Our Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. How do we value our lands, livelihoods, and communities? How does our theology inform our capacity--or lack thereof--for memory? What responsibilities do we bear toward those who have been harmed, not just by individuals but by our structures and collective ways of being in the world? Abram and Annie North, both born enslaved, purchased a home in the historically Black neighborhood of Brooklyn in the years following the Civil War. Today, the site of that home stands tucked beneath a corner of the First Baptist Church property on a site purchased under the favorable terms of Urban Renewal campaigns in the mid-1960s. How did FBC wind up in what used to be Brooklyn--a neighborhood that no longer exists? What happened to the Norths? How might we heal these hauntings? This is an American story with implications far beyond Brooklyn, Charlotte, or even the South. By carefully tracing the intertwined fortunes of First Baptist Church and the formerly enslaved North family, Jarrell opens our eyes to uncomfortable truths with which we all must reckon.

As a child, Matt accepted the powerful psychic connection he had with his twin brother, Jake. But as they grew up, and Jake's adult choices led him down dark paths, Matt moved across the country to escape their connection. His plan works for ten years-until Jake's violent murder. Matt quickly realizes their connection is still alive and well, even if Jake isn't, and this time, it presents a hell of a lot more challenges. Determined to sever their fraternal link forever, Matt returns to his troubled rural hometown in Nebraska to confront the damage-and enemies-his brother left behind. In order to free himself from the terror of Jake's afterlife, he needs to solve his brother's murder, heal old wounds, and avoid getting killed due to mistaken identity. But when Matt realizes that the powers of darkness are aware of the link between their world and ours, finding a way to break the connection suddenly becomes a race against time. From the author of "Contempt", an Amazon Kindle Top 10 legal thriller

Forgive Us Our Trespasses by Lloyd C. Douglas is a gripping exploration of morality, justice, and redemption. Set against the backdrop of a legal battle, the novel delves into the lives of those entangled in ethical dilemmas, revealing the challenges of upholding integrity in a world where truth and conscience collide.

Have you ever been the odd man out? A different breed? A fish out of water? Join the author as she navigates foreign territory as the only Jewish person teaching in a Catholic school. Experience the joy and memorable moments as well as the sting of anti-Semitism and ignorance. Despite the challenges, she discovers that the job was a blessing in disguise and fate may have played a hand in her school placement.

A clash between good people who passionately believe either life begins at conception or in the woman's right to choose. This zeal leads to murder and a trial. This non judgmental novel shows both sides of an issue that will never be reconciled.

This is Marcia's story, a life of hardships and losses, disappointments and despair. Yet, in her struggle to overcome, she learns the true meaning of love and forgiveness from others. In the middle of this fictional life story, there are three chapters based on her nursing experiences. The author, who took her nurse's training in the Second World War years, has given her training experiences to Marcia as she remembers them from so long ago. Marcia's story tells us, though life can be hard, we can ultimately find joy and forgiveness of our trespasses. Acceptance and understanding lie on the other side of loss. There is no short cut. This is Marcia's story, a life of hardships and losses, disappointments and despair. Yet, in her struggle to overcome, she learns the true meaning of love and forgiveness from others. In the middle of this fictional life story, there are three chapters based on her nursing experiences. The author, who took her nurse's training in the Second World War years, has given her training experiences to Marcia as she remembers them from so long ago. Marcia's story tells us, though life can be hard, we can ultimately find joy and forgiveness of our trespasses. Acceptance and understanding lie on the other side of loss. There is no short cut.

Christians often pay scant attention to the Jewishness of Jesus. Chris Wright's book sets out to redress the balance, exploring the identity, values and teaching of Jesus in the light of the Old Testament.

A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can’t escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and informal research methods, Johnson has produced an innovative collection of prose poems and essays that together create an exciting work of contemporary nonfiction. Examining region through the lenses of memory (experience), history (memory made public), and theory (experience abstracted), Trespasses is a deeply intelligent work, at the center of which is the author, always feeling as if she doesn’t belong but not sure where she else she should be. In this profound work, Johnson drifts gracefully back and forth between timelines and voices in a way that illustrates how her present is connected to the many pasts she chronicles.