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NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance) A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one...

Det er beretningen om Cadence og hendes familie, som hver sommer mødes på deres private ø, Beechwood Island. De tre ældste fætre og kusiner og vennen Gat driver rundt på øen, spiller tennis og bader og en sommer forelsker Cadence sig vildt og inderligt i Cat. Tilsyneladende er alt idyl, men under overfladen gnaver ormene: Hvem er favoritten til at arve familiens smuldrende formue? Hvem er den mest populære datter?

Known for her best-selling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C. S. Lewis. Providing a blueprint for bridge-building in contemporary, polarizing contexts, Subversive shows how Sayers used edgy, often hilarious metaphors to ignite new ways to think about Christianity, shocking people into seeing the truth of ancient doctrine in a new light.

From one of Italy’s most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christianity’s most complex - and most misunderstood - figures: Mary Magdalene.

Women are essential to the biblical story - they lead communities, bear life, and testify to God's power and presence. Some of their names we know, others we've only heard, and others, tragically, go unnamed.

If there was ever a need for an audiobook like this, it is now. As a world renowned expert on the subject, Dr. Joan Neehall is the one to deliver this message. Have you been stressed, anxious, or worried? Have you felt pangs of loneliness in recent times? Are you longing for greater connection with others and the world around you? In a phrase, are you looking for happiness? If so, you are not alone - at least not statistically speaking. Millions of others are seeking this feeling of spiritual, mental, and physical wellness too.

Enjoy precious moments of rest during the holidays as you savor the joys and peace of the season with this beautiful Christmas edition of Jesus Calling devotions. This heartwarming compilation of devotions comes from Sarah Young's bestselling brand. With 50 seasonally themed selections in Jesus...

Ed Muzio, award-winning author, CEO, and “one of the planet’s clearest thinkers on management practice”, provides a research-based blueprint for a management team that will take the next best step for the organization in any situation. This book enables senior leadership, front line and middle management, and human resource executives to equip their teams with both knowledge and practical skills so that they not only understand their own purpose but also perform that purpose well amidst ever-changing conditions.

How did the apostle John know that, two thousand years after he lived, your life would need a fresh touch from God? How did John know that, at the beginning of a new millennium, our lives would be so busy, our focus so divided, our bodies so tired, our minds so bombarded, our families so...

Während Lea und Luis sehnsüchtig auf den ersten Schnee warten, ist Petronella damit beschäftigt, ihren Apfel auf Vordermann zu bringen. Ihre Schwestern, die Wetterhexen, kommen zu Besuch. In all dem vorweihnachtlichen Trubel bemerkt keiner den seltsamen Gast, der sich in der Mühle einnistet. Der Weihnachtsmann hat den frechen Wichtel auf der letzten Probefahrt kurzerhand ausgesetzt. Jetzt sorgt er im Müllerhaus für reichlich Wirbel. Anfangs ahnt niemand, wer hinter den Streichen steckt.

As seen on the TODAY show as “a perfect beach read.” Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder, from the bestselling author of The Hunting Wives. A woman in the forest thinks she’s going to die. I...

Christmas should be a time of joy and celebration. But in the hurriedness of December, sometimes we find ourselves sacrificing a sacred pace for hustle, leaving us feeling more stressed than blessed. What if you approached this Advent more open to the things of God? What if you decided to be expectant that God would move in your midst? What if you made room for the true joy found in the coming of our king?

Der November geht zu Ende, doch richtig kalt ist es nicht, denn der Winter hält noch Sommerschlaf. Da bitten Petronellas Schwestern, die Wetterhexen, sie um Hilfe. Nur gemeinsam kann es gelingen, den Winter zu wecken. Alles andere als begeistert macht sich die Hexe auf die Reise. Auf dem Mühlteich wurde ein Floß voller Grimmbärte gesichtet - ob die Apfelmännchen es schaffen, ihnen Paroli zu bieten? Unterwegs dann die Überraschung: Lea und Luis haben sich ins Reisegepäck geschmuggelt!

Empowering women empowers everyone. Women with confidence, equal pay, and leadership opportunity enrich workplace culture and help the whole organization. The first step is understanding that gender balance is not a zero-sum game. The Next Smart Step is a clear, assured guide to understanding the challenge of gender imbalance, implementing solutions, and equipping listeners with the tools we all need to ensure change that is positive and enduring. It is about all of us becoming leaders.

For more than two years, Donna Freitas’s graduate school mentor, a priest and celebrated scholar, stalked her, forever changing her life. In her 2019 account Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, she recreated, in novelistic detail, the story of being traumatized by her professor’s obsession with her, of how he used his power to try to rob her of her own.

When the Universe Cracks is a sweeping, multifaceted look at the role of crisis in the life of faith from an esteemed gathering of pastors, faith leaders, and experts. You’ll find honest and realistic reflections to help you navigate a present trouble or anticipate changes. Inspired by a global pandemic, these writers examine the whole history of God’s people and offer a fresh perspective for every time the universe cracks.

Claudia Morgan is overwhelmed. She's a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful - for her and for his preschool. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style near her Chicagoland home, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is beautiful and has everything she dreams of for Henry: time to play outside, music, and art. But when Henry brings home stories of ceremonies in the woods and odd rules, Claudia's instincts tell her that something isn't quite right.

In Starting Strong, mentoring experts Lois J. Zachary and Lory A. Fischler weave a compelling tale that exemplifies the concepts, highlights the dynamics, and outlines the issues involved in mentoring relationships. The authors use the form of a fable to tell the story of a budding mentoring relationship filled with possibilities, problems, and triumphs.

Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to follow Torah, God's word; he told them parables to help them discern questions of ethics and of human nature; he offered them beatitudes for comfort and encouragement. But sometimes Jesus spoke words that followers then and now have found difficult. In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how have they been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation.

Is God really good? Is he good to others? Is he good to us? And if the answer is yes, why does it often feel like he's so far away? Walk with Abby as she follows Jesus through the book of John. In 13 stories, we discover piece by piece, through Jesus, who God is - and we also see 13 very different modern-day believers awake to these truths in their own lives. These personal and biblical stories, along with further Scripture and application and discussion questions, will show us that God is for us, not against us. He will draw our hearts back to himself.