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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.

"How did it all begin?" "What happens when we die?" These are just two of the questions Reverend Oliver "Buzz" Thomas hears centrist Christians asking as he travels across the United States, and he knows that their voices are not being heard. They're people of faith, not of politics, and they want more from their religion than a voter's guide.

In this provocative book, Franky Schaeffer shows how Christians today have sacrificed the artistic prominence they enjoyed for centuries and settled instead for mediocrity. The evidence for this sad state of affairs abounds. We are flooded with "Christian" doodads, trinkets, tee shirts, bumper stickers, etc., that use God's name as an advertising slogan: "Things Go Better with Jesus", putting the Creator of the universe on the same level as soda pop!

Michael Looking Coyote takes listeners on a meditative journey across the timeless landscape of Native American spirituality. Both relaxing and inspiring, his words will radically alter your perspective about how to achieve true peace in your life.

Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache—until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother’s driveway. Even worse, her supposedly respectable brother begins behaving in decidedly non-innocent ways, like fleeing to the Bahamas and leaving her with both a homicide in her lap and the pointed suspicions of the Atlanta Police Department directed her way. Suddenly, she has to worry about clearing her own name, not just that of her wayward sibling.

In The Game of Life and How to Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn established herself as one of the most practical and helpful prosperity writers of her era. The Secret Door to Success is a series of talks and lectures given by Shinn that will show listeners how to discover the secret knowledge of success through the power of spiritual law.

Murder in the 11th House is the first novel in the mystery series that introduces a unique character in the annals of detective fiction. Astrological detective David Lowell gets involved in a new case thanks to his daughter, a young defense attorney who believes that a murder suspect is innocent. A judge has been murdered in a New York City parking garage, and Joanna “Johnny” Colbert, a tough and mouthy bartender, is accused of the crime. Lowell’s daughter, Melinda, believes that her client has been wrongly accused.

A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer here explores his concept of the nature of God. In a series of probing, challenging, and uncommon dialogues, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism. He presents a view in which our world is created by an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of determined opposition by contrary powers in the universe.

There were eight authors of the New Testament. Marisa and Joe channeled these authors and originally combined their accounts into one book. When they reread the book in session with the other side - to make sure that the information was correct, while also seeking additional comments from the authors - Jesus, who frequently interceded throughout the interviews, suggested that they break it up into four books instead.

Meditation has been proved to be beneficial to health and well-being. An easy and convenient way to bring this practice into your life is with an album of meditations guided by Philip Permutt, healer, teacher, and author. In The Little Spirit-Guide Meditation Album, experienced meditation expert Philip Permutt takes you on six individual 10-minute meditation journeys, with music by Llewellyn and Juliana, which are designed to lead you to your spirit guides and help find the answers you seek.

In Find Your Miracle, New York Times best-selling authors Kerry and Chris Shook take a fresh look at nine of Jesus' most incredible times of healing and supernatural intervention. The Shooks unpack these moments in modern language to usher you into the pain, the desperation, the breakthrough, and the miracle of each encounter. Plus they reveal a "miracle map" that connects that moment long ago to our needs today for revelation, transformation, and restoration.

Through hundreds of hours of channeled recordings, a Christian father, Joseph Moris, and his spiritually intuitive daughter, Marisa Moris, together bring you the answers that they have been given by the "other side" to questions that we all have had at one time or another in our life. In this first book by Joseph and Marisa on the subject of answers from the "other side," you'll hear about this normal family's journey through life not knowing that Marisa was a latent medium all along and how complications arose from her eventual gift to channel heaven.

Every human being has a unique vibration. Your vibration goes up and down throughout the day depending upon your state of mind, emotions, activities, and the influence of those around you. Coauthor Marisa Moris has developed, in partnership with her guides, a unique system to calculate your vibration. She calls the results your "spiritual credit score". Here you will learn how to measure your spiritual credit score and some simple techniques that can help you manage your moods and allow you to live a more enjoyable life.

At the age of 33, Erik Reece's father, a Baptist minister, took his own life, leaving Erik in the care of his grandmother and his grandfather - also a fundamentalist Baptist preacher and a pillar of his rural Virginia community. While Erik grew up with a conflicted relationship with Christianity, he unexpectedly found comfort in the Jefferson Bible. Inspired, he undertook what would become a spiritual and literary quest to identify an "American gospel" coursing through the work of both great and forgotten American geniuses, from William Byrd to Walt Whitman to Lynn Margulis.

In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie, screenwriter Dan Gordon shares the uplifting and poignant story of a remarkable family and how they remain intertwined in one another's lives even after passing to the other side. He describes the funny and touching ways in which family love travels across boundaries of time, space, personality, and even death.

We are all so busy nowadays, and tackling all those to-do lists can leave us drained, worn down, and lacking energy. When you take a deeper look inside, you will also discover patterns, old habits, and past events blocking self-growth. Life coach extraordinaire, KJ Landis, helps identify how, why, and where we got stuck in the first place, and how we can utilize past trauma and drama as a springboard to becoming our most authentic, vibrant selves.

Regular meditation has many proven beneficial effects on health and well-being. An easy and convenient way to bring this practice into your life is with an album of meditations guided by Philip Permutt, popular meditation teacher and internationally acclaimed author. In Meditation Workshop, Philip introduces beginning meditators to techniques and exercises that will enable them to relax the body and empty the mind. Included are a specially recorded guided meditation and music by Chris Conway.

In The Little Angel Mediation, Philip Permutt brings you six meditations specifically designed to help you find and work withangels. Each angel works a little differently, and each can help in differentways: guiding, healing, protecting, bringing answers and messages, bringing hopeand harmony, and giving comfort in times of need and inspiration when required.These unique meditations feature music by Llewellyn.

Each soul's journey through life on planet Earth is an adventure. The greater picture of the billions of lives and their stories is a cosmic phenomenon we can never fully comprehend. But with our God-given intuition and creative power, we can imagine. And in our lives, we learn that there is inner guidance available to us if we merely tune in.

In Seven, Jacqueline Leo explains the many valuable ways the number 7 can be a tool to define time, synthesize ideas, and keep one's mind and memory performing at top speed. Leo explores the powerful utility of 7 throughout cultures and the ages. Why are there 7 wonders of the world, 7 seas, 7 ages of man, 7 levels of hell, 7 primary colors, 7 whole notes of the musical scale, and 7 days of the week? And why, when asked to choose a number between 1 and 10, do most people choose 7?