Heretic

Married to an evangelical paster's son with a comfortable life, the author describes her reckoning with religious trauma... (more)

Married to an evangelical paster's son with a comfortable life, the author describes her reckoning with religious trauma and Midwestern values as she shed years of indoctrination, piety, and repression and came out as queer, and discusses how evangelicalism has undermined American political power structures. (less)

In the flames of unceasing war, a young archer's heart, will, and courage will be supremely tested in the conclusion of ... (more)

In the flames of unceasing war, a young archer's heart, will, and courage will be supremely tested in the conclusion of an epic quest for vengeance and the greatest prize in all history: The Holy Grail. (less)

In 1347, the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, there is... (more)

In 1347, the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille. Thomas becomes a raider, leading his archers in savage forays. But Thomas becomes the hunted as his campaign is destroyed by the church... (less)

Today, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of fundamentalists, a majority of observant "daily... (more)

Today, the world's 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of fundamentalists, a majority of observant "daily" Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues, there is no denying that some of its key teachings- like the subordination of women and the duty to wage holy war- are incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a "Reformation"- a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernit- is now at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority revealed a new readiness'not least by Muslim women'to think freely and to speak out. Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that ordinary Muslims throughout the world want change. Courageously challenging the fundamentalists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that must be made in order to set Muslims free from their 7th-century chains. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Islamic societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of toleration. (less)