Deadly Obsession (Driscoll Security 1)

Deadly Obsession (Driscoll Security 1) PDF Author: Lynn Hagen
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646376722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Romantic Suspense, Paranormal, Werewolves, MM, HEA] Jack Dane is a world-famous country music artist. He’s clawed his way to the top, working relentlessly to make something of himself. After getting the worst news of his life, Jack just needs a break, a small vacation to figure out his next move. When a crazed fan takes things too far, Jack turns to Mendez Grant, his new bodyguard, a man who has intrigued him since first glance. When Mendez joined a security firm, little did he know his next client would be his mate. While the world gushes over pretty boy Jack Dane, it’s only with Mendez that Jack shows his vulnerable side. Now Jack has a lunatic after him, someone who thinks Jack belongs to him, and Mendez will do everything in his power to keep Jack safe while showing the country boy what true love is all about. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.

Deadly Obsession (Driscoll Security 1)

Deadly Obsession (Driscoll Security 1) PDF Author: Lynn Hagen
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646376722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Romantic Suspense, Paranormal, Werewolves, MM, HEA] Jack Dane is a world-famous country music artist. He’s clawed his way to the top, working relentlessly to make something of himself. After getting the worst news of his life, Jack just needs a break, a small vacation to figure out his next move. When a crazed fan takes things too far, Jack turns to Mendez Grant, his new bodyguard, a man who has intrigued him since first glance. When Mendez joined a security firm, little did he know his next client would be his mate. While the world gushes over pretty boy Jack Dane, it’s only with Mendez that Jack shows his vulnerable side. Now Jack has a lunatic after him, someone who thinks Jack belongs to him, and Mendez will do everything in his power to keep Jack safe while showing the country boy what true love is all about. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.

Biblical Porn

Biblical Porn PDF Author: Jessica Johnson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082237160X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnson shows how they were affectively recruited into sexualized and militarized dynamics of power through the mobilization of what she calls "biblical porn"—the affective labor of communicating, promoting, and embodying Driscoll's teaching on biblical masculinity, femininity, and sexuality, which simultaneously worked as a marketing strategy, social imaginary, and biopolitical instrument. Johnson theorizes religious conviction as a social process through which Mars Hill's congregants circulated and amplified feelings of hope, joy, shame, and paranoia as affective value that the church capitalized on to grow at all costs.

The Andalucian Friend

The Andalucian Friend PDF Author: Alexander Soderberg
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0770436064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Enemies are everywhere in this monumental international crime thriller that Brad Thor calls "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets The Sopranos." Hector Guzman has fooled many women. With his quiet charm, easy smile, and smooth demeanor it's easy to fall into his trap, and Sophie Brinkmann, a widowed single mother, is no exception. She quickly learns, though, that his sleek façade masks something sinister. Guzman is the head of a powerful international crime ring with a reach into drugs and weaponry that extends from Europe to South America. His interests are under siege by a ruthless German syndicate who will stop at nothing to stake its claim. But the Guzmans are a family of fighters and will wage war to protect what’s rightfully theirs. When Sophie is unwittingly caught in the crossfire, she must summon everything within her to navigate the intricate web of moral ambiguity, deadly obsession, and craven gamesmanship.

Quiet Dell

Quiet Dell PDF Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439172544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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In 1931, Emily Thornhill, one of the few women in the Chicago press, covers the murders of Asta Eicher and her three children and, obsessed with finding out what happened to this beautiful family, allies herself with the man funding the investigation.

Hipster Christianity

Hipster Christianity PDF Author: Brett McCracken
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441211934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Insider twentysomething Christian journalist Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" old guard of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized 21st-century church. This change raises a big issue for the church in our postmodern world: the question of cool. The question is whether or not Christianity can be, should be, or is, in fact, cool. This probing book is about an emerging category of Christians McCracken calls "Christian hipsters"--the unlikely fusion of the American obsessions with worldly "cool" and otherworldly religion--an analysis of what they're about, why they exist, and what it all means for Christianity and the church's relevancy and hipness in today's youth-oriented culture.

Real Faith: Answers to the Top 100 Questions about Christianity

Real Faith: Answers to the Top 100 Questions about Christianity PDF Author: Mark Driscoll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736683446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Resilient Ministry

Resilient Ministry PDF Author: Bob Burns
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083086461X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Why does one well-equipped, well-meaning person in ministry succeed while another fails? Bob Burns, Tasha Chapman and Donald Guthrie undertook a five-year intensive research project on the frontlines of pastoral ministry to answer that question. What they found was nothing less than the DNA of thriving ministry today.

Dying Every Day

Dying Every Day PDF Author: James Romm
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor of The Landmark Arrian:The Campaign of Alexander (“Thrilling” —The New York Times Book Review), a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale. At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome’s preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment in his fifties and subsequent appointment as tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, future emperor of Rome. Controlling them both, Nero’s mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress, great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius. James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman. Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate father, and, at seventeen, when Nero abruptly ascended to become emperor of Rome, Seneca, a man never avid for political power became, with Nero, the ruler of the Roman Empire. We see how Seneca was able to control his young student, how, under Seneca’s influence, Nero ruled with intelligence and moderation, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, gave slaves the right to file complaints against their owners, pardoned prisoners arrested for sedition. But with time, as Nero grew vain and disillusioned, Seneca was unable to hold sway over the emperor, and between Nero’s mother, Agrippina—thought to have poisoned her second husband, and her third, who was her uncle (Claudius), and rumored to have entered into an incestuous relationship with her son—and Nero’s father, described by Suetonius as a murderer and cheat charged with treason, adultery, and incest, how long could the young Nero have been contained? Dying Every Day is a portrait of Seneca’s moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess. In his treatises, Seneca preached a rigorous ethical creed, exalting heroes who defied danger to do what was right or embrace a noble death. As Nero’s adviser, Seneca was presented with a more complex set of choices, as the only man capable of summoning the better aspect of Nero’s nature, yet, remaining at Nero’s side and colluding in the evil regime he created. Dying Every Day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher-poet who was almost a king, tied to a tyrant—as Seneca, the paragon of reason, watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders, the Fire of Rome, and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the Senate’s golden age.

Europeana

Europeana PDF Author: Patrik Ourednik
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628975253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory. Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, comparing the heights of different forces’ soldiers and considering how tall, long, or good at fertilizing fields the men’s bodies will be. Probing the depths of humanity and inhumanity, this is an account of history as it has never been told: “engaging, even frightening.” At once recreating and uncreating the twentieth century, Ourednik explores the connections across the decades between the disparate figures, events, and politics we thought we knew. Patrik Ourednik’s Europeana merits the author’s reputation as a giant of post-1989 Czech literature. Now translated into 33 languages, the book is a masterwork of cubism, a polymorphic monologue of statistics and movements and fine print and discoveries that evokes the deadpan absurdity of Kafka and the gallows humor of Hašek. Ourednik has created a mesmerizing, maddening account of the past, and his interrogation of “truth” and objectivity resonates now more than ever.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.