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  Dangerous Confessions

  Tyora Moody

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  Follow this private detective as she pushes to exposes a human trafficking ring in her hometown. 
  The case from last month is still far from over for private investigator Serena “Rena” Manchester. Not just because she found herself in yet another life-threatening situation, but because the fall-out still has not been dealt with by the authorities. Determined to see justice to the end, Rena steps up her investigation along with her new young attractive associate. 
  During a surveillance job, Rena runs into a very unpleasant woman from her past life as a reporter. A few hours later, when the woman falls to her death from a beach condo balcony, Rena finds herself switching directions with her investigation. The more she digs into her past news story, the more she starts to see parallels to her current case. Unfortunately, Rena is receiving more resistance from law enforcement and someone else is not happy about her digging around either.

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  Two-Step Devil

  Jamie Quatro

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  From a New York Times Notable "writer of great originality" comes a bold new novel about love, faith, and two societal outsiders whose lives converge in the contemporary American South 
   
   
   
  In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Prophet—a seventy-year-old man who paints his visions—lives off the grid in a cabin near the Georgia border. While scrounging for materials at the local scrapyard, the Prophet sees a car pull up to an abandoned gas station. In the back seat is a teenage girl with zip ties on her wrists, a girl he realizes he must rescue from her current life. Her name is Michael, and the Prophet feels certain that she is a messenger sent by God to take his end-time warnings to the White House. Michael finds herself in the Prophet's remote, art-filled cabin, and as their uncertain dynamic evolves into tender friendship, she is offered a surprising opportunity to escape her past—and perhaps change her future. 
   
   
   
  Moving through the worlds of the Prophet, the girl, and a beguiling devil figure who dances in the corner of their lives, Two-Step Devil is a propulsive, philosophical examination of fate and faith that dares to ask what salvation, if any, can be found in our modern world.

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  Rethinking the Police - An...

  Daniel Reinhardt

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  Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
  A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture
  Our society has long been stuck in cultural and ideological battles about police brutality and the police force's broken relationship with our communities. Rethinking the Police promises to start a more hopeful conversation.
  Daniel Reinhardt spent twenty-four years as a police officer near Cleveland, Ohio. He was long unaware of the ways the culture of the police department was shaping him, but gradually, through his own experiences as a police officer and through the mentorship of Black Christians in his life, his eyes were opened to a difficult truth: police brutality against racial minorities was endemic to the culture of the system itself.
  In Rethinking the Police, Reinhardt lays out a history of policing in the United States, showing how it developed a culture of dehumanization, systemic racism, and brutality. But Reinhardt doesn't stop there: he offers a new model of policing based not in dominance and control but in a culture of servant leadership, with concrete suggestions for procedural justice and community policing.

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  Spiritual Direction from Dante

  Paul Pearson of the Oratory

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  In Spiritual Direction from Dante: Yearning for Paradise, the Oratorian Father Paul Pearson provides a detailed but accessible spiritual commentary on the last volume of Dantes masterpiece, the Divine Comedy. Fr. Pearson takes readers step-by-step through the text, explaining the spiritual lessons Dante intends his readers to learn. These lessons are particularly important, both in Dantes day and in our own, due to the watered-down image of heavenly bliss the world offers us.Dantes Paradiso corrects this misunderstanding, showing the faithful a paradise that is more real and more fulfilling than anything we have experienced here on earth or even dreamt of. Father Pearsons text is an indispensable companion to the poem for both the scholar and the neophyte. It brings Dantes poem and its lessons into our modern context so that readers will discover that:• Our true individuality is not obliterated in heaven, but is allowed to continue, and is fostered and highlighted. • Even as we struggle now, we are never alone—everyone in heaven is interested and involved in our salvation.• The human unity we strive for here (often unsuccessfully) is a shining fact there, with each person rejoicing in every other persons joys and working together for the salvation of those still striving for heaven. There we are finally understood fully and appreciated. • All our human desires are fulfilled in heaven, not abandoned.Fr. Pearson, having already guided readers through the realms of hell and purgatory in this 3-part series, now brings before our eyes the saints and angels, the Virgin Mary, and the Blessed Trinity! But Spiritual Direction from Dante: Yearning for Paradise is more than a guide to the last book of Dantes Divine Comedy. It is an introduction and an invitation to eternal happiness, an invitation that is just as compelling as it was 700 years ago when Dante wrote his masterpiece.

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  The Making of the New Testament...

  Arthur G. Patzia

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  The story of the making of the New Testament is one in which scrolls bumped across cobbled Roman roads and pitched through rolling Mediterranean seas, finally finding their destinations in stuffy, dimly lit Christian house churches in Corinth or Colossae. There they were read aloud and reread, handled and copied, forwarded and collected, studied and treasured. And eventually they were brought together to make up our New Testament.
  This revised and expanded edition of The Making of the New Testament is a textbook introduction to the origin, collection, copying and canonizing of the New Testament documents. Like shrewd detectives reading subtle whispers of evidence, biblical scholars have studied the trail of clues and pieced together the story of these books. Arthur Patzia tells the story, answering our many questions:
  
  - How were books and documents produced in the first century?
  - What motivated the early Christians to commit teaching and narrative and vision to papyrus?
  - How were the stories and sayings of Jesus circulated, handed down and shaped into Gospels?
  - What do we know about ancient letter writing, secretaries and "copy shops"?
  - Why were four Gospels included instead of just one?
  - How were Paul's letters, sent here and there, gathered into a single collection?
  - Who decided--and by what criteria--which documents would be included in the New Testament?
  Explore these questions and more about these Scriptures whose everyday, gritty story rings true to their extraordinary message: the palpable mystery of the Word made flesh.

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  The Apocalypse Collection – The...

  Various Ancient Writers, Tim...

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  What if lost apocalyptic texts held the key to understanding the fate of humanity? 
  For centuries, prophets and visionaries claimed to glimpse the afterlife, final judgment, and the coming of the Messiah.  
  Many of their writings were excluded from the Bible—yet they reveal powerful visions of heaven and hell, divine judgment, and the transformation of the world. 
  This modern translation presents a compelling collection of apocalyptic texts offering insight into the Second Coming of Christ and the destiny of the righteous and the wicked. 
  Included Texts: 
  •	The Apocalypse of Peter – A vivid description of the rewards of heaven and torments of hell 
  •	The Apocalypse of Paul – A dramatic journey through the afterlife and fate of souls 
  •	The Apocalypse of Abraham – A powerful Jewish vision of final judgment and cosmic secrets 
  •	The Book of Revelation of Peter – A rare alternative to Revelation with unique end-times insights 
  •	The Vision of Ezra – Prophecies of the last days and the coming of a new world 
  What You’ll Discover: 
  •	Visions of the afterlife, heaven’s glory, and hell’s torments 
  •	Prophecies of Christ’s return and the final battle between good and evil 
  •	Divine judgment and the renewal of creation 
  •	Lost books once excluded from the New Testament canon 
  Whether you're a biblical scholar, spiritual seeker, or curious reader, The Apocalypse Collection opens a window into the mysteries of the end times and the eternal fate of humanity. 
  Discover the lost books of prophecy—start your journey today.

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