The novel opens just east of Big Spring, Texas in 1880, where Frank McLeod, a respected Texas Ranger, is in flight to avoid capture for the shooting of another ranger. A warrant has been issued for his arrest based on false testimony. The man he is accused of killing had died with the word Ruidoso on his lips; Frank sets out for New Mexico Territory, following this single clue. He is tracked by Pedro Vasquez, a capable but vicious ranger, who plans to take Frank any way he can . ....

Texas Ranger, Frank McLeod is back and, again, hes not in Texas. This story, a sequel to Ruidoso opens in mid-December 1881, near Jerusalem, in Arizona Territory, some twenty miles southeast of Prescott. Jerusalem, a quasi-ghost town since 1875 boasts a small but weird collection of inhabitants: a crippled mining engineer, a beautiful tomboy, and several neer-do-wells. It has taken Frank McLeod several months to trail a fugitive, Isaac Mller, from Texas. Isaac is a young and handsome psych...

Jackie Michenaud is a brilliant archologist and professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She has a loving but often strained relationship with Frank Collins, a successful young lawyer on a fast track with a posh law firm in nearby Phoenix. Franks work-a-day life is dramatically changed when his friend, noted author Patrick Nelson, is threatened with eviction from his idyllic cabin in Central Arizona. Frank suffers an accident in his private plane under suspicious circumstan...

John Law is a misfit private investigator, with Washington D. C., as his beat and hes not doing all that well in either his love life or his career. A mercy job from his sometime lover leads him to the Delaware shore and into the middle of an intricate drug cartel operation. With help from new friends and old and in spite of dangerous adversaries and a near drowning, John solves the case with surprising results . . .

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This meticulously edited anthology presents the complete early Christian writings from the first four centuries following the death of Christ. Edited by Philip Schaff, a renowned ecclesiastic historian, this extensive collection comprises thousands of Christian texts authored by over 60 of the most significant theologians and Church Fathers. Each author is accompanied by a detailed introduction providing insight into their life and works, illuminating their philosophical perspectives, advo...

The narrative in Confessions oscillates between Augustine's personal experience and his philosophical reflection, and in doing so, it provides profound insights into the nature of human existence. The centrality of memory and time in the text is particularly significant. In Book XI, Augustine meditates on the nature of time in a way that has influenced subsequent thinkers for centuries. His reflections on the past, present, and future, and the inability of humans to grasp the pres...

This work delves into the life and thought of St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE), one of the most influential figures in Christian history and Western intellectual tradition. Across twenty chapters, it explores Augustine's life, from his early years in Roman North Africa to his conversion to Christianity, his theological development, and his profound legacy.Key themes include Augustine's struggles with sin, grace, and human desire; his engagement with Neoplatonism and classical ph...

Saint Augustin (354-430) est reconnu depuis l'Antiquité tardive comme le plus puissant des penseurs, le plus grand des écrivains et le plus sage des docteurs. L'œuvre du " docteur de la grâce " est ainsi la plus lue de tous les temps après la Bible. Pourtant, la plupart de ses textes – bien plus d'une centaine – sont aujourd'hui introuvables, alors que la littérature et la philosophie n'ont cessé de s'y alimenter.Son œuvre oratoire, aussi importante que Les Confessions, le ...

After the authors of the New Testament, no group has had a more profound influence on the prayer, theology, and life of Christians than the Fathers of the Church, who lived and wrote in the first several centuries after Christ. Among the Fathers, perhaps the most pivotal were those of the first two hundred years. Including figures such as St. Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch, and St. Irenaeus of Lyons, these giants of the faith lived just decades after the Apostles—some even knew t...

Buddhisms and Deconstructions considers the connection between Buddhism and Derridean deconstruction, focusing on the work of Robert Magliola. Fourteen distinguished contributors discuss deconstruction and various Buddhisms-Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese (Chan)-followed by an afterword in which Magliola responds directly to his critics.

Augustine's Confessions: Conversion and Consciousness argues two original positions concerning the structure and meaning of the Confessions by Augustine. The structure is found to be a tool used by Augustine in his earlier pre-Confessions writings in which he uses the Allegory of the Cave in book VII of the Republic by Plato to both describe human consciousness and as a structural framework for his own life story. As with Plato's allegory, Augustine then uses Books X-XIII to do, what the a...