While In The Desert


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How did I get here? Why am I here? How long is this going to last?Have you ever gotten a promise from God, obeyed his word, and still found yourself in unfavorable circumstances? You thought you missed God, it made you question if you heard him correctly. I want to assure you, YOU HEARD CORRECTLY. The Desert was not made to destroy you, but to build you up. “How in the world can I be built up in the desert? The answer is because ”nothing” is there. It’s easy to focus on surroundings when they are present, but in doing so you pay more attention to what you can see instead of what needs attention. What needs attention is you inner man. In Theatre, when you start rehearsing you don’t have a full set, you don’t have props or an audience. You have the bare minimum and a director that instructs you to work on YOU! Rehearsal is the process you go through for your growth and development so that when it’s time for the audience to see, they see excellence. Same with the desert, it’s the place where introspection is key so that when your promise manifests that it remains. Your desert will be hard and taxing, but this will be a tool in your hand to fight the wiles of the devil while you’re there. You’ll never reach the mountain of promise without, first, journeying through the desert of process. I, too, faced many deserts but one thing I grasped this last time is that the desert isn’t a murderer but rather a teacher. As I fasted for 21 Days, in the midst of a desert experience, God did something amazing. God led me to water daily, let me see myself, and offered me a better way. Let’s reach maturity and wholeness together!




While Drowning in the Desert


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When Neal catches up to octogenarian Natty Silver, once a burlesque top banana and now known for his disappearing act, he's supposed to escort him home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Sole witness to a crime, Silver is now the quarry of some pretty dangerous people. And bodyguard Neil--scorching through the desert at 80 mph, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many--is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery grave. Martin's Press.




Desert Oracle


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The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.




While Drowning in the Desert


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In response to a plea from his friend and mentor, Neal Carey agrees to escort the seemingly harmless Nathan Silverstein home to Palm Springs, a journey hampered by the aged vaudevillian's lack of cooperation and the interference of some careless arsonists




While Drowning in the Desert


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30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress, and a chronic disappearing act. When Neal catches up with him, he can see why Natty doesn’t want to go home. Sole witness to a crime, he’s now the quarry of hard-faced suits, a fascist con artist, and a career-track assassin. And bodyguard Neal, scorching through the trackless desert at eighty miles per hour, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many, is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery grave.




In Desert and Wilderness


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Desert Cabal


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"Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.




A Loving Life


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Having successfully helped readers develop a solid prayer life with the best-selling release of A Praying Life, author Paul Miller applies his expertise to an even more important issue—love. After all, love is what holds all things together, it's what we're looking for, it's what we all need, and it's what we must learn how to give. But loving people is hard. Our neighbors, friends, kids, spouses, and even our enemies require a relentless, self-giving demonstration of love that only God can produce within us. Taking his cues from the perseverance and faithfulness portrayed in the book of Ruth, Miller sheds light on a biblical portrait of love that is sure to give us hope and transform our souls. Here is the help we need to embrace relationship, endure rejection, cultivate community, and reach out to even the most unlovable as we discover the power to live a loving life.




STREAMS IN THE DESERT


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Gathering the Desert


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Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw