Jonah's Compass

Jonah's Compass
Author: Annabella Stone
Publisher: Delta Force Team Panther
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-16
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Does their compass really point to true love? Jonah Montgomery thought he had it all, an Army career he loved, Team Panther the men he'd bonded with as brothers, and, Matt, the man who owned his heart. But under the shadow of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, everything fell apart when Matt was captured in Afghanistan. It's taken him five years to reinvent himself and to build a new life as country music's singing soldier. All he needs and wants is his music and his sniper rifle, there's no longer any room in his life for matters of the heart. It was official PTSD sucked, it caused Matt Garrett to make the biggest mistake of his life. He shut down when he should have opened up, and he ran from Jonah when he should have talked to him instead. By the time he figured out which way was up, too much time had passed to fix the wrongs between him and the only man he's ever loved. He learned to suck it up and to figure out how this living thing worked without Jonah at his side. Now five years later a terrorist seeking revenge has come for Jonah. Will Matt take the opportunity a sniper's bullet provides? Can Team Panther find their missing brother in time? Will Matt and Jonah stand together or will the love they still have for each other falter under the weight of revenge?

A Journey with Jonah

A Journey with Jonah
Author: Paul Murray
Publisher: Word on Fire
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781943243853

Jonah is the only ancient prophet with whom Jesus identifies in the Gospels. But when we turn to read the book of Jonah itself, we discover that this so-called "book" is only two pages long-and that Jonah's prophesying is limited to one short sentence. And yet, around this small book, as if it were around Jonah's own troubled ship, high waves of controversy and mystery have swirled for centuries. In A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment, Fr. Paul Murray strives to uncover the great lesson of this story. Following Fr. Murray's exploration is a 2003 lectio divina on Jonah by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-published here in English for the first time. Book jacket.

The Heart's Charge (Hanger's Horsemen Book #2)

The Heart's Charge (Hanger's Horsemen Book #2)
Author: Karen Witemeyer
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493431587

Members of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago. After failing at love, Katherine Palmer dedicated her life to caring for children, teaming up with Eliza Southerland to start Harmony House. From mixed ancestry, illegitimate, and female, Eliza understands the pain of not fitting society's mold. Yet those are the very attributes that lead her to minister to outcast children. The taciturn Jonah intrigues her with his courage and kindness, but there are secrets behind his eyes--ghosts from wars past and others still being waged. However, when a handful of urchin children from the area go missing, a pair of Horsemen are exactly what the women need. Working together to find the children, will these two couples find love as well?

Jonah

Jonah
Author: Amy Erickson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 146746130X

The dominant reading of the book of Jonah—that the hapless prophet Jonah is a lesson in not trying to run away from God—oversimplifies a profoundly literary biblical text, argues Amy Erickson. Likewise, the more recent understanding of Jonah as satire is problematic in its own right, laden as it is with anti-Jewish undertones and the superimposition of a Christian worldview onto a Jewish text. How can we move away from these stale interpretations to recover the richness of meaning that belongs to this short but noteworthy book of the Bible? This Illuminations commentary delves into Jonah’s reception history in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts while also exploring its representations in visual arts, music, literature, and pop culture. After this thorough contextualization, Erickson provides a fresh translation and exegesis, paving the way for pastors and scholars to read and utilize the book of Jonah as the provocative, richly allusive, and theologically robust text that it is.

Ancient Code of the Universe

Ancient Code of the Universe
Author: James Darrigo
Publisher: AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2022-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514276747

"Is it science fiction or an allegory for the universe as we believe it to be? Jim Darrigo bites off a big slice of the Big Bang in this thought-provoking novel about the forces behind it all." - Martha Griswold, Online Critics Corner The universe is controlled by power. But, who is the "power" behind the controlling? The story begins with a "Being" explaining to the "Authority" why an atrocious event has occurred. The event starts when two people, Joseph's wife, Maria, gives birth to a baby named "Infant Boy." Another entity named Keeper feels threatened by this Infant Boy. Keeper wants to assure that the products of the "experiment" flourishes for his gain. So, Keeper sends Infant Boy on a mission. The mission goes awry and Infant Boy time-travels to faraway lands. He discovers a secret mountain harboring a genetic experiment which is being conducted by alien beings. Who are these aliens? The book is divided into Four Parts with individual characters encountering the secret mountain and alien beings. Interwoven in each part is the same theme of "Who is doing the experiments and why?"

The Pilots

The Pilots
Author: Richard Frede
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1978
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780394462325

Blood Heir

Blood Heir
Author: Amélie Wen Zhao
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0525707824

The first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father's murder. In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are deemed unnatural—even dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, is one of the most terrifying Affinites. Ana’s ability to control blood has long been kept secret, but when her father, the emperor, is murdered, she is the only suspect. Now, to save her own life, Ana must find her father’s killer. But the Cyrilia beyond the palace walls is one where corruption rules and a greater conspiracy is at work—one that threatens the very balance of Ana’s world. There is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to the conspiracy’s core: Ramson Quicktongue. Ramson is a cunning crime lord with sinister plans—though he might have met his match in Ana. Because in this story, the princess might be the most dangerous player of all. Praise for Blood Heir “Cinematic storytelling at its best.”—Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep and The Girl the Sea Gave Back “Zhao shines in the fast-paced and vivid combat scenes, which lend a cinematic quality that pulls readers in.”—NYT Book Review “Zhao is a master writer who weaves a powerful tale of loyalty, honor, and courage through a strong female protagonist. . . . Readers will love the fast-paced energy and plot twists in this adventure-packed story.”—SLJ

Noah's Compass

Noah's Compass
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307372618

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a retired school teacher forced to re-evaluate his life. Liam Pennywell has never liked teaching at a run-down private school, so when he is forced to retire at sixty-one, it doesn’t bother him. But what does is having no memory of an assailant who attacked him on the first night after he moved to his efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. He’s driven to recover this memory and at the same time recover other moments of his life that he has, over time, forgotten. But he can’t do it alone. What he needs is a “hired rememberer” — someone who will do the remembering for him — but when he finds Eunice, he gets a whole lot more than he anticipated. Subtle, funny, and populated with characters that are as real as friends, Noah’s Compass is an engaging and revealing novel about coming to terms with change, family, love, and memory.

Torn

Torn
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416989811

Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but soon Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life.