Nola Soto trusts numbers because numbers do not flirt, lie, or decide what she is allowed to know.At twenty-nine, she is a sharp, career-driven pension investigator sent from St. John’s to Marystown, Newfoundland, to examine a disturbing claim: disability payments are still moving through accounts tied to Barrett Tate, an Iron House MC member officially declared dead three years ago. One clean audit could strengthen Nola’s path toward management. One mistake could damage the profes...

Elle Hamilton knows how to keep people alive under pressure. As a thirty-one-year-old Black critical-care paramedic in Port Huron, Michigan, she trusts her training, her instincts, and the man she believes is building a future with her.Jason Sampson is everything she should be able to count on. A former Marine, respected biker, and Vice President of the Blue Water Reapers MC, he is steady in a crisis, dangerous when necessary, and fiercely protective of the people he claims as his ...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Doctor Spechaug, a psychology professor in a small provincial town, wakes with blood on his hands and clothes and no memory of what he has done. As he makes his way through the woods toward the college, his hatred of the local peasants, his urge to escape Glen Oaks, and the forest's strange hold on him all suggest that his rational, scientific mind is beginning to fracture. Deep in the trees, that buried self stirs. He feels a sudden freedom and vitality, then encounters Edith Bailey, a br...

Sunday at 11 a.m. remains America's most segregated hour—but healing won't happen in the pews alone.In this timely and hopeful book, pastor Nathan Walton calls readers to embrace a multiethnic lifestyle between Sundays. He argues that it's not enough to have a diverse-looking church if we live separate lives the rest of the week. When advocacy for justice doesn't lead to relationship, and when diversity is performative rather than embodied, true multiethnicity rema...

Fresh start? Check. Quirky neighbors? Check. Finding a dead body? Absolutely NOT in the plan.Forty-something divorcee Anne Freemont traded her high-pressure city life for the charming mountain town of Carolan Springs, Colorado. Her plan: renovate a Victorian fixer-upper, breathe some fresh mountain air, and enjoy zero drama.Then a runaway chicken changes everything.When Anne's goofy and sweet neighbor, Kandi, is accused of murdering the neighborhood...

Times are hard. Perhaps not quite hard enough for Arthur to awaken from his long sleep, but other characters from mythology and history may still be here to lend a hand. Are you having trouble with an unscrupulous landlord? Is your village or wildlife reserve being threatened by a multi-national corporation? Is funding being cut for the very services that allow your community to thrive, or function at all?Throughout history, from the Chartist movement to the formation of the NHS vi...

besieged by the trials of a tumultuous childhood, marked by the departure of a loving mother and the shadow of a narcissistic stepmother. Alongside her sisters, Jean and Desiree, Ashley endured the hardships imposed by their stepmother, Lenna, grappling with the complexities of such toxic relationships early in life. The loss of her father, Dale, at the age of 49 to an overdose, and her younger sister, Desiree, at 21 due to spina bifida, brought profound sorrow and challenges. Ashley's jou...

The church has too often lost its way in reading the Old Testament for lack of sound principles of interpretation. When careless habits get us off track, we can lose sight of what the Bible is really saying, derailing our own spiritual growth and even risking discredit to God's word.We need a consistent approach to give us confidence as faithful interpreters. In Wisdom for Faithful Reading, the trusted Old Testament scholar John Walton lays out his tried-a...

A cozy mystery where Texas grit, homemade pie, and quiet faith meet small-town secrets.Hospice nurse Christie Taylor trades hospital hallways for hay bales and returns home to Texas, thinking she’s there to rest, help Pop, and finally have time to try out some pie recipes. What she finds instead is a community with long memories, a mystery that keeps pulling her in, and people who became family before she’d quite noticed it happening. Set against the warm, wide...

An indispensable resource for preaching and teaching the book of DanielIn this well-researched commentary, scholars Aubrey E. Buster and John H. Walton guide readers through chapters 7–12 of the book of Daniel. They provide historically informed, theologically sound interpretations of the content in these chapters: Daniel's apocalyptic dreams and visions, his encounters with the angel Gabriel, his prayer for restoration, and more. Buster and Walton also help reader...

How Flawed Interpretation Disrespects the Bible and Divides the ChurchThe Crisis of Biblical Authority is noted biblical scholar John H. Walton's response to one of Christianity's most pressing challenges: the damage done when believers treat the Bible as a tool for advancing their own agendas rather than as a sacred text to be faithfully understood.Christians agree that the Bible has authority, but it can be difficult to identify where that author...