Christine Fields was headed to Paris, France to begin her next assignment. Paris is one of the most romantic places in the world. Yet the beauty of that city would be wasted on her and Nicholas Powers. Nicholas is heir to Powers Industry, a New York based textile conglomerate founded by his father, Douglas, some thirty years earlier. Now they were diversifying into the fashion industry including cosmetics and fragrances. When Nicholas and Christine first meet, they discover they neither like nor trust each other. However, fate and circumstances would intervene forcing their hand in a collaboration to launch a multi-billion dollar project and fight off industrial saboteurs. When the finger of quilt is pointed in Christine's direction, she has to convince Nicholas of her innocence. This would prove a difficult task since she wasn't so sure herself...
Some secrets needed to remain hidden. Frankie Jones had lived a very shady past and only escaped her fate by a miracle. Now she was Nevada socialite Francis Covington and the wife of Senate hopeful, Alexander Covington. His political campaign had thrust their lives into public view and private turmoil and dark remnants from her past threatened to resurface and leave her open to a scandal that could destroy her husband, her marriage and her future; making her desperate enough to do almost anything to stop it....
Elizabeth Harris should be the happiest woman in the world. Her career was soaring and she was engaged to a man she adored. Those were the only good things because the rest of her family was falling apart including four dysfunctional sisters and one under-employed brother. She was the one trying to hold things together, deal with their mother¿s illness and plan her wedding. She needed faith-filled encouragement that could only be found Halfway to Heaven.
Revenge is the dish that's best served cold. Karen was living the outward appearance of a life most people would envy. Only she knew it was an abusive marriage and she had no intention of allowing it to continue. When her husband, Nathan, landed a new position as the Operations Manager for Duvall Beverage and Distribution, he bought her a new house, a new car and promised things would be different. Nathan took the job left vacant by Eric Kirkland. His death had been under mysterious circumstances and his sister, Laurel, refused to believe foul play wasn't involved and felt the need to make sure Nathan knew what might lie ahead. When his well planned career started to crumble at his feet, Karen happily watched from the sidelines as all Nathan's efforts to hurt her were turned towards trying to save himself....
Alexia Blakeley hadn¿t lost a case yet. She¿d won an acquittal in a headline making murder trial and made senior partner in one swoop.The only problem, the murders started again and she wondered if she¿d made a terrible mistake, especially when it seemed she was targeted as the next victim.Top notch District Attorney, Jason Steele was asked to step in and take control. Jason was the last man Alexia wanted to see; not just because of the past they once shared, but because of the secrets she had never revealed...
Two wrongs don't make a right. James Vaughn was a wealthy and powerful man. He was the founder of Kingdom Records and Rachel was his wife and one of his hottest stars with several Grammy and B.E.T. Awards to her credit. Her husband promised to give her the world. The only thing he didn't promise was fidelity since dalliances with other women seemed to be part of the package. James didn't attempt to be discrete as he moved from one bed to the next, never bothering to look over his shoulder or consider the consequences. After he is tragically killed in a plane crash, several secrets surrounding his life are exposed. His lifelong rival, Hunter Daniels will step in to give Rachel the comfort and support James never would and helps her pick up the pieces of her shattered life. When Hunter also offers his heart, she has to fight a mental battle between making the right choices and the quiet whispers of forbidden fruit...
Trapped in a web of deception, she went from the arms of a man she hated into the arms of a man she feared... Ace reporter Danielle Spencer worked to forget her shattered romance. She feared the loss of her golden touch until the day her editor, Walter Martin, sent her on an impossible mission. Danny's assignment was to seek whatever means necessary to secure an exclusive story on wealthy industrialist Ryan McDermont. The handsome millionaire has dark secrets in his past which he has never revealed, especially to gossip seeking reporters. When Danny sneaks on board his exploration vessel, she is caught spying and is forced to remain Ryan's reluctant stow-away for the duration of his trip. She is plagued by an evil admirer who keeps his twisted love for her a secret until forced into a desperate act of willful revenge. From the rolling hills and hollow valleys of San Francisco to California's coastal islands, Danielle is a young and beautiful woman courageously fighting battles on dry land and raging seas. Caught between two lovers. One will attempt to destroy her. Another will fight to win her. One man will lose and one will be the victor of her Destiny Voyage.
The accident changed everything. Camille Reynolds woke up in a log cabin with a strange man who said he was her husband, but she was scared to death every time he looked in her direction and couldn't understand why. At the moment, she couldn't remember anything including her name or what type of life she'd shared with this man. As her memory slowly returns, her worry only deepens when aspects about her life and family emerge to reveal a picture she's too afraid to face. Camille will discover she's entangled in a mystery and finds herself at the center of hidden agendas with no idea who she can trust. Was Victor really her husband or was he the man she was running away from the night she crashed her car into that snowy embankment?
