"An empowering guide to reclaiming inner peace in a world of overwhelm"--

In the irradiated ruins of post-war Melbourne, children are going missing. The war in China changed Lance Corporal Diana Yossole. It broke her. It rebuilt her. Now she patrols the shantytowns along Melbourne's shoreline, keeping the peace with engineered, military precision. But when Yossole is tasked to assist the local bluecaps in an infant kidnapping investigation, she discovers that war has a way of following you home. There's a conspiracy at...

Published ahead of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet and long before Midnight's Children, Abdullah Hussein's ambitious saga of social struggle The Weary Generations was a bestseller in Urdu. Published in 1963 and now beyond its 40th edition, it has never been out of print. A vivid depiction of the widespread disillusionment and seismic upheavals of the Partition era that lead to the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh, there has never been a more opportune...

Philippa Parker spends her time reading of far-off adventures and voyages, dreaming that one day she might have a journey like the characters in her books. But when, a terrible event changes her and her sisters' lives forever, Philippa has the opportunity to step up and become the hero in her own story. Will she be able to navigate the pitfalls of society, grief, and romance?

"Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also has the most annual gun deaths--homicide, suicide,...

An honest Skeptic The atmosphere for divine revelation If you have been searching for that which you cannot even articulate, and the world's treasure no longer captivates your attention, then you are one, for which I've written this book. If all the accolades that life bestows have still left a gaping hole in your psyche, then welcome! You are in a place where God can work abundantly in your life. I invite you to come aside, sit for a while and ponder...

The narrator of "Shadow on a Weary Land" imagines the many lives that have been lived over the years on Brown's Ridge-from the teeming wildlife that once roamed the land to Jesse and Frank James, who settled there, to the farmers recently pushed out by the imminent rise of a housing development. These ghosts from the past haunt the narrator and his friends, a group of misfits who realize that their hardscrabble lives are intimately tied to a vanishing...

Our world is chaotic and often feels dark and devoid of hope. And it's not just the headlines we see every day. Our relationships are broken. A loved one's health is failing. We're disoriented and restless and wrestling with fear. These things are the reality of living in a fallen world. But our God is over that world. He is present in the midst of the daily ache of life. He loves us in the midst of that ache. In a series of eleven letters, Rebecca...