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..."
Amanda Cooper never meant to fall in love with Sam Barnes. She fought to resist him, tried to push him away but sometimes, sin just sucks you in. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." The only thing that saved her from this treacherous web was a God who loved her through it. In His love Amanda learned to forgive herself and move on to happily ever after.A story of love, struggle, and triumph. This book was written to show women over 50 that it's never too late to find love and happiness. It was written from the Christian perspective to tell of God's love, compassion and mercy.
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."
SHE WOKE UP KNOWING SHE CHEATED DEATH Imagine waking up one morning knowing nothing except you have a huge scar on your head and its clear someone tried kill you. That's what happened to Ky Taylor. Lucky enough to fall into friendly hands, she is now a blackjack dealer on a Mississippi riverboat casino where she's healed from her injuries.But this day is different. A bounty hunter shows up and tells her she murdered her banker father and ran out on her bail. He's there to take her back, willing or unwilling.He isn't the only one who wants her because she hides a secret that they all want. Trouble is, it's buried among the lost memories of her entire life. Soon the bounty hunter becomes her ally . . . and much, much more . . . in a chase that leads from the docks of St. Louis to a jailhouse in Indiana. Did Ky Taylor kill her father? Lots of people say she did and she's driven to learn the truth. But in order to survive she must trust no one and learn to KNOW WHEN TO RUN.
