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Wyoming Mountain Escape (Justice Seekers #3)
by Laura ScottA bride on the run in the mountain wilderness…and a killer on the prowl.Just as Chelsey Robards decides to call off her wedding, her soon-to-be husband is shot and killed at the altar. When the bullets start to fly her way, the best man, former Special Ops soldier Duncan O’Hare, drags her to safety. But with an unknown enemy on their trail, can they survive long enough to find out why she’s a target?USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura ScottFrom Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.Justice SeekersBook 1: Soldier’s Christmas SecretsBook 2: Guarded by the SoldierBook 3: Wyoming Mountain Escape
Wyoming Promises
by Kerri MountainA Place to Call Home Traveling through the Wyoming wilderness, all Bridger Jamison wants is a job and a safe haven for his brother. Finding work with the lovely Lola Martin solves at least one of his problems. And the charming town of Quiver Creek seems like the perfect place to start a new life. A string of mysterious deaths has the town-and Lola-on edge. She isn't sure what to make of the new man in town. But she can't help trusting the handsome carpenter who shows such tenderness toward his brother. When secrets come to light, Lola must put her faith in the man who's stolen her heart, or risk letting a perfect love pass her by....
Wyoming Ranch Ambush
by Sommer SmithFramed for murder… Is his ranch a refuge or a trap? A piercing scream sends rancher Beau Thorpe racing to help his new neighbor fight off a kidnapper—only for them both to come under gunfire. Evie Langford is the target of a kingpin and a suspect in her ex-boyfriend&’s murder, and the safest place for her and her nine-year-old sister is at Beau&’s ranch. But will Beau&’s protection be enough to withstand a vicious criminal determined to silence Evie for good?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Wyoming Sweethearts
by Jillian HartWhere Do Lonely Hearts Go? The chance to rescue abandoned horses has ;iven Eloise Tipple the fresh start she needs. After losing her skating career and fiance, she returns home to Wild Horse, Wyoming, to work at a beautiful inn and man the stables. Sean Granger has also come home to nurse some emotional wounds and would like nothing more than to pursue life as a lone wolf. Both say they want nothing more than friendship. But while saving homeless horses, can Sean and Eloise save each other and heal their wounds?
The X Blessing: Unveiling God's Strategy for a Marked Generation
by Clarence McclendonWell-known television preacher, Bishop Clarence E. McClendon "opens the X Files" as he presents revelatory insight from Genesis 48. This old Testament narrative provides the framework for a revolutionary look at how God occasionally goes outside of His established order of blessing the first-born and expected generation in favor of releasing His blessing upon the younger generation. God is once again flipping His grace and choosing the unexpected. While the secular news media and experts of the day have decided Generation X to be an "unknown generation" and have labeled them as lazy, lost, confused, and without hope, McClendon believes this is truly the blessed generation.
X-Plan Parenting: Become Your Child's Ally—A Guide to Raising Strong Kids in a Challenging World
by Bert FulksThe creator of the viral parenting concept the “X-Plan” illuminates the importance of awakening your child’s unique strength—while also taking an introspective look at your own life story to become a better parent. Last year, father and former teacher Bert Fulks’s simple parenting idea went viral: if your teenagers find themselves in a situation where they feel uncomfortable or trapped, they can text a family member an “X.” That family member will then call, giving the teen a way out, while still maintaining their freedom—and no questions will be asked. Now in X-Plan Parenting, Fulks expands on the how and the why behind his plan, emphasizing the importance of developing trusting relationships with our kids. Drawing on biblical principles, Fulks’s approach illuminates how even though we want the very best for our children, we sometimes parent from a place of brokenness and a desire for control rather than support and encouragement. We focus on our mistakes and painful growing-up moments and the things we wish we’d had when we were kids instead of what’s best for our own children right now. This dynamic can pit kids against their parents and create rifts in the relationship. Fulks advocates for an alliance between children and parents instead of an “us vs. them” mentality. Rather than spending so much time coaxing or battling our kids, Fulks inspires us to work with our kids instead of against them. And rather than trying to right our own past wrongs vicariously through our children, he urges us to recognize where we need healing so we can provide authentic strength to support our kids’ unique journeys. There is a tender art to disciplining our kids, and X-Plan Parenting serves up laughter and tears, hard questions, and plenty of grace to moms and dads who want their kids to love God and lead passionate, joyful lives in an unpredictable world.
