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The commitment of Wai Yip Law to marry an Asian Catholic, a conviction that grows out mainly due to his faith, and partly due to his conflicting Chinese and American values, means he is still single in his early thirties. Alone in New Jersey without friend or family, his search for a companion leads him to a fateful acquaintance with Irene. A Vietnamese girl who has had a nightmarish relationship with her first love, Irene's bitter memory caus...

Dancing Spirits brings together our spiritual beliefs accepted by faith and shows how the latest Quantum Physics research unites our faith with fact. It makes subatomic research understandable even to the scientific novice and shows how science now reveals in the laboratory what the religions of the world have asked us to accept by faith since before recorded history. In doing so, Dancing Spirits enhances and reinforces our spiritual faith and...

Would you like to improve communication with your children? Would you like to understand their concerns and burdens? Would you like to develop your child's Biblical wisdom for coping with the stresses and changes in life? Bedtime Storeezzz is a series of sixty short stories involving dialogues between parents and children about family, life, the stresses of growing up, and the world around them. You will have the opportunity to listen and lear...

What I found most enjoyable about this novel is that it steers clear of stereotypes about Indian immigrant families. The Bhaves and the Moghes are refreshingly different from some families that inhabit the world of diasporic fiction. There are no daughters being threatened with arranged marriages, no authoritarian parents, and no weepy sentimentality about the land left behind."-(Nalini Iyer, on SAWNET Book Pages)"This is the story of two fami...

After being acquitted of his wife's brutal murder, celebrity television news anchor Wade Newsome claims to be targeted by an assailant bent on exacting divine justice. Is this mysterious Righteous Avenger a figment of Newsome's guilty conscience, a publicity stunt intended to speed his return to the Deadline News anchor desk, or a genuine threat? A skeptical LAPD detective, Carl Pope, must determine the truth of Newsome's claims. Deadline News...

Is Your World Flat? explains in a simple and easy to grasp manner how spiritually unhealed thus emotionally flat aspects of our lives, such as our preoccupation with violence, injustice and saving this planet, can impact our lives and prevent us from transcending the polarised duality we live in. By changing these parts that are keeping our perception of the world flat, they will start moving upwards in a cycle and transformation towards enlig...

As a fictional work, this novel is used by the author to describe what could have or may have happened in the events of Hurricane Katrina. Daniel, the main character, is left behind in New Orleans with this three brothers and mother who all live in a poor section of the city. Like many in the Big Easy, his family does not evacuate. In the novel, Daniel appears to be smarter than the rest of his family. During the night before Katrina makes lan...

School days in Guiana, Glasgow and Fife, two years in the Army and six years studying Medicine turned the boy into a doctor. Dreaming dreams with Avril, their marriage, their family and their affinity for common spiritual and material values set them on a pilgrimage of repeated challenges. Three years in a mission hospital in apartheid South Africa, conflicting interests of specialization and family responsibilities didn't deter the writer fro...

Rex rhymes with "sex". But all he wants is the love of one good man. Rod is a hot Rod. But he is dangerously bisexual. Enter the Girlettes. Three plump drag queens who think they're a modern-day Ronettes-and who want to be famous. And then there's David. He's got big bucks, a big smile, and a big something else. At 23, Rex thinks he knows nothing, but he obviously knows all about love. He thinks he'll never accomplish anything big, but then do...

After enduring two broken marriages, a failed suicide attempt, and adulterous affairs, author R. Renee Amaro sets out to discover the true purpose of her life. In August 2002, she pulls up roots in America and spreads her wings across five continents-from Africa to Asia and Europe to Australia. Odd Woman Out: Black Girl Abroad is a fish-out-of-water tale about life outside of the United States as experienced by an African American woman, speci...

Advance praise for In Spite Of. "In Spite Of. has an incredible ability to appeal to all audiences." -Dr. Darrel Cain, Director of Academic and Learning Support Services, Atlanta Technical College "In Spite Of. is superbly written, and it displays how we can overcome anything once we make the commitment to do so." -Annie Gilliam, Registrar, Alabama A&M, University "In Spite Of. creates an avenue to highlight the artistic contributions of a tru...

A young officer comes upon a small village while on patrol in Korea. He discovers a family in hiding who are trying to escape the communists by fleeing to the south. The officer, Mark Daniels befriends the family who is to have a tremendous effect on his life. Mi Hi the young daughter of the family grows more beautiful and ambitious. She becomes a user of men employing sex and lust to gain their help in attaining her goals. She seeks vengeance...

The early church was very effective - impacting the world with its ministry and with the power of God. In this book, the author discusses this effectiveness, which he believes can be regained if we follow the New Testament pattern of the church. He concentrates on some basic yet important teachings taken from the Scriptures concerning the church of the Living God, that he believes if followed, will greatly transform our churches and make belie...

Music Evangelism' is a detailed journalistic investigation of the cultural phenomenon known as 'Christian rock music'. Looking at the current scene in the UK and US 'Music Evangelism' asks questions about the purpose, potential and credibility of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). It also attempts to answer the criticism that is often levelled against this 'unusual' art form. Is CCM the Devil 'in sheeps clothing' or 'simply a pale imitation o...

This Reference continues expanding much of the original material detailed in the first three volumes. New adventures are detailed and old adversaries are visited. Biographies offer new material discovered in the novels, and a Vulcan course of study is included. How the Romulans split from the Vulcans is detailed here as well as new information about Andorians, Tellarites, and Vulcans. Here you can visit with new crewmembers, meet a Coridani, s...

My book is a book of poetry mainly inspired by my mother. I started writting because it helped me deal with my pain and handle all of my emotions. There was a time in my life when I felt I really couldn't take to much more but writing poetry is honestly what kept me alive and continues to carry me through life. The book is broken up into four chapters, love, Jesus, mom, and friends. Each of those categories influenced this book and my life, ra...

As you read "Keeping it Real II! Answers 2 Your Questions" by Author, Archbishop D. D. Scott, The Tabernacle comes alive right before our eyes. As we walk with her through the Tabernacle, we realize that instead of taking a tour, we are actually having a real, active experience of our life in Jesus. This book is full of the Word and deep. Not deep in the sense that it is difficult to understand, but deep in the sense that it penetrates to the ...

Taken from twenty-seven collections of poetry written between the years 1989 and 2006, Thomas Porky McDonald offers up Diamond Reflections: Baseball Pieces For Real Fans, 291 poems about and fueled by the once and future National Pastime. Reflecting on a joyous childhood, the poet's deep-rooted love for baseball, first instilled in him by his father, Bill "The Chief" McDonald, flows vibrantly throughout this volume. As in previous poetry books...

By speaking repeatedly about Jesus, who is altruistic we really presented him as selfish. By meditating and over- meditating about Jesus, who prays, we made him not God. 'In search of Christ, the God of controversies' is an attempt to explore the divinity of Jesus by evaluating some perceived negative qualities in him.

Ever wondered what a growing lad got up to in a Shropshire market town during and after the War.In this book he describes his schooldays, his surroundings, how he was touched by the War and many other aspects of his adolescent life. The text is illustrated by delightful pen sketches of the places described by the author and the whole book paints a picture of a life lived in an age gone by which is never likely to return. A life of no computers...