He's yellow - but he sure ain't mellow! Everyone's favourite antisocial prankster, Bart Simpson, returns in another collection of hilarious, brain-busting adventures! Bart's little league games get technical in "Batter Up Bart"; Lisa learns "The Three Stages of Teaching" the hard way; Nelson and Bart cause handcuffed havoc in "Cuff it Up"; Springfield Elementary is haunted by a diabolical detention slip in "Final Detention"; Bart goes to extreme measures to win a bet in "Birth of a Salesman"; Principal Skinner falls foul of another of Bart's schemes in "The One Man School"; and Sherri and Terri make their move on Bart in the cootie-infested "Kiss of Blecch!". All these stories and many more can be found in "The Big Beastly Book of Bart"!
James Wylder's short fiction comes to print in his debut collection: featuring the novella "The Dark and Splendid Diary of Danielle Simpson" as well as favorite stories like "The Maw Tree", "A Thursday Robot", "The Apocalypse at the End of the Inkwell" and many more.From the author of "An Eloquence of Time and Space", "10,000 Dawns", and "Cryptos" comes a delightful potpourri of short stories for any mood and occasion.
My husband and I wanted a family from the day we got married. After a couple of years of marriage, we tried to have children of our own. Soon, we were seeking the help of multiple fertility doctors trying to figure out why we were unsuccessful. Even they were unable to help us achieve our goal. Through this difficult journey, we constantly reminded ourselves that we were chosen to take this path for a reason. Failure after failure made us begin to discuss adoption. We were very scared of the unknown, but it was evident that God was guiding us and James' birth mother together. This story was written after a very early 3 a.m. bottle feeding. Something urged me to sit down and the words ended up on the paper. It was obvious that someone else was assisting. God wanted me to share this story and I'm hoping that it will touch the lives of people that can relate. I always questioned, "Why couldn't God just send us a memo?" He didn't send us the memo to tell us the journey, but He certainly flowed through my pen to let us know what had happened. This miracle child was in the works from day one and the challenging path to get there was also part of His plan. I hope this story touches your heart. If you are wanting children and you have a nudging inside, do not give up on your journey. That nudging is a child waiting to enter the world in His time. James 1:17 - Every good and perfect gift is from above.
What was behind one of the most successful disciple-making movements in modern times?Discover key lessons for effective mission today from one of the most fruitful but overlooked missionaries, James O. Fraser...by the man called 'Fraser's Successor' William Carey, Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone, and Adoniram Judson are household names when it comes to the missionary world. But, who knows about James O. Fraser, the catalyst for one of the most successful disciple-making movements in modern mission history?Fraser's story among the Lisu people of south-west China is brought to the forefront in this book by English missionary, Stuart Simpson, and highlights the key lessons that can be drawn from Fraser's life that were vital, not only to this powerful, multiplying movement, but also for effective mission work today In The Second Act, Simpson tells his own remarkable story of how God prophesied and orchestrated a divine connection between him and Fraser, including Simpson holding his predecessor's bones and acting the role of Fraser in a gold remi-award winning docudrama in fourteen languages.
