From the popular blogger & provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Christianity that helps you wrestle with
- & sort out
- your faith In Out of Sorts Sarah Bessey
- award-winning blogger & author of Jesus Feminist which was hailed as "lucid compelling & beautifully written" (Frank Viola author of God&s Favorite Place on Earth)
- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling & biblical teaching a style well described as "narrative theology" As she candidly shares her wrestlings with core issues
- such as who Jesus is what place the Church has in our lives how to disagree yet remain within a community & how to love the Bible for what it is rather than what we want it to be
- she teaches us how to walk courageously through our own tough questions In the process of gently helping us sort things out Bessey teaches us how to be as comfortable with uncertainty as we are with solid answers & as we learn to hold questions in one hand & answers in the other we discover new depths of faith that will remain secure even through the storms of life





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This story is not a story at all It all happened On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary By March her world has changed for ever Foot-&-mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morleys' Devon home but soon the nightmare is a few fields away Local sheep are infected & every animal is destroyed Will the Morleys' flock be next? Will their pedigree dairy herd the sows with their piglets & Little Josh Becky's h&-reared lamb survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting & hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life ...

This selection from Frieda Hughes's first four poetry collections is prefaced by a short memoir about her life & work including the loss of her parents Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath & brother Nicholas The book excludes poems from Forty-five (Harper Collins US 2006) & Alternative Values poems & paintings (Bloodaxe Books 2015) 240 pages Hughes Frieda ...

Some 150000 citizens were killed or severely wounded when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945
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An evocative wordless book about the mysteries of the sea from acclaimed illustrator Alison Jay 32 pages Jay Alison ...

Out of the Darkness by Heather Graham A love rekindled Or a deadly reunion? Sarah Hampton is still haunted by a night that nearly ended in a bloody massacre & destroyed her romance with Tyler Grant Now the horror has returned This time Tyler must protect Sarah from the killer hiding in the darkness Appalachian Prey by Debbie Herbert Star-crossed lovers Danger awaits them both Unfortunate circumstances force pregnant Lilah Tedder to face deputy Harlan Sampson her child's secret father who left her heartbroken But when a killer targets Lilah Harlan becomes more than her protector They must uncover old secrets or pay the ultimate price ...

A visitor from an alternate world is glimpsed in a snowy churchyard; a box contains a creature that resembles (but not quite closely enough) a human being; two schoolboys spend a holiday with a sinister aunt In many of these stories ordinary settings in the English countryside possess a hallucinatory quality
- a sense of meaning beyond our grasp & events running out of kilter with reality Like all the best ghost stories these haunting tales offer an enduring sense of mystery with an explanation that remains tantalisingly out of reach They grow richer with each reading
- lingering in the mind & becoming ever more sinister & more profound

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Out of the Easy is set against the vivid backdrop of 1950s New Orleans Written by New York Times bestselling author Ruth Sepetys this novel has something for everyone love mystery murder blackmail & warmth Josie Moraine wants out of The Big Easy
- she needs more than New Orleans can offer Known locally as a brothel prostitute's daughter she dreams of life at an elite college far away from here But then a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie caught between her ambition & a clandestine underworld New Orleans is luring Josie deeper in as she searches for the truth & temptation beckons at every turn Praise for Between Shades of Gray' This superlative first novel by Ruta Sepetys demonstrates the strength of its unembellished language A hefty emotional punch'
- The New York Times' moving & heart-wrenching'
- The Guardian Ruta Sepetys was born & raised in Michigan & now lives with her family in Tennessee Her first novel Between Shades of Gray was shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal & the Waterstones Children's Book Award


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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play Christian Bale Casey Affleck & Woody Harrelson star in this crime thriller from director Scott Cooper Russell Baze (Bale) works in a dead-end job trying to make ends meet so he can support his girlfriend Lena (Zoe Saldana) & his ailing father After returning from serving in Iraq Russell&s younger brother Rodney (Affleck) gets involved with the ruthless Harlan De Groat (Harrelson) & his crime syndicate When he fails to come home & the police are unable to find him Russell puts his own life in danger to save his brother The film also stars Forest Whitaker Willem Dafoe & Sam Shepard with Leonardo Di Caprio Ridley Scott & the late Tony Scott among its producers ...

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LOST SWIMMER now in development as a film 'A taut & tightly wound page-turner' Marie Claire When environmental scientist Laura Alvarado is sent to a remote Antarctic island to report on an abandoned whaling station she begins to uncover more than she could ever imagine On a diving expedition Laura emerges into an ice cave where she is shocked to see an anguished figure crying for help But in this freezing lonely landscape there are ghosts everywhere & Laura wonders if her own eyes can be trusted Has she been in the ice too long? Piecing together a past & present of cruelty & vulnerability that can be traced around the world from Norway to Nantucket Europe & Antarctica Laura will stop at nothing to unearth the truth As she comes face to face with the dark side of human progress she also discovers a legacy of love hope & the meaning of family If only Laura can now find her way out of the ice Out of the Ice delivers compelling psychological drama for fans of Ruth Ware & Rosamund Lupton Praise for The Lost Swimmer now being developed as a film Ann Turner has produced a vivid suspenseful thriller that should appeal to those with a taste for armchair travel' Sydney Morning Herald We had pins & needles trying to unravel the truth throughout Turner's crisply written cleverly plotted tale of deceit' i Books Editor ...