America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin."It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo. His participation in the civil rights movement bro...

Are myths about thinking and innovation holding you back? Are you interested in getting outside your box? Would you like to work smarter, not harder? Do you sometimes whish you could see a problem through someone else's eyes just so you could get a fresh perspective? The Power of Innovative Thinking is a practical and motivational book that leads you to generate new ideas on your own and unlock the creativity stored inside you. The exercises and advice in this breakthrough book will help y...

Twenty-five-year-old Seminole Toby Tiger lives in despair in the Florida Everglades. He loves the land and everything that exists in the natural world: the deer and egrets, turtles and herons, cypress trees and sawgrass, ponds and marshes, and, most of all, Allapattah, the crocodile. He watches helplessly as the white man imposes his will on the Seminoles, forcing them either to conform or to eke out a living wrestling alligators and carving trinkets for tourists. According to Toby, the wh...

Get ready to expand your world and truly makea difference... read this book today!"In this wonderful book you will learn how to carefully explore your ideas and opportunities and gain the confidence to take bold action." Matthew Pollard, Best-selling author of The Introvert's Edge Series"I love to stimulate young minds and amaze people with facts they didn't know. My entire career has been built around this. In this book, Intelligent Curiosity, my c...

In this short, easy-to-read fable, bestselling author Mark Miller reveals five habits that underlie leadership character and that determine a leader's success—and he teaches leaders how to develop these habits.Like Miller's previous books, this one follows the life, learning, and influence of Debbie Bruster. Here she finds herself mentoring Blake Brown, the son of her former mentor. Rather than answer Blake's questions about leadership directly, Debbie introduces him to other leade...

An extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss.The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming… The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it...

In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways, hunting and fishing in the great swamp and farming a tiny plot of higher ground. Charlie has been diligently teaching his grandson, Timmy, about the swamp and its creatures.But their simple existence is suddenly threatened when a l...

Colonel John Quinn was a young, ambitious Air Force pilot who loved to fly - until an Iraqi missile nearly ended his career, and his life. Three surgeries and four years later, Quinn is functional, but not good enough to fly. Assigned to the Pentagon, he's prepared to spend the rest of his career in a series of boring staff jobs. Then a military Lear jet crashes shortly after takeoff in the rural farmlands outside Washington, and Quinn is called to lead the biggest investigation of his lif...

Peter, a newspaper writer, is about to get fired because he is unable to write a Christmas story. One snowy windswept night, while walking home from work, he seeks refuge in the town’s Christmas stable. One of the camel statues, Izzy, comes to life, and a Christmas story is born.Izzy takes us on a fast-paced adventure filled with suspense, courage, and faith. Izzy’s story is a tale told in two worlds—one real, the other magical. In the real world, Peter and his children, Michael an...

For over forty years, Seattle-based radio personality Jim French kept the flame of radio drama alive with Imagination Theatre! Noir-ish private eye Harry Nile, globetrotting adventurer Dameron, Kincaid The Strangeseeker, the methodical investigator Mr. Darnborough — plus fresh new takes on Raffles The Gentleman Thief, and even Sherlock Holmes himself all had compelling stories to tell.Here is a collection of some of Jim French’s best work. It’s new-time radio in the old-time style!Harry Ni...

Where can you find stories that serve up not only high-quality fiction, but stories also just a little off? Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, of course!And wow do aliens bring out the "Pulphouse factor" in writers. This volume contains the best alien stories from Pulphouse in the first ten issues. It also includes a special treat: a story from Pulphouse editor Dean Wesley Smith. These alien stories just go way off the beam, and we do mean way off, so far off, the beam seems too far off t...

To date, there are only a couple dozen or so books specifically about the Presidency of George W. Bush. Political operatives, members of the media, and former administration officials have written most of the volumes. Additionally, the early books on the Bush presidency focus on the various aspects and dimensions of the “War on Terror.” In essence, these studies challenge the justification of our deployment, the “Bush doctrine” and the assumptions of nation building. Few volumes focus on h...