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While still out of jail and awaiting a new trial, Principal Marcus Ellis is in a race for time to clear his name. As freedom seems within reach, Marcus's hopes are dashed when mouths start closing, deaths occur, and the mastermind goes missing. The identity of the mastermind behind all of this, hits close to home for the Ellis men and sends a shock wave throughout everyone, including the "Suicide Six". The race for time is not only for Marcus, but others who try to cut deals, get revenge, and confront the past and present. Enjoy another drama-filled story line where Fontaine is still the epicenter of all that is good and evil in everyone's life.

Sessions with Judges is a ten-session study unit designed to guide group or individual study. Judges is an adventurous read that covers a sometimes inspiring, sometimes disturbing chapter in Israel's history. Each study is followed by a thought-provoking page of questions that allows for a deeper experience of the Scripture. Charles Qualls guides readers on an adventure through Judges, highlighting characters such as Gideon, Samson, and Deborah. Readers will also follow many other brave leaders who were entrusted with a distracted people in fragile times. On balance, these stories inspire us to seek a more consistent, connected journey of faithfulness to God.

Readers searching for a fresh encounter with Scripture can delve into Meditations on Luke, a collection of daily devotions intended to guide the reader through the book of Luke, which gives us some of the most memorable stories in all of Scripture. Luke is unique among all the biblical authors because he is the only one we are certain was not Jewish. Each entry begins with a Scripture reference that picks up where the previous reading concluded. The reader is encouraged first to read the passage from the Bible, then to read Chris Cadenhead's reflection on that passage. A prayer concludes each devotion. Taken together, the Scripture, response, and prayer will guide readers' own meditations as they listen and respond to God's voice, coming to us through Luke's Gospel.

Scotty Gray's Hermeneutics of Hymnody is a comprehensive and integrated approach to understanding hymns. It is unique in its holistic and interrelated exploration of the biblical, theological, liturgical, literary, musical, practical, and historical/biographical/sociocultural dimensions of one of the most basic forms of Christian literature. A chapter is devoted to each of these seven broad facets of hymnody and relates that facet to each of the others. Those who write hymns, compose hymn tunes, study hymns, compile hymnals, select hymns and tunes for the ministries of the church, and those who read and sing hymns can benefit from a keener sensitivity to and a deeper understanding of how these facets are vitally interrelated infine hymnody from various times and traditions. From back cover.

"Stubborn Stanley is about a goat who gets taken from his home in the mountains. He ends up on a farm where he struggles to fit in. He is the only one of his kind on the farm but eventually becomes comfortable there. He busies himself by collecting "treasures" and sampling everyone's food. As Stanley gets older he starts craving more freedom. When he notices the hills looming in the background he remembers his youth and longs to return home. His efforts are now concentrated on setting himself free so he can return home again"--

Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Dementia is a book series which presents comprehensive reviews about research on Dementia, - the loss of brain function associated with Alzheimer's diseases and other related conditions. The disease affects the parts of the brain that deal with memory, thought, and language. Chapters in each volume focus on drug research with special emphasis on clinical trials, research on drugs in advanced stages of development and cure for dementia and related disorders. This volume includes the following reviews: - Meeting the Challenges of Falls and Hip Fractures in People with Alzheimer's Disease- Cholesterol in Brain Health and Pathologies- Advances in Treatment of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Dementia- Analytical Methods in Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery- Targeting Alzheimer's Disease through Nanomedicine- Current Challenges in Alzheimer's Disease Research- Metals Linked to Alzheimer's Disease Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Dementia will be of particular interest to readers interested in drug therapy of this specific neurodegenerative condition and related brain disorders as the series provides relevant reviews written by experts in field.

★★ Fall in love with clean, wholesome, and cozy small-town romance, filled with delightful characters and brimming with joy! ★★ The last thing she can fix is her own life. Until one man's offer changes everything.>But when she's offered a horse-friendly fixer-upper near where she grew up, her usual sense of adventure gives way to a longing for something familiar. Salt air, wheeling seagulls, summer sand between her toes. Wilmington. Home. The universe, with its brilliant sense of timing, chooses that moment to muddy up her plans with a man whose emerald-green eyes and rich Scottish accent do funny things to her pulse. Andrew Branfield knows what it's like to have important things slip through his fingers. A marriage. Money. Though Belle's teasing voice and smoky gray eyes stir the ashes of his loneliness, his first priority is doing whatever's necessary to keep his daughter's favorite equine therapist from drifting away. He never expected, when he set out to build Belle the barn of her dreams, that he'd be building something else. A home for their hearts.Sometimes you have to leave a place to discover it's really your home.>1-800-CUPID1-800-CHRISTMAS1-800-IRELAND1-800-New YearChristmas in the AirTHE 1-800-SERIES Scroll up and order today!