Xealots: Defying the Gravity of Normality
by Dave GibbonsWe thirst for purpose, clarity, fulfillment and direction in our lives. How do we go about sorting through all the self-help books, talks and seminars? The common, normal solutions to navigating life are focused on strengths, gifts, and passion. The reality is quite contrarian to what seems to make sense. The revelations is found in the divine fingerprints of all that we are: our life story, what energized and de-energizes us, our rhythms, and even our pain and weaknesses. It’s a different way of approaching clarity of life. At the heart of this book is the understanding that a life filled with passion is radically different than what many of us have been taught. Often it’s not in the how do we find life but a commitment to a passionate pursuit. Neurologically, if we ask the question how our brains can’t tap the new domains, our brains resorts to typical default solutions that are often inadequate. The way to live life to its fullest is found in abnormal rhythms and principles, that have the tension of questions more than answers. It’s a place where strategy is important but an ethos where relationships trump vision. The way we are invited to live life to its fullest is found with a contrarian set of beliefs, values and questions. It’s not about quick fixes and simplistic “solutions.”. God works through our weaknesses and our failures. Real vision is found through relationships with God and with other people. Obedience is better than passion. These contrarian concepts have been presented and tested in many business and non-profit settings, including Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit where Dave gave a keynote address. The tone of this book was established as Dave thought about what he would want to share with his four third culture children and future leaders. It was Dave’s heart that they would walk a life where they experienced life to it’s fullest, exploring the new and old domains of world that is constantly changing.
Xenophobic Mountains: Landscape Sentience Reconsidered in the Romanian Carpathians
by Alexandra CotofanaThis book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible. The last couple hundred years in Romania’s history have been marked by change of political regimes, but this manuscript pays equal attention to an important continuity in Romania’s ontological world: its understanding of the landscape, and the relationship between Romanian people and their land. From political discourses to children’s books, to literature, and explanations found for everyday events, the book follows the ways in which the landscape of Romania has been understood as a sentient being imbued with willpower and ability to act on the world. The sentience specific to Romania’s landscape is characterized by xenophobia—a fear and distrust of ethno-religious others—that has been historically interpreted by Romanians as manifesting through acts of violence enacted by the landscape towards various groups of humans understood as dangerous to the country’s unity.The novelty of this book lies in the fact that it is an in-depth analysis of an ontological world in which sentient landscapes are de-romanticized and presented in their uncomfortable complexity. The concept of sentient xenophobic mountains can add a great deal to the current literature on the ontological turn and ontological multiplicities, by questioning binaries like colonized/colonizer, indigenous/colonial, sentient landscape/industrial superpower. Romania’s history makes it a good case study for this exercise, as the country has been at the margins of empires, both desired because of its natural resources and rejected because of the perceived inferiority of its people, both racialized and racist, both neoliberal and imagining absolute sovereignty.
Xenosophia and Religion. Biographical and Statistical Paths for a Culture of Welcome: Biographical And Statistical Paths For A Culture Of Welcome
by Heinz Streib Constantin KleinThis book documents the current polarization in Germany regarding the issue of refugee immigration. It presents quantitative estimates for both xenophobia and xenophilia in the German population, including short-time changes. The book suggests a conceptual change of perspectives. It focuses not only on the pathogenic model that accounts for outcomes such as xenophobia, Islamophobia and other forms of (inter-religious) prejudice, but on a salutogenic model. In the book’s view, the salutogenic model entails xenosophia: the wisdom, creativity and inspiration that emerges from the encounter with the strange and the strange religion. The book addresses individual dispositions, which may lead to xenophobia or xenosophia, and takes into account predictors such as religiosity, religious schemata, value preferences, tolerance of complexity, and violence legitimizing norms of masculinity. A selection of case studies present typical biographical trajectories toward xenosophia.
