At 05:17 follows Ava Martinez, a movement‑pattern intelligence analyst whose work focuses on identifying anomalies in human behavior across landscapes. When her system flags a recurring timestamp — 05:17 — tied to a remote marsh off County Road 214, she notices something unusual: the anomaly appears annually, precisely, and is linked to a long‑closed missing‑person case. The pattern is too deliberate to ignore.Ava travels to the marsh before dawn, where the landsca...

"I'd never done anything crazy like this before – a pilgrimage walk. I was not a hiker, and I wasn't a Catholic. In fact, I wasn't even sure I was a Christian. On the last government census when I had to state my religion, I'd said I was a Buddhist, mainly because they've had such a hard time in Tibet and I felt they needed my statistical support.I was also not an adventure traveler. For me, adventure travel was flying coach. All this backpacking and wearing of heavy boots and flyi...

Discover a prayer to cover every aspect of rural life.A musician and composer of many hymns, Anglican priest Bill Bennett understands the complexity of rural life with its overlapping communities and its deep dependence on seasonal life. This understanding shines through this book.117 prayers are arranged into broad themes: the seasons, environment, community, mission and ministry, work, crisis and loss.There are also six sets of Eucharist liturgies...

Would you like a simple, quick way to engage with the RCL Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel readings for each Sunday and other important days in the church calendar?Bill Bennett’s short introductions to each Bible reading will get you started.There are several ways you can use this book:As a preface to the Bible reading in a service:Before delivering each Bible reading from the lectern, read aloud the relevant short introduction given in this bo...

Months before the signal beneath Lambeau Field, Special Agent Ava Martinez encountered something impossible in the frozen isolation of Greenland's Site 7B — a harmonic pulse that behaved like it was watching her.Now, for the first time, Ava's classified field report is declassified.Inside this dossier‑style prequel, you'll discover the moment Ava first sensed the intelligence that would later hijack the NFL Draft… and the final hours she spent with Cole Stratton before he v...

Warning! This book is intended for mature readers. It contains scenes of graphic violence, graphic sex, drug and alcohol use, and foul language. (You know – the good stuff.) Reader discretion is advised (and reading this book is encouraged). Meet Bill Bennett, a.k.a. Billy the Biker – a veteran, ex-con, ex-junkie, 1 percenter, two-time stroke and cancer survivor, and founder of a nonprofit that helps veterans in need. In Cheatin' the Reaper, he recounts his crazy life and what he's learned...

The Tui (Parson Bird), with its tuft of white feathers at the neck, is highly adaptive, has a distinctive call, is protective of its domain, is an imitator of song and speech and is an enduring example of survival and adaptability.This essay on rural ministry reflects on its long evolution, its current challenges, and its continuing viability for the future in Aotearoa New Zealand.Bennett highlights some key issues and opportunities for rural ministry today, including:...

Three prequel stories. One awakening corridor system.Before the events of The Lambeau Directive, Special Agent Ava Martinez begins to notice subtle, impossible shifts in the classified corridor network she monitors. Most nights, the system sleeps. Tonight, it doesn't.Featuring:The Quiet Corridor — Ava senses the first tilt in the silence.The Dog Who Heard the Corridor — Atka reacts before the sensors do.

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the NorthwestA relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwest tribes around fishing rights, land rights, health, and education for over six decades. This invaluable firsthand account includes stories of the takeover of Fort Lawton as well as events from major Red Power struggles, including Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and the Tr...

The rural church has been profoundly affected by economic and social change, and by theological and liturgical revolution in the wider church. How have these forces for change affected rural congregations in Aotearoa New Zealand, and where are they heading in future?Bill Bennett looks in depth at the traditional churches that still maintain a rural presence and their ministries — Methodist, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian and Anglican. He includes revealing profiles of several parishe...

She spun around and saw a shape, a form, a presence. In shadow. Dark on dark. With gleaming eyes and teeth, and an old dank smell of gravesites and death. Then a sudden glint of metal – a flash of steel – a sword. A sword she’d seen before. It jolted her with fear. The moonlight shifted and glanced his face. Lily gasped and stepped back from the Fallen Priest. He was holding the Soul Cutter.To prepare herself for the final climactic battle between dark and light, ...

Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence is presented to show how leaders of this movement designed to use the middle school as a vehicle to promote non-academic goals, contrary to the desires of parents and the community. Favored instru...