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What Do Mango Voles, Amusement Parks, and the Mafia Have In Common? Author: Carl Hiaasen  Combine extreme environmentalism, the mafia, theme parks, and dedicated albeit down-and-out anti-heroes, and you have the explosive recipe that produces Carl Hiaasen’s Native Tongue. Ashamed of his big-developer father, stunted journalist Joe Winder has exited his career with considerable scandal and is now forced to work for a cheap Disney knockoff –  Francis X. Kingsbury’s Amazing Kingdom of Thrills. With rides not up to code (including the Wet Willy and its mold problem, plus its unfortunate shape and construction of latex), slapdash dudes in animal costume, behind the [...]

How Can You Understand God's Love if You Don't Understand His Forgiveness Author: Max Lucado Living a life where you are loved means having and using the capability to love. Max Lucado, bestselling Christian author, delves into an examination of love itself and how this complex yet grace-infused blessing system works. It all begins with the first chapter and his introduction of the 7:47 principle (from Luke 7:40-47 NLT). This principle addresses the passage where Jesus, invited to the prestigious home of Simon, finds the sudden, emotional appearance of a prostitute who bathes his feet with perfume and expresses true devotion more [...]

Love and defiance in the wake of terror Author: Antoine Leiris Antoine Leiris’ You Will Not Have My Hate is perhaps the most unforgettable memoir I have ever read. This haunting book manages to be weighty, devastating and gorgeously written in just 129 pages. In fact, I finished it in one sitting because I was unable to tear myself away from Leiris’ words until I knew he was going to be all right at the end. You Will Not Have My Hate started as a Facebook post Leiris wrote three days after his wife, Hélène, was killed at the Bataclan concert hall [...]