Jason King, a rising star in Hollywood, wants to spend the holiday season with his sister. Afraid of being bored, he decides to play Santa at the North Pines Galleria, but quickly realizes that decision will lead to a Christmas he will never forget.When police find Jason passed out in his blood-covered Santa suit, the mall manager stabbed to death in the next room, they quickly consider him the prime suspect.Certain he is being framed, Jason must find the real killer to cle...

When Danny asks Ian what he wants for Christmas, Ian says he wants a white Christmas. Always wanting to please him, Danny arranges for them and their friends and family to spend the holidays in a private lodge in the mountains of Idaho. While the temperature outside is frigidly cold, inside the lodge things are heating up with new liaisons and old romances.The trip takes an uneasy turn when things begin to mysteriously disappear. Although they are supposed to be the only guests at t...

During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The subsequent history of England would have been very different; the massive religious, social and political changes of Henry VIII’s reign might not have been necessary at all. In naming his eldest son Arthur, Henry VII was making an impressive stateme...

Has Texas always been one of the United States’ most conservative states? The answer might surprise you. Bootstrap Liberalism offers a glimpse into the world of Depression-era Texas politics, revealing a partisan culture that was often far more ideologically nuanced and complex than meets the eye.The Lone Star State is often viewed as a bastion of conservative politics and rugged “bootstrap” individualism, but that narrative overlooks the fact that FDR's New Deal was quite...

In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal.By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challen...

All widow Akayla Okenfus cares about is finding mates for her daughters, beautiful Lolly and plain Leigh Ann. Young Jason Uptegrow could be a match for one of them, but when Akayla's late husband tries to help, the matchmaking takes an unexpected turn.

Why Values Matter...Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a Christian missions movement like no other. Since 1960, it has launched wave after wave of young missionaries now into the millions who have impacted every nation on earth by simply listening to and obeying the voice of God. In Values Matter, YWAM Co-founder Darlene Cunningham shares inspiring stories of how God shaped YWAM into what it is today a large and effective wave-maker for missions through the spiritual DNA carried within...

Sky Gunderson is reluctant to work on the documentary about famed artist Damien Zuniga because it means going back to Seacliff. When he was outed by his best friend, the people of Seacliff were cruel and unaccepting. He left Seacliff right after graduation and hasn't been back in nearly twenty years. Will the people of Seacliff treat him differently now that he is an award-winning filmmaker? Will he be able to forgive his best friend?As Sky researches the life of Damien Zuniga, he ...

When Robert Anderson attends his nephew's parent-teacher conference, he runs into his former high school teacher who was once the subject of his most intimate fantasies. Javier Garcia is the Spanish teacher Rob had a major crush on eleven years earlier. Now that he's now longer a student, will Rob's fantasies become reality?

Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format'A scholarly and highly readable account of the king who traditionally has been overshadowed by the dynasty that he founded. Henry VII emerges as a wily, skilful and often ruthless monarch who secured a precarious throne for his Tudor successors' - Tracy BormanHenry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with b...

This book analyzes the political culture of the American Sunbelt since the end of World War II. It highlights and explains the Sunbelt's emergence during the second half of the twentieth century as the undisputed geographic epicentre for conservative Republican power in the United States. However, the book also investigates the ongoing nature of political contestation within the postwar Sunbelt, often highlighting the underappreciated persistence of liberal and progressive influences acros...

"Cunningham provides a vivid, informative, and frequently insightful chronicle of Texas politics between 1963 and 1980." —Journal of American HistoryDuring the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was transformed by a series of political transitions. After more than a century of Democratic politics, the state became a Republican stronghold virtually overnight, and by 1980, it was known as "Reagan Country." Ultimately, Republicans dominated the Texas political landscape, holding a...