Does beauty really exist? What is the nature and value of art? What makes someone an artist? What is the artist's place in the church?Dennis Bray explores these questions and more in What Is Beauty?, an introductory textbook on art and aesthetics from a Christian perspective. This volume of the Questions in Christian Philosophy series provides one of the only inviting and accessible introductions to the basic questions surrounding aesthetics and p...

Burned-out Phoenix cop Ben Shockley gets what looks like a throwaway assignment: pick up a witness in Las Vegas and bring her back for a mob trial. The witness turns out to be Augustina "Gus" Mally, a sharp-tongued call girl who insists she knows too much to arrive alive.At first Ben thinks it's just paranoia. Then the bullets start flying.As they cross the desert toward Phoenix, the trip becomes a rolling ambush, with bikers, hitmen, and even fellow cops trying to turn the...

Most people manage life. Few truly lead it.You know how to keep going. You manage the calendar, meet the deadlines, carry the responsibilities, and do what needs to be done. From the outside, everything may look successful. But inside, there may be a quiet question you can't quite shake: Is this really the life I meant to build?Lead Life is a practical guide for anyone who is tired of living on default and ready to create a more intentional, meanin...

We needed a miracle, an enormous sacrifice given by someone else, or Martin, the man I had waited so long to marry, would die. This wasn’t the first time that my plans for life and the Lord’s plans for my life didn’t match. Instead of getting married at nineteen like I’d expected, I found myself with a career I had never wanted and didn’t find my husband until I was in my thirties. Now, less than fourteen years later, my husband’s life was threatened. Sometimes it’s hard to trust the Lord’...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBarnes and Noble Best Book of the YearBookpage Best of 2017Booklist Best Crime NovelPopSugar Best Book of 2017The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island“Lehane is the master of complex human charact...

What if the secret to corporate success isn't in a leadership manual-but in the Friday night dinner rush?In Serving Success, Kelly Dennis delivers a memorable, and highly practical blueprint for success in Corporate America, drawn from one of the most demanding training grounds of all: the restaurant floor. From navigating relentless dinner rushes to building a career in engineering and corporate leadership, she reveals how the habits forged in service can become y...

The mesmerizing, darklyoriginal novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Timesbestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introducedPatrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigatorsweaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Bostonpoliticians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seeminglysmall job: to find a missing clean...

The world order is changing. And the Indo-Pacific is at the heart of it. In these uncertain times, this book asks the crucial question: will there be war or peace?America remains immensely powerful, but China aims for world primacy. Where does this binary struggle leave India? And what about Japan, rearming for the first time since 1945? As if that were not enough, North Korea is aligning itself with Russia, which itself has returned to the world stage. Meanwhile, islands in the co...

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.Three days after Christmas, a lonely bartender looking for a reason to live rescues an abused puppy from a trash can and meets ...

WHO IS MR.W?Dennis Irwin Weichman (MR. W) holds a Bachelors degree and Masters degree in mathematics from the University of Western Ontario. His series of Math Study Guides capture his teaching methodology best practices from 30 years as a high school teacher and 20 years as a private math tutor.It all started with the idea of simplifying the process of teaching math using a step by step approach. MR. W's Math Study Guides will lead you through each step to enable a better ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis explores the expansiveness and complexity of universal virtues within the realm of the everyday in this thought-provoking new collectionThough most of the virtues that interest Carl Dennis in Earthly Virtues have traditional names, they are provided with contexts that give them fresh implications, moving us in two directions at once, toward a recognition of limits and a recognition of possibilities. On one hand, they...

Qui est cet être divin que nous appelons Dieu le Père ? Si nous avons une relation avec Jésus et le Saint-Esprit, le Père y est-il automatiquement impliqué ? Comment le Père prend-il soin de nous, et quel est son rôle dans notrevie quotidienne ? Dans ce volume deLa série « théologie wesleyenne »,Frank Moore et Dennis Landrum examinent les questions ci-dessus et bien d’autres encore, afin d’aider les lecteurs à avoir une vision globale de la merveilleuse histoire de Dieu et de son immense a...