Provides answers to trivia questions on the origins of common expressions and social conventions, covering such categories as politics, sports, religion, crime, and war.

25 years and over 1 million copies in print: An updated, repackaged edition of the bestselling divination tool and party favorite - ask a yes or no question, open the book, find your answer. Should you ask your boss for a raise? Call that cutie you met at a party? Sell your Google stock? Tell your best friend her boyfriend's cheating? The answer to these questions (and hundreds of others) is in this fun and weirdly wise little book that's impossible to put down. It's simple to use: just hold it closed in your hands and concentrate on your question for a few seconds. While visualizing or speaking your question, place one palm down on the book's front and stroke the edge of the pages back to front. When you sense the time is right, open to the page your fingers landed on and there is your answer! Fun, satisfying, and a lot less time-consuming than asking everyone you know for advice.

Comparing human lifespans to the age of our planet, we consider the Earth as some kind of constant. But should we? According to the Old Testament and many ancient manuscripts, there were events and mythical characters that modern science can neither prove nor disprove. In fact, getting a scientific explanation of an event is much harder than witnessing it. That is why science is way behind religion, and our only hope for the future is to bridge the gap between them. In this book, the author explores why every generation struggles with reconciling the differences between science and religion. He seeks to answer questions such as: • Has the Earth always rotated in the same direction? • Were there any shifts of the poles on Earth? • Was the sea level always the same? • Was the moon always there? While there are widely accepted theories on the origin of continents, oceans, mountains, lakes, and volcanoes, they all have their shortcomings. In this book, you’ll discover a revolutionary approach that answers how our universe appeared and where we are going.

Discovering a magical pencil that imparts answers to her questions, Ava and her best friend, Sophie, learn the pencil's rules and become increasingly reliant on its replies until it reveals a scary truth about Ava's family. By the award-winning author of the Marty McGuire series.

Ham explores 21 exciting and faith-affirming topics including the fall of Lucifer and the origin of evil, when life begins and why that matters, early biblical figures, evolution, and more.

Special Edition Pink CoverWhat is your mother's favorite story of you? Who was your father's best friend as a child? What is the most trouble your grandfather got into a child? Do you know the answer to these questions? "Tell Me So I Know" has over 550 questions designed to provide a fun and simple way for you to learn about the memories, life story, favorites and advice of those you love.The value of this book is much more than the list of questions. It is a way for you to enrich your relationships and become much closer with the special people in your life. Don't' be surprised by the number of times someone will jump from the table to get a picture or keepsake to enhance a story they are sharing. Be sure to look for the twinkle in an eye or the appearance of a smile, as they answer questions and reminisce about their past. "Tell Me So I Know" provides a place to record and save this information as you go through each question. Enjoy this process as you create a book containing the life stories and memories of someone special. You will be preserving these memories that would certainly be lost, if not shared. It is easy to believe that tomorrow will be a good time to ask these questions, don't wait! Begin the journey, ask those special to you, Tell Me So I Know.

Christians live in a culture with more questions than ever - questions that affect one's acceptance of the Bible as authoritative and trustworthy. Now, discover easy-to-understand answers that reach core truths of the Christian faith and apply the biblical worldview to a wide variety of subjects.

If we are honest, every one of us has questions about our faith. We ask ourselves things like: "Is the Bible true?" "Why does God allow suffering?" "Am I truly forgiven?" "Will I really go to heaven when I die?" Dr. Robert Jeffress answers these and other challenging questions facing Christians today. Drawing upon the best research available, How Can I Know presents logical and concise responses that anyone can understand and easily share with others. In an age of information overload, simplicity is essential. Every chapter is filled with illustrations and application that will appeal to the average reader, giving them a renewed hope and reassurance of their faith.

IT seems fitting that this little book of personal testimonies to answered prayer should have a brief introductory word as to how they came to be written. The question has been asked by some who read many of these testimonies as they appeared in the pages of The Sunday School Times: "How could you write such personal and sacred incidents in your life?" I could not have written them but for a very clear, God-given leading. The story is as follows: When in Canada on our first furloughs I was frequently amazed at the incredulity expressed when definite testimony was given to an answer to prayer. Sometimes this was shown by an expressive shrug of the shoulders, sometimes by a sudden silence or turning of the topic of conversation, and sometimes more openly by the query: "How do you know that it might not have happened so, anyway?" Gradually the impression deepened: "If they will not believe one, two, or a dozen testimonies, will they believe the combined testimonies of one whole life?" The more I thought of what it would mean to record the sacred incidents connected with answers to prayer the more I shrank from the publicity, and from undertaking the task. There were dozens of answers far too sacred for the public eye, which were known only to a few, others known only to God. But if the record were to carry weight with those who did not believe in the supernatural element in prayer, many personal and scarcely less sacred incidents must of necessity be made public.

NAMED A TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2017 BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND VOGUE, A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY ESQUIRE, HUFFINGTON POST, POP SUGAR, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND KIRKUS, AND A 2017 NPR GREAT READ. ONE OF DWIGHT GARNER'S TOP BOOKS OF 2017 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE AND A FINALIST FOR THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS FICTION AWARD. "Like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, [The Answers] is also a novel about a subjugated woman, in this case not to a totalitarian theocracy but to subtler forces its heroine is only beginning to understand and fears she is complicit with." --Dwight Garner, New York Times Mary Parsons is broke. Dead broke, really: between an onslaught of medical bills and a mountain of credit card debt, she has been pushed to the brink. Hounded by bill collectors and still plagued by the painful and bizarre symptoms that doctors couldn’t diagnose, Mary seeks relief from a holistic treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia—PAKing, for short. Miraculously, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive. Like so many young adults trying to make ends meet in New York City, Mary scours Craigslist and bulletin boards for a second job, and eventually lands an interview for a high-paying gig that’s even stranger than her symptoms or the New Agey PAKing. Mary’s new job title is Emotional Girlfriend in the “Girlfriend Experiment”—the brainchild of a wealthy and infamous actor, Kurt Sky, who has hired a team of biotech researchers to solve the problem of how to build and maintain the perfect romantic relationship, casting himself as the experiment’s only constant. Around Kurt, several women orbit as his girlfriends with specific functions. There’s a Maternal Girlfriend who folds his laundry, an Anger Girlfriend who fights with him, a Mundanity Girlfriend who just hangs around his loft, and a whole team of girlfriends to take care of Intimacy. With so little to lose, Mary falls headfirst into Kurt’s messy, ego-driven simulacrum of human connection. Told in Catherine Lacey’s signature spiraling, hypnotic prose, The Answers is both a mesmerizing dive into the depths of one woman’s psyche and a critical look at the conventions and institutions that infiltrate our most personal, private moments. As Mary struggles to understand herself—her body, her city, the trials of her past, the uncertainty of her future—the reader must confront the impossible questions that fuel Catherine Lacey’s work: How do you measure love? Can you truly know someone else? Do we even know ourselves? And listen for Lacey’s uncanny answers.