The Next to Last Word

The Next to Last Word
Author: Michael P. V. Barrett
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601784287

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi—the often-ignored Minor Prophets—delivered the next-to-last word to God’s people. That is, these prophets pointed Israel to Christ, the supreme and final Word, and warned them against rejecting Him. Underscoring the truth that studying this portion of Scripture is profitable (2 Tim. 3:16), Michael Barrett helps us discern the relevance of these prophets for today. He explains the prophetic office, the historical setting of the postexilic books, and their contributions to God’s overall redemptive message before considering the specific messages of each of these books in depth. Study questions at the end of each chapter enhance individual and group Bible study. Table of Contents: Part 1 — Just the Facts 1. Facts about Their Job 2. Facts about Their Times Part 2 — Haggai: The Realist 3. Facts about Haggai 4. It’s Not about You 5. Appearance Is Not Reality 6. Blessing Starts Now 7. The Best Is Yet to Be Part 3 — Zechariah: The Idealist 8. Facts about Zechariah 9. The Foundation of Hope 10. The Focus of Hope: The Prophet 11. The Focus of Hope: The Priest 12. The Focus of Hope: The King 13. The Fulfillment of Hope: Generally Speaking; Figuratively Speaking Part 4 — Malachi: The Logician 14. Facts about Malachi 15. The Autopsy of Dead Religion 16. The Answer to Dead Religion 17. The Antithesis to Dead Religion

The Spellman Files

The Spellman Files
Author: Lisa Lutz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416594175

Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. A first novel. Reprint.

The Last Word

The Last Word
Author: Ellery Adams
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101559195

Olivia Limoges and the Bayside Book Writers are excited about Oyster Bay's newest resident: bestselling novelist Nick Plumley, who's come to work on his next book. But when Olivia stops by Plumley's rental she finds that he's been strangled to death. Her instincts tell her that something from the past came back to haunt him, but she never expects that the investigation could spell doom for one of her dearest friends...

Every Last Word

Every Last Word
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1484706277

The New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about. If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.

The Last Word

The Last Word
Author: Lisa Lutz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451686668

Targeted by the members of her dysfunctional family for control over Spellman Investigations after staging a retaliatory takeover, Izzy is wrongly accused of embezzling funds from a wealthy Alzheimer's patient.

The Timeless Way of Building

The Timeless Way of Building
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1979
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780195024029

This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.

The Last Word on Power

The Last Word on Power
Author: Tracy Goss
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0795308388

How leaders can achieve something meaningful—transform a brand, a workplace, a technology, themselves—beyond holding an influential position. Do you want to do work that is worthy of your time and talent? Do you want to make your mark on your industry, company, or within your community? Are you satisfied with the fact that reengineering, quality improvements, and other changes never really make a lasting impact? Then you need to go beyond the techniques of improvement and learn the skills that it takes to be extraordinary. The power to be extraordinary is not one we are born with. Rather, it is a power that one can learn, and Tracy Goss helps executives realize this power. Here in this book for the first time, Goss makes her coursework available to the general reader. Goss’s unique methodology shows how you how you can “put at risk the success you’ve become for the power of making the impossible happen.” She positions executives to take on the future that they dream about. She teaches how to behave differently so that you are free of past constraints. She shows how you can be at home in the environment in which you are constantly surrounded by threats, and how to transcend the ordinary to make the impossible happen. Her work has resulted in many important life changes and organizational reinventions worldwide. “Goss offers powerful information, far above the glib self-help mush that already lines the shelves. She answers the fundamental question of why management fads do not work: the personal work has not yet been done.” —Library Journal

Calvin Gets the Last Word

Calvin Gets the Last Word
Author: Margo Sorenson
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0884488241

The dictionary as narrator? YES! Calvin's dictionary is proud to be carried everywhere Calvin goes--the breakfast table, school, baseball practice, and home again--because Calvin is determined to find the perfect word to attach to his annoying older brother. The word isn’t exactly revenge, mayhem, bewilderment, subterfuge, pulverize, or even retaliation, though all those words are so close and very tempting. When Calvin finally finds the right word for his rascally brother, his dictionary is surprised and delighted, and readers will enjoy celebrating the triumphant discovery of Calvin's perfect word along with his dictionary.

Leaving Cheyenne

Leaving Cheyenne
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1631493523

“If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”— New York Times In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and jealousy as the years pass.