Marina Velarde is long disheartened by the violence consuming her southwestern community but is driven to action when her brother, Rudolfo, and three other men are brutally executed in the barrio of Los Volcanes. After he charges a powerful Mexican drug lord with the murders, local district attorney Calvin Dusan immediately manipulates the media to support a quick trial. But Marina believes the wrong man has been charged, and when Judge Margaret Morrigan is assigned the case, she agrees that the evidence is questionable. Judge Morrigan knows the truth won't be revealed unless she can fight Dusan's determination to maneuver a premature conviction. Both Margaret and Marina soon face radical changes in their lives. Margaret endures threats on her life and her reputation and becomes a virtual prisoner in her own home. Marina evolves from timid onlooker to confident combatant as she fights to uncover all she can about her brother and his death. But both women realize there can be no end to their turmoil until they finally resolve the horrible murders that have overshadowed their world.
Wise Up! invites the reader to step up to the divine customer service desk and exchange self-sufficiency, self-absorption, self-indulgence, and self-protection for the four virtues of biblical wisdom: the fear of the Lord (faith), the listening heart (compassion), the cool spirit (self-discipline), and the subversive voice (moral courage). An invaluable resource for personal devotion, small group study, and sermon series, Wise Up! is a spiritual manual for navigating the twists and turns of an unpredictable life. The author mines the riches of the Bible's wisdom literature from Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the short sayings of the synoptic Jesus. The result is four guiding virtues that can keep our feet from stumbling on the journey to wisdom through the thorniest of paths. McKenzie, the author of several popular books for both clergy and laity, places her profound knowledge of biblical wisdom in conversation with the absurdities, pains, and joys of our everyday lives. She invites wisdom down from the pedestal to accompany the reader on his or her daily rounds. Reading this book, at the same time, soothes the soul and troubles the conscience. It deepens faith, fires compassion, cools destructive desires, and nudges the sleeping conscience awake.
This revised and updated edition of It Could Happen to Anyone provides a comprehensive examination of why women stay in abusive relationships and why they leave, explaining why women should not be blamed for their victimization.
Michelle Andrews began living in Florida in the late 1950s after the birth of her first child. She was your average mother, homemaker, wife, and semi-professional, making a living in the field of dentistry since high school. Two more children later and well into her second marriage and finally enjoying the “empty nest,” her life takes a dramatic turn. After the death of her husband, Paul, her life takes on a new identity. With it come intrigue, fear, mystery, and new relationships. What she finds out about her dead husband throws her in the middle of The Imperfect Circle which she unwittingly becomes a part. A set of keys and a post office box become the focus of her life, and also the answer to a seven-year crime spree.
This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with the public through a fluid and quickly expanding assemblage of communications and information technologies. Policing and Media explores the rationalities that are driving police/media relations and asks; how these relationships differ (or not) from the ways they have operated historically; what new technologies are influencing and being deployed by policing organizations and police public relations professionals and why; how operational policing is shaping and being shaped by new technologies of communication; and what forms of resistance are evident to the manufacture of preferred images of police. The authors suggest that new forms of simulated and hyper real policing using platforms such as social media and reality television are increasingly positioning police organisations as media organisations, and in some cases enabling police to bypass the traditional media altogether. The book is informed by empirical research spanning ten years in this field and includes chapters on journalism and police, policing and social media, policing and reality television, and policing resistances. It will be of interest to those researching and teaching in the fields of Criminology, Policing and Media, as well as police and media professionals.
Empowers the preacher to understand the role of wise leader to which he or she has been called, and to claim that role with conviction and joy. Pastors are called to an exciting ministry of proclamation and leadership. That excitement, however, often turns to demoralization and burnout as pastors become increasingly uncertain of what their role is supposed to be. Competing claims by the congregation, the denomination, and society about who and what the pastor is supposed to be breed confusion and disappointment. Are they primarily managers? Therapists? Fundraisers? A way out of this confusion lies in reclaiming the biblical understanding of who the pastor is. One of the biblical roles within the pastoral vocation that often goes neglected is that of wise teacher or sage. Scripture presents as a model of pastoral leadership those who interpret the word and will of God for daily living. Especially in their preaching, pastors are called to help the congregation understand their place in God’s world. In this book, Alyce McKenzie lays out the four qualities of the wise teacher–the bended knee, the listening heart, the cool head, and the courageous voice–and encourages pastors to make each of these integral to their ministry and vocation. She goes on to demonstrate that the sermon is the prime opportunity to function in the role of wise teacher. She offers strategies for applying biblical wisdom to all areas of everyday life. The strategies include: (1) Preaching that is as sensory as life is; using imagery, metaphor, simile, and story to connect with people’s emotions as well as their intellect. (2) Preaching that uses first-person experiences without being narcissistic. (3) Preaching that teaches without boring. (4) Preaching on public, often controversial issues that minimizes defensiveness and maximizes dialogue.
