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Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment
Erwin Raphael McManus
$5.75

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In this inspiring book (formerly Seizing Your Divine Moment), Erwin McManus uses the biblical account of Israel's war with the Philistines (1 Samuel 13 and 14) and the characters of Saul and Jonathan to demonstrate the difference between living a life of purpose and adventure, and living one of apathy and missed opportunity. In the midst of a less-than-hopeful battle, Saul rested beneath a tree as Jonathan seized the divine moment that would impact the future of Israel. Through this story McManus artfully illustrates the eight characteristics of an adventurer's heart, what he calls "the Jonathan factor."

Using powerful examples from his own life and ministry, along with fresh biblical teaching, McManus asserts that God crafts divine moments specific to each of us-priceless opportunities for us to actively engage in God's plan. By developing the characteristics McManus outlines, Christians can move from mundane to miraculous living.

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Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life
Eugene O'Kelly
$3.98

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelley, completed in the three-and-a-half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting moments of our lives-the brief time we have with our family, our friends, and even ourselves. This paperback edition features a new foreword by his wife, Corinne O'Kelley and a readers' group guide and questions.

“Voicing universal truths . . . shared . . . simply and clearly.”-Janet Malin, New York Times

“Words to live by.”-Kerry Hannon, USA Today

“One of the most unexpected and touching books you're likely to read this year.”-Edward Nawotka, Bloomberg News

“An honest, thought-provoking memoir . . . O'Kelly has many lessons to teach us on how to live.”-Steve Powers, Houston Chronicle

“[A] well-written and moving book.”-TheEconomist.com

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An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter
$1.02

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Born on October 1, 1924, Jimmy Carter grew up on a Georgia farm during the Great Depression. In An Hour Before Daylight, the former president tells the story of his rural boyhood, and paints a sensitive portrait of America before the civil rights movement.

Carter describes--in glorious, if sometimes gory, detail--growing up on a farm where everything was done by either hand or mule: plowing fields, "mopping" cotton to kill pests, cutting sugar cane, shaking peanuts, or processing pork. He also describes the joys of walking barefoot ("this habit alone helped to create a sense of intimacy with the earth"), taking naps with his father on the porch after lunch, and hunting with slingshots and boomerangs with his playmates--all of whom were black. Carter was in constant contact with his black neighbors; he worked alongside them, ate in their homes, and often spent the night in the home of Rachel and Jack Clark, "on a pallet on the floor stuffed with corn shucks," when his parents were away. However, this intimacy was possible only on the farm. When young Jimmy and his best friend, A.D. Davis, went to town to see a movie, they waited for the train together, paid their 15 cents, and then separated into "white" and "colored" compartments. Once in Americus, they walked to the theater together, but separated again, with Jimmy buying a seat on the main floor or first balcony at the front door, and A.D. going around to the back door to buy his seat up in the upper balcony. After the movie, they returned home on another segregated train. "I don't remember ever questioning the mandatory racial separation, which we accepted like breathing or waking up in Archery every morning."

In this warm, almost sepia-toned narrative, Carter describes his relationships with his parents and with the five people--only two of whom were white--who most affected his early life. Best of all, however, Carter presents his sweetly nostalgic recollections of a lost America. --Sunny Delaney

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In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri
Harry N. MacLean
$3.78

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Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life (UK Edt)
Eugene O'Kelly
$10.09

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As CEO at accounting giant KPMG, Eugene O'Kelly was so immersed in his job that over the course of a decade, he managed to have lunch with his wife on weekdays just twice. His travel schedule was set 18 months out. Once, he was so obsessed with impressing a potential client that he tracked down the man's travel schedule, booked the seat next to him on a flight, schmoozed the guy all the way to Australia, landed the account, and flew immediately back to Manhattan. His Type-A ways vanished when, at age 53, a top neurosurgeon in New York told him he had late-stage brain cancer. "His eyes told me I would die soon. It was late spring. I had seen my last autumn in New York." 

There are no TV-movie-style miracle treatments or extensions of his life expectancy; he's told he has maybe 3 months, and he doesn't spend any energy hoping for a cure. True to his CEO style, he creates goals for himself, lists of friends to visit for the last time; he meditates; he tries to create as many "perfect Moments" that he can, during dinner or phone conversations with friends, and realized how rare those moments of connection and joy were in his "previous life." Chasing Daylight is as much a self-criticism of his job-before-family ways as it is a meditation on time and a transition to a tranquil, spiritual state utterly foreign to him as a CEO. O'Kelly's absolutely more fulfilled by the soul work that he finishes in 100 days, compared to his 30 years of corporate promotions and accolades, and he utterly convinces readers to ponder their own situation, whether "in the gloaming" of life as he was or not. --Erica Jorgensen

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Chasing Daylight Workbook: A 10-week Bible Study on the Life of Jonathan
BluefishTV
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Daylight (paperback)
Lily Kleiman
$25.50

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Far from the typical coming-of-age tale, Lily Kleiman's inaugural offering, Daylight, introduces beautiful, but broken, Will Sutherland Hayes and feisty, but disillusioned, Hannah Rostow. While navigating the tempestuous waters of the teenage subculture, these two young people meet and desperately cling to each other as they frantically tread water in an effort to stay afloat in a sea of human betrayal and cruelty.

