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For decades it has been no secret that clergywomen in protestant denominations leave ministry at a rates 10 percent higher than their male colleagues. Despite a newfound focus on self-care and work-life balance for clergy, the attrition rate remains. After receiving her own "late"...

A profound meditation on what running can teach us about our limits and our lives by a record-setting distance runner who is now the CEO of The Atlantic. "This is not just an engaging memoir about running. It's a meditation on what it takes...

The Rossetti Ring Requirement is an engagement of convenience, enemies to lovers, Italian playboy billionaire romance by Pippa Roscoe. To restore her legacy...she must wear the billionaire's diamond! Erin Carter can reclaim her family company on one condition: wed the current owner's grandson. Though...

Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born. . . For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, Royce...

Rodwell describes and explains a host of innovative ideas in cardplay, strategems that can be used as a declarer or defender. He then goes on to discuss the mental side of the game, areas that mark the key differences between an average player and...

"Pearlman's book develops a stark, unsparing picture of Clemens's life that surpasses anything that's come before." --Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs pitcher Roger Clemens's life--from his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium--to reveal a flawed...

The Road to Bethlehem is a heartwarming journey of faith, friendship, and the joyous mystery of the Incarnation -- told from the perspective of animals who long to be near the Christ Child. When Mary and Joseph set out on their long journey to...

The Road from Orion is a story of magical realism, fictional characters and historical facts, based on an authentic study of signs in ancient Egyptian texts called The Isis Thesis (2004). The semiotic study argues that Egyptian deities are signs for viral and bacterial...

"Scrumptious to look at and a blast to read." - Illustrator Ned Bustard The Lord of the Rings meets Calvin and Hobbes in The Dragon Lord Saga, a graphic novel series by Jonny Jimison, now in stunning full color! This action-packed adventure features: -...

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As...

A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe end-times theory, shaped Anglo-American evangelicalism and the larger American cultural...

China has some of the oldest history on Earth. But what do we know about the people, dynasties, and wars that shaped this ancient civilization? Explore more about the rise and fall of ancient China with easy-to-understand content tied to the curriculum of upper-elementary...

Lovable serial killer Serge Storms is back and coming to the rescue of a Midwestern couple who aren't finding Florida quite as charming as he does in Riptide Ultra-Guide, the sixteenth installment in Tim Dorsey's bestselling series.When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide...

The culmination of three decades of Allan Schore's groundbreaking work, this book details how the right brain--the psychobiological locus of Freud's unconscious mind--plays a fundamental role in the early origin of human nature (the general characteristics and feelings attributed to human beings). The early...

Best-selling author Rick Riordan Presents the graphic novel adaptation of the New York Times best-selling fantasy adventure by Roshani Chokshi, inspired by the great Hindu epics she grew up on.Named one of 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time magazine! Twelve-year-old Aru...

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK - A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman--in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community."Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable--I just loved it."--Claire Lombardo, People "What Your Favorite Authors...

A dark historical fantasy novel set during the American RevolutionJacob Hawthorne was hanged as a traitor-forgotten by the cause he fought for, buried in a shallow grave by those he fought against. But death didn't keep him. The forest brought him back.Now bound to...

This is volume 2 of the complete collection of tales set in the Revelation Space universe, by British Science Fiction Award-winner Alastair Reynolds. The 'mastersinger of Space Opera' (The Times) created the astonishing Revelation Space universe - one of the most vivid and original...

This is volume 1 of the complete collection of tales set in the Revelation Space universe, by British Science Fiction Award-winner Alastair Reynolds. The 'mastersinger of Space Opera' (The Times) created the astonishing Revelation Space universe - one of the most vivid and original...

Dante has come to the small coastal town of Te Kohe, New Zealand, for a fresh start in life. But he doesn't want to open a BnB, or save a charming bookshop, or start a romance with a single mother in need of rescuing....