Kirkus Reviews writes: "Two richly textured, captivating tales of inappropriate romance. Young's luminous stories probe deep issues of how families work, who belongs to them, and what boundaries define them." Joseph and Mary: A Family Romance is set in Phoenix in 1978 and Rec Park: A Small-Town Romance in a coastal community outside of Los Angeles in the early years of the twenty-first century. These two short novels are by the author of the highly praised Blue and Other Stories.

The Old Testament provides powerful ways of thinking and seeing. Preeminent Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann considers the artistry of 1 and 2 Kings as it mediates between history and faith.Walter Brueggemann has spent many years engaged with the composition and imagination of the Old Testament, pondering the ways of power in church and society, and he makes clear that those issues of in the ancient texts pertain to contemporary times.The chronology of the kings is complex and fractured in detail. Brueggemann reports upon the length of years of rule for each king as given in the text. At the same time, he situates each king according to a critical chronology. While the book proceeds text by text, special focus is placed upon Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, and Josiah as models of faith. Brueggemann provides a useful guide for the reader to maneuver between flat history and absolute faith. Written in commentary form, 1&2 Kings invites the reader to view fresh ways of faithful insight and wisdom.Written by accomplished scholars with all students of Scripture in mind, this innovative new commentary series is designed to make quality Bible study more accessible. Pastors, professors and students of Scripture are discovering that this commentary is a wonderful new tool for enhancing interpretation.Walter Brueggemann served as the William Marcellus McPheddeis Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

★★ Fall in love with sweet and cozy small-town romance, filled with delightful characters over 60, and brimming with new-found joy.★★>Widow Emily Varon doesn't believe in love anymore, and she isn't wasting her time trying to find it. At her age, she's learned that life is a daily routine. Rinse and repeat. Safe and secure. And she's not about to change her ways now. With her hard-won affluence, succumbing to a truck-driver's invitation to spend a summer weekend together means only one thing. Friendship. Widower Joe Vertucci has never met any difficulties he couldn't overcome, and work is all he's ever known. But when the chance for romance with Emily beckons in a little seaside town, will a dilapidated cottage wind up becoming a refuge for their hearts? The waft of a breeze can bring summer rain. Or create new memories. Sometimes you have to leave what's familiar in order to discover where home truly is. Because for love, anything is possible.>Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, RaeAnne Thayne, and Susan Mallery. A Chocolate-Box Summer Breeze is the ideal treat for yourself. Scroll up and order today!

Stem cell and regenerative medicine research is an important area of clinical research which promises to change the face of medicine as it will be practiced in the years to come. Challenges in the 21st century to combat diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease and retinal disorders, among others, may well be addressed employing stem cell therapies and tissue regeneration techniques. Frontiers in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research is essential reading for researchers seeking updates in stem cell therapeutics and regenerative medicine.This volume includes current literature on a variety of topics: -the utility of exogenous and endogenous neural stem cells in spinal cord injury-somatic cells for human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediated cellular signaling for stem cell differentiation-the therapeutic potential of microRNAs in cardiac diseases-stem cell therapy for the treatment of malaria

Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Diabetes and Obesity is a book series that brings updated reviews to readers interested in advances in the development of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of two metabolic diseases - diabetes and obesity. The scope of the series covers a range of topics including the medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology and biochemistry of natural and synthetic drugs affecting endocrine and metabolic processes linked with diabetes and obesity. Reviews in this series also include research on specific receptor targets and pre-clinical / clinical findings on novel pharmaceutical agents. Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Diabetes and Obesity is a valuable resource for pharmaceutical scientists and postgraduate students seeking updated and critically important information for developing clinical trials and devising research plans in the field of diabetes and obesity research. The fifth volume of this series features 5 reviews which are informative guides to therapy and drug administration in diabetes and metabolic syndrome, for both the medical specialist and the pharmacologist. -Metabolic syndrome in schizophrenia -Insulin therapy and foetoplacental endothelial dysfunction in gestational diabetes mellitus -Insights on diabetes, oxidative stress and antioxidant therapeutic strategies -Administration of nano drugs in the treatment of diabetes mellitus -SGLT-2 inhibitors

The book of James is my favorite book of the Bible outside of the Gospels. James writes in a way that speaks to me. He's straightforward and he doesn't pull any punches. In 2019, I decided to slowly take nearly each verse from the Book of James and reflect on it. I posted my reflections each Tuesday on my social media accounts. The response was better than I expected from my followers and some encouraged me to take my thoughts and put it in a book. I decided to take their advice.

