With humor and candor, Red Galoshes reveals the real, messy life of an abused wife and mother of six as she travels through the unthinkable and heart-wrenching memories. McCarthy shares how she navigates pain, mistakes, regrets, and shame with joy, grit, and companionship. Throughout the journey, a loving and protective God provides grace and guidance. Experience harrowing, relentless determination, ordinary and joyful stories of an abused wife, turned single mother who gained traction on ...

Life is a mucky mess: slogging through overdue bills, squabbling kids, and unending monotonous chores. We all need help, like author Ann McCarthy’s s bright red galoshes, to protect us as we trudge through. With humor and candor, Red Galoshes reveals the real, messy life of an abused wife and mother of six as she travels through unthinkable and heart-wrenching memories. McCarthy shares how she navigates pain, mistakes, regrets, and shame with joy, grit, and companionship. Throughout the jo...

Escaping a Voodoo queen wasn't the end of a scary situation for the Three Misfiteers, it was just the beginning.After meddling in a supernatural mystery surrounding a decades old disappearance, Molly Houlahan, Frank Bordeaux, and Billy Hashberger are left with more questions than answers as they struggle to cope with unexplainable new abilities even as their quiet town is rocked by a gruesome murder.As Billy sinks deeper and deeper under the posses...

Beautifully crafted poetry and prose. Taking us journeying into midnight shadows, flashings of day and night, where owls speak, faeries dance, myths become reality and we disappear into the mesmerizing lives of those who live within, those who hear and those who understand! Come into a world where the white owl sings and the speaker dreams in candles, as the sunlight shapes the moon

This first part of Volume 1 of three volumes includes hundreds of pages and photographs presenting the richness of Okinawan martial traditions, from the original combatives to those influenced by Chinese and mainland Japanese martial art styles. The variety of topics shown in the table of contents indicate the depth and breath in the chapters, along with the authors who are well-known for their meticulous research and practical skills in specific arts. Each volume will prove enjoyable read...

Because That's Where Your Heart is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing and finding – stories that are full of wildness.With collaborations by Mike Adamson, Joseph Anderson, T.L. Bodine, Malina Douglas, Ummkulthum Hassan, D. Anne Hines, Hullabaloo22, Valerie Hunter, Ellen McCarthy, R. Tim Morris, Sam Muller, P...

This collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles’s birth, makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary theological discourse as we approach the second century of the cardinal’s influence, and the twenty-first of Christian witness in the world. Moving beyond a festschrift, the volume offers both historical analyses of Dulles’s contributions and applications of his insights and methodologies to current issues like immigration, exclusion, and digital culture. It i...

Harvard Business Review är världens mest inflytelserika tidskrift inom management. Den vänder sig till beslutsfattare över hela världen och ges ut av Harvard University i Boston.I den här boken har de samlat de tio mest betydelsefulla artiklarna om att leda sig själv, skrivna av ledande och hyllade experter och forskare som Clayton M. Christensen, Diane L. Coutu, Peter F. Drucker, Stewart D. Friedman, Daniel Goleman och Robert S. Kaplan.Utgångspunkten för OM ATT LEDA SIG SJ...

God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology. Too often, dialogues on sexuality and gender devolve into the repetition of party lines and defensive postures, without considering the interdisciplinary body of scholarly research on this complex subject. This vo...

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this ca...

Harlequin Blaze brings you four new red-hot reads for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Blaze bundle includes Wicked Nights by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Anne Marsh, Some Like It Hotter by Isabel Sharpe, Close Up by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Erin McCarthy and Triple Threat by Regina Kyle.Look for four new sexy, steamy stories every month from Harlequin Blaze!

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...