Awaken the dormant dreams in your heart and start paving a path with this faith-based guide for freedom and healing.Sometimes life smacks us upside the head while we are looking the other way. We get knocked down and struggle to get back up. But your past struggles do not determine your future.Using the pain of her past, Nicole Crank walks you through the hurdles meant to keep you down, which will, in turn, bring you closer to God. I Will Thrive gi...

THE RESOLUTE LEADER – The Jethro Mandate shares time-honored principles that are still applicable for church leadership in the twenty-first century. It builds a helpful leadership paradigm providing a simple and clear strategy, one that is both practical and biblical. As Dr Paul Borden, author of Make or Break Your Church in 365 Days, says in his endorsement: 'The Resolute Leader meets the crucial need of explaining how the abstract intersects with the concrete, enabling leaders to become ...

Everything you knew about the death of champion racehorse Phar Lap is probably wrong.The Great Depression descended upon the world in 1929, and Phar Lap, a gangly legged, spotty faced horse with few redeeming features made his first inauspicious steps onto the racecourses of Australia. He won just one race after four starts and was the brunt of more than a few jokes.Yet, from 1930 to 1932 he would win 32 races including the prestigious Melbourne Cup and the Agua Caliente in...

Since the 1970s, the corrections system has experienced exponential growth. Over the past four decades, the number of inmates held in US prisons and jails has quadrupled. This massive growth is associated with a number of different issues and challenges within prisons and jails, including overcrowding; gang activity and misconduct; a shift away from rehabilitation and programming; expanded use of solitary confinement; inmates’ human rights; criticisms of health care; and massive, publicly ...

An ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwrightUnderstanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America's most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently focused his work on the ever-changing American cultural landscape. James ...

The research revolution in police work has uncovered a multitude of data, but this contemporary knowledge has done very little to change the way things are done in most police departments across the U.S., where the prevalent form of policing is based on the traditional model of district assignments and random preventive patrol. Drawn from the work of scholars on the cutting edge of police research, this volume argues for a radical shift in the way policing is approached. It provides concre...

I Hear Youby Bryan D. CrankI Hear You: The Highway Calls My Name is a collection of poetry and prose. More than that, it is a call to readers who look with envy at passing motorcyclists, and who wonder to themselves what powerful sights they could be riding off to see.Get a bike.The highway is for everyone.About the AuthorBryan D. Crank is a loving husband, father and grandfather, and a lifelong motorcycle enthusiast. When he was younger he t...

Join unhinged scribe Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki, Darkwing Duck) and unrelenting comic warrior Jarrett Williams (SuperPro K.O.) as they bring it all to a catastrophic, mind-bending close in the final to end all finales. (This shouldn’t be a surprise—this series is called THE END, after all, right?!)Rick Sanchez. Morty Smith. Unity. Parmeezeean. MortRick. (Wait, Mortwhat?) The key players in this chapter of what will no doubt be an unforgettable end to what we know in the comic book ru...

"It’s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it’ll be the hardest thing that’s been done in the Himalayas."Thus spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unscaled West Wall of Changabang—the Shining Mountain—in 1976.Bonington’s was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and tec...

The perfect summer-holiday magical adventure for fans of Diana Wynne Jones, Catherine Doyle and Thomas Taylor.Welcome to Yowling - a secretive seaside village where magic is just one step away... Max has spent years thinking he is cursed, because whenever he touches anything electrical it explodes. But then he is sent to Yowling and discovers he is a Spellstopper, someone with the rare ability to drain dangerous build-ups of magic and fix misbehaving enchanted items. When Max's Gran...

For more than a decade, while the First War of Scottish Independence rages, fierce warrior Conall MacGregor has dreamed of the revenge he will have against the man who robbed him of his family and home. To this end, he abducts the daughter of his enemy, hoping to force a marriage and reclaim what is rightfully his. He has no idea that the stubborn lass will turn his world upside-down, and that he will be the one held captive.Half-English Tess Munro has no plans to shame her father ...

From the perspective of an exiled Yorkshireman this bestselling, award winning author returns to his native county to discover and reveal its soul.Now Then is a biographical mosaic of Yorkshire. Rick Broadbent, an award-wining author and exiled Yorkshireman, goes in search of the soul of England's biggest county and produces an all-encompassing portrait of a place that has been victimised and stereotyped since the days of Williams the Conqueror. Incorporating social history, memoir...