You picked up this book because you know the weight of the belief that great speaking is a gift you either have or must fake, and you have felt its cost when you avoided the stage or handed the microphone to a colleague. You may have read books that inspired you for 1 afternoon and changed nothing the next time you stood up. Or you may be technically fine and know the difference between fine and memorable is the engineering you never learned. Whatever brought you here, you share a need: a ...

Zoom into the blue that covers most of the South Pacific and you still may not see it. Palmerston is a ring of sand around a turquoise lagoon, 500 kilometers from Rarotonga, with no airport, no wharf, and no hotel. On a good census day 35 people live on Home Island. On other days there are 32 or 38, because someone left for school or returned to fish.This is not a survival fantasy. It is a working society that has lasted 160 years because descendants of 1 English barrel maker and h...

An engaging guide for parishes seeking to cultivate communities of discipleship and vibrant, dynamic faith. Highly acclaimed for his work with parish renewal and the New Evangelization, Fr. James Mallon shares with us the many ways for bringing our parishes to life. Through humorous and colorful stories, Mallon challenges us to rethink our models of parish life, from membership-based communities to assemblies of disciples of Jesus who proclaim and share the good news with all peoples....

As Catholic disciples of Jesus, we mature to the extent that we allow the heart and habits of Jesus and his people to become ever more our own. The Way invites individuals and groups to reflect upon the heart and habits of discipleship with Scripture, discussion questions, and prompts for spiritual exercises. In this second volume of The Way, we continue to reflect on our call to know and follow Jesus, particularly through the Eucharist, ongoing conversion (including the Sacrament of Recon...

How can we grow both our personal faith and parish communities? What does it mean to be a son or daughter of God? How can we best live as faithful disciples? Is it possible to experience joy during great difficulty and uncertainty? What does it mean not just to live but thrive? Bestselling author Fr. James Mallon meditates on these questions and more in this thought-provoking book! Using his personal experiences and a deep understanding of our Catholic faith, he breaks open Scripture to re...

This is a story of a boy who grew up on a small farm in Northern Ireland in the 1940's. At 8 years old he had an accident that damaged his left shin. Doctors wanted to amputate his leg, but his parents refused to give their consent. After cobalt treatment, the wound still remained. Local neighbors took up a collection & sent him to Lourdes in France. A few weeks after he returned from Lourdes the wound disappeared. Like many Irish people before him, he immigrated to the USA. He had a dream...

Can Catholic parishes become communities of missionary disciples that bear lasting fruit? If so, what does it take to move them in that direction? Through his years as pastor of Saint Benedict Parish in Halifax, Canada, Fr. James Mallon discovered that the answer to the first question was a resounding yes! Tailored for Catholics, Alpha played a key role in the transformation of the parish he pastored. Unlocking Your Parish: Making Disciples, Raising Up Leaders with Alpha aims to provide in...

I’m not that kind of girl. The kind who falls for her wealthy, inexplicably attractive, and totally unavailable male friend.Sitting on the sidelines, I’ve watched women throw themselves at the sexy British bachelor Sterling Quinn, and vowed I would never be one of them.But now the tables are turned.Sterling needs to get married, something about an old-fashioned inheritance requirement. And suddenly I’m not just working PR . . . I’m thrust into the r...

Giving and receiving mercy is central to living a life of passion and is central to living the life God calls us to. We all need mercy at different times in our lives, and we all have an obligation to give mercy to others at different times in our lives. If you think about it, God’s mercy is overwhelmingly generous. He calls us to respond with the same spirit of generosity. The perfect companion for the Year of Mercy called for by Pope Francis, Beautiful Mercy provides an encounter with th...

With the scandalous intrigue of Desperate Housewives and the decadent spice of 365 Days**, this first standalone in a sizzling new series from** USA Today bestselling Booktok sensation Shain Rose welcomes you to Paradise Grove, a luxurious, ultra-private billionaire enclave—where the stakes are high, and the secrets are buried deep. Perfect for fans of Ana Huang, Rina Ken...

"For generations, the Jensens have struggled to build their home, their land, and their dreams. But now the family is forced to fight fire with fire, bullet by bullet, blood for blood.For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won’t stop a pair of businessmen from the East from trying to squeeze out a little more. ...

"Heart pounding and laugh out loud funny, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author K.F. Breene will take you on a magical joy ride you won’t soon forget.Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn’t the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like mine, I don’t have many options.So dangerous or not, the job is mine. And it was going fine, until an old as sin vampire stole my mark, and with it, my pay day.Knowing I’m poor and desperate, he has offered me a ...