"The Lord is my shepherd." Thus begins the most beloved of all Psalms -- and thus begins a thousand-year journey through the Bible. Prophets, apostles and Jesus himself took up this image from David, reshaping it, developing it and applying it to their own situations and needs. Kenneth Bailey uses his celebrated insights into Middle Eastern culture and especially his familiarity with Middle Eastern shepherding customs to bring new light and life to...

Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the farm where he grew up, to help gather the sheep down from the moors for the winter. Very little changes in the Endlands, but this year, his grandfather|the Gaffer|has died and John's new wife, Katherine, is accompanying him for the first time. Each year, the Gaffer would redraw the boundary lines of the village, with pen and paper but also through the remembrance of tales and timeless communal rituals, which...

While looking for his lost lamb, an orphaned shepherd boy meets Mary, Joseph, and newborn baby Jesus in a manger.

Tom Fernald may not be the smartest man alive, but he certainly knows when he's in trouble. And he's in it deep. A bandit named Bill Ransome just stole all the money Tom had gathered to pay off the mortagage on his sheep ranch. Now he'll be broke and landless with no way to scrape enough cash together to get another herd. Unless he can find a miser's fortune rumored to be buried in the area.

In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Lazlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.

"El libro trata sobre los sue?os y los medios que utilizamos para alcanzarlos, sobre el azar en nuestra vida y las se?ales que se presentan a lo largo de esta. Est? considerado c?mo una par?frasis del cuento Las mil y una noches: en definitiva, las aventuras de un h?roe que busca su tesoro, lejos de su hogar, para regresar a ?l y hallarlo, sufriendo durante todo el viaje una transformaci?n en lo que a su visi?n del mundo y la realidad se refiere"--es.wikipedia.org. An...