Xn: X to The Nth
by Clint Townsend“A perfect world begins with perfect humans.” <P><P>X to The Nth is the story of Dr. Cain Wyczthack III (WICH-thak), President and CEO of the Engenechem Corporation, and his trusted partner, Dr. Alan White. Together, the two have worked for decades and spent billions of dollars to engineer and create a perfect, highly intelligent, genetically pure slave-labor force that's sustainable, easily replaceable...and untraceable. <P><P>Evan Armada Nine and Chloe Rover Seven are only two of thousands of clones who work diligently behind the scenes to advance Cain’s agenda and complete his top-secret projects. Although extreme measures are taken to ensure the female clones are kept isolated from their male counterparts, Dr. Wyczthack insists on tracking their every move with motion and sound sensitive video cameras and RFID chips embedded in their shoulders. <P><P>However, destiny will intercede and see to it that Chloe and Armada’s paths intersect. What is the mysterious entity that suddenly appears and leads Armada to Chloe? Why does the powerful presence want to help the couple break away from their masters? If they can manage to elude Engenechem's surveillance and tracking systems, where will the pair flee to? <P><P>After a hurried and daring escape attempt, the runaways discover Cain’s plans for the destruction of Earth and annihilation of its inhabitants, including the army of clones. To ensure that only the strong and genetically pure will survive a thermonuclear ‘New Genesis’, Engenechem, with the aid and contribution of the largest corporations and governments of the world, builds orbital stations, subterranean bunkers and storage warehouses, a space elevator, satellite hunters, and positional, space-based missile silos. The duo comes to the sad realization that they and the rest of the clones were created for the sole purpose of constructing the artificial environments that will house Dr. Wyczthack’s hand-selected survivors of his global, atomic genocide. <P><P>Will the love-struck clones successfully stop the launch of hundreds of nuclear missiles? Can Armada and Chloe avoid detection long enough to make a clean getaway from Engenechem’s military fortress?
Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator
by Benjamin BroseThe life and legacy of Xuanzang: a Buddhist seeker, philosopher, and intrepid traveler who became the world's most famous pilgrim.In the fall of 629, Xuanzang (600–662), a twenty-nine-year-old Buddhist monk, left the capital of China to begin an epic pilgrimage across the country, through the deserts of Central Asia, and into India. His goal was to locate and study authentic Buddhist doctrine and practice, then bring the true teachings back to his homeland. Over the course of nearly seventeen years, he walked thousands of miles and visited hundreds of Buddhist monasteries and monuments. He studied with the leading teachers of his day and compiled a written account of his travels that remains a priceless record of premodern Indian history, religion, and culture. When Xuanzang finally returned to China in 645, he brought with him a treasure trove of new texts, relics, and icons. This transmission of Indian Buddhist teachings to China, made possible by Xuanzang&’s unparalleled vision and erudition, was a landmark moment in the history of East Asian Buddhism. As with many great pre-modern religious figures, the legends surrounding Xuanzang&’s life have taken on lives of their own. His story has been retold, reshaped, and repurposed by generations of monastics and laypeople. In this comprehensive and engaging account, Benjamin Brose charts a course between the earliest, most reliable accounts of Xuanzang&’s biography and the fantastic legends that later developed, such as those in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Xuanzang remains one of the most consequential monks in the rich history of Buddhism in East Asia. This book is an indispensable introduction to his extraordinary life and enduring legacies.
Xunzi: Basic Writings (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Burton WatsonXunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit of learning, the avoidance of obsession, and observance of ritual in life. Readers familiar with Xunzi's work will find that Burton Watson's lucid translation breathes new life into this classic. Those new to Xunzi will find his ideas on government, language, and order and safety in society surprisingly close to concerns of our own age.