Solitary, nocturnal creatures, skunks generally go about their business unnoticed. But then there’s that thing they do . . . and oh, boy, when they do it, no one can ignore them. But there’s far more to skunks than their stench, and with this beautifully illustrated entry in Reaktion’s Animal series, Alyce Miller gives these furry scavengers their due. More than being unappreciated, skunks, Miller reveals, have a long history of persecution: killed off as smelly nuisances, they have also been hunted for their fur and, yes, their unique musk, which has found a perhaps unexpected use in perfume. Moving from nature to culture, Miller delves into the long line of skunks that have played parts in literature, film, and folklore, from the antics of Pepe Le Pew to the role of skunks in Native American spiritual beliefs. As growing urban wildlife populations bring humans and skunks ever closer, Miller’s book will help us understand—and appreciate—these beautiful, intriguing, and wholly distinct animals.
In this humorous guide, John C. Holbert and Alyce M. McKenzie provide helpful and practical advice for avoiding the common mistakes that many preachers make in their sermons. Useful for preachers, students, and teachers alike, What Not to Say addresses how to use language about God, how to use stories in preaching, and what not to say (and what to say) in the beginning, middle, and end of sermons. A companion video with preaching illustrations is available online at wjkbooks.com.
Homiletics textbooks often discourage the use of humor in preaching, regarding it as trivializing or distracting. The result is that many preachers have failed to understand humor’s positive power, demoting it to the opening joke to get a guaranteed guffaw to warm up the crowd. Humor Us!, the second volume in the "Preaching and…" series, is a collaborative effort by homiletician Alyce M. McKenzie and humor scholar Owen Hanley Lynch that promotes humor, a force capable of great good, to its rightful place in the pulpit. Establishing humor as a divine gift, Humor Us! opens to preachers the world of humor studies with its positive portrayal of humor’s usefulness to speak truth to power, unite people in their common humanity, and strengthen them to cope and survive in tough times. Humor Us! helps preachers understand how humor works and shows them, in very practical and specific ways, how preachers can put it to work in their sermons. It combines the wealth of knowledge of two highly regarded scholars-practitioners to show how humor can become a potent tool for sharing the good news in sermons. McKenzie and Lynch prove that humor, when applied thoughtfully, can foster compassion and a sense of common humanity, help challenge an unjust status quo, and invite listeners into a shared experience of the presence of God.
How can preachers ensure that their sermons continue to engage listeners in a world defined by visual media and the short, segmented delivery of information? Alyce McKenzie harnesses the element of drama and the human fascination with scenes to offer ministers a modern means of sermon development and delivery. McKenzie's core strategy is to invite listeners into scenes—whether from Scripture or contemporary life—and, once they are there, to point them toward the larger story of God's relationship with humankind. Creating such scenes unifies the whole process of preaching, she says, from the preacher's daily life observations to interpretation of scenes from Scripture, to sermon shaping, sequencing, and delivery. The process culminates in a specific understanding of the purpose of the sermon: to send listeners out into the scenes they'll play in their lives for the next week, equipped to act out their parts in ways that are kinder, more just, and more courageous than last week.
This collection of Block's photographs (sections of which involve nudity) presents her complicated, and at times difficult, relationship with her mother, Bertha Alyce, and a mother-daughter quest for healing.
This book rediscovers and re-evaluates the work of the Welsh dramatist J. O. Francis (1882–1954) and his contribution to the development of Welsh drama in the twentieth century. More than a prize-winning dramatist, whose plays were performed all over the world, Francis can also be described as one of the founding fathers of modern Welsh drama, whose work has helped establish theatrical realism on the Welsh stage. His creative non-fiction for the popular press and for radio gives a unique perspective on how Wales was seen through the eyes of a perceptive London-Welsh observer. Using much previously unpublished material, this volume is an excellent introduction to one of Wales’s foremost dramatists, and is innovative in the way that it creates a picture of the amateur dramatic scene of south Wales (1920–40) based on sound statistical analysis of available evidence. It situates Francis’s work in its cultural context and brings this exciting period in Welsh cultural history to life in its introduction to a new audience.
Discover some of the odder byways of the United States with Alyce Cornyn-Selby as she travels from her home in Portland, Oregon to the East Coast and back again in a purple, topless reproduction of a 1927 Bugatti Model 35 roadster named Seno.
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