USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott’s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But r...

Almost from humanity's very beginning, beloved small dogs have been trotting devotedly by our sides. Yap! follows in the pawprints of the breeds we have grown to love and cherish, from the small dogs touchingly memorialised in Ancient Rome through to Paris Hilton's chihuahua and the pet influencers of 21st-century, via the pug who colonised Napoleon's marital bed, King Charles II's spaniels and celebrity terriers in Victorian pubs.Drawing on her own experience as a pug-own...

Succeeding as an RE Teacher is the must-have guide for Religious Education teachers – offering everything you need to teach this core subject with confidence.This essential guide takes a no-nonsense approach to delivering the very best possible RE. Drawing on the expertise of experienced RE teachers, it covers everything from strategic lesson and curriculum planning to research-informed practice and guidance for approaching sensitive discussions. Whether y...

Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Paris:City walks and tours: Six detailed tours and walks showcase Paris's essential sights, including the Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the Eiffel Tower, a stroll along the Left Bank, and moreRick's strategic advice on what experiences are worth your time and moneyWha...

An audiovisual journey into the visionary heart of New Age musicToday, with Spotify "Relaxation" playlists and 24-hour YouTube ambient streams, New Age music feels ubiquitous and familiar. But its roots are stranger than is commonly known, tracing back to the spiritual exploration of the 1970s, when a cohort of musicians created cosmic soundscapes sparkling with the afterglow of ecstatic spiritual revelations, psychedelic experiences, near-death encounters, and med...

Luke is handsome and charismatic enough to make any woman swoon-and he knows it. But he's not the man you take home to mom, because he'll sleep with her too. An unexpected knock on the door early one morning, with news he blames on everyone else, forces Luke to face mistakes that caused him to lose his relationship with his brother and the woman he loved. Luke has some tough choices to make. With the help of his mom, a few good friends, and his therapist John, he has to either better his l...

How Western nutrition science defined difference as disease in modern China.For more than a century, Western observers have treated Chinese foodways as evidence of deficiency, danger, or backwardness. In Nutritional Imperialism, Hilary A. Smith shows how these assumptions entered the heart of modern nutrition science and reshaped understandings of health, diet, and difference. Nutrition scientists, physicians, and policymakers presented Western dietary pat...

Draw Your Favorite Animals in 5 Simple StepsDrawing realistic animals has never been easier! Professional artist and instructor Mark Liam Smith guides you through his foolproof five-step method for building complicated creatures out of simple shapes. He walks you through each step—from establishing primary shapes to crafting intricate textures—to create realistic drawings you’re proud of. Learn to sketch 60 of the most iconic animals, from Labrador retrievers and C...

God Doing the Extraordinary Through Ordinary Men and WomenWhat does it look like to follow God to the nations? In a world where the call to missions can feel distant or reserved for a select few, To the Nations presents true stories of ordinary believers demonstrating extraordinary faith in some of the most challenging places on earth.These stories—told by contemporary missionaries from their fields of service—tell of adventure, challenge, sacrific...

In The Leaving Gene**, Huck Smith turns toward one of the central questions of his life: what does it mean to be someone who leaves?**A memoir-in-essays about staying, going, and the cost of both, The Leaving Gene examines leaving as wound, inheritance, coping mechanism, and survival skill. Through essays about family history, grief, chosen family, queer identity, singlehood, friendship, r...

Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive book from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure series, now for 5- to 8-year-old readers!Filled with colorful illustrations, these books for little kids make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might end up with you and your grandfather floating through the sky.You're lonely as the new kid in school but discover you have a magical gift—you can talk to animal...

Begin a journey to living a deep, confident faith in a world of unrealistic, impossible standards.There's no question it's easier to live in shallow water, where we can touch the ground without risking anything. We're all just trying to keep it together, hoping to find some sense of safety in our chaotic world. But as a result, we aren't really living. We're stuck in survival mode, saying we want relief but filling the silence with noise, hungering for connection b...