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Cookies and Cheer: An Amish Christmas Bakery Story (Amish Christmas Bakery Stories)
by Amy ClipstonAn Amish Christmas Bakery story by bestselling author Amy ClipstonAs Christmas draws near, Alyssa Byler dreams of a window display for the bakery where she works. When she decides to design and build a sugar cookie nativity scene, all she needs is the right cookie cutters—and handsome blacksmith Kyle Smoker is the one she asks for help. Using Kyle&’s handmade cutters, Alyssa creates a striking display that brings more tourists to the bakery than she can handle. And when shoppers request handmade cookie cutters of their own, Kyle finds himself overwhelmed by the demand. As Christmas approaches, Alyssa realizes she&’s been too caught up in work to focus on the true meaning of Christmas—and too distracted to explore the feelings she has for Kyle. Together, they put aside the holiday rush and spend their time celebrating the season that has brought them together.
Cooking Up Holiday Fun with Faithgirlz: 30 Recipes from Food, Faith, and Fun (Faithgirlz)
by ZondervanHolidays are the perfect time for preparing and sharing delicious food with family and friends. The Faithgirlz Holiday Party Cookbook Collection is the perfect place to go for fun, step-by-step recipes—some even contributed by Faithgirlz just like you! From Peanut Clusters and Sparkling New Year&’s Punch to Turkey Kebab and Christmas Swirl Cookies there is something to please everyone&’s taste buds in this special eBook collection of recipes from Food, Faith and Fun.So get in the holiday spirit and start planning your menu!
Cooking Up Love
by Cynthia HickeyTABITHA IS IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURETabitha McClelland knows accepting a job as a Harvey House waitress can be risky. Traveling alone to the rough-and-tumble West just isn't done by young ladies of good breeding. But far more dangerous is her powerful attraction to Adam Foster. Family means everything to the widowed chef, but the selfsufficient Tabitha cherishes her freedom above all else.Adam is captivated by the fiercely independent Tabitha. Fraternizing with the female employees is strictly forbidden, but the Harvey Girl awakens feelings too compelling to ignore. Can Adam convince Tabby to share his dream of a future in California-together?
Cooking the Books
by Bonnie S. CalhounAfter her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also "inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this you should never ask, "What else can go wrong?" A lot! Sloane begins to receive cyber threats. While Sloane uses her computer forensic skills to uncover the source of the threats, it is discovered someone is out to kill her. Can her life get more crazy? "Bonnie Calhoun's first Sloane Templeton mystery, Cooking the Books, is one of the most delightful new fiction voices I've read in years. My only complaint--waiting for the sequel. If this book doesn't have you ROFLOL, you'd better check your pulse!"--Jeanette Windle "Bonnie Calhoun's debut novel, Cooking the Books, is as fun and quirky as the author herself. The cast of characters brims with unexpected humor and heart, and Sloane's take on the world around her keeps the reader eagerly turning pages to see what she'll say or do next. I look forward to more Sloane Templeton adventures." Sandra D. Bricker, award-winning author of the Emma Rae Creation series that began with Always the Baker, Never the Bride "What do a gangsta ex-boyfriend, gunslinging grannies, computer hacking, two very unusual books, and the world's worst chef all have in common? You'll find them in Bonnie Calhoun's debut novel, Cooking the Books. It's a one-of-a-kind a potboiler filled to the brim with plot twists, romance, and humor. A tasty treat for romantic suspense fans." --Rick Acker, author of When the Devil Whistles and Dead Man's Rule "Bonnie S. Calhoun is a master weaver of snarky humor and suspense. Cooking the Books is fast paced, laugh out loud funny with enough suspense to make you shiver. Sloane is an oxymoron: tough as nails on crime and injustice, yet her Aunt Verline and Fifi, her nutty store manager, manipulate her. Novel Rocket and I give it a high recommendation. It's a must read." - Ane Mulligan, Sr. Editor Novel Rocket "Bonnie S. Calhoun pens a heroine with snap and pizzazz. Sloane Templeton wonders why an old book is cause for bullets, and whether her refusal to sell her business justifies harrassment. A fast-paced mystery full of colorful characters and a last minute twist--what's not to love?" ~ S. Dionne Moore, Author of Promise Brides, 2010 and 2011 Carol Award Finalist
Cookoff
by Amy SutherlandCompetitive cooking isn’t limited to Iron Chef. Across America, amateur chefs cross spatulas at more than a thousand competitions covering numerous states and a pantry full of ingredients. Following a small group of contestants for a year on the contest circuit, journalist Amy Sutherland introduces us to well-known cookoff luminaries as well as some of the most bizarre cooks and recipes at local and national contests across the country-from the Great Garlic Cookoff to the National Chicken and National Beef Cookoffs, from the World Champion Jambalaya Cooking Contest to the Pillsbury Bake-Off®, the Holy Grail of competitive cooking. When the fanatics gather-be they chiliheads or barbecue fiends-and hunker down at the hot plate, it can be a recipe for delight or disaster as attitudes get spicy and tempers flare. Bursting with humor, Cookoff is an entertaining and in-depth look at a quirky, cutthroat, and (sometimes) delicious world.
