Red Hollow is a town built on copper, dust, and the kind of secrets men carry to the grave.When Sheriff Thaddeus Rowan took the badge, folks figured he was just another steady hand trying to keep order in a place that didn't want it. He doesn't drink. He doesn't gamble. He doesn't brag about where he came from. He keeps his past locked up tighter than his jail.Then Colter Vance rides in.Vance doesn't come looking for money or trouble. He comes looking for a name—Row...

Split-Rail Ranch sits in the heart of a valley every cattle baron wants—and one ruthless man intends to take.After the death of her father, Hannah Lawson is determined to hold onto the ranch that built her family's name. But fences are being cut, cattle are vanishing in the night, and a gang of hired riders is pushing the valley toward open range war.Then a lone drifter rides through the gate.Gunman Wade Mercer planned to stay just long enough for w...

When outlaw Fanark brings terror to Dusty Creek, only bounty hunter Clem Canary has the grit—and the nerve—to bring him in. Outnumbered, outgunned, and hunted on the open prairie, Clem faces ambushes, midnight gunfights, and a town too scared to stand up. But justice rides with Clem Canary, and he'll face down the worst the West has to offer—even if it means staring death in the eye at every turn.

The teachings of Christian leadership have been dominated by a focus on the influence of a leader on its followers. Samuel Deressa's new book, Leadership Formation in the African Context, highlights how an African concept of community and holistic approach to ministry provides a biblically sound approach to understanding leadership formation and practice in this new age. This book links the issue of missional leadership with the life of the congregation. It provides theological and practic...

We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the philo...

They say Boone Calhoun once ruled the frontier with iron and gunfire.They say men crossed the street when they saw him coming.They say blood followed wherever he rode.Now he's older. Slower. Forgotten by most.But when a young deputy pins a faded wanted poster bearing his name to the saloon wall, the past rides back into town with a vengeance.Boone Calhoun has lived long enough to see his legend twisted into something ugly. Murderer. Butcher. Devil.

A trail drive cook is many things—cook, doctor, counselor, and friend.Joe Haines signs on with the Circle B cattle drive, hoping the long trail north will carry him beyond the reach of the law. To the cowboys, he soon becomes far more than the man who prepares their meals. He treats injuries, settles arguments, offers hard-earned advice, and becomes a trusted friend to every rider in the outfit.But Joe is hiding a dangerous secret. He is wanted for a murder he did not commi...

The West had its outlaws. She was their reckoning.When the law looks the other way and the frontier bleeds under the hands of cutthroats, one name strikes fear into the hearts of wanted men—Justine Justice.Armed with a Winchester and a Colt Navy, Justine rides alone across the mesas and canyons, chasing Jesse Pike and his pack of killers into the infamous Wolf's Den. For ten long years she has followed their trail of fire and blood, and now the final reckoning waits in the ...

When notorious outlaw Silas Boone brings chaos to the Texas frontier, bounty hunter Robert Ricoq rides into the sun-baked town of Fenton, where justice is as scarce as water. Facing ambushes, betrayal, and a town caught between fear and hope, Ricoq must use every ounce of grit and skill to bring Boone in—dead or alive. But as danger closes in and enemies multiply, Ricoq learns that peace in the West is never more than a gunshot away.Gritty, fast-paced, and true to the spirit of the...

In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself.Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality.Sylvestra le Touzel stars as Titania in this delightful comic fantasy, with Samuel West as Lysander, David Threlfall as Theseus, ...

The study, Terrorism in Africa: The Evolving Front in the War on Terrorism, represents a research endeavor aimed at increasing scholarly discourse on the ever-expanding threat of terrorism and terrorist-related violence in the region. It offers the most wide-ranging analysis of the sub-national and transnational terrorists groups that have made Africa the second most violent region in the world. Additionally, the study expands the coverage of the multiple dynamics that indicate wh...

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a weal...