There are those who wander, and then there are those who really wander. I, a former journalist and current middle school teacher, fall into the latter category.Where I Belong: A Black Teacher's Quest to Find His Home largely takes place over the span of a year teaching in an Inupiat village in Alaska, where throngs of subsistent students, suspicious of outsiders, stayed away from school because they didn't see its worth. Still, I felt we had more in common than th...

Just about anything goes at Good Times Charleys Klondike Saloon. Miners with gold dust and nuggets want to have the time of their lives and basically squander some of their hard-earned gold.The first thing they run into is Lacy Fern. Her job is to ease some of that gold into her pile. Santa Bobs eggs are their weight in gold; her scales are slightly biased in her favor. Any spilled gold gets swept through cracks in the floor by Bobob, the saloons sweeper, who, later with a miners l...

Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of history and social sciences, as well as those interested in oral history on the avocational lev...

Rahab is eager to assert her independence, hiding a secret that could shame her family. When her father finds out, he forces her to leave home with nowhere to go. Rahab learns that being on her own is not everything it is cut out to be. She will be forced to pay a price that will affect her for the rest of her life.Salmon is an Israelite spy who falls in love with Rahab. Going against his familys beliefs and approval, he knows she is a woman worth saving. Through much toil, he is d...

“David said to Abigail . . . ‘Blessed be your good sense, and blessed be you . . . ’” Samuel 25:32-33Abigail of Carmel hopes against hope that someday she’ll marry and have children—but her family needs her at home, for they’re in dire straits. So dire, in fact, that when her brother cannot pay the pitiless Maon Nabal his gambling debts, Abigail knows she must forgo her dream—and, to settle the debt, convinces her boorish lord to marry her.She has vowed to be a devoted wife...

The bible is filled with women of faith, bravery, and cunning. Here is one woman’s tale—as it might have happened…“And the city shall be accursed…and all that are therein…only Rahab the harlot shall live…”—Joshua 6:17Once, she was Rahab the Beautiful, eldest daughter of a weaver—and secret believer in her dead mother’s cherished Judaism. But when her hateful stepmother accused her of witchery, Rahab was banished to almost certain death in Jericho. Now the ...

The Bible is filled with women of faith, bravery, and cunning. Here is one woman’s tale—as it might have happened. . . .“Wake up, wake up, Deborah!Wake up, wake up, break out in song!Arise, O Barak!Take captive your captives,O son of Abinoam.”—Judges 5:12Though Deborah’s master has abused her for as long as she can remember, there is one thing he cannot take from her-her nightly dream of a stran...

When her father dies and she is left in the care of her conniving brother Laban, Rebekah knows her life has changed forever. Her hope for the future is restored when she falls in love with her cousin Isaac, and their relationship starts strong. But marital bliss cannot last forever, and the birth of their twin sons marks the beginning of years of misunderstanding, disagreement, and betrayal. The rift between them grows wider and wider until it is surely too deep to be mended. And yet, with...

Standing in the massive shadow of his famous father, young king Solomon wavers between fear and bravado, wisdom and folly. In the uncertain world of alliances and treachery, Solomon longs for peace and a love that is true and pure--a love that can be his cornerstone.A shepherdess in the northern city of Shunem, Arielah remembers the first time she laid eyes on Solomon in Jerusalem when she was just seven years old. Since then she has known that it was her destiny to become his brid...

Long maligned as a prostitute or a woman of questionable reputation, Mary Magdalene's murky story seems lost to the sands of time. Now a portrait of this enigmatic woman comes to life in the hands of an imaginative master storyteller. Diana Wallis Taylor's Mary is a woman devastated by circumstances beyond her control and plagued with terrifying dreams--until she has a life-changing confrontation with the Savior.Lovers of historical and biblical fiction will find this creative tell...

"You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're so afraid you'll fail at something, you won't even try."For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to document wildlife activist Kipp Nowak's bear encounters. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. The suspense mounts ...

Experience the story of the great flood as you never have beforeZara and Noah have walked together with the Creator for their entire lives. They have done their best in an increasingly wicked and defiant world to raise their three sons to follow in their footsteps. It has been a challenge--and it's about to get much, much harder.When the Creator tells her husband to build an ark to escape the coming wrath against the sins of humankind, Zara steps out with h...