A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, with dire consequences for the future of our culture …In The Endless Refrain, former Washington Post writer and editor David Rowell lays out how commercial and cultural forces have laid waste to the cultural ecosystems that have produced decades of great American music. From the scorched-earth demonetiz...

Unabridged, 3 hoursRead by TBDIn haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy.

Russell St. Cloud returns to complete the revenge he began in Tub of Spiders. This time there are new players in the game and secrets revealed that change the very core of the sociopath's plans. Revenge isn't as sweet as Russell would like.

In Trading Shoes, preachers and theologians confront a vital and often neglected question: What does it mean to proclaim the gospel in and through disability? Rooted in sermons, theological reflection, and lived experience, this book invites pastors, especially those who preach week after week, to move beyond models of preaching shaped by performance or control. Instead, the text offers a transformative vision in which disability no longer represents a barrier to ministry but a profound si...

David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He's spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In Wherever the Sound Takes You, he explores the essence of music's meaning with a vast spectrum of players, trying to understand their connection to their chosen instrument, what they've put themselves through for their music, and what they feel when they play.This wide-ranging and openhearted...

In this stunning debut, David Rowell depicts disparate lives united in the extraordinary days that followed an American tragedy.On June 8, 1968, as the train carrying Robert F. Kennedy’s body travels from New York City to Washington D.C., the nation mourns the loss of a dream. As citizens congregate along the tracks to pay their respects, Michael Colvert, a New Jersey sixth grader, sets out to see his first dead body. Delores King creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her con...

Low budget director Ed Wood, Jr. asks his friend, a down-on-his-luck private eye, for help when he discovers someone is trying to kill him during his work on the script 'Grave Robbers from Outer Space'. 

Offers a practical introduction to the various basic methods of assessing the properties of soil. Each method is explained in a concise and accessible manner, providing useful guidance on how each method might be used in a practical situation.

All God's Children introduces a variety of disability ministry strategies, all working to create a deeper sense of belonging across the church. Written by dedicated professionals, pastors, and parents of disabled children, the book invites local congregations to recognize the need, reenvision the church, explore strategies, and find solutions for specific ministry contexts. Chapters often connect readers to practical ministry resources and settings, much like attending a workshop on the to...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC FROM MASTER STORYTELLER STEPHEN KINGA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARNAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY BY THE NEW YORK TIMESWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEOn November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the wo...

Bioplastics is one of those areas that the home inventor has the advantage. The raw materials are cheap, readily available and easy to work with. There has been relatively little study done so far as the field is still quite new and there are a significant amount of discoveries to be made.What you have to realise here is that you are not attempting to synthesise polymers from monomers or synthesis new monomers. What you are trying to do is source and extract existing polymers from b...

Special Agent Patrick Bowers never met a killer he couldn't catch.Until now.Called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, Bowers finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Cunning and lethal, the killer is always one step ahead of the law, and he's about to strike again. It will take all of Bowers's instincts and training to stop the man who calls himself the Illusionist.Thrilling, chilling, and impossible to ...