Cool Hand Cuke / VeggieTales: A Lesson in Giving (Big Idea Books / VeggieTown Values)
by Cindy KenneyJunior Asparagus learns that getting money isn&’t the only way to become rich.
Cooperating with the Holy Spirit: A Theological and Practical Reflection on the Asbury Outpouring
by Rev Suzanne NicholsonGod has a habit of showing up in unexpected places. On February 8, 2023, the Holy Spirit suddenly and powerfully poured forth on students lingering after chapel at Asbury University, located in the small town of Wilmore, Kentucky (population 6,000). For the next sixteen days, more than 50,000 pilgrims from around the world flocked to experience God’s sweet, gentle presence in Hughes Auditorium. Many sought counsel, confessed patterns of addiction and sin, and sought to reorient their lives toward God in the context of vibrant, 24-hour worship. As the Outpouring overflowed to other venues, the Asbury community—its faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community members—worked together to steward this amazing movement of God. While other sustained revivals have happened throughout human history, despite its humble beginnings, this event grew exponentially because of social media and national and international news coverage. Cooperating with the Holy Spirit recounts the events of the Outpouring(section 1); offers biblical, historical, and theological reflections on revivals (section 2); and provides practical insights for addressing the challenges that arise when God moves in powerful ways among his people (section 3).
Copia
by Erika Meitner"The poems in Copia are about what is and what is almost-gone, what is in limbo and what won't give way, what is almost at rock bottom but still and always brimming with the possibility of miracle."—Rachel ZuckerErika Meitner's fourth book takes cues from the Land Artists of the 1960s who created work based on landscapes of urban peripheries and structures in various states of disintegration. The collection also includes a section of documentary poems about Detroit that were commissioned for Virginia Quarterly Review.Because it is an uninhabited place, because itmakes me hollow, I pried open the pages ofDetroit: the houses blanked out, factoriesabsorbed back into ghetto palms and scrub-oak, piles of tires, heaps of cement block.Vines knock and enter through shattereddrop-ceilings, glassless windows. Ragwortcracks the street's asphalt to unsolvablepuzzles.Meitner also probes the hulking ruins of office buildings, tract housing, superstores, construction sites, and freeways, and doesn't shy from the interactions that occur in Walmart and supermarket parking lots.It is nearly Halloween, which meanswrong sizes on Wal-Mart racks, variety bags ofpumpkins extinguishing themselves on the stoopchildren from the trailer park trawling our identical lawns soonso we can give away nickels, light, sandpaper, raisins, cement.Erika Meitner was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Best American Poetry 2011, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech.
Coping Rituals in Fearful Times: An Unexplored Resource for Healing Trauma
by Jeltje Gordon-LennoxThis collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of uncertainty, threat and dislocation, human beings feel compelled to 'do something’, usually with or for others, to alleviate their anxiety, fears and sense of powerlessness. The editor and authors demonstrate how the imaginative processes at the heart of ritualmaking contribute to self- and group regulation by healing and mitigating the negative impact of trauma on individuals, collective groups, and even global systems. The authors are a group of remarkable scholars, researchers and practitioners who represent a diverse range of disciplines and subfields, including archaeology, Chinese studies, digital culture, ecological science, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, the politics of memory and the preservation of cultural heritage in wartime, ritual anthropology, social research, physics, research on traumatic stress, and peace studies. Students and researchers across the social and behavioural sciences will find this volume useful.
Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions--and Balance Uncertainty with Hope
by Marsha M. Linehan Elizabeth Cohn StuntzThis compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time. *How can you face the fear, sadness, and anger without being paralyzed by them? *Is it possible to hold on to hope without being in denial? *How can you nurture supportive relationships when you have barely enough energy to take care of yourself? Learn powerful DBT skills that can help you make difficult treatment decisions, manage overwhelming emotions, speak up for your needs, and tolerate distress. The stories and collective wisdom of other cancer patients and survivors illustrate the coping skills and show how you can live meaningfully, even during the darkest days.
Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State
by Jonathan LaurenceThe surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research in Turkey, North Africa, and Western Europe, Jonathan Laurence demonstrates how, over hundreds of years, both Sunni and Catholic authorities experienced three major shocks and displacements—religious reformation, the rise of the nation-state, and mass migration. As a result, Catholic institutions eventually accepted the state’s political jurisdiction and embraced transnational spiritual leadership as their central mission. Laurence reveals an analogous process unfolding across the Sunni Muslim world in the twenty-first century.Identifying institutional patterns before and after political collapse, Laurence shows how centralized religious communities relinquish power at different rates and times. Whereas early Christianity and Islam were characterized by missionary expansion, religious institutions forged in the modern era are primarily defensive in nature. They respond to the simple but overlooked imperative to adapt to political defeat while fighting off ideological challenges to their spiritual authority. Among Laurence’s findings is that the disestablishment of Islam—the doing away with Islamic affairs ministries in the Muslim world—would harm, not help with, reconciliation to the rule of law.Examining upheavals in geography, politics, and demography, Coping with Defeat considers how centralized religions make peace with the loss of prestige.
Copious Hosting: A Theology of Access For People With Disabilities
by Jennie Weiss BlockIt is estimated that there are 43 million Americans with one or more physical or mental disabilities. Over the past several decades, the disability movement has grown in strength and sophistication, attaining maturity with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. This landmark civil rights legislation ushered in a new era for people with disabilities. <p><p>Many religious people, however well-meaning, are unfamiliar with the language and philosophy of the disability movement. They unintentionally give offense by language and actions that reflect a by-gone era. <p><p>This book aims to do two things: to acquaint church and synagogue leaders with the history and philosophy of the disability movement and to provide resources from scripture and theology for thinking and preaching about disability in a new way.
Copious hosting: a theology of access for people with disabilities
by Jennie Weiss BlockDiscusses working with people with developmental disabilities in the Roman Catholic church
Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
by Laure GuirguisCopts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political order based on religious identity and difference. The leadership of the Coptic Church, in turn, has taken more political stances, thus foreclosing opportunities for secularization or common ground. In each instance, the underlying logics of authoritarianism and sectarianism articulate a fear of the Other, and, as Guirguis argues, are ultimately put to use to justify the expanding Egyptian security state. In outlining the development of the security state, Guirguis focuses on state discourses and practices, with particular emphasis on the period of Hosni Mubarak's rule, and shows the transformation of the Orthodox Coptic Church under the leadership of Pope Chenouda III. She also considers what could be done to counter the growing tensions and violence in Egypt. The 2011 Egyptian uprising constitutes the most radical recent attempt to subvert the predominant order. Still, the revolutionary discourses and practices have not yet brought forward a new system to counter the sectarian rhetoric, and the ongoing counter-revolution continues to repress political dissent.
Copycat Killer: True Blue K-9 Unit: Brooklyn (True Blue K-9 Unit: Brooklyn #1)
by Laura ScottMurder strikes close to homefor a new K-9 unit in BrooklynWhen a double homicide is strikingly familiar to a twenty-year-old cold case, Detective Nate Slater is rattled by the parallels. With a child as the only witness, he and his K-9 partner must protect little Lucy and her aunt, Willow Emery. Nate’s rough past means he always keeps an emotional distance…but in this case getting closer is the only way they’ll all survive. True Blue K-9 Unit: BrooklynLaura Scott, USA TODAY Bestselling Author
Coral Moon
by Brandilyn CollinsIn book two of the Kanner Lake Series by Brandilyn Collins, a murder and a cryptic message plunge a small resort community in the wilds of northern Idaho into a terrifying encounter with the supernatural. And the solution appears to be one that can't be true . . . but must be.
Corazon abierto: Descubre tu proyecto de vida
by Manny MontesDios te creó para que triunfes en esta vida, sin importar los desafíos que esta pueda presentarte. En este libro descubrirás los secretos escondidos dentro de ti. Tú tienes en tus manos el poder para lograr todo lo que te propongas, solo tienes que creerlo. Este libro te ayudará en la búsqueda de tu propósito y te equipará para superar cada día los obstáculos que enfrentes. Aprende a: •Comprender tu razón de existir •Perdonar y pedir perdón •Identificar tus talentos Y mucho más….
Corazones Entrelazados
by Andrea Mazzocchi Mary DeWeberEmma había pasado los últimos cinco años de su vida aprendiendo a lidiar con la tragedia. Debió haberse imaginado que Doc se traía algo entre manos cuando la convenció de tomar el empleo como cocinera en el rancho de Colorado. Cocinar era lo de menos; trabajar con niños discapacitados era algo para lo que definitivamente no estaba preparada ¡Toparse con un hombre alto con voz aterciopelada era lo último que esperaba! Sólo Dios podría solucionar el enredo que había hecho de su vida.
