As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools; they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Before now, the extent to which dictionaries encode social history, as opposed to merely relaying linguistic information, has gone almost entirely unnoticed. In this illuminating new book, Linda C. Mitchell analyzes the complex and changing relationship in the early modern period between authority and lexicog...

He spent a lifetime commanding from the shadows. She crossed an ocean to escape them. Neither expected paradise to become a battlefield.After decades commanding The Firm, Richard Stewart retires to Croatia, searching for a life beyond the mission. There he meets Pfeiffer Storm, a former New York attorney who has rebuilt her life on the Adriatic coast.Their unexpected love promises a future neither believed possible—until enemies from both their pasts come h...

By: Mitchell Taylor Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught that the names and titles given to Jesus Christ offer the deepest insights into who He is, was, and will be. InWhom Say Ye That I Am?, Mitchell C. Taylor invites you on a transformative journey to understand Christ more intimately through His many names‚ each one a profound key to experiencing Him as your Redeemer, Advocate, and Friend. As you explore the significance of titles like the Good Shepherd, the True Vine, the Light of the World...

Pentecost on Mockingbird Lane is a collection of 51 sermons preached at the 2015 National Festival of Young Preachers in Dallas, Texas (at Perkins School of Theology on Mockingbird Lane).

When you are young, how do you reconcile so many contradictions in your surroundings? How do you explain being Christian in the face of racial segregation in the church? What do you do with an inquisitive mind in a culture that discourages questioning? These questions clashed for Mitchell Carnell in an unexpected experience in St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Episodes in his life that had remained separate suddenly came together. Everything changed from that point forward. This is Carnell's...

Imagine a world where ghosts can be seen (but not heard) on computer screens via artificial intelligence and the collaboration of ‘seeing’ dogs. Follow the story of Laura Haskell, a fantasy writer, and her beautiful white German Shepherd, Cloud.Laura is a successful author who needs to get sober. She lives in a haunted hotel in San Francisco with Cloud, who can see the ghosts. When Sean Wilson appears in her life, everything changes.Ghosts have puzzled the living for as lon...

They took everything from her. Now, she's their biggest threat.Krista Fitzpatrick's eighteenth birthday was supposed to be a celebration. Instead, it ended in bloodshed. Her parents, highly trained government assassins, were executed, and now the killers are hunting her. Targeted for a microchip she knows nothing about, Krista is plunged into a world of espionage, deception, and deadly alliances.Krista must rely on the one person she's not sure she can trus...

When an ancient artifact falls into the hands of a young, inexperienced sorceress, Allsa, a battle-priestess of Thon, finds herself shepherding the young girl through a dangerous land. Their mission: to find an ancient wizard from a tale she doesn't even believe is true. Luckily, she has the help of a grumpy old dwarf, an obnoxious mercenary, an erudite elven wizard, and a new-wave minstrel.Allsa can only wonder at the circumstances that made her the leader of this rag-tag band of ...

A desperate exodus from Earth.Indentured to the starship captain, young Michael 'Kip' Anders was his family's only hope of fleeing Earth and its constant attacks from the Korg. But even four years out, the colony ship Cloud Fist is unable to escape the Korg's firm grip on the galaxy. As factions form and unrest invades the ship, Kip finds his loyalties severely tested. Will the new colony fail before it even finds a planet to settle?

A Story of Survival, Second Chances, and the Power of CommunityAbriella Taylor never imagined that escaping an abusive marriage would plunge her into even greater uncertainty. Forced to rebuild her life from nothing, she relocates to a place that feels like a world away from the privileged life she once knew. Amid hardship and fear, she discovers an unexpected source of strength—Annie Mae, a bold and unforgettable ...

Sometimes the best gifts aren't wrapped—they're written.In a quiet coastal town, aspiring novelist Caya Blaine has spent years helping everyone else reach their dreams while ignoring her own. When she hires Jude Wintersley, a gifted but disillusioned British editor, their collaboration begins as a work-for-hire…and becomes something far deeper.Through late-night messages and shared chapters, they help each other rediscover ...

The Ill-Fated Sisters of MabletonA sharp-tongued reunion. A past too painful to forget. A love that lingers through time.A heartwarming and sharp-witted novel about estranged sisters, long-buried secrets, and the bonds that refuse to break—no matter how much time has passed.After nearly seventy years of silence, Myrtle Pontier appears—uninvited and unexplained—on the doorstep of her older sister, Agnes Haskell....