The one pulling the strings behind the organization hunting down the Scorched is finally revealed. ItÕs a familiar face that one team member thought they would never see again.

The Scorched team is still on the ground in Russia, but now they are the hunted…

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.

The NIV Minister's Bible is the perfect on the go Bible to equip pastors, counselors, pastoral caregivers, lay teachers--everyone in the active ministry. It's unique ministry resources help them meet the challenges of everyday ministry opportunities as well as manage its stresses. Resources include a practicle guide to visitation, sample services for weddings, funerals, and baptisms, a step by step plan of salvation, quick find scripture references to answer tough questions, and more. Ministry helps were previously published in the NIV Pastor's Bible and have now been throughly updated.

Find the Holy Spirit throughout the Bible. Jack Hayford, founding pastor of The Church on the Way, has led a team of anointed scholars to produce the New Spirit-Filled Life Bible. This outstanding resource offers a fresh look at the Scriptures and the work of the Holy Spirit. This Bible addresses important issues of Spirit-filled living in the context of solid biblical scholarship. Features include: Kingdom Dynamics - 41 themes throughout the Bible that give us values as we advance the gospel throughout the world Word Wealth - More than 550 key terms defined and brought to life, pulling the language from the original Greek and Hebrew into everyday English Truth-In-Action - Charts with practical application from every book of the Bible Detailed book introductions Verse-by-verse study notes Spirit-Filled Life Bibles sold to date: More than 2 million

The hunt for a murderer brings to light an old case our two distinguished detectives thought long closed. Could there be a missing connection?

With GunslingerÕs powers failing him, heÕll have to turn to the techniques and discipline that those in his past taught him.