Tender Eyes 4: Last Bite a novel by Matt HeartFor years, Dana searched for her sister, desperate for answers. She never expected to become part of the story.After escaping the town that took everything from them, Dana and Daniel disappear into a quiet life far from Ohio. But time doesn't erase scars—it only lets them scab over, waiting to be ripped open again.As Daniel begins uncovering fragments of his past, he is drawn back toward Tender ...

Tender Eyes 2 a novel by Matt HeartDevon Smith was supposed to be on the fast track to greatness—a college football phenom with pro scouts calling and a future lined with bright stadium lights. But one reckless decision changes everything.When his teammate Carlos convinces him to "borrow" a school bus for a weekend trip to Cincinnati—a tailgate, a big game, and a chance to meet the pros—Devon agrees. Joined by their friends Kimberly, Johnnie, Xavie...

Tender Eyes 3 The Butcher a novel by Matt HeartLong before Tender Eyes became a town known for its eloquent cuisine, it was a place trying to survive.Winter tightened its grip. Food ran low. Families did what they had to do to endure. Then Barton Russell Farmer arrived—offering order, protection, and answers for a community already on the edge.What he brought with him was something far worse than hunger.As desperation deepens, the Bar...

Tender Eyes – A Novel by Matt HeartNestled just beyond the misty backroads of Hollows Creek, Tender Eyes, Ohio is a hidden gem—a town renowned for serving the most unforgettable meals in America. Food critics, travelers, and culinary enthusiasts alike flock from across the country, lured by the promise of a dining experience unlike any other. But for those who venture too far, who stay too long, the town has a way of making sure they never leave hungry… or...

Ash Wednesday invites readers into the haunting legacy of a forgotten estate in Laurelsville, Ohio-a land where secrets seep into the soil and ancient forces linger among the towering ash trees. Ethan, who inherits the vast but eerie property from his grandfather, brings his family to start anew, but he soon discovers that his past is as deeply rooted in this land as the trees themselves. Haunted by suppressed memories and eerie encounters, Ethan begins to unr...

The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state relations in the modern West. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the formative period for modern church-states relations we see vividly the complex interrelationship of developments from...

This New York Times bestseller from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street, a moment of childhood trauma that would define their lives. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terri...

The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of government and making possible the abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of women, and the idea of universal human rights and freedoms. Each of these struggles was a memorable human drama, ...

In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America.Contrast...

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.Gary Wills has won significant acclaim for his bestselling works of religion and history. Here, for the first time, he combines both disciplines in a sweeping examination of Christianity in America throughout the last 400 years. Wills argues that the struggle now, as throughout our nation's history, is between the head and the heart, reason and emotion, enlightenment and Evan...

Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new Am...

How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the Unitarianism of New England is indigenous and the point from which the religion spread. Relationsh...