(cont'd) Ultimately, it's a story about faith and a young man's quest for love and redemption for his father's untimely death.Three short excerpts from Ben Brown's Flying Machine.Excerpt 1. Chapter 11, No AccidentBen glided out of the barn on his platform and passed the dimly lit farmhouse and skimmed over the wheat fields towards Maryann's house.He approached her bedroom window and saw her unclipping the back of her bra. He froze, too terrified to move, and ...

When the first manned spacecraft to Mars disappears and its crew explorer vehicle crashes onto the Brown's wheat farm, what Ben discovers leads him on an adventure that he could never have imagined. He builds a flying machine and flies off to a planet in another universe where he finds himself fighting free its enslaved people, eighteen foot giants, and then to save his own planet. Ultimately, it's a story about faith and a young man's quest for love and redemption for his father's untimel...

A guide to developing the a well behaved dog using natural methods of control and handling to bring out the best attributes and personality of a companion dog.

Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall’s work—and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and decolonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak to the realities of life and faith today. With a focus on contemporary issues, this edited collection critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial triumphalism of Christian theology and the churc...

This book presents the most comprehensive model yet for describing the structure and functioning of running freshwater ecosystems. Riverine Ecosystems Synthesis (RES) is a result of combining several theories published in recent decades, dealing with aquatic and terrestrial systems. New analyses are fused with a variety of new perspectives on how river network ecosystems are structured and function, and how they change along longitudinal, lateral, and temporal dimensions. Among these novel...

In the quaint town of Willow Creek, where Christmas spirit abounds, a heartwarming tale unfolds. When Christmas Comes follows the lives of three women whose paths intertwine during the most magical time of year. Emily, a young widow, struggles to find joy in the season. Sarah, a single mother, faces financial hardship. And Grace, an elderly woman, yearns for companionship. As the snow falls and carols fill the air, a series of unexpected events brings them together, forging an unbreakable ...

The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason; the community of substances in the third analogy; the realm of ends as an ethical community; the state and the public sphere as political communities; the sensus communis of the

Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm's reputation – especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr Smallbone was – and why he had to die. Writte...

From the author of the Amra Thetys series comes a new novelette set in the same world, featuring the world's grumpiest old man.Sage Lhiewyn, high priest of the god of knowledge, would like nothing better than to spend his remaining days getting his naps in and collecting offerings from what few faithful remain. Unfortunately, he's going on an adventure instead. With his less-than-faithful acolyte at his side, Lhiewyn will have to face down a rampaging sewer demon. ...

**FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD"Full of verve... Revelatory." —Los Angeles TimesA dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs**Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. Whe...

When Harry Jones discovers that former friend Zac Kravitz's life is in danger, a debt of honour sends him on a perilous rescue mission to Ta'argistan, a mountainous and landlocked former Soviet republic bordering Russia, China and Afghanistan. Muscling his way onto a delegation of MPs who happen to be paying the state a visit, Harry finds an unlikely ally in the stubbornly independent Martha and together they devise a plan to break Zac out of the ancient high-walled prison in the capital, ...

A missile tears a passenger plane from the skies over London. Everyone on board is killed, including thirty-seven special children. As terror turns to international chaos, can the government survive...?Who would have killed them? And why? When Harry Jones starts searching for answers, he stumbles into the middle of a plot that stretches from Russia to the Islamic revolution in Egypt, from the shores of the Caspian Sea to an ancient church in rural Wiltshire. Yet every lead he pursu...