Xunzi: The Complete Text
by XunziThis is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi articulates a Confucian perspective on ethics, politics, warfare, language, psychology, human nature, ritual, and music, among other topics. Aimed at general readers and students of Chinese thought, Eric Hutton’s translation makes the full text of this important work more accessible in English than ever before.Named for its purported author, the Xunzi (literally, “Master Xun”) has long been neglected compared to works such as the Analects of Confucius and the Mencius. Yet interest in the Xunzi has grown in recent decades, and the text presents a much more systematic vision of the Confucian ideal than the fragmented sayings of Confucius and Mencius. In one famous, explicit contrast to them, the Xunzi argues that human nature is bad. However, it also allows that people can become good through rituals and institutions established by earlier sages. Indeed, the main purpose of the Xunzi is to urge people to become as good as possible, both for their own sakes and for the sake of peace and order in the world.In this edition, key terms are consistently translated to aid understanding and line numbers are provided for easy reference. Other features include a concise introduction, a timeline of early Chinese history, a list of important names and terms, cross-references, brief explanatory notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Y ahora, ¿qué hago?: La sorprendente solución para cuando todo sale mal
by John TownsendTal vez la solución a tus problemas no pueda ser instantánea, ¡pero sí puede ser milagrosa! Angustias, problemas de peso, problemas en el matrimonio, adicciones y dependencias, obsesiones y sentimientos de culpa, malos hábitos, frustraciones en el amor, problemas en las relaciones… Cuando las cosas no van bien en nuestra vida y nuestras relaciones, lo cual sucede con asombrosa frecuencia, esta manera sencilla y eficaz de resolver los problemas te va a ayudar. Te bastará con leer unas pocas páginas para exclamar: «¡Esto lo puedo hacer yo!». Cualquiera que sea tu problema, las siete claves que enseña el Dr. Townsend en este libro representarán para ti unos principios universales basados en la acción y necesarios para resolverlo. Aunque resolver un problema no sea instantáneo, sí puede ser milagroso. Sea grande o pequeño tu problema, este libro tiene la respuesta que andas buscando.
The Y Factor: Scientists Discover a Genetic Secret that Threatens to Wipe Israel Off the Map...
by Liam RobertsNational Geographic’s Genographic Project is mapping hundreds of thousands of DNA samples to develop a comprehensive family tree of the human race. Computer scientist Eric Colburn and geneticist Alana McKinsey join the project while continuing their college romance. Eric stumbles on a plot by a brilliant Muslim scientist, Dr. Alomari, who has co-opted the Genographic project. Before Eric is able to produce the proof, he is targeted by al Qaeda assassins in a series of devastating attacks. A Mossad agent uncovers the explosive plot: Alomari plans to inflame the Muslim faithful with genetic proof that will vindicate Ishmael as the rightful heir of the Abrahamic covenant. Armed with this knowledge, Alomari vows to unify the fractured Muslim kingdoms into a mighty Islamic empire that will finally drive the Jews into the sea. The Y Factor is a book that will challenge readers to love their enemies and to pray for them when it seems impossible to do so.
Y la iglesia inventó a la mujer
by Michela MurgiaUn libro muy personal, a medio camino entre el ensayo, un libro de denuncia y un testimonio íntimo. El punto de vista privilegiado de una mujer cuya trayectoria personal e intelectual está ligada a pensar sobre la religión, Michela Murgia añade su contagiosa curiosidad y su excepcional talento para narrar. «Tenía que pasar cuentas con María, aunque en realidad este libro no es sobre la Virgen. Es un libro sobre mí, sobre mi madre, sobre mis amigas y sus hijas, sobre mi panadera, mi maestra y mi cartera. Sobre todas las mujeres que conozco y reconozco. Dentro están todas las historias de las que somos hijas y de las que son hijos también nuestros hombres: los que nos querrían guapas y calladas y, sobre todo, los otros. Este libro es también para ellos, y lo he escrito consciente de que de esta historia falsa no saldrá nadie si no nos decidimos a salir todos juntos.»Michela Murgia Tal vez sea éste el libro más personal de Michela Murgia, que tras el éxito de La acabadora se ha volcado en este original relato, mitad ensayo, mitad testimonio íntimo, que ha sido recibido con entusiasmo por la crítica y se ha situado entre los libros más leídos de Italia en los últimos