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Book Cover Bad Girls of the Bible
No one is good—except God alone.
Mark 10:18
“Popular storyteller Higgs takes a look at the vamps and tramps of the Bible, searching for the lessons these wicked women have to teach. Higgs retells these biblical stories with rollicking humor and deep insight as she teaches about the nature of sin and goodness.
—Publishers Weekly
How A Man Can Lead His Family
Point Man : How A Man Can Lead His Family
“We owe to Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God” – John Calvin
The bestselling classic Point Man encourages and equips Christian men to lead their families successfully through hazards and ambushes like divorce, promiscuity, suicide, and drug addiction. Men will find practical insight on topics such as a father’s influence, maintaining purity, and husband-and-wife teamwork. In this war, renowned men’s author Steve Farrar emphasizes that Jesus Christ is looking for men who will not die, but live for their families.
Henry T. Blackaby is the founder and president emeritus of Blackaby Ministries International, an organization built to 
help people experience God.
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Born in British Columbia, Dr. Blackaby has devoted his lifetime to ministry. He has served as a music director, education director, and pastor in churches in California and Canada, as well as president of Canadian Baptist Theological College for seven years and president of the Canadian Southern Baptist Conference. He has provided leadership to thousands of pastors and laymen across North America and has spoken to missionaries and other groups in over ninety countries of the world.
Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (which won the Pulitzer Prize), Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, and At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968. The author of several other books, Branch began his career as a magazine journalist for The Washington Monthly, Harper’s, and Esquire. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Isbendjian)
In this powerful, largely autobiographical novel that was originally published in 1967, award-winning author and journalist Williams crafts the story of the irrepressible “Negro” writer Max Reddick as he fights to make a difference in the world of the press and of letters. “He wanted to do with the novel what Charlie Parker was doing to music – tearing it up and remaking it.” Battling racial attitudes and barriers every step of the way, his story is told within a narrative arc that spans American social history from World War II into the cauldron of the civil rights era
John A. Williams: A Writer Beyond `isms. – book review
The years of the Civil Rights campaigns and the Black Arts Movement saw Williams produce some of his finest works, a series of highly accomplished novels, each getting more critical attention than the last: Night Song (1961), Sissie (1963), The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light (1969), Captain Blackman (1972), and Mothersill and the Foxes (1975). The following year, his novel, The Junior Bachelor Society, was published and later adapted for TV as Sophisticated Gents in 1981. Other novels followed, such as his favorite work–entitled !Click Song (1982)–Jacob’s Ladder (1987) and Clifford’s Blues (1999).
In total, Williams has written 21 fiction and nonfiction books, including a book of poetry, three biographies, a collection of journalism, and edited four major anthologies, the pioneering The Angry Black (1962), and Amistad I and II (1970, 1971) among them.
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