Includes sneak peeks from "New beginnings" and "Full circle."

In The Preacher and the Prostitute, E.K. Bailey retells the story of Hosea in soliloquy-like form. Bailey has formed the story into a compelling message, making it seem that Hosea is speaking directly to the reader. With a plotline that rivals any racy soap opera today, the book of Hosea is clearly applicable to our own immoral society.

Amy Miranda's boldly shares her story of how she journeyed from a life as an exotic dancer and prostitute to a new life, rooted in Christ's teachings. Her motivational story sets people free to accept their God-given, authentic selves, and to embrace a new life of confidence, joy and love.

"This book speaks about leaders pimping and prostituting the Body of Christ, leaving faithful givers and supporters hopeless, broke, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and sometimes physically. God has given Bishop WH Dawkins, Jr. a mandate to expose many of the schemes and tricks the enemy has used to bamboozle the people of God and minister a word of healing, deliverance, and wholeness."--Page 4 of cover.

The lives of a young drug dealer from Washington, DC; a middle-aged prostitute from New York City; and a convicted felon from Lorton Prison come together for a story of redemption, forgiveness and healing through Jesus Christ. Benjamin Wright, a young drug dealer, grows up lost in the foster care system, without family. An occupational hazard changes life as he knows it, turning an independent man to dependency on sources unknown. Hannah Brightly, a prostitute, confronts her painful past of childhood sexual abuse in her parents' home and church, causing a disturbance within her righteous and upright family upbringing. Marcopolous Gibson, a convicted felon, searches for forgiveness from those he's negatively affected, and God's purpose for his life. Already suffering grievous loss and other tragedies, their lives separately merge into one purpose: God's will. The outcome changes their hopes for the future.

The author contends that modernity has produced "the prostitute" as the other within the categorial other: woman.

Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. “When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.” Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don’t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words “I love you” are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story—a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, “Can I ever feel okay about myself?” A brilliant achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins—who has been called “the bestselling living poet in the country” by Mediabistro.com—Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life.