The polar bears believe they are the guardians of the souls of all creation, maintaining a constant vigil over the polar ice. Join Aruq, a polar bear who takes a journey to determine what he believes. He encounters a Bear Talker, a human who can communicate with bears, and it changes everything for generations to come. You are invited to join seven generations of bears on a journey of faith. What do you believe?

Readers of The Vigil (2015) asked for a sequel. The Nexus is the story of the seven generations of humans that parallel our bears. The polar bears believe they are the guardians of the souls of all creation, maintaining a constant vigil over the polar ice. Join Juvante is a polar bear who dies but doesnt join the sacred vibration in the ice. Follow his journey as he tracks the descendants of the hunter who killed him and grapples with his own experiences as he comes to terms with the chang...

For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the giant, genetically engineered beasts to defend ships as they cross the pirate-infested NeoPacific. But when the pirate queen Santa Elena swoops in on Cas’s first solo mission and snatches her from the bloodstained decks, Cas’s dream of being a full-time trainer seems dead in the water. Waiting for her on the pirate ship is an unhatch...

A New York Times bestseller!Brokenness doesn't only find us in the big things—things like illness, hardship, or grief. It can find you in the everyday. Learn to walk in a way that glorifies Jesus and receive freedom, not beyond your fear and pain, but within it.We are fragile and we know it. Sometimes, living with Christ in a messed-up world feels less like victory and more like walking uphill. Ann Voskamp...

Named one The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by EsquireWinner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize—the Nordic world's highest literary honor— Sjón'sThe Blue Fox is part mystery, part fairy tale, and the perfect introduction to a mind-bending, world-class literary talent.Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative ques...

Life is turbulent. On that, we can all agree. Disappointed dreams, broken relationships, identity crises, vocational hang-ups, wounds from the past--there are so many ways life can send us crashing up against the rocks.In this deeply personal book, Jonathan Martin draws from his own stories of failure and loss to find the love that can only be discovered on the bottom. How to Survive a Shipwreck is an invitation to trust the goodness of God and the resilience of your soul....

A witch and a revenant. One full of life, the other technically dead. Fifer and Schuyler's relationship is nothing if not unusual. Some might even call it ill-advised. But try as they might to push each other away, something keeps bringing them back together.Then a force stronger than their attraction comes between them: Lord Blackwell, the Inquisitor and most powerful man in Anglia. He sends Schuyler on a mission--a mythical sword, rumored to make its owner invinc...

She warned of the pain. She did.But no warning can prepare you.Nothing can.Long, long ago, a little mermaid became intrigued by the way tall-crabs don't act at all like the prey she's more comfortable chasing. Her quest to understand will take her places she had never dreamed possible - onto land and beyond the endless cold.But quests always come with a price and hers is no exception. If she cannot find love within a year, she'll b...

“Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy.”—Eileen Battersby, TLSIn a remote fishing village, a boy and his best friend spend the lonely hours on shore reading and talking about poetry. When the friend, absorbed in a borrowed copy of Paradise Lost, forgets his oilskin one morning and the crew is unexpectedly caught at sea in a savage winter storm, tragedy strikes. Overwhelmed by grief—and his crewmates’ indifference to what has ...

In J. R. R. Tolkiens desire to create a mythology for his homeland, he actually made one for every person, every land, and every age. The Lordof the Rings is a catechism of spiritual warfare cleverly disguised as a fantasy. The struggle against evil that takes place inside its pages is the same one that occurs even now within the soul of each person.As we cannot leave the field of battle until death takes us from it, we should learn as much as we can about how to ...

2017 Christianity Today Book Award winner ("Christian Living / Discipleship" category)Get ready for the wettest, stormiest, wildest trip through the Gospel you've ever taken!The gospels are dramatic, wild, and wet—set in a rich maritime culture on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus' first disciples were ragtag fishermen, and Jesus' messages and miracles teem with water, fish, fishermen, net-breaking catches, sea crossings, boat-sinking storms, a...

We walk to God, how wondrous our task,Simple truth, no questions left to ask.We walk to God, an awesome holy thing,Our open hearts are all were asked to bring.Ordinary Miracles is an oxymoron in a world where peace seems unreliable and prayers seem unanswered. But what if the real world exists where miracles are the norm? Miracles of joy and forgiveness always occur within our minds, and their external form may or may not be apparent to us. However,...