Books imprint: 120884 books
Packaging Post/Coloniality
The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'—the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords...
The Safety of the Kingdom
Government Responses to Subversive Threats
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The horrendous events of September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of terrorism unlike all but a handful of major catastrophes in American history. Like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, 9/11 is a date forever enshrined...
Summary and Analysis of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
Summary and Analysis of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
Based on the Book by Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Stranger Beside Me tells you what you need to know—before or after you read **Ann Rule’**s book.
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by Linda Byler
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beiler’s barn was the first to go. When a second Amish barn burns for suspicious reasons, the Amish grow more restless. Can Sarah, David and Malinda’s daughter, end the terror that is pulling apart their community,...
Becky Meets Her Match
An Amish Christmas Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Becky Esh has lots of spunk. Never mind that she’s Amish, she regularly confronts authority figures. Her beautiful singing touches those who hear her so deeply that even men cry. In Becky Meets Her Match, Linda Byler crafts an unforgettable character who is quick-witted, good-humored, and thrives...
The Christmas Visitor
An Amish Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
One moment, Ben Miller was high up in the rafters at his neighbor's barn raising. The next, his foot slipped and he plunged to his death, leaving behind a young wife and six children-the youngest born four months after his death. Ruth Miller is not alone. Her Amish neighbors help her to make the difficult...
Adventures in Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books
Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offer levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to construct the cover pages, and a unique binding...
Sadie's Montana Trilogy
Three Bestselling Novels in One
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sadie Miller didn't know what to expect when her family left Ohio for the small Montana Amish settlement-certainly not horse thieves, mysterious men, or her family falling apart. Can Sadie find her place in this wild, Western community, far from the familiar-and discover love along the way?
Wild...
Mary's Christmas Goodbye
An Amish Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to...
Sufi Talks
Teachings of an American Sufi Sheihk
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Once a woman brought her son to the thirteenth-century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating sweets. He said to bring him back in four weeks. When they returned he said, “Boy, I order you to stop...
by Neil R. Lightfoot
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
How and when did the books of the Bible originate? In what sense are these books different from other books? How have these books been preserved and transmitted to us? Why do we have so many different translations of the Bible?
How We Got the Bible provides factual, accessible answers to questions...
Introduction to Russian Mennonites
A Story Of Flights And Resettlements-- To Homelands In The Ukraine, The Chaco, T
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and...
by Tony Reinke, C. J. Mahaney
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
A call for Christians to reclaim the priority, privilege, and practice of reading.Christians are identified as people of the Word—submitted to the authority of God’s written Word, called to center our lives on it and not on the image-driven world that vies for our gaze. But how do we build...
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This collection includes 34 books: The Battle of the Strong, Carnac's Folly, The Judgment House, The March of the White Guard, Michel and Angele, The Money Master, Mrs. Falchion, No Defense, The Pomp of the Lavilettes, The Right of Way, The Seats of the Mighty The Trail of the Sword, The Translation...