meses. Centrándose especialmente en la figura de María de Nazaret, modelo de pureza y perfección, Murgia analiza cómo la imagen de la mujer que prevalece en nuestros días se ha ido formando a lo largo del tiempo a partir del imaginario católico. Con sus conocimientos de teología y su extensa actividad como animadora parroquial, Murgia expone con minuciosidad los diversos elementos que han contribuido a convalidar una visión que simplifica y margina la figura de la mujer, desde parábolas de los Evangelios o fragmentos de encíclicas papales, hasta grandes obras de arte clásico, anuncios televisivos o artículos de revistas femeninas. Reseñas:«Y la iglesia inventó a la mujer mezcla erudición e ironía, Sagradas Escrituras y experiencia propia, sin dar tregua a todos los errores y las simplezas que los creyentes chic o los ateos devotos han escrito o, sobre todo, difundido a través de la televisión.»La Repubblica «Michela Murgia demuestra que la formación católica de base sigue legitimando la jerarquía entre sexos.»Panorama «Un libro verdaderamente hermoso [...] sorprende por la meticulosidad de los análisis, porque capta nuestra atención hasta la última línea y una vez lo hemos cerrado sigue trabajando en nuestro interior, haciéndonos pensar.»Gazzetta di Parma «Una interesante reflexión.»Secolo d'Italia
Y serás llamada... bienaventurada
by Maria Annacondia«La mujer que teme al Señor es digna de alabanza», dice el libro de Proverbios. Como mujeres tenemos la responsabilidad de amar y servir a Dios desde el lugar que fuimos llamadas a hacerlo. El mapa de ruta para alcanzar el éxito en esta tarea se verá marcado por el temor que tengamos de Dios. Como se imaginará no me refiero al «terror», sino al temor amoroso que proviene de amar y honrar a Dios a través de nuestra vida, nuestro ejemplo y nuestro testimonio. Entonces comprobará que «se levantarán sus hijos y la llamarán bienaventurada, y su marido también la alabará». Delante del mundo podemos aparentar lo que no somos, pero frente a nuestro esposo e hijos no podremos sostener una mentira. Si nuestra vida es cristalina y traslúcida, se transformará en un espejo donde nuestra familia podrá mirar y hallar en nosotros la guía del Espíritu Santo.
¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? / Should We Start Again?: Cuando el arrepentimiento se encuentra con el perdón, todo es posible
by Susana Rodriguez Ricardo RodriguezEn ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? el adorador Ricardo Rodríguez y su esposa Susana exponen cómo Dios restauró su matrimonio en medio de circunstancias que lucían imposibles. Es una conmovedora historia de amor, infidelidad, coraje, divorcio, arrepentimiento, perdón pero sobre todo, fe. Sin duda ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? ayudará a los matrimonios en crisis, pero también a los pastores, padres, hijos, amigos y familiares que les toca vivir junto a los cónyuges las situaciones difíciles. Esta verídica historia enseña sobre: Lo que significa morir a uno mismoEl poder transformador del arrepentimientoEl poder de vida o muerte en las palabras que pronunciamosEl amor incondicional de los padres y familiaresCómo Dios torna lo vil en algo extraordinario y mucho más
Y si no es ahora ¿cuándo?
by Marcelo RittnerY si no es ahora, ¿cuándo? es un manantial donde confluyen reflexiones, pensamientos, historias reales, ideas y sentimientos que te ayudarán a tener una vida que refleje la santidad del tiempo y un tiempo que refleje la santidad de tu vida; a que des a tu camino un sentido, un propósito; a que realices ese viaje sin olvidar el destino, y también a que lo disfrutes. Porque cada día cuenta. Las reflexiones espirituales que aparecen en estas páginas son una selección de mensajes que, a lo largo de más de treinta años de tarea pastoral, Marcelo Rittner ha presentado en forma de sermones y conferencias, y lo ha hecho más allá del mero objetivo de poder enseñar: lo ha realizado con la idea de poder inspirar. #El libro que hoy nos entrega Marcelo Rittner está hecho de magia y carne, de ilusión y hambre, de miseria y luz. Un ramo de meditaciones como si fuera de flores recogidas en los jardines del tiempo y entregadas a cada uno de sus lectores como un obsequio invaluable.#
Y2K for Women
by Karen AndersonThis book explains the year 2000 problem in non-technical terms from a woman's perspective with an emphasis on preparing your home for a possible disruption in everyday life. It not only explains the Y2K problem, but it also explains in detail why you should be prepared for any emergency, natural or man-made (Y2K). It provides answers to common questions in a "Dear Abby" like style with a focus on the special needs and concerns of women.
