Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the e...

Ella's bestselling work, The Torn Series, is a collection of books about the life of Melissa Williams. Throughout the series, you'll feel as if you're walking right alongside Melissa through her life's journey. You'll need to buckle up because the Torn Series takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride. Not only will you cry through her struggles, but you'll also celebrate in her triumphs. Throughout the Torn Series, you'll see Melissa make some good and not-so-good decisions in her life...

Torn 3: Surviving the Human Snake Pit is a continuation of the passion and pain that exists in the life of Melissa MeMe Thomas (Williams). Torn 2 ended with a nail-biter after Melissa received a message on her phone that will change everything, and in this book, youll finally see what was actually on that text message that tests Melissas faith in God all the more. Now that shes divorced and living the single life again, she finds nothing wrong with igniting old flames, but is there enough ...

Throughout her life, Melissa Williams has hoped for a relationship with someone who can appreciate her for who she is and for the love that she is ready to give. When a friend from her hometown asks for her hand in marriage, she’s ready to take this next step with him until she realizes that her heart is yearning for someone else. Little does she know, thousands of miles away in West Africa, Orpheus Frank follows his mother’s advice to leave Liberia to find his Queen in America. In this Fi...

This book examines how the writings of the thirteenth-century nun Gertrude the Great of Helfta articulate an innovative relationship between a person's eucharistic devotion and her body. It attends to her references to the biblical, monastic, and theological traditions, including attitudes and ideas about the spiritual and corporeal senses, in order to illuminate the affirmative role Gertrude assigns to the body in making spiritual progress. Ultimately the book demonstrates that Gertrude l...

Sunshine, rock gods, and Hollywood heartthrobs! Jessie Jefferson is back in the next installment from bestselling author Paige Toon—perfect for fans of Holly Smale's Geek Girl, the Jessica Cole series, and Zoe Sugg's Girl Online.Life as the undercover daughter of a rock god isn't going to be easy. How will Jessie adjust to her old boring life again after spending her summer living it up with her dad in LA? With tough decisions ahead (and not just ...

What if you were on the cusp of marrying the guy of your dreams and reaching that career goal you set for yourself, only for all of it to be taken away in one fell swoop?What if you then had to start from the very beginning, right down to moving out of the city and back to the suburbs to live with your parents?What if this all happened a month before you turned 30?This is the story of Jill Stevens, who after being forced to move back home, finds a list she made in high...

A fresh voice in YA fiction brings a charming heroine to life in this series debutSixteen–year–old Pippa Greene never goes anywhere without her camera. She and her best friend/supermodel–in–training Dace long ago mapped out their life plan: Pippa will be the noted fashion photographer, and Dace the cover girl. But ever since last spring, things have changed for Pippa — and her junior year at Spalding High proves to have its own set of challenges. Not only is Vantage Point,...

From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood, a supernatural thriller “that will become a classic” (Tim Lebbon).When eighteen-year-old Christopher Myers’ parents are murdered, something is written on his bedroom door, a mark in his parents’ blood that convinces the police the killer has targeted Christopher as the next victim.To keep him safe, he travels away with his estranged grandmother and uncle to the small town of Bridgton, New York. An...

In Forever Ours, New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo breathes life into the Shattered Hearts Series, a fresh and brilliantly emotional coming of age love story.The day fifteen-year-old Claire meets sixteen-year-old Chris is like any other day. She’s been kicked out of yet another foster home. The moment she sees the piercing in his lip and the tattoos on his skin, she’s certain she won’t last long in this placement.But sh...

In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you loveDylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.Environmental issues, civil rights, education—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a prote...

Sex and the seaDesperate to win back his ex, billionaire playboy Jeb Whitcomb spent a year in self-discipline and (mostly) celibacy. He's a new man. But when she decides to marry someone else, Jeb immediately sets sail. He has only four days to stop the wedding and, worse still, he has a stowaway…the only woman who can make a newly good man behave very, very badly!R.N. Haley French is furious. For one night, she lets go of her usual boring routine, and the next she...