In a wonderful flight of fancy designed to catch the imagination of blokes and blokesses who love boats and the whole mystique of the America's Cup, Stuart Vaughan has written a book to answer the following questions. What if a wealthy contemporary of Sir thomas Lipton decided to build a J class racing yacht here New Zealand, using our superb kauri timbers that last almost forever? What if the yacht never made it to Cowls but was lost off the Northland Coast? What if the wreck made it asho...

"By grace we are saved" … All who self-identify as Christian know this well. In this book Stuart Vaughan mines the theme of grace in the ongoing life of the believer. He shows grace to be surprising in depth and variety – potentially enriching the life of every Christian in knowing his or her Lord more intimately, while also inviting the outsider in.About the AuthorStuart describes himself as an Amos among the Isaiahs and Jeremiahs of the Christian writing world. As Amos, a ...

A band of Indians attacked Hatfield, Massachusetts, on September 19, 1677, burning, looting, and killing. They carried off seventeen people, mostly women and children. Their destination, on foot, was Canada. Among them were Martha Waite, pregnant, and her three girls, ages two, four, and six. Captives, 1677, the story of this first Indian/Canadian kidnapping, is a stirring novel of courageous survival, love, and rescue. It follows the captives terrible ordeal and the rescue mission of Mart...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass.The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an exp...

A house fire. A suspicious death. A serial killer to catch. When a body is found in a house fire DS Peter Gayle is called to the scene. It looks like an accidental death, but the evidence just doesn’t add up. With only one murder victim they can’t make any calls, but it looks like a serial killer is operating in Exeter and it’s up to Pete to track him down. But with his wife still desperate for news on their missing son and his boss watching his every move, the pressure is on for Pete to b...

NO GOING BACKDS Peter Gayle crime series , Book 4.A gruesome find on a woodland walk. A body posed and naked, the killing savage and frenzied. Was the victim known to her attacker? Or is a serial killer emerging in South Devon? With no clues at the scene, DS Pete Gayle and his team must identify the victim before they can even start looking for a suspect.

A body is found, horrifically tortured and left outside a women’s refuge. She is quickly identified as a resident, the victim of domestic abuse.DS Pete Gayle’s young son is recently dead, his traumatised daughter is going through hell and his station chief is out for his blood – or at least his career – when he is called to a murder scene on a residential street in Exeter.But the obvious suspect was three hundred miles away, so who did this? And why? The attack was too pers...

What does Christianity stand for in the 21st century?How can we believe it?Why do we need it?In this modern classic, bestselling author Tom Wright invites you on a journey into the heart of Christianity and shows you how it can be lived authentically today.Taking the reader through the Christian faith step by step and question by question, Simply Christian offers compelling explanations for even the m...

No Compromise (DS Peter Gayle thriller series, book 7)A brutal murder. A man jailed. A new witness who claims he couldn’t have been there.Already in the middle of a violent and complex case, DS Pete Gayle gets entangled in a tangled web of lies and intrigue. With a man in jail for a murder he may not have committed, the reputation of the station and the whole force is on the line. Pete has to face one of the hardest choices of his life. To break ranks and go against another...

Dr. J. I. Packer offers biblical reflections on life's tough issues. Discussing topics like pleasure, health, disappointment, and holiness, he maps out problematic situations and then superimposes relevant biblical teachings.

“An instant Old West classic! Max McCoy writes about mountain men and the fur trade with passion.”**—**Stuart Rosebrook, editor True West magazineThree-time Spur Award winner Max McCoy combines fast-paced action, frontier history, and powerful family drama in this epic saga of life, love, and death in the American west.SEARCHING FOR A GHOST, A LEGEND, AND A DREAM . . .Descen...