Traveling home across the post-apocalyptic Zensai Desert of the Mohaani Peninsula, young Gantsch and his companion encounter dangers unknown. They are unexpectedly rescued by a wandering band of matriarchal Dimpai nomads, including the beautiful Balhudailadishtarya.Together, they all ride six-legged dromi lizards along the ruined Imperial Highway to the famed Gompa Oasis, discussing spirituality and cross-cultural traditions along the way. But when they arrive, the group must confr...

Tales from the Tent continues Jess Smith's story from the first book in the series, Jessie's Journey. Jess has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper-mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once more. The old bus has gone, to be replaced by a caravan and campsites. Times are changing, and it is becoming harder and harder for travellers to make a living by doing the rounds of seasonal jobs like the berry-picking. Conscious that the o...

What if peace isn’t something you find… but something you remember?For as long as she can remember, Jess Smith lived on edge — trapped in cycles of fear, panic, and relentless health anxiety. Her fear, also complicated by emetophobia (fear of vomiting).From sleepless childhood nights to the exhaustion of trying to “fix” herself as an adult, she spent decades believing peace was something other people had.But through years of breakdown, awakening and gentle spiritual in...

The Capes is about four friends of different backgrounds and varying levels of success and failure. They suddenly find themselves dressing up as comic book superheroes and interacting with the children and their parents at a hospital. The majority of the children start to get better. The four friends had no idea how much it would change them. An angel named Sam occupies the background and helps out where he can, the four cope with loss, tragedy, success, and acts of amazement that can only...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate the legal, social, and bureaucratic layers of movement which unfold in everyday engagements ...

Introducing Sookin' Berries, her collection of stories for younger readers, Jess Smith writes: 'I have been a gatherer of tales for most of my life, and I suppose it all began when I was a wee girl. I shared a home with parents, seven sisters and a shaggy dog. It could be said that I lived a different sort of life from most other children, because 'home' was an old blue bus. We were known as tinkers or travellers, descendants of those who have wandered the highways and by ways of ...

The divine secrets of the ages, hidden from the sons of men, are now unveiled to us by the Holy Spirit. As prophesied 2,000 years ago, the "mystery of God is finished." The heavenly seven-sealed Book has been loosed and its "Thus saith the Lord" revelations brought to earth so that Jesus Christ's bride-church might do all His will. In The 12 New Testament Mysteries Revealed, pastor and author Jesse Smith helps you understand how torepent fully of your sins a...

DON’T DANCE WITH THE DEVILWhen you make a deal with the Devil, something is guaranteed to go wrong. Diego Ramos learns this the hard way as his deal with Satan turns rotten, and Hell's Death Ryders are sent to collect on the bounty that's been placed on his head. In this dark and cheeky story, anything can happen--especially when demons, vampires, and witches come along for the ride. With the help of a stranger, will Diego be able to escape the unrelenting Death Ryders, or is he fat...

Be transported to the Swiss Alps with this classic story of a young girl who has the ability to soften the hardest of hearts.Originally published in 1881, Heidi tells the story of a five-year old orphaned girl whose aunt brings her to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. The residents of the nearby town fear Heidi's grandfather because he lives in seclusion, but she gradually opens his heart with her youth and energy. When she turns eight, her aunt...

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). The book was written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. It was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. Little Women was a fiction novel for girls that veered from the normal writings for children, especia...

**Brought to you by Penguin.From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings.**Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior-kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen.That saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant ye...

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...