This book examines the theory and practice of broad-based community organizing, establishing a critical dialogue between this approach to social change and Baptist social justice theology, ethics, and practice with impoverished and marginalized people. Community organizing is an approach that originated in the US in the 1940s and which came to the UK in the late 1980s. It has been adopted by churches from many denominations, by other faith traditions, and by many civic society institutions...

Billy Straw's in real trouble. He's returned from the Vietnam war a broken man. He's arrested for rioting at a Veterans Job Fair. He associates with two brothers, criminals, and becomes involved with anti-war radicals which draws the attention of the FBI. He can't hold a job or a relationship together. But it wasn't always like that.Once a deeply religious pre-teen, he and his mothers' acts of mercy toward a forgotten immigrant family at a hovel dubbed "Weedtown" sets the stage for ...

Dawn over the Arroyo Seco (the Rose Bowl) finds two homeless buddies starting their day with a boot kick in the ass and the security patrol order to "Move on!"Wiggie and Fargone take the reader on a day's and night's journey inside their meandering lives, filled with whimsy, humor, bravado, compassion and the daily rounds of surviving on the streets of the glass and steel canyons of the late 1970s.Their story ties in with a Bel Air entrepreneur club owner, an Afro-American ...

Tells how to choose the right breed for your personality and hunting and includes training tips for housebreaking and basic living commandsTechniques for introducing the gun, achieving staunchness on point, and advanced field quartering and retrievingPreventing problem behaviors of deer chasing, blinking, gun shyness, hardmouth, short stoppingTraining Your Pointing Dog for Hunting and Home tells how to develop an obedient gun dog that is also an aff...

Training Your Pointing Dog for Hunting and Home tells how to develop an obedient gun dog that is also an affectionate family companion, with training schedules and advice on everything from handling a newborn pup to teaching advanced field techniques and finely tuned pointing manners. The book presents a simplified, commonsense approach that can be used in its entirety or to troubleshoot individual aspects of your dog's education. Explains the importance of early obedience training and app...

"I love old-school baseball,and I also love the way people who've spent a lifetime in the game talk about the game. I tried to combine those things in a story of suspense. People have asked me for years when I was going to write a baseball story. Ask no more; this is it." --Stephen King Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was th...

In this New York Times bestseller from the world's #1 bestselling author**, two high school students leave their hometown on the West Coast to go on an impulsive cross-country road trip in this moving romance about friendship and the power of love.**Axi Moore is a "good girl". She studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that she wants to run away from it all. The only person she can tell is her best friend, Robins...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control.What would you do if you realized that your new husband, a man you adore, is keeping secrets from you—secrets with terrifying consequences?Bryn Harper, an accomplished self-help author, already has plenty to deal...

“A thoughtful and powerful page turner.”—PeopleElvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiancé, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble—the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of.Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pik...

After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case.Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she's safe as the town's first female chief of police—until the husband of one of the local barmaids escapes from state prison and heads for town. And that's not all. An...

The enduring story of a slashing in Penn Station that draws a Manhattan detective back into a case from the past that haunts him, by the bestselling and critically acclaimed master of the gritty crime drama.“A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as Clockers and Lush Life . . . [The Whites has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page, line by line, in its brilliant chara...

The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics, and culture.In Part One, “Low Men in Yellow Coat...