Set in a small, isolated Canadian town whose principal industry is a mining pit, the dark setting mirrors the mood of the novel's protagonists who are devoid of hope. Exiled from larger cities, a twelve-year-old Will arrives in Logan Lake to be adopted by a foster family after abandonment by his father and the death of his mother while Hannah arrives five years later after being cast aside by her mother and sent to live with the father she barely knows. Why are parents cruel to children? Will and Hannah don't know, but they quickly learn to act their parts to simply survive this life. While their experiences and situations are quite different, they share a lack of faith in humanity and a history of promises broken by the adults in their lives.

Starved for emotional attention Hannah sees herself as an observer of life, not a participant. Unwanted by a selfish mother, she learned long ago to be responsible and fend for herself. Quelling any feelings of excitement or passion Hannah resigns herself to a staid, apathetic existence without any belief in a brighter future. Her father, Gabe, attempts to provide for Hannah and does genuinely love her, but he faces his own challenges during the course of the story, and once again Hannah feels neglected and alone. Stoically Hannah trudges through her life as the disappointments by those around her mount and threaten to suffocate her.

While Hannah is emotionally neglected, the secrets of Will's past are revealed to be far more horrific. Arriving in Logan Lake filled with anger and a heart frozen by ice, Will survives by feeling numb and running away from his pain. Adopted by a loving family, Dr. and Mrs. Hayes and their two daughters attempt to heal Will with understanding and kindness, but trust is not something that is easily restored. Quickly Will learns to act his part, but yet inside he remains frozen and terrified.

As if constantly existing on the edge of a sharp blade, Will and Hannah struggle to maintain a precipitous balance between truth and lies, love and hate, trust and deceit, and relief and anguish. Through exquisite use of metaphor and allusion Kleiman grounds their story in reality. Not a young adult novel, Will and Hannah's secrets evolve into potent desires of a raw and primal nature. Barriers are broken, but their relationship struggles to find emotionally solid ground. Is it even possible for these two wounded souls to find hope and happiness? Ultimately Kleiman delivers not a fairy tale, but an authentic journey through mankind's inherent violence. Two imperfect lives must discover what is ultimately "enough" for happiness. Daylight resonates with hope, not perfection, and leaves its readers in awe of the strength and power of love.

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Octopussy and The Living Daylights (James Bond Novels)
Ian Fleming
$2.26

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Whether it is tracking down a wayward major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean or identifying a top Russian agent secretly bidding for a Fabergé egg in a Sotheby’s auction room, Bond always closes the case—with extreme prejudice.

This new Penguin edition comprises four stories, including Fleming’s little-known story "007 in New York," showcasing Bond’s taste for Manhattan’s special pleasures—from martinis at the Plaza and dinner at the Grand Central Oyster Bar to the perfect anonymity of the Central Park Zoo for a secret rendezvous.

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Saving Daylight
Jim Harrison
$9.69

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Named to the Notable Books of the Year lists from The Kansas City Star and the Michigan Library Association.

"Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."-The Times (London)

"This is [Harrison's] most robust, sure-footed, and blood-raising poetry collection to date."-Booklist

Jim Harrison-one of America's most beloved writers-calls his poetry "the true bones of my life." Although he is best known as a fiction writer, it is as a poet that Publishers Weekly famously called him an "untrammeled renegade genius."

Saving Daylight, Harrison's tenth collection of poetry, is his first book of new poems in a decade. All of Harrison's abundant passions for life are poured into suites, prose poems, letter-poems, and even lyrics for a mariachi band.

The subjects and concerns are wide-ranging-from the heart-rending "Livingston Suite," where a boy drowns in the local river and the body is discovered by the poet's wife-to some of the most harrowing political poems of Harrison's career. There is also a cast of creature characters-bears, dogs, birds, fish-as well as the woodlands, thickets, and occasional cities of Arizona, Montana, Michigan, France, and Mexico.

"Imagination is my only possession," Harrison once said. And Saving Daylight is an imagination in full, exuberant bloom.

Jim Harrison is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His work has been translated into dozens of languages. Born and raised in Michigan, he now lives in Montana and Arizona.

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Daylight Runner
Oisin Mcgann
$1.58

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Asking questions in Ash Harbor can get you killed.

Sol Wheat is asking a lot of questions . . . especially after his father vanishes and is accused of murder.

Outside the huge domed city, an Ice Age has transformed Earth into an Arctic desert. But inside, the Machine, protected by the Clockworkers—a fearsome police organization—has become the source of the city's energy and a way for industrial leaders to wield enormous power. When a rogue organization begins posting messages warning of the Machine's impending failure, civil unrest grows.

As Sol begins to uncover the city's deepest secrets, the Clockworkers start targeting him. Now he's on the run in Ash Harbor's underground, where gangs rule and danger lurks in every corner. His life and the survival of Ash Harbor are both at risk.

In Oisín McGann's thrilling adventure, only the truth can help Sol Wheat escape the darkness.