Corazones maltratados: Cómo salvar tu familia de los estragos de la violencia doméstica
by Luis E. Roig Cynthia Y. MartínezTodos anhelan un hogar feliz y un matrimonio duradero, pero ¿qué sucede cuando la violencia doméstica toca a la puerta? En su libro Corazones maltratados, los pastores Luis y Cynthia Roig narran la impactante historia de cómo aun siendo líderes en su iglesia fueron arrastrados por el abuso y el maltrato dentro de su hogar, hasta el punto de llevarlos a la ruina familiar. No obstante llegó el momento en que cada uno tomó responsabilidad por sus acciones y decidieron buscar ayuda de Dios. Así comenzó el proceso de restauración de su matrimonio. En corazones maltratados aprenderás: - A identificar las señales dela violencia doméstica - Sobre el poder restaurador de la humildad y el perdón - Cómo Dios sí es capaz de rehacer matrimonios quebrantados - ¡ Y mucho más! Prepárate para ser confrontado y animado a vivir en una familia feliz tal como Dios la diseñó.
Corazón indestructible: Algunas personas viven, otras se conforman con sobrevivir…
by Jaime Fernández GarridoEste libro te enseñará cómo puedes vencer las treinta prisiones más comunes que atan a nuestro corazón: como la ansiedad, la preocupación, el sufrimiento, la debilidad, la envidia, la depresión, el odio, la amargura, el aburrimiento, etc.
Corazón pródigo: Una doble vida rescatada y transformada por el amor del Padre perfecto
by Christine D'ClarioEl hijo pródigo se marcha en búsqueda de la vida sin restricciones... El Padre con brazos abiertos siempre lo espera... El corazón pródigo es aquel que regresa arrepentido con el deseo de rendir toda su vida a Dios sin limitaciones. En corazón pródigo descubrirás cómo Christine logró superar la muerte de su padre, el mudarse a otro país, los sentimientos de coraje, falta de perdón, pérdida y rechazo, el haber sido acosada sexualmente y hasta fue liberada de vivir una doble vida siendo líder en la iglesia. Ella retó a Dios y Él le respondió con su amor sanador. Christine comparte su historia y el gozo de rendirse completamente a Dios. Hoy día vive pródigamente, es decir, vive sin restricción por la gloria de DIos, para el servicio de su pueblo y no para sí.
Corações Entrelaçados
by Mary DeWeber Marcos Maleval Batista da SilvaEmma passou os últimos cinco anos aprendendo a lidar com tragédias. Ela deveria ter percebido que Doc tinha algo na manga quando lhe convenceu a aceitar um emprego para cozinhar em uma fazenda no Colorado. Cozinhar foi a parte mais fácil. Trabalhar com crianças portadoras de deficiência era algo que ela sem dúvida não estava preparada. Enlaçada numa montanha alta e escura de um homem com uma voz como um afetuoso veludo e ela ficou completamente fora de si! Somente Deus poderia endireitar a bagunça que havia sido feita em sua vida.
Corduroy Road to Love
by Lynn A. ColemanIda Mae McAuley wonders if her occupation and marital status will forever be defined by the same word: spinster. Cyrus Morgan has proposed more than once, but is her gratitude for his kindness since her parents' tragic deaths reason enough to accept? Seven years ago Olin Orr's temper cost another man his life. Now an accomplished tinsmith, Olin returns to Charlotte to rent McAuley's vacant smithy, knowing he must also face the past. When the lovely Ida Mae begins receiving threats, demanding she get rid of her tenant, Olin fears coming home was a mistake. But is the perpetrator trying to get rid of Olin? Or is Ida Mae the real target?
Core 52 Family Edition: Build Kids' Bible Confidence in 10 Minutes a Day: A Daily Devotional
by Mark E. Moore Megan HowertonIn just ten minutes a day, you and your kids can master 52 core Bible verses over the course of a year—and have fun doing so!While there are lots of one-year Bible reading plans and family devotionals, few help kids understand the words that they're reading. In this new addition to the popular Core 52 line of resources, Mark E. Moore and his daughter, former teacher and stay-at-home mom Megan Howerton, coach you and your family through 52 of the Bible's key verses. Each week provides you and your child with a simple 5-day plan:• Day 1—read the Bible verse and explanatory text and start a fun challenge• Day 2—memorize a key verse with the help of an engaging 3-minute video• Day 3—read a longer related Bible passage and answer a question• Day 4—further explore through a second Scripture verse and question• Day 5—answer deeper questions together and assess the results of the week&’s challengeIn just a year, Core 52 Family Edition takes children aged 6 to 12 from biblically curious to spiritually confident and competent. Best of all, it&’s a journey you&’ll take with them!