Evangelists of Art: Picture Sermons for Children by James Patrick is a unique blend of religious teaching and art appreciation, aimed at introducing children to both the moral messages of Christianity and the beauty of visual art. The book presents a series of "picture sermons," each focusing on a specific religious lesson or moral theme, illustrated through well-known works of art. Patrick uses these artworks as a medium to communicate spiritual truths and ethical lessons to young readers...

From the bestselling author of "The Night It Got Out!" Welcome to Blood Verse, not your average collection of tales and verses of terror. Within these pages you'll find how a serial killer uses an unusual method to stalk victims in South Chicago. A unique couple addresses infertility on a grand scale. Armageddon strikes twice in a small Iowa town at the hands of nature and a madman. A noble medical scientist undergoes a demented metamorphosis. The oldest and most powerful vampire on earth ...

"I Love When Daddy Reads to Me" is a fun and engaging children's book that encourages Father/Child Bonding and Literacy! This book is unique in that it encourages Dads to read to their children and shares many of the funny and loving reasons why, from a child’s perspective!

Jimmy Turner is terrified. Very frightening things are happening in the neighborhood and he can’t figure out why. The Maggots Underneath the Porch is a powerful coming-of-age novella circa 1975. In the midst of a mid-West group of teens who are collecting baseball cards and beer cans, experiencing the cultural impact of JAWS, playing little league baseball, blasting guitar God rock music on ghetto blasters, a ravenous abomination is about to unleash death and mayhem on their unsuspecting r...

X Flight was designated the task of giving close air support to the desert army formed and commanded by Lawrence of Arabia. It flew from advanced desert landing grounds on reconnaissance, liaison, bombing and ground attack missions. The existence and deeds of the flight were kept secret, so much so that even the RFC Paymaster was unaware of their existence.George Hynes was an aircraft mechanic and became responsible for keeping the flights somewhat elderly aircraft airworthy whilst working...

Readers will discover this ebook delves deep into the apparent steganography phenomena as experienced by the author's delusional cum paranoid schizophrenic mind. Psychiatry students digesting this literature would gain a valuable insight into such diseased thought process, & laymen alike would also discover the material to be eye opening. 10% of net author royalties are donated to SANE Australia, up to a maximum of 1,000.

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our April 2017 issue features a novella by James Patrick Kelly ("Burn"), a novelette by Nina Allan ("Flying in the Face of God"), and a short story by Carolyn Ives Gilman ("Frost Painting").

Fifteen more fresh tales of madness and monsters from Fractured Mind Publishing that will leave you wanting more while you thank the Old Gods for the Mythos that inspired these stories. The astounding authors that weave these new webs of madness include:EV KNIGHT BECKY NARRON KARI LEIGH SANDERS PATRICK RAHALL CLAIRE DAVON CHARLES REIS RAZ T. SLASHER STEVE VAN SAMSON RYAN COLLEY L. E. HARRISON JON TOBEY LILY LUCHESI TRISHA J. WOOLDRIDGE DALE DRAKE CURTIS M. LAWSON

The core of the global cultural revolution is the deliberate confusion of sexual norms. It is the culmination of a metaphysical revolution as well—a shifting of the fundamental ground upon which we stand and build a culture. Instead of desire being subjected to natural, social, moral, and transcendent orders, the identity of man and woman is dissolved, and free rein given to the maximum fulfillment of polymorphous urges, with no ultimate purpose or meaning. Gabriele Kuby surveys gender ide...

Algerian AND Christian invites readers into the complex, often painful, yet deeply hopeful journey of following Jesus in a land where faith in Christ is seen as foreign. In a country founded on a vision of being irreducibly Muslim and Arab, what does it mean to be both fully Algerian and fully Christian? Through the lenses of Berber identity, Algerian Islam, and the influence of state education, Pat Brittenden offers a compassionate and contextual approach to theological formation. At the ...

This book introduces the near crisis phase of conflict and escalation.These time-sensitive disputes between states, and even with violent non-state actors, do not involve significant risk of military escalation, at least in the moment. Investigating how and why some near crises escalate, while others do not, requires an explanation of the different dynamics of international disputes and the policy tools that states and international institutions can employ. We ask an expanded set o...

James Patrick Kelly is known for finding the future unnervingly nearby, and he enters with his deep empathy and dry humor at the ready. A longtime favorite of SF readers is at the top of his game here. In the title story, a college acid trip becomes a window into an unexpected and apparently unavoidable future. In “Itsy Bitsy Spider” a disappointed woman’s robotic girlhood takes her by the hand and leads her back to the destiny that eluded her. Two short plays render alien invasion terrify...