Ya no vivo yo: La travesía de un hijo homosexual a Dios. La búsqueda de esperanza de una madre quebrantada.
by CHRISTOPHER YUAN ANGELA YUANRegresa a casa, hay esperanza Christopher Yuan, un hijo de inmigrantes chinos, descubrió a temprana edad que era diferente. Sentía atracción por otros varones. A medida que crecía hasta la edad adulta, su madre, Angela, tenía la esperanza de poder controlar la situación. En lugar de esto, encontró que su hijo y su vida estaban fuera de control, y sus propias luchas estaban determinadas a derrotarla. Pasaron años de angustia, confusión, y oración antes de que los Yuans encontraran un lugar donde entregarse completamente, lo cual es el deseo de Dios para todas las familias. Su increíble historia, contada desde la perspectiva de la madre y el hijo, ofrece esperanza para cualquier persona afectada por la homosexualidad. Dios llama a todos los que están perdidos a regresar a casa con El. Ya no vivo yo le habla a los pródigos, a los padres de los hijos pródigos y a aquellos que quieran servir a la comunidad gay. INCLUYE UNA GUIA DE DISCUSION.
Ya perdí suficiente / I've Lost Enough: Hoy puede ser el día de tu restitución
by Laura Mercado¡Ya es suficiente! Con esta expresión Laura Mercado puso fin a un ciclo de dolor y amargura que la abrumó por muchos años. En su libro Ya perdí suficiente Laura narra cómo desde pequeña ha sufrido diversas pérdidas, como lo fue la trágica muerte de su papá. Estas experiencias han dejado muchas lágrimas, pero Dios ha sido fiel en rescatarla y fortificar su fe. En su caminar la autora ha sido testigo de la provisión y el cuidado de Dios quien no la ha abandonado en ningún momento. Además, comparte cómo ha sido sanada, restaurada y transformada emocional y espiritualmente. Algunos de los temas que encontrará en este libro son: Perder para ganar Cómo abrazar las nuevas temporadas Enfrentando el dolor ¡Y mucho más! Todos podemos con nuestra confianza puesta en Dios ejecutar nuestra fe y ver nuestros panoramas ser transformados. Levántate pues tu invierno ya ha pasado.
The Yada Yada Prayer Group: Book 1 (Yada Yada Prayer Group #1)
by Neta JacksonWhat do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student and a married mother of two have in common?Nothing, or so I thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a prayer group as mismatched as ours the closest of friends? I almost didn&’t even go to the Chicago Women&’s Conference—after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn&’t exactly my &“comfort zone.&” But something happened that weekend to make us realize we had to hang together, and the Yada Yada Prayer Group&” was born! When I faced the biggest crisis of my life, God used my newfound Sisters to show me what it means to be just a sinner saved by grace.
The Yada Yada Prayer Group (Yada Yada #1)
by Neta JacksonWhat do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student, and a married mother of two have in common? Nothing, or so I thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a group as mismatched as ours the closest of friends? I almost didn't even go to the Chicago Women's Conference--after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn't exactly my "comfort zone." And being placed in a prayer group of twelve women from such diverse backgrounds seemed completely awkward. But something happened that weekend to make us realize we had to hang together. <P><P>The "Yada Yada Prayer Group" was born, and we decided to meet regularly to pray for each other: knocking off each other's rough edges and learning to laugh and cry along the way! And when I faced the biggest crisis of my life, God used my newfound girlfriends to help teach me--Jodi Baxter, longtime Christian "good girl"--what it means to be just a sinner saved by grace.
The Yada Yada Prayer Group Collection (Yada Yada Series)
by Neta JacksonWhat do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student and a married mother of two have in common?