Vision was writing to encourage the readers that even in times of depressing, being stressed, and loneliness to keep looking toward God who is your future and not to allow your past to dictate your destiny with God.

**An innovative, globe-trotting, and sexy tale of modern connection and desire.Compared by the New Yorker to the autofiction of Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner, this roman à clef is a love story like none other.**Vivian, a writer, is carrying on a relationship with an internationally acclaimed artist. There are those who stand to benefit—and suffer—from the revelation of her paramour's identity, so in the service of telling her tale she creates a series of...

I like things to be accurate.I adored my husband, and we had a great marriage.After his death, I found a sixty-seven-year-old term paper that turned my world upside down as I learned things were quite different from what I had always believed. I had to find out more!

Clearly organized and simply presented, The Low Vision Handbook for Eyecare Professionals, Second Edition offers an introduction to all aspects of low vision, including a short history of low vision and the basic optics of magnifiers.Updated and revised this second edition of The Low Vision Handbook for Eyecare Professionals provides practical material on assessing low vision patients, the psychology of visual loss, and ways to al...

Take 5 minutes and then 5 more. Walk With Me…is an invitation to know God on a deeper level. It's an invitation to be still and hear the Heavenly Father speak words of love and intimacy over you. Amid the chaos and busyness of the day-to-day, author Barb Brown provides a space to come and experience the affection and peace of God. Walk With Me…will enrich your faith journey, refresh your soul and encourage you to listen for the Holy Spirit in your home. Through the breathtaking photography...

A sometimes funny, sometimes catastrophically sad story of performance art, ukuleles, dance, and our attempts and failures to make contact.In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.

Far and long away from here is where we meet Captain CrickCaptain Crick was the one and only, the greatest and mightiest pirate of all time who traveled the seven seas and rivers everywhere with his mighty crew. They continue to fulfill their task of helping everyone, whenever and wherever they can.Aboard the SS Goody, the Captain gathers his men and tells them the details of their new mission and voyage: to catch as much fish, shrimp, lobster, and crab the ship can carry a...

Jim Logan and his wife, Bernie, move into their dream house in Long Beach, California. Although the house needs work, Jim is a construction superintendent and is happy to live there and take on the responsibility. When hes not fixing up his house, he works two hours away in San Diego, where he hires Diana to be his office manager for the current project.Diana is beautiful, intelligent, and young. She seems innocent enough, but her arrival comes with unexpected consequences. Jim and...

In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the...

In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events.In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making...

Hers is a name most known by its initials: BBZ. Hers is a catalog of wisdom that outweighs the most durable bookshelf. Hers is an enthusiasm for denominational understanding that awes the most loyal UCCers:Barbara Brown Zikmund.Barbara Brown Zikmund has impacted the self-image of the United Church of Christ with a lifetime of deep theological and historical work. Her knowledge of who and why we are as the UCC—and her appeal for our continued discernment of God’s ca...

New York Times BestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all that is good with lightness and all that is evil and dangerous with darkness. Doesn’t God work in the nighttime as well? In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Taylor asks ...