Hard questions deserve biblical answers, not silence.You have wrestled with passages that make you uncomfortable. You have encountered questions about suffering, hell, God's sovereignty, or the role of women in ministry, and the answers you found felt incomplete, oversimplified, or evasive. Maybe someone asked you why God commanded warfare in the Old Testament, whether a Christian can lose salvation, or what the Bible actually says about divorce and remarriage, and...

I watched her from afar ever since she was born. I knew from the moment my eyes spied her that she was the one: the one I needed, the one I had searched for so very long. My careful planning and sacrifices would all be worth it when she was finally mine. She would not disappoint me like the others, for she is Precious.Betrayed, confused and utterly alone, six-year-old Amber Rose struggles against her kidnapper. A man she once called a friend is now her deranged keeper. Stripped of ...

The seas are wicked and dangerous at the best of times. The ancient gods of old still lay claim to the ocean realm man cannot hope to conquer. Very few still make offerings to those unforgiving deities in faith for clemency; fewer still have learned the secrets to coexist with such vengeful beings......and only one among those was ever favored with the title, Queen of the Seas.In a world ruled by men and gold, Callisto was no fool. If she wanted something, she had to take i...

Rising from the ashes of his home in Ever-Dale, Jamus Willms carves a brutal path of vengeance through the land's powerful nobility.Hatred fueling his journey, Jamus's quest for justice seems to defy even death. With the fires of that fateful night still burning in his mind, each step takes him closer to reclaiming his daughter from the clutches of the Lord: a psychopath who blurs the line between man and monster.Sofia is forced to watch as her father battles to keep them a...

A collection of three fantasy novels by Aaron M. Fleming, B.R. Stateham & James Fuller, now available in one volume!Kingmaker: Hunter, a former soldier turned monk, and his partner Chekwe embark on a daring quest to steal Kingmaker, an enchanted sword of immense power, from the clutches of the oppressive Kistrill Empire. Along the way, they must navigate treacherous jungles and evade relentless enemies, including Hunter's determined sister Tennea and the resilient ...

As children, we are led to believe there are monsters in the darkness. It has ill-prepared us for the monsters that walk among us in the light.For years, the sickness grew inside him. Stronger. Needful of its want. He knew what it was, and knew that it was wrong. But he was weak. Desire, lust, perversion - this was his sickness.Alfred was a normal man to any who might see him walking by; no one would ever believe the darkness that lingered just below the surface. An evil li...

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial period.Reconstruction was the most progressive period in United States history. Althoug...

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antisl...

This book will appeal to aviation engineers, air traffic controllers and all pilots who have taken a U.K. commercial pilots license. It explains how the U.K. Civil Aviation Flying Unit (CAFU) was formed during WWII and the work for which it was intended. How Flight Inspection methods were evolved to meet increasing challenges of improving navigational and landing aids and to ensure suitable flying standards were set for the issue of newly created licence requirements. It details the aircra...

Written by leading historians and political scientists, this collection of essays offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the role of war in American history.Addressing the role of the armed force, and attitudes towards it, in shaping and defining the United States, the first four chapters reflect the perspectives of historians on this central question, from the time of the American Revolution to the US wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Chapters five and six offer the views of politic...

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.”As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo ...

In this memoir, the author of Nimrod: Rise and Fall details his experience testing the UK's strategic bomber while flying for Avro during the Cold War.In 2007, a restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2—XH558—took to the skies to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this, the memoirs of one of its test pilots, Tony Blackman, was published to great acclaim.Tony flew no less than 105 of the 136 built, logging 850 flights...