Examines the rise of one of the most prolific spiritual leader of modern times T.D. Jakes has emerged as one of the most prolific spiritual leaders of our time. He is pastor of one of the largest churches in the country, CEO of a multimillion dollar empire, the host of a television program, author of a dozen bestsellers, and the producer of two Grammy Award-nominated CDs and three critically acclaimed plays. In 2001 Time magazine featured Jakes on the cover and asked: Is Jakes the next Billy Graham? T.D. Jakes draws on extensive research, including interviews with numerous friends and colleagues of Jakes, to examine both Jakes’s rise to prominence and proliferation of a faith industry bent on producing spiritual commodities for mass consumption. Lee frames Jakes and his success as a metaphor for changes in the Black Church and American Protestantism more broadly, looking at the ramifications of his rise—and the rise of similar preachers—for the way in which religion is practiced in this country, how social issues are confronted or ignored, and what is distinctly “American” about Jakes's emergence. While offering elements of biography, the work also seeks to shed light on important aspects of the contemporary American and African American religious experience. Lee contends that Jakes’s widespread success symbolizes a religious realignment in which mainline churches nationwide are in decline, while innovative churches are experiencing phenomenal growth. He emphasizes the “American-ness” of Jakes’s story and reveals how preachers like Jakes are drawing followers by delivering therapeutic and transformative messages and providing spiritual commodities that are more in tune with postmodern sensibilities. As the first work to critically examine Bishop Jakes’s life and message, T.D. Jakes is an important contribution to contemporary American religion as well as popular culture.

The conclusion to the classic Skyway series by the award-winning author of Castle Perilous. Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in Starrigger and Red Limit Freeway, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe do not seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all. Will he and his crew make it out alive?

Dan Fuller is a New York pizza delivery driver who has stalled out in life. His existence however is jolted into action when he accidently takes a drug that forces him to see demons. His eyes now open to the dark influence hell has over the world, he is invited to join a team of demon hunters that work to maintain a balance in a cold war between Heaven and Hell. A fragile peace is threatened by a new demon that only Dan can see. No longer able to be aided by the team of demon hunters and their angelic advisers, he must work through the dark cloud lain by the spawns of Hell before they bring about the end of the cold war, and the arrival of Armageddon.

A drifter passes through a small town and falls for a local girl, against her families wishes, One night the girl vanishes, all fingers point to the drifter, who must fight to prove his innocents and save the girl he loves. But nothing could prepare the town for the truth

When a series of cult-style murders disrupts the City of Angels, it's up to veteran detective Jake Ramsey to get to the bottom of it. To stay one step ahead of his enemies, he makes an ill-advised deal with a demon. A hardboiled whodunit with a supernatural twist, this novel is a tribute to the crime noir genre.

"New England-based private investigator Jake Eaton and his canine sidekick Watson return in another fast-paced mystery - this time set in the beautiful mountainside town of Winslow, New Hampshire." "Mildreth Gibbon Preston's generous decision to bequest 20,000 acres of mountainous forest to the state of New Hampshire in honor of her late husband sets off a series of events that shatters the peace and threatens the prosperity of a lovely New England town. The aerial surveyor whom Mrs. Preston hires to map the pristine property mysteriously disappears, and Eaton is called in by the elderly woman to unravel what he thinks will be a quick and easy missing-persons case." "Jake has second thoughts, however, when his investigation reveals the undercurrents of a sinister plot involving dirty politics, laundered payoffs, and worst of all, the deadly threat of toxic waste dumping. Then, a slick, senior executive from a company that is thought of by the public as the country's most innovative manager of toxic waste tries to put Jake on the corporate payroll, the PI realizes that the stakes are higher than he ever imagined."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Christmas in 1980s London is the most exciting time for 12 year old Charmaine. The mixed race daughter of an Irish mom and Black dad, Charmaine knows it was rough for her parents when they arrived in London. This year, however, Christmas will be better than ever! Charmaine has a very special gift for her parents - a real present paid for with her own money! But how can she ever imagine her greatest joy will turn into her worst tragedy? In part two, Charmaine is taking back Control of her life. She refuses to be the victim anymore. Before she can move forward in her life she needs to confront the people who made her life hell. Charmaine wants her life back .

Buckle up, as it's going to be yet another wild ride! It's a dangerous world full of dangerous people. Yet Jake Savage and his A-team are there to keep things in check. In Down Twisted, the latest in the Jake Savage series, Jake, Mike, Andy, Pauline, and Dakota square off against Russian gangsters, Colombian carteleros, African mercenaries, and Libyan despots, whipping around the globe in a dazzling array of aircraft, ready to do battle at a moment's notice. Set in the twilight hours of the Cold War, in a time when the global security situation is undergoing significant and perilous shifts, Wesinger's novel takes the reader from the hallowed halls and top-secret boardrooms of the Pentagon to the rugged beauty of the Zimbabwean bush, narrating this riveting tale with an insider's flair for detail and nuance. Jake's highly specialized elite A-Team takes on missions no one else can.

Prepare to enter a world of what fashion designer Michael Kors has called "stylish intrigue, glamorous machinations, and such juicy fun." Take a wild ride with Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper, who have culled their insider's purview to peel back Oscar's legendary curtain and reveal what really goes on under the sheets of Young Hollywood. Do Happy Hollywood Endings really exist, or does everyone end up on the cutting room floor sooner or later? It's a shocking, entertaining race to the end of the red carpet... Twenty-six-year-old Lola Santisi, daughter of an Academy Award-winning mega-director and a former cover model, is Hollywood Royalty without a kingdom—or even a condo—to call her own. This "Actorholic," who also suffers from "Career Deficit Disorder," is looking for more from life than what her famous last name has offered, namely her mother's last-season Chanel hand-me-downs and the lurking shadow of her father's fame. In her latest gig as a Hollywood ambassador, Lola's stepping out of her Louboutins and into fashion's ultimate combat boots to engage in LA's cruelest blood sport: convincing celebrities to wear an unknown designer's gowns to the Oscars. Providing advice, emotional support, and even a new mantra or two are her BFF (Best Friend Forever) Kate Woods, an obsessively ambitious talent agent desperate to go from unter to über, and her BAF (Best Actress Forever) Cricket Curtis, a struggling up-and-comer trying to surpass her role as a coma victim on Grey's Anatomy and overcome one rejection after another to become the next Cameron Diaz or Nicole Kidman, or the next anybody. Together, they dodge fashion roadkill while navigating General Motors' Annual Fashion Show, the Gagosian dinner at Mr. Chow, and more. Ultimately, the week culminates at the über-exclusive Vanity Fair Oscar party, where the allotted time slot on your invitation marks how far in or out you really are. But who will be left standing with job, heart, and stilettos still intact at the after-after-Oscar party?