Samson: Pointing to Jesus (book #3)The famous story of Samson, the great champion and judge of God's people during the Old Testament time period.Never in history has there ever been a stronger man who was given the strength of God to defeat Gods enemies.Samson's great strength isn't just supposed to wow us, its supposed to point us to the greatest Judge of all, and the One who holds all power and might - The Lord Jesus Christ.H...

Jonah: Pointing to Jesus tells the story of Jonah in light of the Bigger picture of the Bible with one eye on Jonah, and one eye on Jesus. As Christians on 'this side of the cross,' we see the Old Testament with New Testament glasses on. Jesus has always been the focus of the whole Bible. As parents and Church leaders, we ultimately want our children to see that all the stories, events, and people find their ultimate meaning in the Person and Work of Jesus Christ. He is the Hero of the Sto...

Noah: Pointing to Jesus tells the story of Noah in light of the Bigger picture of the Bible with one eye on Noah and one eye on Jesus. As Christians on 'this side of the cross,' we see the Old Testament with New Testament glasses on. Jesus has always been the focus of the whole Bible. As parents and Church leaders, we ultimately want our children to see that all the stories, events, and people find their ultimate meaning in the Person and Work of Jesus Christ. He is the King Hero of the St...

In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settl...

**This Edgar Award Finalist by two New York Times–bestselling authors provides an "exciting" account of the devastating and mysterious cruise ship fire ( The Washington Post).In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle, carrying 316 passengers and 230 officers and crew, caught fire a few hours out of the New York harbor on a return voyage from Havana. The fire spread with terrifying swiftness, transforming...

Brian Dunleavy comes to the North Woods to write a serious novel. Instead, he falls in love with a kitschy paper towel mascot.It begins with a whistle in the trees and the unmistakable sense of being watched. A bootprint the size of a bathtub. Then a muscular, 43-foot-tall lumberjack steps out of the forest.Mighty Max is handsome. He is kind. Broad-shouldered and blue-eyed, he lives in permanent flannel. He claims he was born from tall tales and campfire legends—back when g...

The title, "The Iron Pirate," suggests that the story may involve a ship or vessel of some kind, perhaps one that is particularly formidable or unconventional. The "strange happenings" mentioned in the subtitle hint at elements of mystery, intrigue, and possibly the supernatural.As with many adventure novels of the time, readers can expect vivid descriptions of nautical settings, thrilling action sequences, and colorful characters. Pemberton's storytelling likely immerses readers in the wo...

A vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as an artist, and an individual.While working as a photographer’s model, gallery usher, and exotic dancer, Dorothy “Max” Prior witnessed the births of Adam and the Ants, The Monochrome Set, The Sex Pistols, and Throbbing Gristle, as well as drumming in her own cult band Rema Rema and recording with Industrial Records.Her exuberant c...

Further adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain.Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed 69 Exhibition Road. In this new volume, focusing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her days as a ball room dancing tutor in South Kensington, drumming and touring with infamous experimental pansexual psychedelic rock group Psychic TV, exploring London and New York City...

A native Frenchman no longer tutors the wealthy landlord's children as they've grown up and left the house. The Frenchman is now paid simply to be around, to be properly dressed, to smell of scent, and to listen to Kamyshev's babble, to eat and drink and sleep. It may sound like a dream job but there's always a catch. Chekhov challenges the reader to reflect on the meaning of happiness and fulfilment, and the lengths people will go to find it. Read in English, unabridged.

If it has not been your privilege to hear a French guard utter these words, you have lost a lesson in the dignity of elocution which nothing can replace. "En voiture, en voiture; five minutes for Paris." At the well-delivered warning, the Englishman in the adjoining buffet raises on high the frothing tankard, and vaunts before the world his capacity for deep draughts and long; the fair American spills her coffee and looks an exclamation; the Bishop pays for his daughter's tea, drops the ch...

"The exceptional phenomenon of phantom armies is an age-old story. The famous saint St Augustine documents a case in The City of God. During the civil wars in Rome, two rival groups of evil spirits were seen and heard battling it out on a plain in the hilly Campania region, so realistically that the saint reported strange footprints of horses and men afterwards noticed on the ground."The belief in strange phenomenon that transcends our daily existence is as old as humanity itself a...