Dancing With Redemption (Clean)

Lies beneath the lovers. Lovers beneath the lies. Custody battles are never easy... Especially when the father is a powerful, wealthy man like Lincoln. Roxie could only blame herself. She was in the wrong for keeping their daughter, Lily, from him. But did that justify taking a child from their mother? He was no saint either. He hid the truth about her parents. The thing that had caused her to run. Not to mention the countless sleepless nights... Fearing for the safety of Lily, herself, and everyone around her. Lily is her only chance left to have a happy family. She used to think that Lincoln could be a part of that picture. Until she realized that he wasn't the man she once thought he was. Enough is enough. She's sick of all the lies and secrets. She needs answers. She needs closure. She needs to come out from hiding. For once in her life, she's decided to fight back and face her demons head-on. Book 5 of Barre to Bar Please read the series in the following order: 1. Dancing With Lies 2. Dancing With Temptation 3. Dancing With Doubt 4. Dancing With Guilt 5. Dancing With Redemption

When we were two, we were no longer babies-we were becoming little girls. And when we were thirteen, we were leaving childhood behind, becoming young women. But somewhere along the way, we stopped becoming. We became "un-women." Wallflowers who are just breathing and smiling and blending in to stay out of the way. That is not what God had in mind when He created us. He wants us to keep becoming. He wants us to become strong, decisive, wise, creative, passionate, courageous-all the things we've dreamed of becoming. When Wallflowers Dance is a fresh challenge to women who have lived hesitant, cautious lives but long to break free and dance! Using both Scripture and story, Angela Thomas addresses the attributes of "becoming" and the freedom we have in Christ to keep developing the characteristics that reflect our God-given longings.

***2020 winner of the Christopher Bland Prize*** "Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addiction with honesty and humour. And, like her, [we] come away changed forever." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, RSL Christopher Bland Prize When Michele Kirsch's father is killed in a train crash, her mother gets the vapours and Michele gets extremely nervous. By her mid-teens, she has found salvation in valium. Her favourite words on the prescription sheet are "Take As Needed", which she interprets as Take All The Time. Later, as a wife and mother, she adds alcohol into the mix, and before long her life is spinning out of control. Leaving home "for the sake of the family", she takes the scenic route to rehab, redemption and reinvention. But this is no misery memoir. Clean is a darkly comic tale about the difficult choices we have to make as we navigate our lives. While working as a domestic cleaner in her 50s, Michele finds herself living vicariously through other people's messes, tidying her way through early sobriety. As the Duster of Large Things, she taps into her natural nosiness to reveal the absurdities of a seemingly banal job.

Set against the backdrop of Old World religious persecution and New World colonization, this epic adventure of love and betrayal is gorgeously written by a major new talent making her debut.

Can an upstanding sheriff… Fall for a bad boy? Eric Novak has a reputation as a troublemaker in Jade Valley, Wyoming, but Sheriff Angie Lee intends to judge him by his actions, not his past. That he’s returned to care for his father is admirable, though the handsome rancher has set her heart fluttering for entirely different reasons. But when Eric is implicated in a local theft, Angie must search for the truth…even if that means losing the man she’s falling for. From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging.

Minister and theologian Marcia Mount Shoop Offers an analysis of Reformed heritage---and an impassioned provocation that we live more adventurously. "Beautifully written and deeply felt. This work offers a vivid theology relocated in the flesh and blood of life's utter physicality. Finally a book to recommend when people ask about resources on bodies and theology!"---Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology, The Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University "An incredibly compelling theological work. Bringing together a host of cutting-edge concerns that matter not simply to academic theologians, but to the lived life of faith, this project invokes the importance of bodies and their marking by gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Mount Shoop uses these now-familiar themes to break new ground by revealing the inadequacy of the overly verbal and cognitive character of Protestant worship and practice. It is groundbreaking."---Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School, and author of Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church "Mount Shoop thiks in new ways about central theological concepts and dares to imagine a new church emerging out of them. She combines the intellectual vigor of an academic with the heart and soul of a pastor who understands what it means to lead a congregation. Happily, she writes like a poet. Let the Bones Dance is provocative, stimulating, and readable."---John M. Buchanan, pastor, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois, and author of A New Church for a New World Contemporary Christian faith and practice tend to address spiritual, mental, and emotional issues but ignore the body. As a result, many believers are uncomfortable in their own skins. Mount Shoop addresses this "dis-ease" with a theology that is attentive to physical experience. She also suggests how worship services can more fully invite God to inhabit every part of a congregation---including their flesh-and-blood bodies.