Culinary journeys from around the globe: recipes and stories from immigrants to the United StatesImmigrants carry more than hope as they cross oceans and traverse continents to come to the United States. They hold tightly to stories and recipes, remembrances of what they left behind. Kitchens of Hope brings together these memories from contributors who hail from more than thirty countries, offering a glimpse into their kitchens and insight into their lives...

A fresh batch of deliciously distinctive recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest—with even more recipes, enticing photographs, and bakers’ storiesCold winters call for warm kitchens and cookie baking, especially around the holidays. The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book, a compendium of Minnesota’s rich baking traditions and innovative recipes, stirs up winning treats from twenty years of the Star Tribune’s popular holi...

The book aims to be a concise and accessible guide to the latest thinking on climate change, along with the related topics of depletion of natural resources and the threats to bio-diversity. The book is focused, in particular, on what the individual might do to play a part in tackling these difficult issues. Without shying away from the serious risks the world faces, the book endeavours to offer a hopeful message as we face up to the future of our planet.Find out more about the politics ar...

The world is a crazy place, so if we’re going to engage with it successfully then maybe we need to think outside the box – be a bit crazy ourselves!This book brings together unapologetic dreams of utopia, hopes that we can discover enchantment in our everyday lives and explanations of that curious thing called a ‘commons’! All of these musings are set against the backdrop of a group of artists in the small city of Dundee, on the east coast of Scotland and the author’s care for his elderly ...

Nick Gabriel was living the good life, having made serious money as a script doctor for the movies, andfrom a successful Broadway play. Hearing about a recent murder in his hometown, he decides to write abook, using Capote's In Cold Blood as his template. After reconnecting with his estranged daughter,Angel, Nick goes home to begin his research. But when two more murders occur, FBI agent Greg Harkinsis brought in to work the case. The trio's search for the truth...

Legendary homicide detective Jack Dantzler has never failed to solve a murder. Thirty-three killers apprehended, tried, convicted. Perfect, like God's soul. But Dantzler's perfection ends when three college women are brutally murdered, victims of a serial killer who strangles his prey, decorates their bodies with a St. Jude medal and photo of Michelangelo's Pieta, then lacerates the jugular post-mortem. The series of murders reawaken Dantzler's memories of his own mother's murder when he w...

Gnosis: Greek word meaning knowledge.Murder, mystery and redemption are at the heart of "Gnosis."Detective Jack Dantzler has no clue why he has been summoned to the prison to meet with the Reverend Eli Whitehouse, a man convicted of committing a double murder twenty-nine years ago. He is stunned when Eli claims to be innocent and wants Dantzler to prove it. But Eli only gives Dantzler a single clue—look at the obituaries in the local paper for a specific two-week period.

After winning a tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Jack Dantzler is approached by a man he once played against. The man wants to speak with Dantzler about a murder that occurred sixteen years ago. When Dantzler asks who the murder victim was, the man says it was his daughter, Jax. He wants Dantzler to look into finding Jax's killer. Dantzler is reluctant—cold cases are rarely ever solved—but he eventually relents and agrees to take the job. For Dantzler, knowing a killer might be walking fre...

Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers’ storiesIt’s cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there’s nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart. A celebration of the rich traditions, creativity, and taste of the region, The Great Minnesota Cookie Book collects the best-loved recipes and baking lore from fifteen ...

Isn't it wonderful, when you find a salesman who is honest and trustworthy, that everything he says is absolutely true? So it is with Paul from Tarsus, your salesman and tour guide for The House of Romans.Join him on an extended tour of this most marvelous of houses. Though the front yard is filled with beautiful flowers of promise, it is the rooms within that bring excitement and elation to his voice. Some of the rooms look dark and dreary; some emanate glorious light and beauty.

It has been the joy of my life to have someone tell me that the Lord used me to inspire them to give their life to Christ, to surrender to a full-time ministry, or start a church. Now that I have reached my eighty-fifth birthday, my desire is to live on after I leave for Heaven and continue to have influence for the Lord. I have written these three hundred sixty-six devotionals of personal experiences, answered prayers, and Scriptural truths hoping they might be used in the years to come t...

Legendary homicide detective Jack Dantzler has never failed to solve a murder. Thirty-three killers apprehended, tried, convicted. Perfect, like God's soul. But Dantzler's perfection ends when three college women are brutally murdered, victims of a serial killer who strangles his prey, decorates their bodies with a St. Jude medal and photo of Michelangelo's Pieta, then lacerates the jugular post-mortem. The series of murders reawaken Dantzler's memories of his own mother's murder when he w...