In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond, the president of the United States, the man with...Absolute Power.
In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision will unleash a drastic series of events.
Paying for sex is everywhere, even in your church. The factors leading individuals into sex work vary, yet sex workers are viewed as powerless individuals who must be rescued. I HEART SEX WORKERS offers another perspective, one where the characters defy stereotypes and solutions are hard to find. Author Lia Scholl firmly believes the Christian response to sex work should be one of building agency for women, through education, fighting injustice, and listening to the voices of sex workers.
By rhythm we sing, clap, walk, breathe and live. But the Giver of rhythm sometimes calls us past our predictable patterns. Then we have to decide where to place our trust: in God or in our precious rhythms. Read this book and be reminded, and encouraged, that while God has rhythm, God is love, and God's love carries us beyond our rhythms into a fuller, more fulfilling life.
DESPERATE is for those who love their children to the depths of their souls but who have also curled up under their covers, fighting back tears, and begging God for help. Here, you will find the story of one young mother's honest account of the desperate feelings experienced in motherhood and one experienced mentor's realistic and gentle exhortations that were forged in the trenches of raising her own four children.
In ALTAR EGO, bestselling author Craig Groeschel reveals that you are not who you think you are. You are who God says you are. Until you’ve sacrificed your broken concept of your identity, you won’t become who you are meant to be. Unleash your “altar” ego, the God-given identity that will empower you to live boldly.
Johannesburg, South Africa: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet Meintjies, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built 65-story skyscraper. But Sonet’s jumping partner insists that this was no accident, and he hires private investigator Jade de Jong to uncover the truth.
Secrets can be funny things. We think they keep us safe, but more often than not, they spill out when we least expect and make a mess out of everything. It’s a truth Scarlett Jo Newberry knows all too well --- a truth Grace Shepherd and Zach Craig are about to learn the hard way. As the lives of this boisterous pastor’s wife, polished news anchor, and beleaguered divorce attorney intersect, scandal threatens to topple their carefully constructed worlds.
A failed relationship, a health crisis, a job loss, the death of a loved one --- all can cause us to hide out, go numb, and give up. It happens to most of us at one point or another. For author and Bible study teacher Denise Hildreth Jones, it happened in the wake of her devastating divorce. But she fought desperately to reclaim her God-designed heart, and now, in her transparent, authentic style, Denise challenges you to do the same.
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August's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "The Shards" on FX and FX on Hulu and "Anna Pigeon" on USA Network; the season premieres of Prime Video's "Reacher," Apple TV's "Dark Matter," and Netflix's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"; the films The Whisper Man, The Dog Stars and Tony; the series finale of "Lucky" on Apple TV; the season finale of HBO's "House of the Dragon"; the continuation of "The Walking Dead: Dead City" on AMC and "Silo" on Apple TV; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Project Hail Mary and The Get Out.