The Time School series follows four friends as they navigate their way through the first year at secondary school, whilst returning to the past at different time-periods. During these time-travelling adventures, they each discover something about their family history, as well as how events that were going on at that time affected their families. This is an opportunity for the children to understand how the past affects your present life and for Jess, Nadia, Ash and Tomma, how these events ...

Through close textual engagement, theological exposition, ethical reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this book presents a constructive theology of divine speech in the Acts of the Apostles and 1 Corinthians in critical conversation with contemporary issues of sociopolitical, ecclesial, and theological importance. In particular, the authors attend to pericopes in Acts and Paul that open up fresh ways of thinking about divine discourse, preaching, and advocacy in light of conte...

This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative explorations of black queer people seriously, Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer ethical methods that include confrontation, resistance, and imagination. Young asserts that family and its surrounding norms are both microcosms of and foundations for human relationships. She discusses how black queer people are moral s...

Grief but not as we've known it. A bird in a cage and a magical wishing horse. Panic attacks, supermarket trips and high expectations. Sex, love and loneliness in solitude. Envisioned futures worth hoping for?Sometimes claustrophobic, sometimes sad and sometimes wistful, this collection of poetry and prose, real life and fiction is shot through with love and humanity. The first publication of the not-for-profit Birch Moon Press, 'Heartache and Hope' gathers a range of women's voice...

This book takes up the question of Christian queer theology and ethics through the contested lens of "redemption." Starting from the root infinitive "to deem," the authors argue that queer lives and struggles can illuminate and re-value the richness of embodied experience that is implied in Christian incarnational theology and ethics. Offering a set of virtues gleaned from contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA) lives and communities, this b...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The monthly sleepover has been a tradition with Eric and his buddies for a decade, though this one may be their last, with John going off to college, Donny going to travel the world, and Grant with his new job. At eighteen-years-old, Eric is starting to wonder if they’re too old for the monthly sleepover. He’s especially starting to wonder if they’re too old for the game of Truth or Dare that Donny suggests they play.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Larry has had it up to here with Kyle, the school’s Mr. Perfect. Every girl wants Kyle. He’s the star of half the sports teams. He’s even swooped in and taken Larry’s spot as captain of the chess team.But worst of all: he’s asked Katie Morrison out on a date, just as Larry was finally mustering up the courage to do it.Larry is over Mr. Perfect, and he’s determined to prove to the school that Kyle isn’t such a su...

20 Years Young is the sequel to 15 Years Young. The second book in a series of five adult fiction novels by Kathryn Louise. The story continues to follow the lives of the main characters Rose, and Daniel as they find themselves in a multitude of dilemmas, precarious situations and unfortunate events. 20 Years Young is filled with suspense, drama, adventure and a little spice.Heart-breaking, gut wrenching and tear jerking chapters entice you into their world.Rose and Daniel ...

Three assumptions Ella has:__She can never fall in love__She can always save her friends__She’ll never find out why she can have a dragon familiarBut you know what they say about assumptions.When Ella and Vanessa investigate the murder of a prominent businessman they assume it will be like every other case. But an explosion at his funeral nearly kills several people in her circle and she has to question everything. Does she really knows those around her? ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Charlie is a normal guy with a normal life and a normal job. But he’s got one less-than-normal hobby: hypnotism. It’s a new hobby that he’s only tried out a few times with his co-workers. He helped one girl stop smoking and he helped a close friend with a mild eating disorder. He’s got a lot to learn still, so he puts an ad out, to see if he can find some new willing patients.To his own surprise, he gets a hit: a man who needs h...

In these hilarious stories by some of the top authors of middle grade fiction today, each young character is coping with a minor superpower—while also discovering their power to change themselves and their community, find their voice, and celebrate what makes them unique.Everyone knows that superheroes are supposed to have awesome powers like strength or invisibility or flight. But what happens when you’re a mostly regular kid . . . who’s just a little bit super?In these hi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Rick thinks he hit the jackpot when he befriends bored billionaire, Tiger. All Tiger wants from Rick is companionship, and he’s ready to shower him with gifts and money and whatever else he wants. As for Tiger’s other friends—he’s started to suspect they’re conspiring to take his money.Even with all the money in the world, Tiger doesn’t ever seem satisfied. He’s always looking for a cure to his endless boredom. And one day he ge...