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  Be Bold - How a Marine Hero...

  Tom Sileo

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  Major Megan McClung is the first female United States Naval Academy graduate to be killed in action since the school’s 1845 founding and the highest-ranking female U.S. Marine Corps officer to die during the Iraq war. Be Bold is Megan’s  
  inspirational story of defying steep odds, making the ultimate sacrifice and paving the way for a new era of women at war.

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  Somewhere More Holy - Stories...

  Tony Woodlief

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  Acclaimed columnist Tony Woodlief pens the poignant and powerful story of his search for meaning in the midst of tragedy. When he and his wife lost their adored little girl, his trust in God turned to bitter anger. As he and his wife struggled to save their marriage and his faith, they discovered that home is more than just rooms and a roof. Home is a place where people are sometimes wounded or betrayed. Home is also where God is strong in the broken places. Woodlief takes readers through his house, room by room, showing that home is:•Where we cry out to God as we seek him in the small things•Where the sacred and the mundane meet•The place that makes us better than we could ever be on our own•More than the place where we eat and sleep…it is where we learn graceWoodlief’s heart-touching stories leavened with humor will appeal to a wide audience, especially those trying to reconcile the idea of a loving God in a broken world.

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  51 Inspiring Stories Behind The...

  Hymnsify

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  DOWNLOAD FREE: Supplemental Material 
  Brace Yourself for a Transformative Experience. 
  Have you ever been curious about the captivating stories behind your favorite hymns? In this book, prepare to embark on a journey of discovery as you unravel the uplifting, authentic narratives behind 51 of the most-loved hymns of the Christian faith. 
  This timeless collection of classic hymn stories goes beyond mere familiarity. It will help you see worship in a new light as you read about the stories and people behind these hymns that have anchored the Christian faith for centuries. Brace yourself for a transformative experience that will deepen your devotion, inspire and challenge you in your worship and walk with the Lord.On these pages, you will find:51 Short, fascinating stories and historical events that provide context for each hymn.Thoughtful questions for personal reflections.The original lyrics of each hymn.6 Reasons we should sing hymns 
  This devotional book on the histories of some of the most well-known hymns you sing in worship is something you'll cherish whether you're new to hymns or have loved them for a long time. It is excellent for personal or family devotions. It is also a valuable source of illustrations for pastors, song leaders, and music ministers.Some Hymns Stories Included:Chapter 1: Amazing GraceChapter 2: Abide with MeChapter 3: Alas, and Did My Savior BleedChapter 4: All Hail the Power of Jesus’ NameChapter 5: All Things Bright and BeautifulChapter 6: Are You Washed in the Blood?Chapter 7: Be Still My SoulChapter 8: Be Thou My VisionChapter 9: Blessed Assurance, Jesus is MineChapter 10: Come, Thou Font of Every BlessingChapter 11: Count Your Blessings

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  Flowers Guns and Money - Joel...

  Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

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  A fascinating historical account of a largely forgotten statesman, who pioneered a form of patriotism that left an indelible mark on the early United States. 
   
  Joel Roberts Poinsett’s (1779–1851) brand of self-interested patriotism illuminates the paradoxes of the antebellum United States. He was a South Carolina investor and enslaver, a confidant of Andrew Jackson, and a secret agent in South America who fought surreptitiously in Chile’s War for Independence. He was an ambitious Congressman and Secretary of War who oversaw the ignominy of the Trail of Tears and orchestrated America’s longest and costliest war against Native Americans, yet also helped found the Smithsonian. In addition, he was a naturalist, after whom the poinsettia—which he appropriated while he was serving as the first US ambassador to Mexico—is now named. 
    
  As Lindsay Schakenbach Regele shows in Flowers, Guns, and Money, Poinsett personified a type of patriotism that emerged following the American Revolution, one in which statesmen served the nation by serving themselves, securing economic prosperity and military security while often prioritizing their own ambitions and financial interests. Whether waging war, opposing states’ rights yet supporting slavery, or pushing for agricultural and infrastructural improvements in his native South Carolina, Poinsett consistently acted in his own self-interest. By examining the man and his actions, Schakenbach Regele reveals an America defined by opportunity and violence, freedom and slavery, and nationalism and self-interest.

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  Walking to the End of the World...

  Beth Jusino

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  In 2015, Beth and Eric Jusino walked out of a cathedral in the historic village of Le Puy, France, down a cobblestone street, and turned west. Seventy-nine days, a thousand miles, two countries, two mountain ranges, and three pairs of shoes later, they reached the Atlantic Ocean. 
   
   
   
  More than two million pilgrims have walked the Way of Saint James, a long-distance hiking trail. Each pilgrim has their own reason for undertaking the journey. For the Jusinos, it was about taking a break from the relentless pace of modern life and getting away from all their electronic devices. 
   
   
   
  In Walking to the End of the World, Beth shares, with wry humor and infectious enthusiasm, the joys and travails of undertaking such a journey. She evocatively describes the terrain and the route's history, her fellow pilgrims, and the villages passed, and the unexpected challenges and charms of the experience. 
   
   
   
  Beth's story is also about the assurance that an outdoor-based, boundary-stretching adventure is accessible to even the most unlikely of us. In her story, listeners will feel that they, too, can get off their comfortable couches and do something unexpected and spectacular.

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  Paper Paradise - Do What You...

  Glenn Wheatley

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  Paper Paradise: Do What You Want To Do is a roller coaster ride through the sex, drugs and rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s to the high-flying business world of the ’80s and into the ’90s and beyond—with someone who lived it all. 
  It is a book about ambition, hunger, desperation, success and the fruits thereof. Oh yes, it is also about failure and fighting back. 
  Charting the extraordinary life and times of Glenn Wheatley, from working class boy to rock star of the 1960s and 1970s as a member of one of Australia’s most successful early bands, the Masters Apprentices, now immortalised in the ARIA Hall of Fame. In their heyday, the Masters drew bigger crowds than the Beatles in Australia. 
  In the 1980s he soared from rock star to star manager of the Little River Band and Whispering Jack, John Farnham. He also pioneered the FM Radio industry with the first FM radio station to go to air in Australia, EON FM in Melbourne. He then went on to build the foundation of what is now the Triple M radio network. 
  It is a narrative littered with casualties and is an actual account of a self-protective society that has its own Kings and Queens, its own iconography, its own language. 
  After a meteoric rise in the fast lane, and an equally spectacular fall, he made it back to the top. Glenn was the ultimate rock and roll survivor.

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