“The tenor of my paintings is usually joyful and celebratory with rare expressions of sorrow or even shadows,” Lu Ann Barrow wrote in her artist’s statement. Represented for many years by the respected Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Dallas, she acquired many admirers, including former first lady Laura Bush, who commissioned Barrow to create poster art for the Texas Book Festival and the inaugural National Book Festival in 2001. Barrow’s works communicate “tremendous joy throu...

"Pannunzio approaches the topic of tea drinking as a state of meditation . . . a great gift for any tea lover." —Emily Slonina, author of Anywhere, Anytime, Any Body YogaTea-spiration aims to create a quiet movement where one can experience devotions, comfort, inspiration, and the simple joys of life. Tea drinkers know that tea, the wonderful drink, can help them slow down and savor life's moments.In her debut book, Lu Ann Pannunzio uplift...

This in-depth study of religious tensions in early modern Spain offers a new and enlightening perspective on the era of the Inquisition.Traditionally, the Spanish Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries has been framed as an epic battle of opposites. The followers of Erasmus were in constant discord with conservative Catholics while the humanists were diametrically opposed to the scholastics. Historian Lu Ann Homza rejects this simplistic view. In Religious ...

Destructive Release is the third and final book in A Destructive Novel Series and picks up where Destructive Choices left off.A single grain of sand produces a beautiful pearl. How can something so precious come from something so painful?Grief-stricken, Lacey realizes reality has caught up to her.Her silence has kept her trapped as if she was a frightened little girl. When Lacey finally speaks up, what she unburies will forever haunt her.The choices she make...

Founded in 1478 and not permanently abolished until 1834, the Spanish Inquisition has always been a notorious institution in history as an engine of religious and racial persecution. Yet, Spaniards themselves did not create its legal processes or its theoretical mission, which was to reconcile heretics to the Catholic Church. In this volume, leading international scholars assess the origins, legal practices, victims, reach, and failures of Spanish inquisitors across centuries and geographi...

Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered. Evidence, Crime, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean amplifies such findings by looking at law and its consumers in the Mediterranean, broadly imagined, between 1500 and 1750. The volume’s essays enhance our awareness of how crimes were defined, evidence was offered, and forensic aware...

In the early seventeenth century, thousands of children in Spain’s Navarre region claimed to have been bewitched. The Child Witches of Olague features the legal depositions of self-described child witches as well as their parents and victims. The volume sheds new light on Navarre’s massive witch persecution (1608–14), illuminating the tragic cost of witch hunts and opening a new window onto our understanding of early modern Iberian life.Drawing from Spanish-language source...

The Wild West - a lonely, windswept backdrop of arid plains and mountainous ranges inspiring the fantasies of many with its lawless mythology.In truth, the West was wild for only 30 years in American history, so why not dip into the minds of three of your favourite authors and see how they have brought to life the wild, unrestrained and lawless nature of many of the West's residents. These three stories will inspire your minds and tease your romantic notions of wha...

Lucy Randall is a chameleon—changing her personality to whatever her latest boyfriend wants her to be. Punk rocker. Life-size anime. Nudist. The list goes on.When Lucy's best friend, Alec McDermott, has had enough, he dares Lucy to stop dating for one month and 'find' herself. Lucy agrees, only to have her sisters rope her into spending a week at a dude ranch with sexy cowboy Tanner Harris. Knowing she already wants to cowgirl up, Lucy drags her roommate Gen, Alec, and Gen's six-mo...

Dr. Caroline Kincaid isn't happy that Beck Daggart is back in her life; she's worked hard to erase any memories of him. But she agrees to house her ex-fiancé and vows she can handle it—she needs Beck's help to uncover the mystery behind her father's alleged suicide.After ten long years of wondering why Caroline Kincaid left him lying comatose in a hospital, Special Agent Beck Daggart goes undercover at his ex's rehabilitation center to expose a killer. Not one to waste an opportuni...

“For the word of God is live and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thought and attitudes of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12 NIV).The contributing authors in this 30-day devotional have been guided by the Holy Spirit to share a Word with the Kingdom—NOW. The God-inspired chapters are filled with hope, healing, joy, strength, forgiveness, and love while illustrating the power of God’s Word.Go...

Dillie Price has put off college for far too long, but caring for Granny had been worth the sacrifice. Now Granny is sporting angel wings, and Dillie is determined to keep two promises she made to her beloved grandmother: (1) Get a college degree, and (2) Save herself for the One. That's right . . . No hanky-panky before marriage!Holding fast, Dillie is going to college and working at Holiday Helpers as an event decorator. But when sexy Texas rancher Jack Rogan walks into ...