"People have prayed to the gods to send them rain, but instead, the gods sent you."Rowyn Blythe might well be cursed.She's brought only tragedy to her clan whose lands lay hidden beyond an enchanted shroud of mist, protected from outsiders. But now that the mighty Lyrican Empire has been brought to its knees by drought, the recent discovery of the first weather sorcerer in over a century could only be a blessing from the gods...or could it?To atone for her past, Rowyn must seek control of her power, but doing so will bring her closer to the empire she's fought against her whole life. Rowyn is determined to evade Lyrica's stranglehold, but now it seems like everyone wants a piece of her. Who can she ever trust?With its fast-moving plot and slow-burning romance, author Elliott VanDruff conjures up a spellbinding tale full of unforgettable characters and fantasy adventure.Perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce, Holly Black, Sarah J. Maas, and Victoria Aveyard, this is the first novel in a gripping coming of age series.Will Rowyn evade Lyrica's grasp? Find out and enter this compelling universe today!

Reading Joshua was written for anyone who wishes to engage critically one of the most, if not the most, problematic and troublesome books in the Bible. Part of the Reading the Old Testament series.Using the best of current historical-critical studies by mainstream biblical scholars, and the most recent archeological discoveries and theorizing, Laughlin questions both the historicity of the stories presented in the book as well as the basic theological ideology presented through these stories: namely that Yahweh ordered the indiscriminate butchery of the Canaanites. This ideology is criticized for what it is: a xenophobic and genocidal approach to the issue of how human beings should act toward one another in a multi-cultural world. Read against the backdrop of the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), these stories may have served well the purpose(s) of their author(s). Thus these troubling accounts may have had their time and place, but that time and place is not the twenty-first-century world in which we now find ourselves.John C. H. Laughlin is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Averett University in Danville, Virginia. He earned a BA from Wake Forest and MDiv and PhD from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A teacher for more than forty years, Laughlin specializes in the Jewish Scriptures, archaeology, and philosophy. He has served as a field supervisor for many seasons of archaeological field work in Israel, including at Tel Dan, Capernaum, Banias (Caesarea Philippi), and Kursi. He is the author of numerous articles and book reviews, and his own books include Archaeology and the Bible and Fifty Major Cities in the Bible.Praise for Reading Joshua"Authentic native of the Bible Belt, fully conversant with mainstream biblical scholarship, and experienced archaeologist, John Laughlin offers a new translation and refreshing no-nonsense commentary on one of the most troubling books of the Bible. He pulls no punches. For starters, he conveys and confirms the thinking of both mainstream biblical scholars and Palestinian archaeologists that the Joshua story of how the Israelites conquered Canaan and purged the land of its native population never really happened. And the really troubling thing for him is that the writers of Joshua have their god not only approving such actions but also ordering them in the first place'." -J. Maxwell Miller, Professor Emeritus, Emory University"Laughlin has produced an unflinching critical commentary on the book of Joshua, basing his analysis on extensive research into the latest and best archaeological evidence. By adding a touch of "moderate" postmodernism, he provides an analysis that places this book into its own historical and ideological context-without preconceived religious notions of what Joshua is 'supposed to say.' Laughlin gives us not only a critical commentary on the text, but also a critical commentary on the ideology that created the text." -Jeffrey A. Fager, Professor of Religion and Philosophy (ret.)

The knowledge of quantitative turbulence mechanics relies heavily upon the definition of the concept of a vortex in mathematical terms. This reference work introduces the reader to Liutex, which is an accepted, accurate and mathematical definition of a vortex. The core of this book is a compilation of several papers on the subject. presented in the 13th World Congress of Computational Mechanics (WCCM2018), Symposium 704, Mathematics and Computations for Multiscale Structures of Turbulent and Other Complex Flows, New York, United States on July 27, 2018. This compilation also includes other research papers which explain the work done on the vortex definition, vortex identification and turbulence structure from different insight angles including mathematics, computational physics and experiments. The thirteen chapters in this volume will be informative to scientists and engineers who are interested in advanced theories about fluid dynamics, vortex science and turbulence research.

Gustav Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) was the Swedish king whose intervention in the Thirty Years' War was instrumental in pre- venting Roman Catholic forces from crushing the Lutheran Church. His is an inspiring tale of self-sacrificing love for Christ and His Church!"Gustavus Adolphus is a hero of every nation," says Samuel Rawson Gardiner, the English historian. June 1930 is the three-hundredth anniversary of the coming of Gustav Adolf to Pomerania to defend the political and religious liberties of Sweden by saving the religious and political liberties of the oppressed Protestants in Germany.This is an epoch in history, secular and religious, and every Lutheran, every Protestant, every educated person, should know about these glorious days. "It is doubtful whether the military annals of any nation offer a period more worthy of admiration than the eighteen campaigns of the Swedish army in Germany," writes Prof. Charles Franqois Dominique de Villers.In "Gustav Adolf-The Greatest Lutheran Layman," William Dallmann (1862-1952) tells the story of the heroic Swedish king from the perspective of a 20th century Confessional Lutheran.

Still Amazed is a collection of short stories, blogs, columns, art and more that ended up being my favorite glances at the everyday life we all muddle through. Humor, warmth, (and a bit of sarcasm mixed in because this is, after all, life) create this fun book that looks at most everything and takes well-deserved jabs at a few.