfish, and a pair of ridiculously cute rats named Renata and Renoir join forces wit...

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation?Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert.Analysing the ways that so many artists ha...

Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature. As a process of discovery, Dialogic Literary Argumentation facilitates conversation—"arguing-to-learn"—as a method to support students’ diverse perspectives and engagement with one another in order to develop individual and collective understandings of ...

Ever wondered how Orlando Bloom rose to stardom?Orlando Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, England.Before Bloom even set foot on earth, his family name was well-known across the countryside.Bloom's mother was a respected foreign language teacher who provided linguistic tutoring for international students studying in Great Britain.Bloom's father, Harry, was an internationally-renowned author whose lifelong battle against the apartheid in South Afr...

An exciting SF novel by Hugo Award–winning author Ben BovaIn the next century, the United States and Russia have joined forces to form the International Peacekeeping Force. The IPF is charged with controlling the satellite network and preventing nuclear missile launches. But many factions resent this orbital police force—and attempt to seize control of the satellites … and the IPF itself.

This time Mac has gone too far. For Helm to impersonate a Communist courier to whom he bears no resemblance is suicide—and that isn’t all. Someone wants to get the layout of the Alaskan Northwest Coastal Defense System, but they aren’t the goodies or the baddies. So who the hell are they? And who is the mysterious Holz that Helm is meant to kill?

Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind except fishing, when some joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally, it was no accident—when secret agents get shot at, it never is. So Helm has to go back to work. At least there’s a bonus in the form of his boss’ beautiful daughter, a playmate in peril.