Books with author Natalie Carlson

Kale Rollins’ life has become a living nightmare. As if it wasn’t awkward enough being an adopted normal kid in a family of purebred shapeshifters, he was now being transferred to a new school made solely for their kind. And it gets worse. He must attend this school under the pretense that he too is a shapeshifter, in order to “babysit” his fourteen year old brother who has suddenly shifted a year earlier than expected.However, with the new found knowledge that shapeshifting families are mysteriously disappearing, Kale wonders if attending Emerson Fox Academy is actually as safe as it seems. Before he even reaches the school, he finds himself in the middle of a feud that could become life-threatening to him and his brother.Unexpectedly friendships are formed as he chooses a side - so are enemies.There is one girl though who through it all that makes him want to stay. Except the closer he gets to Lavallette Waters, the harder it is to keep up his façade.As secrets start to unravel around him, Kale wonders what will happen next…Will “babysitting” his brother be the death of him?Can he really trust Lavallette?And how much more time do they have before someone they care about disappears?Be sure to get Full Moon on the Rise, Book II of the Emerson Fox Academy Series from Tell-Tale Publishing Group. Available Now!

The long awaited sequel to The Shifted, is now available in paperback from Tell-Tale Publishing Group.Someone in Emerson Fox Academy is determined to kill him, and Kale Rollins doesn’t know how much more he can take. And on top of everything, his adopted mom has “disappeared” and his real brother, Trey, is leaving just when Kale needs him the most. Not to mention, Miller and Kit are getting too close for his comfort and there is nothing he can do about it.Frustrated, scared, and struggling for “control” Kale doesn’t trust himself at all. With the full moon on the rise, Kale soon realizes he isn’t the only one who might die. What he wouldn’t do to be normal these days…

On a Christas morning, the Hill family will have their lives changed forever...Ever since her father left, Natalie Hill has tried to help her family any way she can. This Christmas morning is no exception. When an intruder threatens their home, Natalie does all she can to protect her family. But everything is not as it seems...Avery is just doing her job. She doesn't like the dirty work she'd been assigned, but she can't afford to make the Boss mad. Can she go through with this evil plan? Especially when she discovers her terrible actions will affect someone she knows and cares about.

Kale Rollins’ life has become a living nightmare. As if it wasn’t awkward enough being an adopted normal kid in a family of purebred shapeshifters, he was now being transferred to a new school made solely for their kind. And it gets worse. He must attend this school under the pretense that he too is a shapeshifter, in order to “babysit” his fourteen year old brother who has suddenly shifted a year earlier than expected.However, with the new found knowledge that shapeshifting families are mysteriously disappearing, Kale wonders if attending Emerson Fox Academy is actually as safe as it seems. Before he even reaches the school, he finds himself in the middle of a feud that could become life-threatening to him and his brother.Unexpectedly friendships are formed as he chooses a side - so are enemies.There is one girl though who through it all that makes him want to stay. Except the closer he gets to Lavallette Waters, the harder it is to keep up his façade.As secrets start to unravel around him, Kale wonders what will happen next…Will “babysitting” his brother be the death of him?Can he really trust Lavallette?And how much more time do they have before someone they care about disappears?Be sure to get Full Moon on the Rise, Book II of the Emerson Fox Academy Series from Tell-Tale Publishing Group. Available Now!

Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty's place in theology and the broader world. With the recent resurgence of attention to beauty among theologians, questions still remain about what exactly beauty is, how it is perceived, and whether we should celebrate its return. If beauty fell out of favor because it was seen to distract from the weightier concerns of poverty and suffering--because it can even be a tool of oppression--why should we laud it now? Gregory's writings offer surprisingly rich and relevant reflections that can move contemporary conversations beyond current impasses and critiques of beauty. Drawing Gregory into conversation with such disparate voices as novelist J. M. Coetzee and art theorist Kaja Silverman, Beauty displays the importance of beauty to theology and theology to beauty in a discussion that bridges ancient and modern, practical and theoretical, secular and religious. ""A compelling exploration of Gregory of Nyssa as theologian of the divine beauty. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of Gregory's writings, Natalie Carnes shows how the themes of fittingness and gratuity take us deep into the heart of his Trinitarian vision. To know God's beauty is to be wounded--and transformed. A remarkable achievement."" --Joseph L. Mangina, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ""Natalie Carnes has written a remarkable book--in its range, its learning and its imaginative sweep. All good history and theology thrive on imaginative engagement--while beauty is most enticing when it is veiled and presented as a mystery. Gregory of Nyssa emerges from these pages as a writer and theologian for our time, at once ancient and postmodern."" --David Jasper, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK ""Attentive, as many recent theological writers are not, to the dangers of beauty and of the ideologizing of beauty in bourgeois discourse, [Carnes] takes us from the modern alternatives of functionality or distinterestedness to the complementarity of gratuity and fittingness. Through Gregory's writings this is shown to illuminate both the sufferings of Christ and, poignantly, the human sufferings exemplified by his sister's breast cancer. The book reminds those of us who have read less of Gregory than we should have how much we are missing."" --George Pattison, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK ""Beauty is a singular achievement. It retrieves from Gregory key Trinitarian insights and constructively recasts them in the service of delineating a vision of beauty that speaks to our time. . . . 'Fittingness' and 'gratuity' are key to Carnes's theological investigation, categories that she refracts in three primary ways: first, theologically, according to Gregory's doctrine of God . . . second, christologically, according to the way that we confront in the person of Jesus of Nazareth an unsettling juxtaposition of beauty and poverty; and third, pneumatologically, according to the workings of the Holy Spirit who schools us to recognize beauty anew through a wounding of the self, achieved by means of suffering and love of neighbor."" --Jim Fodor, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY Natalie Carnes is Assistant Professor of Theology at Baylor University, Waco, Texas.