Running Mascara

Running Mascara
Author: Tiffany Wasson
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781498464888

When most people meet Jesus for the first time, they are wild and free, passionate and ready to embrace their Savior, which also means coming face-to-face with their brokenness. They are not ashamed to admit that they need Jesus to fix them. However, over time in their Christian walk, they start to forget the simple fact that all people are shattered glass and in constant need for Jesus to be the glue to hold them together. They start to play God and fashion themselves to be a perfect picture of what they think a Christian should look like in order to fit into the kingdom of God and do His work. The danger in this downward spiral is that not only does it cause Christ followers to fall because they are trying to fix themselves, but it also keeps new people from coming into the kingdom of God. Nonbelievers may feel as if they are not good enough. Playing the perfect Christian or church is a dangerous playground. The bride of Christ must embrace its constant need for the Savior so that more people will fall in love with Him, the one who seeks the broken to heal them and set them free. Do you find yourself running the hamster wheel of trying to be the perfect Christian? Are you exhausted and feel like if you let your foot slip just once, you will disappoint Jesus and turn the church away from your side? Trust me when I say that you can be free from the vicious cycle of perfectionism. Are you ready to embrace your brokenness and your constant need for a Savior? Only by learning this truth will you truly be set free. Freedom is near. Can you feel it?"

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Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 0595300170

THE SOLDIER. THE LEGEND. THE HUNTED. When he woke up this morning he was just "a" suspect. Suddenly, Terran Defense Directorate Captain Daniel Briggs is the "only" suspect. Wanted for questioning in the murder of his ex-wife Anjelica, Daniel plunges headfirst into a quest meant to prove his innocence. What he finds instead are lies stacked upon half-truths and deceit. In the decadent back streets of Boomtown he begins an epic journey that will lead him into the very bowels of treachery. Armed only with his handicapped paranatural powers and a mind steeled by years of extraterrestrial combat, he combs the shadows of the city's underbelly in search of the truth, trying desperately to stay one step ahead of those who would stop him from discovering it. With the odds stacked against him, it seems a quest meant to fail from the start. But those who Daniel best, know to fear him, for it is when he's cornered that he is the most resilient. Will his legendary resilience be enough? How will he fare when the whole world seems bent on stopping him? Somewhere amidst it all, an invisible clock begins its countdown. When it reaches zero, mankind is doomed.

The Key

The Key
Author: Jennifer Sturman
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459246225

Ever wished your boss would drop dead? Of course not. Well, not really. And neither had Rachel Benjamin—until she finds herself working for Wall Street terror Glenn Gallagher on his latest pet project. Rachel thinks the deal—and Glenn—are more than a little shady, but she has a promotion at stake. It's either keep her lips sealed or kiss her partnership goodbye. Or kill Glenn. (Just kidding!) At least she has Peter. Rachel's too-good-to-be-true fiancé has moved in, and while his stuff is everywhere and he's strangely jealous of her friendly new coworker, she's confident they'll figure things out. It would help if Glenn's killer schedule didn't have Rachel working around the clock. Really, the man must be stopped. Rachel's jokes about killing her boss don't seem so funny when Glenn is murdered. And it's even less laughable when she becomes the prime suspect. With the police hot on her very stylish heels, and the threat of an unflattering orange jumpsuit in her future, Rachel's learning the hard way to be careful what you wish for. She needs to catch the true killer quickly, before the killer catches her.

There Are Thirty Ways to Make a Scene

There Are Thirty Ways to Make a Scene
Author: Lisa Joelle
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2023-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 103917521X

Friendship is at the heart of every joy. Isla, Priya, and Emma have been best friends since high school. As they grow older, their different paths begin to strain that bond. Isla is fresh off a major heartbreak and stuck in a frustrating job. Priya has crushed every goal she has ever set and believes her final years of med school will be no different. Emma’s life has worked out exactly how she imagined: she and her loving husband have just moved into their dream home, with their first child on the way. What could go wrong? Will Isla settle down and figure out what she wants out of life? Will Priya allow her heart to be open to new paths and new ideas? Will Emma’s perfect life be all she imagined? Through all the ups and downs, as months pass, and the seasons change...will their friendship survive? There Are Thirty Ways to Make a Scene grabs readers and drags them into a vibrant, delightful world where they can feel welcome. As these friends navigate opportunity, and adventure, readers see how difficult, absurd, frustrating, and beautiful it is to be in relationships with those around us.

The Flight of the Falcon

The Flight of the Falcon
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316253537

As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in '43. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the twentieth century, and the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident. "In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths."-Times (UK)

Strange Business

Strange Business
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0806184167

A fictional account of the fading life in a shrinking town, Cedar, Oklahoma.

Land Girls

Land Girls
Author: Angela Huth
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1998-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312171957

In rural World War II England, three very different young women are thrown together, sharing an attic bedroom and laying the foundations for a lifelong friendship.

The Infinite Tides

The Infinite Tides
Author: Christian Kiefer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408829193

Mathematical genius. Brilliant engineer. Revered astronaut. Keith Corcoran is all of these things and more, but his otherworldly talents do nothing to prepare him for the tragedy that befalls his family, or its irrevocable outcomes. After a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, Keith returns to a house that has already ceased to be a home - emptied entirely of furniture and the people he loves. It is here that Keith tries to make sense of the ghosts, the memories and the feelings that he can barely acknowledge. His experiences in space quickly fade into the distant past. What remain in their wake are endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, big box stores and enormous parking lots. Within this seemingly hopeless expanse, an eccentric man from a distant country presents an opportunity for redemption. Their unlikely friendship leads Keith to an understanding of all he has lost, and a sense of how to live under the weight of gravity. The Infinite Tides is a captivating and comic tragedy about love, loss and resilience. An indelible and nuanced portrait of modern life as viewed through the prism of American suburbia, it tenderly illuminates the strengths and weaknesses that flow through us all.

He Never Liked Cake

He Never Liked Cake
Author: Janna Leyde
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 145256826X

"Janna Leyde's coming-of-age memoir encompasses the acute and lasting effects of [traumatic brain injury] on both survivors and their loved ones."--Back cover.

Ratings Are Murder

Ratings Are Murder
Author: Robert R. Irvine
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 148210203X

Bob Christopher, investigative reporter for Channel 3 in Los Angeles, is an old hand at ferreting out consumer fraud. He hardly feels that an all-out effort to reinstate Saint Christopher to the church's calendar fits that category. Then the cleaning woman who had taken up the saint's cause is brutally murdered. Bob, guilty because he brushed the old woman off, is compelled to search for her killer. He finds himself dodging cloudbursts, raccoons, spilled blood, and his obsessed boss, who needs Bob's presence on the six o'clock news to improve the ratings. Adding to his problems is his elusive film editor, an entrepreneur usually too busy peddling stolen porno tapes to work on the program. Through this hectic action wander rain-soaked fans in weird costumes vying for places and prizes on the station's game show. They make it easy for suspects—disguised as surgeons, nuns, and chickens—to melt into the crowd. As Bob Christopher approaches dead center of the web of murder, blackmail, chicanery, X-rated films, and station politics that infest Channel 3's rickety building, he gets closer to a killer who is out to make the reporter his next victim.