The first scent of blooming flowers, fresh green fields, and invigorating days of sunshine. A Southern Maryland Amish spring bursts with hope, bright promise—and a practical young widow’s chance to try love anew . . .With two lively daughters, an active newborn, and a huge farm to tend, Lena Troyer has no time for impossible what-ifs. She just can’t let herself be distracted by Samuel Mast’s unexpected return. Even though her childhood sweetheart became the man she...

When outlaw Fanark brings terror to Dusty Creek, only bounty hunter Clem Canary has the grit—and the nerve—to bring him in. Outnumbered, outgunned, and hunted on the open prairie, Clem faces ambushes, midnight gunfights, and a town too scared to stand up. But justice rides with Clem Canary, and he'll face down the worst the West has to offer—even if it means staring death in the eye at every turn.

When notorious outlaw Silas Boone brings chaos to the Texas frontier, bounty hunter Robert Ricoq rides into the sun-baked town of Fenton, where justice is as scarce as water. Facing ambushes, betrayal, and a town caught between fear and hope, Ricoq must use every ounce of grit and skill to bring Boone in—dead or alive. But as danger closes in and enemies multiply, Ricoq learns that peace in the West is never more than a gunshot away.Gritty, fast-paced, and true to the spirit of the...

They say Boone Calhoun once ruled the frontier with iron and gunfire.They say men crossed the street when they saw him coming.They say blood followed wherever he rode.Now he's older. Slower. Forgotten by most.But when a young deputy pins a faded wanted poster bearing his name to the saloon wall, the past rides back into town with a vengeance.Boone Calhoun has lived long enough to see his legend twisted into something ugly. Murderer. Butcher. Devil.

With two lively daughters, an active newborn, and a huge farm to tend, Lena Troyer has no time for impossible what-ifs. She just can't let herself be distracted by Samuel Mast's unexpected return. Even though her childhood sweetheart became the man she longed to marry, Samuel never saw or wrote Lena again after his family abruptly moved away. Now a widow, Lena is determined to keep Samuel's helpful ways and irresistible good humor at arm's length—no matter how often he's there when she nee...

The West had its outlaws. She was their reckoning.When the law looks the other way and the frontier bleeds under the hands of cutthroats, one name strikes fear into the hearts of wanted men—Justine Justice.Armed with a Winchester and a Colt Navy, Justine rides alone across the mesas and canyons, chasing Jesse Pike and his pack of killers into the infamous Wolf's Den. For ten long years she has followed their trail of fire and blood, and now the final reckoning waits in the ...

These challenging times demand that Christian churches and their leaders faithfully and effectively address diverse global situations with Gospel-rooted compassion and justice. These essays argue that public theology provides the trinitarian theological framework which fuels wise and compassionate public participation in God's mission within the world today. Public church leaders from the Global South and Global North join their voices to explore the global implications of public theology ...

The study, Terrorism in Africa: The Evolving Front in the War on Terrorism, represents a research endeavor aimed at increasing scholarly discourse on the ever-expanding threat of terrorism and terrorist-related violence in the region. It offers the most wide-ranging analysis of the sub-national and transnational terrorists groups that have made Africa the second most violent region in the world. Additionally, the study expands the coverage of the multiple dynamics that indicate wh...

Beckett’s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances – that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ‘disabled’ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett’s work and a new theorising of Beckett’s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of Beckett’s plays, staged in the UK and US, a...

How might the Christian church effectively engage today's politically charged, profit-motivated world while remaining faithful to its biblical and theological roots? The contributors in this book argue that public theology provides a promising pathway forward. The public theology emerging from these pages has been influenced by the theological interests and commitments of Gary M. Simpson, Lutheran pastor and systematic theologian. His approach to public theology is intersectional and globa...

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

When Samuel Beckett’s work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Beckett’s work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between his work and popular culture. Beckett used popular cultural forms; but popular culture has also found a place both for the work and for the man. This collection of essays examines how popular cultura...