Carrie Nelson applies to be on a reality show to learn how to become a bull rider and ranch hand to help her family pay for an experimental medical treatment for her sister. When she agrees to be on the show, she has no idea what she has gotten herself into. The work proves to be physically demanding and dangerous; however, it is the ranch owner, Joel Roulston, who is the one thing she could never have anticipated. While experiencing the unexpected ride, will Carrie allow herself to be thrown into love? Joel Roulston reluctantly agrees to the reality show filming on his family's ranch, so he and his siblings can get their childhood home out from under a mountain of debt. Carrie Nelson is nothing like what he expected; for one thing, he never expected the greenhorn to be a woman, for another she's breathtaking. His world shifts, even more, when he discovers she is more than just beautiful; she is compassionate, selfless, and kind. In addition to his initial worry that the greenhorn will get hurt, Joel also has to confront his own feelings for the spunky woman who arrived on his porch. When reality catches up to him, will Joel realize that love has just thrown him on the ride of his life?

Boots and Bulls: Thrown by Love-Book 1

Romance

C. Kelly

Western & Frontier

Kirk House, Publishers

Little did Linda Christensen know when she walked into a 40 degree rotating cooler in 1972 that inside that cooler over the next 50 years she would carve 41,500 pounds of butter into the likenesses of more than 550 young women involved in dairy farming.\nIn that time traditions developed around the "butterheads" including the lives they go on to live, some as centerpieces on wedding tables, in cookie dough for hundreds of holiday baking exchanges, at town corn feeds, and church pancake breakfasts. Some remain in farm family freezers for decades.\nLinda jokes that through cooler conversations with her subjects she gained at least a graduate degree in theoretical dairy farming. She learned much about the history of butter, of butter sculpting, of women's traditional contributions to their home dairies, and the new story of women dairy farmers.\nMinnesotans have honored Linda for gaining the state and its dairy farmers national recognition. She has gained the status of Minnesota icon. Now she relives her many unique memories, not only of her butter carving history but of her early life and journey to becoming the woman who carves butter at the Minnesota State Fair.

Princess Kay and Me: Stories about the Minnesota Butterheads and much more

Biographies & Memoirs

Linda Christensen

Arts & Literature

The author presents thought-provoking observations and penetrating questions, providing illuminating perspective on the root causes of racism and other forms of alienation. Her combination of poetic wisdom and imagination invites the reader into a realm where love transcends the socio-historical reality of racism. Her insights are a call to all who are committed to dismantling the vestiges of destructive racism from our human community.

Beyond Racism: A Deeper Understanding Of Cultural Diversity

Literature & Fiction

Verlene Grant

Poetry

A biography of Ruth Marie Colville. A story of persistence and perseverance, of achieving dreams, fostering inquisitiveness, and overcoming fear through positive action. On a larger scale, it is a story of the meeting and mixing of cultures in America. The culture of the Victorian East met the more open culture of the West, and the Anglo culture met with the Hispanic culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. 
If we learn the lessons of Ruth Marie's life, it is possible that we, too, will find ourselves rediscovering an old interest at fifty, creating a new interest at sixty-five, expanding our circle of friends at eighty, and reaching a life-ling dream at nine-two.

A Passion for Life

Virden, Jo Ann

Here is the story of the regional roots of the great American sport, from the dawn of Base Ball fever" in the 1870s through the triumphal 1905 season of Everrett's "Smokestackers." This collection of early Northwest baseball stories and photos is funny, revealing, and a tribute to baseball, the wit of pioneer journalism, and the amusing constancy of human nature. The story is told almost entirely in the words of the original scribes who witnessed and recorded it.

Wide Awakes, Invincibles & Smokestackers; Early Baseball in Tall Timber Country

Dave Larson

The Author writes, "I see myself as a scientist who has discovered some very important factors in the development of individuals and civilizations; and my theory is an explanation of both what makes people highly creative and what makes societies grow, prosper, and decline." The author encapsulates his theory with the acronym GAM/DP. GAM -- Individual: Three factors contribute to the development of personality and creativity of the individual. Good genetic endowment (G) e.g., intelligence, temperaments, specific talents, and by valid assistances (A) e.g., from parents, schools, books when combined with major misfortunes (M) of youth e.g., early parental death, physical infirmity, stimulates a personality which conflicts with society, providing in that tension material for creativity. DP -- Society: A society is creative where it develops within long periods when power is fought or grudgingly shared. Such division of power (DP) e.g. between emperor and pope, between state and church; between two or more major ideologies, fosters critical thinking. People begin to mistrust the power holder. They have the courage to speak their mind, to be creative on matters that are not those wanted by the power holder.

