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In this Lambda Literary award-winning title, author Toby Johnson explores how the rise of gay identity has become an important part of contemporary religious development. This dramatic transformation has resulted due to the perspective of gay men; their ability to step outside the assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a different point of view. This audiobook will reward readers seeking new insight into faith as well as culture, myth and traditions.

The Top Tips series features commentary, quotes, and techniques on how to successfully overcome any type of challenges you face. It is based on dealing with the emotional reactions that occur. To this end, the first five books in series are about dealing with your anger, overcoming your fear and anxiety, having courage, feeling forgiveness for others and yourself, and experiencing gratitude. Gini Graham Scott, PhD, is a writer, publisher, and film producer who has published more than 200 books.

Disinterest and overstimulation. These perfectly natural phenomena can be useful for directing and diverting attention, but when taken to their extremes can lead to anxiety and depression. Modern neuroscience, medicinal chemistry, and psychology have revealed the role dopamine plays in these behaviors, and how to change them. Through an understanding of how our brains respond to stimulation through changes in dopamine, we can alter our behaviors to not only feel better while doing things, but to feel better about the things we are doing.

Top Tips for Experiencing Gratitude describes the forms that gratitude can take from gratitude for one’s home and possessions, to one’s skills, job opportunities, business achievements, and relationships. This positive attitude not only makes you feel better by focusing on what you have and not on what you lack, but it helps you have better relationships by allying with others with a similar positive and self-affirming outlook.

The Courage Book features quotes showing the many ways that courage is a valuable quality to have, and how to use it to bring more success and happiness into your life.

Top Tips for Feeling Forgiveness features quotes showing the many ways that forgiveness is a valuable quality to have and how to use it to bring more happiness into your life. The audiobook features these topics: Forgiveness and the divine, forgiveness, love, compassion, and peace, forgiveness, strength, and courage, forgiveness and letting go, moving on, and new beginnings, forgiveness, making mistakes, and acceptance, forgiveness and forgetting, forgiving others and enemies, the difficulty of forgiveness, and applying the principles of forgiveness in your life.

Top Tips for Deatling with Anger provides a broad overview of the many facets of anger by combining commentary, quotes, and illustrations. It concludes with a section on tips and techniques for dealing with your own anger and a questionnaire to help you decide what to do. It covers these main topics: the pervasiveness and destructiveness of anger; controlling anger and making choices; letting go, expressing your anger, and forgiveness; and promoting change.

Top Tips for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety features quotes showing the many ways you can confront and overcome your fear and anxiety. It includes these topics: The danger of fear, conquering and overcoming fear, having courage, do it anyway, understanding your fears, changing your mindset, and techniques for overcoming your fears.

Paul commanded Timothy to rightly divide the word of Truth. By rightly dividing the word of Truth, all the troubling issues disappeared. Right division is the process of determining the correct audience for each book of the Bible. The Bible is all truth, but it is not all our truth. God dealt with Israel before the Church began and will deal with Israel after the dispensation of Grace ends. They have their truth, and we have ours.

In the autumn of 1861, the three Wade brothers - a farmer, a teacher, and a student - find themselves swept up in the horrific turmoil between the North and South. Beginning with their baptism under fire at the at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern in Arkansas to the bloody and brutal Battle of Corinth in Mississippi, the Wade brothers have morphed from brothers by blood to brothers in arms. As the nation tragically tears itself asunder, Henry Wade and his brothers find themselves battling a foreign - yet familiar - foe.

The Survive and Thrive Guide features commentary, quotes, and techniques on how to successfully overcome any type of challenges you face. It is based on dealing with the emotional reactions that occur, which can be organized into five stages of response. They include: dealing with your feelings of anger, dealing with your fear and anxiety, tapping into your courage, finding forgiveness for others and yourself, and feeling gratitude.

December 1943. New York City is on fire, reeling from a massive surprise attack by German bombers and American military units have been pulled away from the West Coast to augment meager and embattled units on the East Coast to defend against further anticipated German aggression. A handful of air, ground, and naval units are the only defense on the West Coast. Can the Americans stop the Japanese bombers before they release their weapons on another seemingly impossible target?

While bombing rebel positions in the remote Congolese rainforest, mercenary fighter-bomber pilot Seth Gustafson is shot down by rebel anti-aircraft fire. Surviving his traumatic bailout, Seth now finds himself in a desperate race of survival against deadly wild animals, exposure, hostile tribesman, and heavily armed rebels.

From the 1960s until the turn of the 21st century, New York City was the world's epicenter of organized and white-collar crime. During those four decades, the most feared Mafia chiefs, assassins, defrocked stockbrokers, Orthodox Jewish money-launderers, and Arab bankers sought the counsel of one man: my father, Jimmy La Rossa, a Kennedy-era prosecutor who became the defense lawyer of first resort in the big, important, highly publicized cases for four full action-packed decades. Last of the Gladiators is a memoir about some of the seminal legal events of a generation.

They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby, an attractive, church-going mother and housewife in Shaker Heights, Ohio, bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that would confront the State of Ohio in 1966, which would seek to prosecute her for shooting to death Cremer Young Jr., her son’s nine-year-old playmate.

A Family in Faith is a wonderful story of unconditional love. It reminds us to always have faith in ourselves and one another. Adam loses his way and abandons his faith. His family refuses to give up on him as they navigate the dynamics of a modern day family.

First Impressions is a moving and entertaining account of the interesting people that the author encounters while driving for a ride-sharing company. False assumptions based on his first impressions dissolve quickly as he gains insight into the passengers' personal stories. Often humorous and always moving, we learn what gives some of us direction and drives our ambitions. Moreover, we discover that everyone has a story.

Two historians discover 1,000 pounds of double eagle $20 gold pieces that were hidden in a San Francisco basement for 150 years. But to get the gold they have to outsmart a street gang and beat a fleet of bulldozers to the vault site.

Find a Remedy is a street level look at Henry Ford's $5 Day from 17 different viewpoints including anarchists, socialists, union organizers, dynamiters, workers, worker's wifes, fellow magnates, historians, and economists. It is designed to show how the $5 Day was revolutionary in 1914 and a failure in 1919. It is snapshot of industrial history and perfect as a supplemental audiobook in an American history II class.

Why Me? is filled with experiences from successful businessman Mike Mountz's life when he felt the presence of God. These Godly experiences, as Mike calls them, helped him to strengthen his faith, make changes in his life, and act when otherwise he might have been paralyzed by uncertainty. Mike describes how God guided him so that he gained the courage, strength, wisdom, and ability to make difficult decisions. The book also shares a critical lesson Mike learned - the importance of following your spiritual compass.