In this prize-winning collection, a debut poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea.Mission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker's experiences as a child of missionaries living among the Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Rich with Christian and Kuman myths and stories, the poems explore Western and tribal ways of looking at the world -- an interface of vastly different cultures and notions of spir...

Baseball has long been viewed as the Great American Pastime, so it is no surprise that the sport has inspired many Hollywood films and television series. But how do these works depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society?This study offers an extensive look at nearly one hundred years of baseball-themed movies, documentaries, and TV shows. Film and sports scholar Aaron Baker examines works like A League of their Own (1992) and Sugar (2008), wh...

DON'T EVER LET SOMEONE COUNT YOU OUT.Life can change in an instant. For twenty-year-old Aaron Baker, not only did a neck injury leave him paralyzed from the chin down-it also nearly killed him. The doctors told him he'd never feed himself again.Until he did.Instead of giving up, Aaron went all in and rebelliously achieved things he was told would never be possible.The Rebellious Recovery follows Aaron on a mind-expanding, odds-defyi...

In 1985, mutual distrust between the United States and the Soviet Union has perpetuated an arms race that the United States is winning, but at the expense of economically destabilizing the Soviet nuclear superpower.Agreeing to a proposal put forth by a CIA operative, investigative journalist Jordan Bauer gains legal entry to the Soviet Union. Jordan's alleged project is to illuminate for the Western world the progress achieved by the great Soviet social experiment. But this is Jord...

There comes a time for most individuals when we weigh our assets and concerns, and decide where to focus our future efforts. Billy Hawkins, however, has two assets that many would consider liabilitiesa degree of moral flexibility and a borderline psychotic drive to protect the vulnerable. As he enters college, Billy finds himself enraged by the increasing reports of sexual abuse by Catholic Priests. He finds most disturbing the Priests betrayal of children and adolescents in their charge.

A Companion to Martin ScorseseA Companion to Martin Scorsese“This valuable book brings the exceptional scale of Martin Scorsese’s film work into clear view. His achievements are monumental, and the essays collected in this work provide wonderfully detailed and vivid analyses of his oeuvre. A comprehensive study of the most exciting filmmaker working today.”Robert Burgoyne, University of St AndrewsA Compan...

Niobe and Other Poems is a volume of poems about love, death, religious faith, and the loss of that faith.

A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America's most prominent contemporary filmmakers.● Contains contributions from prominent scholars in North America and Europe that use a variety of analytic approaches● Offers fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese's most influential films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New...

True Believer: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!From New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, a supernatural love story between a journalist and a librarian who dare to believe in the impossible.Science journalist Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural–until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic, Lexie Darnell....

With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant g...

Equal parts love and ghost story, an unforgettable romance about a science journalist and a North Carolina librarian who dare to believe in the impossible, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook**.**As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural—until he falls in love with the granddaughte...

The pistol appeared in his hand the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if it materialized out of thin air. “You think I won’t do it right here in the open. But you’d be surprised.… You’ll drop before you get the breath to scream.”The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he’s slinging a gun—and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. Though he narrowly dodges a bullet, Odd can’t outrun the shocking vision bur...