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In The New Cookville Kids on the Trail, the Cookville Kids add some more brain power to their little group, but their love of solving mysteries remains the same. Add your brain power to theirs, and you might find the same love of mystery-solving. Ten brand-new mysteries require some careful observational skills to crack the case. Join the New Cookville Kids on the trail of the bad guys, keep your eyes peeled, and happy solving

THE NEW COOKVILLE KIDS INVESTIGATE Mini-mysteriesThe fun is back with ten brand new mini-mysteries for the solve-'em-yourself sleuth plus a brand new generation of Cookville Kids, Private Investigators. Unravel the tangled webs alongside D.J. Shurgelo, blossoming actress and detective extraordinaire; Mike Andrews, stunt-bike master and keen-sighted investigator; and Jordie May, class clown and serious solver. The Cookville Kids mini-mysteries provide self-solving enjoyment for first-class private eyes or amateur observers of all ages and skill levels.

COOKVILLE KIDS, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORSMeet the Cookville Kids, Private Investigators, seven neighbourhood friends with a talent for solving mysteries, large and small. Although Cookville appears to be a sleepy, little town, the Cookville Kids, Private Investigators find plenty of mystery and mayhem to keep them busy.The clues are right there, just waiting to be found, and if you can spot them, you can join the Cookville Kids in the race to be the first to catch the bad guys. Some cases will be "elementary, my dear Watson," and some will challenge even the most observant of private eyes.So put on your thinking caps, and come along for some fun and adventure with the Cookville Kids, Private Investigators.

A story for puzzle-lovers...or a puzzle for story-lovers"IF YOU NEED IT, WE CAN FIND IT. Specializing in wooden figurines. Prices negotiable. Direct all inquiries to 'The Finders'..."...the advertisement in the newspaper read. When she saw it, Clorrie believed her luck might be changing for the better. How odd that the advertisement should appear on the very day she happened to be looking for one particular wooden figurine But things that appear to be coincidence often aren't, and what Clorrie found with The Finders was an adventure she never could have imagined. Eleven mysterious figurines hold the clues to eleven puzzles for eleven-year-old Clorrie to solve. You can solve the puzzles along with Clorrie, and when you do, you'll be able to decipher the poem that started her off on the adventure of her life."In the bright mundite of the afternoon, Or when all are asleep under light of the wune, When the chaves of the linnits reach the sand of the scowers, There it will be you shall see their powers.Twice there will be in one turn of the purth, That the mort is the first; the jong five times its worth.When the fands of kime meet and clasp as lun, There you will find that your search is done."

"...Instead of being nice and neat and square, reality is as awkward and messy and as full of jigs and jags as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle scattered all over the table...But as I'm crawling around on my piece or two of jigged, jagged reality, every once in awhile, I'll crawl across a piece with a straight edge..."STRAIGHT EDGES takes the reader for a philosophical walk through different pieces of our reality to follow the evidence wherever it leads. At first glance, our reality is "awkward and messy," but after closer examination, the "straight edges" of meaning, order, and purpose begin to emerge from the messiness. All of these "straight edges" are laid out in a step-by-step, highly readable fashion that will challenge your thinking whatever conclusion you come to.

"...If we could catch a peek at the score on the Conductor's stand, we would be amazed to see that those mistakes that we make, those false notes and counter-melodies, have been written into the score and have been turned by the all-knowing Composer into the melody He planned from the beginning. He can take all our various dissonances and resolve them, but we won't hear how every part works into it until the Grande Finale. It's the picture that comes to mind when I try to come to terms with it all. Not solve it, just live at peace with it..."

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who's read it, but the Bible says some very unpopular things. It takes definite counter-cultural positions on certain hot-button controversies.10 THORNS tackles ten of these "thorny" topics to see what the Bible does, in fact, say about them and to face them head-on; topics, such as: intolerance, sex and sexism, homosexuality and abortion. Culture's issues with the God the Bible portrays are also addressed.10 THORNS was written for the person wondering how anyone can believe the Bible, given its difficult teachings. It was also written for the person who believes the Bible but is wondering for himself about its "thorny" teachings. Or perhaps it was written for the person who believes the Bible and is wondering how to build bridges between himself and those who don't believe the Bible -- often because of its "thorns."

Once upon the beginning of time (though this is a true story), there was a Carpenter. A Master Carpenter. A Carpenter unlike any other. He decided on His plans and set to work. He spent generations ... then centuries ... then millennia intricately and painstakingly (often agonizingly) fashioning His masterpiece. When it was ready, He proudly displayed ... a cradle? What's more, it looked like a roughly-hewn cattle-feed trough But He is a Carpenter unlike any other. He doesn't do things the way we would expect...This study steps back to take a look at the Big Picture of God's Story of the House He's been building since the beginning of time. It's an old, familiar Story. For some, it may be too familiar. They may have lost the thread of the plot line in the details they've heard dozens of times. For some, it may not be familiar at all. They may know only bits and pieces and have never seen the Story put together. For either those to whom the Story is too familiar or those to whom the Story isn't familiar enough, this study may give an entirely new view of God's Story we call the Bible.THE CARPENTER AND THE CRADLE is a Bible Study for groups or individuals. There are six weeks of individual, daily lessons with a group lesson Overview and discussion questions.

"If God is supposed to be so good and so loving, why does the world look the way it does?"It's a question that must be faced by every believer in a good and loving God.The question will accost us on an intellectual level, and there are some solid intellectual answers.But when the question accosts us on a heart-wrenching, emotional level, there are seldom any answers.Humanly-speaking.And from God, the questioner often hears only a resounding silence.The author has wrestled with the emotional aspect of this question (and with the good and loving God it questions) through six years of crippling, life-threatening depression.This is a live, play-by-play commentary on some of those wrestlings, recorded as they were happening: a Diary of a Depression(or one Christian's diary of one Christian's depression).In the words of her diary, here is the reason the author has opened up these intensely personal pages to the reader: "I'm coming to think that is one of the whole points of this season for me. There will be people who will be more open to listening to someone like me who has huge doubts and questions and daily faith-quakes than they will someone full of cocksure assurance ...] It's the greatest gift there is in suffering: the gift of fellowship; the gift of alongsideness; the gift of GETTING IT."

"Why do so many leave the Christian faith? And why stay?" As Christians, we can't help but be concerned as we watch the mass exodus out the doors of our churches. EX-FACTOR addresses the issue that the author sees from personal experience to be the root cause -- "the ex-factor" -- behind these departures ... but also answers the question, "Why stay?" "This book is about doubt and disillusionment and disappointment for the doubting, disillusioned, and disappointed by one who knows something about doubt, disillusionment, and disappointment." And yet has chosen to stay.