The GAM/DP Theory of Personality and Creativity, Vol. 1

Health, Fitness & Dieting

William A. Therivel

Psychology & Counseling

The GAM/DP Theory of Personality and Creativity, Vol. 2

This book is a collection of nine essays mostly by Lutheran scholars and church leaders who, from various perspectives (scriptural, theological, pastoral, socio-scientific), defend the church's traditional advocacy of an other-sex prerequisite for sexual unions. The essays are revised versions of presentations made at the Conference on Christian Sexuality held in Kansas City in October 2002, sponsored by the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau and attended by some 300 Lutheran (ELCA) pastors and lay persons from around the country. Although all the authors have in view the sexuality discussion going on in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) and all but two are members of that denomination, the aim of most of the essays is to provide a broad Christian perspective on sexuality and homosexuality. One of the two non-Lutheran contributors is Robert A. J. Gagnon, associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of two influential books on the Bible and homosexual practice. Gagnon provides a 50-page essay entitled "Does the Bible Regard Same-Sex Intercourse as Intrinsically Sinful?" offering the fullest discussion to date of both the relevance of the creation texts for an other-sex prerequisite and the weakness of claims that Paul and the ancient world generally had no concept of exclusive and innate homosexual desire. Gagnon also mounts a cumulative case against the contention recently put forward by Lutheran New Testament scholar Mark Allan Powell, in the book Faithful Conversations edited by James Childs for the ELCA sexuality discussion; namely, the contention that the Bible permits exceptions to a general prohibition of homosexual behavior. Gagnon's essay can be viewed as a companion piece to his essay in Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views (co-authored with Dan Via). Robert Benne, professor of religion and ethics at Roanoke College and author of Ordinary Saints and other books, provides a 10-page essay on the subject of "The Limits of Tolerance: Homosexuality and the ELCA's LPD (Liberal Protestant Drift)." Benne advocates a strategy of "gracious tolerance" that nurtures persons in homosexual relationships without blessing homosexual unions or ordaining persons in such unions. In a 20-page essay, James A. Nestingen, professor of church history at Luther Seminary, explores the subject: "Is There a Law? The Lutheran Reformation and Homosexual Practice." Nestingen examines homosexual practice in light of the law/gospel conversation in which Lutherans must engage. Merton P. Strommen, a research psychologist and specialist in youth and family ministry who has authored a number of books (including The Church and Homosexuality) describes in his 15-page essay the forces at work in our culture to normalize homosexuality, and the impact this is having on youth ("Homosexuality: A Youth Issue"). Russell E. Saltzman, pastor of Ruskin Heights Lutheran Church in Kansas City, commentator, and editor both of this volume and of the Lutheran publication Forum Letter, discusses—as a divorced pastor—the accommodation granted to divorced pastors and why it is not analogous to non-celibate homosexual pastors ("Clergy and Divorce," 12 pages). In a 14-page essay Amy C. Schifrin, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church (St. Cloud, Minn.) and former seminary pastor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, draws on her personal experiences to address the conundrum of ritualizing homoerotic relationships ("Ritualizing Life or Ritualizing Death"). The book also contains essays by: Thomas A. Skrenes, "Some Thoughts from a Pastor Who Serves as a Bishop" (9 pages); Phillip Max Johnson, "The Spiritual Nature and Destiny of the Human Body: A Pastoral Perspective on Human Sexuality" (16 pages); and Father Jay Scott Newman, "Homosexuality in Ecumenical Perspective" (8 pages).

Christian Sexuality: Normative and Pastoral Principles

Religion & Spirituality

Russell E. Saltzman

Christian Books & Bibles

"Notes to Eli" are, as the author describes them, "reflections of a Samuel, still listening for the call of God." Olson’s message is that the church in the post-modern context must have a clear, focused agenda: God is central, the community gathered around the word and sacrament is fundamental, and worship needs to be participatory. 
The notes in this book begin in November 2001. After April 2002, Olson writes under the diagnosis of multiple myeloma. Even though his personal situation changed dramatically after that date, his focus remained on being a pastor in a post-modern world. 
The further you delve into the "Notes," the more deeply you will experience Olson’s wisdom and the more you will be captured by his vision for evangelical leadership. The notes ended in October 2002.

Notes to Eli: A Pilgrim Hears the Call of God and Seeks to Be Faithful: Reflections of a Samuel Who Is Engaged in the Adventure of Pastoral Leadership

mark-a-olson

The Author writes, I see myself as a scientist who has discovered some very important factors in the development of individuals and civilizations; and my theory is an explanation of both what makes people highly creative and what makes societies grow, prosper, and decline.The author encapsulates his theory with the acronym GAM/DP. GAM -- Individual: Three factors contribute to the development of personality and creativity of the individual. Good genetic endowment (G) e.g., intelligence, temperaments, specific talents, and by valid assistances (A) e.g., from parents, schools, books when combined with major misfortunes (M) of youth e.g., early parental death, physical infirmity, stimulates a personality which conflicts with society, providing in that tension material for creativity. DP -- Society: A society is creative where it develops within long periods when power is fought or grudgingly shared. Such division of power (DP) e.g. between emperor and pope, between state and church; between two or more major ideologies, fosters critical thinking. People begin to mistrust the power holder. They have the courage to speak their mind, to be creative on matters that are not those wanted by the power holder.In Volume V The GAM part of the theory is applied to interpret a wide range of masterworks and their creators. Illustrations play a major role in chapter eight where sixteen incongruous horses are discovered in Leonardo Dinvinci s Adoration of the Magi. The GAM part also studies Keynes, Pasteur, Max Planck, Gadamer, F.D. Roosevelt, Mozart and Bonhoeffer The DP part of the theory is used to interpret a wide range of creative worlds. Chapter 32, In Whose Company is God? On Michelangelo s High DP Creativity in the Creation of Adam is a DP chapter. The DP part tackles courageously such controversial subjects as Luther s Counter-Canossa (1520 and 1525), Why the Famous German Kultur Failed, In Praise of Rabbi Elyse Goldstein s ReVisionism and of Mondino de Luzzi s Dissections, How Did Eighteenth-Century America Produce so many Great Men? and How Did Nineteenth-Century Russia Produce So Many Great Men?

The GAM/DP Theory of Personality and Creativity Vol. 5

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