Adult

Thirteen-year-old orphan Alice Ringwald has no memory beyond six months ago. The only life she knows is the new one she's creating one day at a time with the loving couple who recently adopted her and gave her new hope. That hope, however, is shattered one night when she is abducted by a strange man. In a frantic FBI manhunt, he vanishes. So begins WATER WALKER, a modern-day parable that examines the staggering power of forgiveness.

After surviving the trauma of abduction, Cooper is plagued by a deep fear he can’t control. A vacation aboard the restored Getaway with his friends is just what he needs. But trouble follows this crew, and the idea of a carefree vacation soon disappears along with a missing woman. Cooper keeps busy and hides behind his practical jokes. But fear has a way of rising. A prank gone wrong, a dark water dive, and the four friends find more than they bargained for --- just below the surface.

Jesus changed the life of every person He met in the Gospels through powerful experiences and words. Timothy Keller’s take on these conversations --- with a skeptical student, a religious insider, an outcast and more --- shows how the central events in Jesus’ life provide ways for us to encounter Him here and now.

GOD FOR US explores the meaning of Lent, its importance in spiritual formation, its significance in preparation for Easter, and the holy season of Easter itself. Lent and Easter reveal the God who is for us in all of life --- for our liberation, for our healing, for our wholeness. They remind us that even in death, there can be found resurrection.

After Andrea Wilson receives the devastating news that her husband has been lost at sea, she returns home to Iowa with her young son, Lukas. Sadly, when the family farm burns and her father dies, Andrea is left with nothing. She must rely on the kindness of the people from the nearby Amana village who invite her to stay with them for a time, and discovers much generosity and contentment among the Amanans. But is the simple, cloistered life in Amana what Andrea wants for Lukas's future?

Nurse Lauren Barclay put her life on hold to keep a watchful eye on her troubled sister. But that means confronting the brooding physician assistant who caused painful turmoil in her family. PA and single parent Elijah Landry is determined to protect his disabled brother and make peace with Lauren. He wants that and so much more. But as Lauren and Eli draw closer, a powerful hurricane roars toward Houston. Can hope weather the storm?

Clara Herzog is a privileged, intelligent and thoughtful young woman whose world is changed forever when 1930s Vienna is swept up by the dark prelude of the Second World War. The cavalry officer she married is soon called away to the thick of the conflict, and it falls to Clara to stay at home to provide and protect. Through the war, its aftermath, and into the present, Clara must make choices and take risks that are as heroic and life-altering as any that men make in battle.

For two years, author Sara Davidson met every Friday with Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your cells that you're coming to the end of your tour of duty," he said, "what is the spiritual work of this time, and how do we prepare for the mystery?" This is Davidson's memoir of what they learned and how they changed.

Since Joshua Steckel began work at a Brooklyn public high school as its first-ever college guidance counselor, every one of the hundreds of graduates he has counseled has been accepted to college. But getting in is only one small part of the drama of his students’ stories. HOLD FAST TO DREAMS follows the lives of 10 of Josh’s students as they navigate the vast and obstacle-ridden landscape of college in America.

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence, and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city. Meanwhile, the police are after him, the mystery of the otherworldly Pollandore remains, and the vast Angel is moving, turning all of nature against the city. But will the horrors of war overtake all their plans?