When Jesus told His followers how much we all need God’s love, it was not a theological treatise. Instead, He told a story: There once was a man who had two sons… The simplicity of this famous parable belies some richly profound truths. The story Francis Thompson tells in his classic poem The Hound of Heaven works in exactly this way—stirring our hearts with a yearning we may not fully understand. Something comes through the poem that we cannot quite put our finger on… This book actually contains two versions of the poem, the original and a modern adaptation. Despite the depth and beauty of the poem, it is written in a vernacular difficult to understand. Our rationale for the adaptation of this masterpiece is to reveal its timeless beauty and insights for a broad, modern audience.

The Hound of Heaven - 2nd Illustrated Edition

Brown, Devin

Oxley, Sally

Oxley, Brian

Peterson, Sonja

Religion & Spirituality

Oxvision Books

This devotional classic, by Lilias Trotter, was born of her own spiritual struggles and tempered with her depth of life experience. It reflects Trotter’s deep grounding in Scripture, and is animated by her growing sensibility to God speaking through His natural world. Though popular upon publication, with numerous reprintings, it had been out of print for decades. This facsimile edition is reproduced from the first edition and is faithful in both the presentation of text and colorplates. The result was this devotional classic, born of her own spiritual struggles and tempered with her depth of life experience. It reflects Trotter’s deep grounding in Scripture, and is animated by her growing sensibility to God speaking through His natural world. Though popular upon publication, with numerous reprintings, it had been out of print for decades. This facsimile edition is reproduced from the first edition and is faithful in both the presentation of text and colorplates.

Facsimile Edition: Parables of the Cross

Trotter, I. Lilias

Christian Books & Bibles

“I will make you the greatest living artist in all of England! But you must work very hard at your art, and you must decide between your art and your work with the poor.” This was the choice that John Ruskin, the celebrated Victorian art critic, presented to the young Lilias Trotter. With a storyteller’s eye and ear, Sally Oxley traces the steps that led up to this turning point in Lilias Trotter’s life and the amazing adventure that followed as she turned her back on worldly fame and set out in faith for the mission work in North Africa. Readers young and old will be stirred by the enchanting pictures and lean, moving prose and will come away with a renewed vision of the world and their role in it. Lilias Trotter’s full story can be seen in the documentary film Many Beautiful Things, available at manybeautifulthings.com.

Lily: The Girl Who Could See

Children's Books

Huffman Rockness, Miriam

Religions

GG loves colors. She always dresses in blues, yellows, or reds and is never without her favorite pink glasses. One day her Grandpa Marty takes her for a walk in the garden where he shows her how to see floating elephants and chugging trains in the clouds and how to find heaven in a brown beetle, a bright butterfly, and her own heart. With her grandpa's help, GG comes to realize that what she took as a dark, mean bird is caring for its hungry family. Learning a lesson from the blackbird, GG finds a way to do her part to help hungry children.

Learning to See

In October 1876, twenty-three–year–old Lilias began, with her mother, a trip to Venice, Italy. While in Lucerne, Lilias purchased a sketchbook in which she recorded the journey along the carriage roads to Venice—where she met the famed John Ruskin, Victorian England’s arbiter of artistic taste and the author, no less, of The Stones of Venice, the definitve artistic and architectural history of the city. Ruskin, impressed by young Lilias’s talent, took it upon himself to educate her untrained eye, escorting her through the Grand Canal to view paintings and architecture, providing instruction in art which would continue in England. This facsimile edition of the sketchbook she carried to Venice and, no doubt, on sketching trips with John Ruskin, reveals first her untrained artistic talent—the discovery of which Ruskin declared in his 1884 “Art of England” lecture to be “about the only thing that makes me content in having gone there.” And it contains views of Venice most likely instructed by the master himself.

Facsimile Edition: Lilias Trotter's 1876 Sketchbook: Scenes from Lucerne to Venice

Lilias Trotter’s 1889 Pocket Sketchbook captured views from North Africa and Europe one year after she left London to live in Algiers and minister to the Arab people. Most of the views were sketched during the month of June while taking a break from the scorching heat of a North African summer. Her ability to quickly capture views with accuracy and beauty was a skill that John Ruskin, eminent Victorian art critic, extolled in his 1884 “Art of England” lecture and demonstrated with specimens removed from her Norwegian Sketchbook: “…they are patterns to you therefore only of pocket-book work; but what skill is more precious to a traveller than that of minute, instantaneous, and unerring record of the things that are precisely best?” Her range of subjects and scenes that were at once “lovely and honorable” met the high standard that Ruskin, mentor/friend, set and valued: mountains and clouds, ships and seascapes, figures in regional garb and headdress, flowers and architectural details.

1889 Sketchbook: Scenes from North Africa, Italy & Switzerland

One windy day as Grandpa the Bookworm is playing in the backyard with his friends, he is suddenly lifted by a powerful gust and sent soaring into the air. When he finally comes down, he finds himself in the great house nearby where he lands on the pages of a huge book. Just when things are starting to look up, disaster strikes… WHAM! the book is suddenly closed, leaving Grandpa trapped inside. How is Grandpa to ever make it back to his family and friends? Luckily, bookworms can make a second home in a book. But can he manage to survive on his own in such a big one? Learn how Grandpa finds help and encouragement on his journey through the world’s most amazing book. Captivating drawings by award-winning illustrator Tim Ladwig help bring this enchanting tale to life.

Grandpa the Bookworm: And the World's Most Amazing Book

Action & Adventure

Hunter loves exploring and asking questions. He’s the kind of kid who always wants to know how everything works. One day his Grandpa tells him, “I love you.” And, of course, Hunter immediately wants to know how much. And so begins a quest for Grandpa to explain just how big his love for Hunter is. Through many fanciful illustrations, Hunter learns how loud Grandpa’s love is, how bright it shines, and how long it will last. But when they take a fall during a climb up a mountain, Hunter learns his most important lesson about how big Grandpa’s love is.

Grandpa, How Big is Your Love?

Growing Up & Facts of Life

When Grandpa and the family fly to Spain to watch the annual running of the bulls, they have no idea what is in store for them. The famous event begins as usual with crowds of people lining the streets shouting and waving scarves. Soon the sound of hooves can be heard coming closer and closer. Then as the bulls arrive, disaster strikes as they take an unexpected turn and head straight toward Grandpa and his grandkids! With only seconds to act, Grandpa proves that he is willing to do whatever it takes to protect those he loves, even if it means putting himself in danger. Readers young and old will enjoy this humorous adventure about love and sacrifice.

Grandpa Saves the Day

Maverick. American Icon. Member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Television Show Host. Friend. Husband. Johnny Cash was all of these and more. But beneath each of these titles was one he carried with him from his humble beginnings in rural Arkansas and was always with him no matter what came later. Johnny Cash was first, last, and always a country boy. Johnny Cash drove out to the Farm in Bon Aqua for the first time in 1972. He thought he was simply coming to appraise and sell another one of the properties his dishonest accountant had purchased with stolen money. What he did not realize at the time was that he was finally coming home. Here, told for the first time, is the story of Johnny Cash and the Farm in Bon Aqua – the place that for the next 30 years would become, as he put it, his own personal Ground Zero. Includes never seen before photos as well as comments from friends and family members.

The Farm at Bon Aqua: Johnny Cash's Former Hideaway

History

Americas

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