Venture forth into the delightful adventures of wizards, witches and magic and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas. Enjoy fantasy adventures, dragons and more creatures to capture the imagination in this second fantasy collection, and stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. From the trapped wizard and living biscuits to a group of friends celebrating their own special holiday, the stories in this volume add a bit of warmth and fantasy to your holiday season. BUY NOW! Holiday Fantasy Short Stories include: · Soulcaster · Solstice Guardian · Weird First Christmas · All Feast · Wheel of Years · Repent BUY NOW!

The best holiday stories delight with heartfelt satisfaction from beginning to end. Romance forms the core of all the stories in this volume, and they feature holiday settings from early December to Christmas to New Years. From a young man wanting to save a veteran on New years Eve to a very special winter wedding, each story touches the heart and warms the soul. A perfect distraction from the hustle and bustle of the holidays! BUY NOW! Sweet Holiday Romance Short Stories Include: · Homeless, Charity, Love · Cold December Night · Driving Home For Love · Love At The Winter Wedding · Fireworks, New Year, Love · Loving In The New Year Tourist BUY NOW!

A Christmas card from Aunt Jeanne starts a chain of events that sends Tommy on a journey to places he has never been and guides him to a wonderful surprise.

Venture forth into the delightful adventures of wizards, witches and magic and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas. Enjoy fantasy adventures, dragons and more creatures to capture the imagination, and stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. From the Last Dragon Guardian and living biscuits to a group of friends celebrating their own special holiday, the stories in this volume add a bit of warmth and fantasy to your holiday season. BUY NOW! Holiday Fantasy Short Stories include: · Magic That Binds · One Final Christmas · Author’s Christmas Problems · Last Winter Dragon Egg · A Sacrifice For Saturnalia · Soulcaster · Solstice Guardian · Weird First Christmas · All Feast · Wheel of Years · Repent BUY NOW!

Mystery and Crime abound during the Christmas season. A sense of crime threads through everything, and the spirit of safety is almost commonplace. Something that criminals focus on. Stories in the second holiday collection capture that darker criminal side of the Holidays with stories marked by crime, mystery and even some stories from World War Two. This lightish-hearted holiday book brings smiles and shocks and surprises to usher in this darker side of the Holidays. BUY NOW! Holiday Mystery Short Stories Include: · Cheater At Dinner · Perfect Christmas · Salvation In The Maid · Criminal, Resistance, Alliance · Dark Farm · Great Give Away BUY NOW!

Venture forth into the delightful adventures of wizards, witches and magic and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas. Enjoy fantasy adventures, dragons and more creatures to capture the imagination in this first fantasy collection, and stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. From the Last Dragon Guardian and a dying wizard to a superhero finding an author in trouble, the stories in this volume add a bit of warmth and fantasy to your holiday season. BUY NOW! Holiday Fantasy Short Stories include: · Magic That Binds · One Final Christmas · Author’s Christmas Problems · Last Winter Dragon Egg · A Sacrifice For Saturnalia BUY NOW!

Even in the Advent season Mr. Holmes mustn’t take a break: Murderers, blackmailers and all kinds of odd incidents keep him on the go. And Watson is not much of a help, busying himself with baking all those Christmas cookies for his dog. Mr. Holmes' Criminal Fiction Advent calendar contains 24 short detective stories that challenge your puzzle-solving skills - one for each Advent day. Follow in the famous master detective’s footsteps and use the evidence available to deduce what might have happened, find vital clues, decipher codes, check alibis and solve the crime case until the next morning when you turn the page and find Mr. Holmes’ solution and another exciting case waiting for you. A great fun for all fans of Sherlock Holmes and criminal fiction - solve the mystery and be faster than the famous detective!

A Christmas-themed novelette geared to inspire holiday excitement in all readers. This fictional story is interwoven with the New Testament account of Christ's birth, death and resurrection. Scientific and philosophical themes add an extra level of interest for the sophisticated reader. The book is lavishly illustrated and has an associated audio version with a reading accompanied by a musical score.

While worship is one of the central functions of the church (along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion) and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions is an introductory textbook in three volumes describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church. This academically-grounded resource evaluates both the historical and theological perspectives of the major hymnists and composers that have impacted the church over the course of twenty centuries. Volume 2 begins with the Reformation and extends to the eighteenth-century hymnists and liturgists. Each chapter contains five elements: historical background, theological perspectives communicated in their hymns/compositions, contribution to liturgy and worship, notable hymns, and bibliography. The missions of Hymns and Hymnody are to provide biographical data on influential hymn writers for students and interested laypeople, and to provide a theological analysis of what the cited composers have communicated in the theology of their hymns. It is vital for those involved in leading the worship of the church to recognize that what they communicate is in fact theology. This latter aspect is missing in accessible formats for the current literature.

Hymns and the music the church sings in worship are tangible means of expressing worship. And while worship is one of, if not the central functions of the church along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion, and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions is a sixty-chapter, three-volume introductory textbook describing the most influential hymnists, liturgists, and musical movements of the church. This academically grounded resource evaluates both the historical and theological perspectives of the major hymnists and composers who have impacted the church over the course of twenty centuries. Volume 1 explores the early church and concludes with the Renaissance era hymnists. Volume 2 begins with the Reformation and extends to the eighteenth-century hymnists and liturgists. Volume 3 engages nineteenth century hymnists to the contemporary movements of the twenty-first century. Each chapter contains these five elements: historical background, theological perspectives communicated in their hymns/compositions, contribution to liturgy and worship, notable hymns, and bibliography. The mission of Hymns and Hymnody is (1) to provide biographical data on influential hymn writers for students and interested laypeople, and (2) to provide a theological analysis of what these composers have communicated in the theology of their hymns. We believe it is vital for those involved in leading the worship of the church to recognize that what they communicate is in fact theology. This latter aspect, we contend, is missing—yet important—in accessible formats for the current literature.