"Sometimes you miss a call for a new money-saving phone plan. A call about that tax return you forgot to send. You miss a call from your daughter. Those unread messages you don’t open anymore. Voicemails piling up you don’t listen to but you’re too afraid to delete."

Leonard James is on an extraordinary quest: to be a man of value. The outcast of a dysfunctional family, Leonard is perplexed and incensed by life's injustices, beginning with the untimely death of cousin Butch. Leonard vows to overcome the adversity in his life. However, he resorts to alcohol and becomes addicted after failing to free himself from his frustration and anxiety. Life events, some of which are of Leonard's own making, leave him a vagabond without direction. Disillusioned, Leo...

At age 35, Tracy found herself tragically widowed with three small children to raise. Join her on this compelling journey as she takes you through the miraculous road of healing. Everyone, at one time or another, will experience some type of loss, whether it be the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job, the loss of hope, or the loss of a dream. Whatever the loss, Tracy reveales that God can and will take you to the place of enjoying life again. Through the steps in this book, you will be ...

St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in w...

St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in w...

The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional deliberations, and the culture of contemporary politics. In each of these intersections between law, culture, and politics, traditional expectations have been transformed in ways that p...

This book explores the large scale correction to balance the continuous removal of forests. This plan accomplishes for humanity a way to recoup lost fresh water to aquifer systems. All is needed is the desire to do what is right and cooperation to begin the work. This pathway satisfies future requirements that meet a balanced nature interactions on very large scales required to cause a balanced response from nature.

How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, uncertainties, and tensions; these difficulties call upon us to engage with the Gospels in a new way: to read them, to ask questions about them, to live with them, alone and together. The way we do that...

In 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous search through Africa for the missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone. "Stanley in Africa" is an extremely detailed account of Stanley's explorations in the mysterious continent. Of course, the book includes the time when he met David Livingstone and uttered those immortal words: 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?'In the late 19th century, Europeans and Americans were deeply fascinated by the “Dark Continent” of Africa and...

A concise, compact dictionary with thousands of Biblical references. It lists and identifies all proper names, gives data on places and events of the scriptures, pronounciations, definitions and textual references.

The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer and Other Travellers, Pioneers and Missionaries. First published in 1889.

Victor Hugo says, that "Africa will be the continent of the twentieth century." Already the nations are struggling to possess it. Stanley's explorations proved the majesty and efficacy of equipment and force amid these dusky peoples and through the awful mazes of the unknown. Empires watched with eager eye the progress of his last daring journey. Science and civilization stood ready to welcome its results. He comes to light again, having escaped ambush, flood, the wild beast and disease, a...