This daily devotional has inspired countless people to drink deeply from the biblical truths that Chambers so passionately championed. The title is taken from a thought in one of his sermons: "Shut out every consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only-My Utmost for His Highest." Chambers was a man completely devoted to Christ, and his life and writings clearly portray that. His wife, Biddy, transcribed his lectures and sermons and compiled them into books, the most popular being My Utmost for His Highest. Oswald Chambers was a teacher and preacher whose messages cut to the heart of the gospel. These captivating words of wisdom from Oswald Chambers have challenged and inspired readers for more than 80 years. My Utmost for His Highest has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and is considered one of the most popular religious books ever written. The Best-Selling and Most Beloved Devotional Book of All Time! You'll find 365 thought-provoking meditations in this classic-language, inexpensive paperback edition of "the golden book of Oswald Chambers." My Utmost for His Highest will encourage and move you to think more deeply about your relationship with the Lord.
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Since the new year, I've actually been reading again! I've been writing more. I'm finding balance and clarity and purpose in new ways. At 36, I might actually know who I want to be when I grow up. Not that much of anything has actually changed. It seems like I might finally be moving out of survival mode. In all, it's been a wild couple of years. I destroyed a couple of hard drives and an entire MacBook. A whole bunch of my closest friends have moved out of state. My husband lost his job and went back to working freelance. I lost my day job, found a new job, lost that job and am now getting ready to start yet another job. In that time, I saw The Trick to Landing published and contributed a short story to Coming Home, a beautiful anthology centered around adoption. It's been more than three years since my last post here. Learn more about Blair Imani by visiting and joining her on social media Imani is a critically acclaimed historian, author, educator, and influencer. As an educator and influencer, semi-retired organizer, and public speaker, Blair Imani is dedicated to making the world a better place and amplifying the voices and work of those fighting the good fight. Her work centers women and girls, global Black communities, and the LGBTQ community. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Tegan and Sara Foundation, and on the Board of Trustees for Muslims for Progressive Values. She has lectured and presented at universities including Oxford, Stanford, Brown, Harvard, Duke, and many more. She is the author of Read This to Get Smarter: about Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More (2021), Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (2020), and Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History (2018). The New York Times praises Blair Imani’s unique ability to create “progressive lessons with vibrant visuals and a perky, quirky delivery.” Her scholarship spans the subjects of intersectionality, gender studies, race and racism, sociology, and United States history. Blair Imani is a critically acclaimed historian, author, educator, and influencer. Readers whose pulse doesn’t pound for a good portion of the tale might want to make sure their scalp is still intact. Danger is more palpable in this novel the pacing much quicker. Randisi, readers are sucked right into the action by new characters and a couple of favorites from the previous volume. The renegades, a brutal, savage bunch, spare no one as they cut a swath across the prairie on a collision course with a town woefully unprepared to fend off a full-scale Indian attack.īook 2 in the Wolf Creek series might be subtitled “Blood All Over the Place.” In chapters penned by (in order) Bill Crider, Jackson Lowry, Kerry Newcomb, Troy D. Several months after an outlaw raid left the residents of Wolf Creek, Kansas, bloodied but not broken ( Wolf Creek Book 1: Bloody Trail), a band of renegade Kiowa hits the warpath just as the main body of the tribe is about to talk peace with the army at a nearby fort. He examines the role of elephants in cultures around the world, from folklore and fine art to the exploitation of elephants as war machines and circus animals. In this stunningly illustrated book, Errol Fuller provides a rich and moving portrait of elephants, exploring their natural history, the legends that have grown up around them, their unique place in art and literature, and their urgent need for protection today.įuller traces the evolution of these majestic animals from prehistoric mammoths and mastodons to today’s African and Asian elephants, and looks at their behavior, herd dynamics, and social life. 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From Dead to Worse is the eighth book in Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse series. “The series continues to be inventive and funny with an engaging, smart, and sexy heroine.”- The Denver Post “Charlaine Harris has vividly imagined telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse and her small-town Louisiana milieu, where humans, vampires, shapeshifters, and other sentient critters live.Her mash-up of genres is delightful, taking elements from mysteries, horror stories, and romances.”- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Vivid, subtle, and funny in her portrayal of southern life.”- Entertainment Weekly “It’s the kind of book you look forward to reading before you go to bed, thinking you’re only going to read one chapter, and then you end up reading seven.”-Alan Ball, executive producer of True Blood Praise for #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood #7) It was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Prize and the Carnegie Meday and won the Tir na n'og Prize.Ĭatherine has recently published The Red Gloves and Other Stories (Firefly Press), a collection of nine spooky and dark tales for children. Darkhenge Darkhenge ebook By Catherine Fisher Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9781909531451 Author Catherine Fisher Publisher Penguin Random House Childrens UK Release 30 November 2011 Subjects Classic Literature Fantasy Thriller Young Adult Fiction Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. The trilogy is a mix of magic and folklore, set in Victorian Wales, telling the story of the orphan Seren Rhys and herb adventures with the tetchy, brilliant and powerful Clockwork Crow. Her recent series The Chronoptika Quartet mixes folklore and dark fairies with time travel and sf.Ĭatherine's new adventures for 7 up are The Clockwork Crow, The Velvet Fox, and The Midnight Swan, published by Firefly Press. An acclaimed novelist and poet, she has written many fantasy books for young people, including The Oracle Prophecy series, Corbenic, Darkhenge, The Snow-Walker Trilogy, Darkwater Hall, and The Relic Master series. She is "one of today’s best fantasy writers," according to the London Independent. Catherine Fisher is the New York Times best-selling author of Sapphique and Incarceron. Jennie Allen knows what it’s like to swirl in a spiral of destructive thoughts, but she also knows we don’t have to stay stuck in toxic thinking patterns.Īs she discovered in her own life, God built a way for us to escape that downward spiral. Other people have better lives than I do. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by CosmopolitanĪre your thoughts holding you captive? I’ll never be good enough. "A must-have resource for anyone looking to get control of their thoughts." (Lysa TerKeurst, number one New York Times best-selling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries) The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering challenges you to exercise your God-given power to shift negative thinking patterns and take back control of your thoughts and emotions. You can choose hope in the midst of chaos. In honor of Pride Month, Jay reflects on the importance of identity, coming out, and the meaning of “lavender culture.” In 1969, you started using “Karla Jay” professionally. She is a leading lesbian-feminist activist and distinguished professor emerita of English and Women’s & Gender Studies at Pace University. She has written, edited, and translated 10 books, including 1972’s Out of the Closets (the first anthology written for and by LGBT people) 1979’s The Gay Report (a comprehensive survey and documentary of gay and lesbian sexuality) 1996’s Dyke Life (a Lambda Literary Award–winner) and 1999’s memoir Tales of the Lavender Menace. Over the next five decades, Jay helped empower and give voice to the LGBT community. Toward the end of the decade, Karla Jayne Berlin became professionally known as Karla Jay. That same year, she helped to produce New York City’s first-ever Pride Parade and participated in the Pride Parade of Los Angeles. Berlin joined the Gay Liberation Front and in 1970 became the first woman chair of the organization. The following year, the Stonewall uprising/riots erupted. Fifty years ago, when Karla Jayne Berlin ’68 participated in the 1968 student protests on Columbia’s campus, she was also a member of the feminist group Redstockings. Though Henry is of a lower social class, they find solace in each other and in music. Allen comes from an upper-middle-class family, but she enjoys Henry’s company, despite the derision of many of her family members and acquaintances. She takes care of her sister, Lily, who is bed-ridden and filled with paranoia over their maid, Ada. A brave woman, also unmarried, Allen works as a schoolteacher in the city. Through his organ music, he receives an opportunity to be the pianist for a school production, where he meets Allen Thompson. During the First World War, which is rapidly coming to a close, Henry stepped in to play the organ for the local church. Generally reserved and stoic, he finds pleasure in music. Based in part on his personality and his profession, Henry is a melancholy man. Middle-aged undertaker Henry Speake, who is unmarried, manages the family business, providing for his sister, who relies on their profits. The novel is ultimately a portrayal of this moment in world history from the viewpoint of a few struggling Londoners, who watch as the death toll climbs into the tens of thousands. A romance blossoms between Allen and Henry, which is put on hold by the mounting number of bodies funeral director Henry is supposed to bury and the closure of Allen's school due to threat of illness. Undertaker Henry Speake and schoolteacher Allen Thompson’s lives are upturned as the epidemic rushes through the city. This Time of Dying (2007), a historical romance novel by Reina James, takes place in London in 1918, on the cusp of the outbreak of the Spanish flu. |