Day of a Stranger

Day of a Stranger
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The Hospitable Leader

The Hospitable Leader
Author: Terry A. Smith
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493416138

Successful leaders today don't dictate; they invite. They don't dismiss; they welcome. They don't neglect; they care. Now more than ever we must pay attention to the soft side of leadership if we want hard results. As leaders--from parents to CEOs--we must learn gracious leadership to truly, positively, change our spheres of influence. In this passionate, powerful book, pastor and leadership mentor Terry Smith fleshes out five vital principles you need to become a hospitable leader. He shows that this type of leadership is not superficial niceness or allowing people to do whatever they want. Hospitable leadership is result-oriented because it's motivated by genuine love. It's how you create environments where people and dreams can thrive, where vision turns to action, and where great things happen regularly. Here is everything you need to become the type of leader people want to follow.

A Stranger’s Promise

A Stranger’s Promise
Author: Betsy Lowery
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1973648202

From the church librarian to the garage mechanic, folks in Crook Mountain, Tennessee seem to be either hindering or helping an old missing-person investigation. And a certain waitress who’s fairly new in town may have more at stake than any of them. Now, throw in Joan Ryan, a semi-retired dietitian from Atlanta who arrives on the scene by pure happenstance. Joan may be the secret ingredient in a recipe of comedy, resourcefulness, and danger! “Such interesting characters I would like to meet. I am praying that this novel will be shared with many hungry readers.” Natalie G. “You have a gift with words and I was very aware of every descriptive word that is so much a part of your style. They kept my mind alive!” Jeanne W. I truly enjoyed the story and meeting all these new “friends”—well, some not so friendly! I so admire the talent it takes to imagine a plot, complete with all the characters, scenery, etc., and then put it all together with dialogue and all the details needed to make an appealing, interesting story. I’m looking forward to reading the sequel! Millie E.

Held Hostage by a Stranger

Held Hostage by a Stranger
Author: Fatimah Mahassan Jackson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493123084

This book is about a road traveled in my life that I didn't even know I was traveling. Being led by GOD and how every footstep is ordered was a phenomenal situation. It will bring you to tears and keep you in awe because it proves time and time again that GOD never fails us. The book describes how GOD uses people, places, things, dreams, situations and circumstances to take us where we have never been before; to the land of our Father who reaches out to us with every step we take and every move we make to ensure we stay on track. How much do we really understand about being in GOD's will? This book tells of a girl, and woman, myself, how I struggled (and I still do) with many different things in life and at times I want to give up because it is easier. "Why do we lose hope or whatever it is inside us", and therefore ending peace and joy in our lives? This book tells of encouragement, guidance and love, trials and tribulations, agony and happiness. It helps us to get back from falling into our deepest hole and live the life we are destined to live. To remember the place inside us that thrives and feeds from the presence of the Holy Spirit. This book shows a quickening in my life; an out pouring of indescribable fullness. This book is a major part of my life and this is how I was guided through to the other side.

A Stranger's Game

A Stranger's Game
Author: Joan Johnston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2009-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743454391

Picking up a pretty woman, Grace, outside his favorite bar in Texas, FBI agent Breed Grayhawk is unaware that she has just finished a wrongful sentence for murdering her parents and is breaking into her late father's colleagues' homes in search of evidence that will clear her name. A best-selling novel. Reprint.

Before We Were Strangers

Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renée Carlino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501105787

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

The Night Strangers

The Night Strangers
Author: Chris Bohjalian
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030788886X

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous? The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.

A Stranger in Paradise

A Stranger in Paradise
Author: Julie Chimes
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1408825937

The remarkable memoir of healing and forgiveness from Julie Chimes, who survived a horrific stabbing on her own driveway In 1986, Julie Chimes allowed an emotionally distressed acquaintance to wait in her cottage for Julie's doctor boyfriend to return. Before he could, the woman - who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and, unknown to all, had stopped taking her medication - attacked Julie with a carving knife. This book describes what happened in detail, and the long period of healing and coming to terms with the attack that followed. Julie tells of her out-of-body experiences during the crisis, as well as the dreams and premonitions leading up to it. She describes what it feels like to die, and then unforeseeably, to live to tell the tale. But most remarkably of all, she tells of her hardest journey: learning to forgive.

A Wicked Thing

A Wicked Thing
Author: Rhiannon Thomas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062303554

Rhiannon Thomas's dazzling debut novel is a spellbinding reimagining of what happens after happily ever after. Vividly imagined scenes of action, romance, and political intrigue are seamlessly woven together to reveal a richly created world . . . and Sleeping Beauty as she's never been seen before. One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. All the books say that she should be living happily ever after. But as Aurora understands all too well, the truth is nothing like the fairy tale. Her family is long dead. Her "true love" is a kind stranger. And her whole life has been planned out by political foes while she slept. As Aurora struggles to make sense of her new world, she begins to fear that the curse has left its mark on her, a fiery and dangerous thing that might be as wicked as the witch who once ensnared her. With her wedding day drawing near, Aurora must make the ultimate decision on how to save her kingdom: marry the prince or run.