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Zealot - The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A lucid, intelligent page-turner" (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, ...

The Path to Change

Pope Francis has thoroughly re-engaged the Catholic Church with the modern world, by tackling the difficult and urgent questions that we ...

Benedict XVI: A Life 1 - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927-1965

By any reckoning, the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI was extraordinary, with moments of high drama. Not the least of these was his resignati...

Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover - Poor Clothes Can Hide a Rich Heart

In business, it can be economically dangerous to make a snap judgement based on someone's looks, what they are wearing, the car they driv...

Shanghai's Forgotten Apostle of Charity Joseph Lu Bohong (1875-1937)

In the 1920s and 1930s Shanghai was not only the largest, richest, and most modern city of China, the site of churches and schools, the r...

The Young Melbourne

A biography of William Lamb, later to become Lord Melbourne, a man who would become prime minister of Great Britain at the height of the ...

When the Lights Go Out - A Boy Given a Second Chance

In October 2003, I became a victim of traumatic brain injury. That's when I was hit and dragged by a pickup truck while riding a Big Whee...

Hollywood Diaries

Book Description 2000 Hollywood Diaries, is the true, intimate, and sometimes disturbing diaries of Morgana Welch. The diaries begin in 1...

Walk in My Shoes

Beethoven the Creator

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

Anticipations

Anticipations is a no holds barred explanation of Wells' vision of the New Republic. It contains themes of the "New Republic", a system o...

Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell ? - He Escaped over 200 times from a Notorious German Prison Camp to see the Girl he Loved. This is the Incredible Story of Horace Greasley. (16pt Large Print Edition)

 Horace 'Jim' Greasley was twenty years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There...

The Unbroken Pastor

This book has been written to encourage anyone who has experienced or continues to experience life trials and tribulations. I pray that t...

Beauty From My Ashes

Some events in our childhood can have a lifelong effect and can shape how we see ourselves and how we believe others see us. They can als...

A journey to Awakening - The memoirs of a Dhamma disciple

Told in a narrative form these are the memories of the Dhamma journey of a living Master. From his humble beginnings on a small island in...

Book 2 of 2 Duology The Dog Trainer - Death, karma and the battle of wills

The explosive sequel to The Dog Trainer: from K9 world firsts to Murder & Mayhem continues with the raising and training of your new pupp...

My Crazy Brain

Sylvia Wright has had progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) since 1994. She was also born with two half-wombs and one kidney. She met her h...

Doha! - Diary of a Delhi-O-holic

"We NRIs are made to sweat in places that friends back home have no clue about." The portly colleague from IT department fittingly descri...

The Biography of Benjamin Franklin

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Kirk Douglas & Doris Day

Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9th, 1916, Amsterdam, New York, U.S., is an actor, producer, director, and author, bei...

Dreambook - Happy Trails in Adventure , Philosophy, and Fun

This book is a collection of short stories based on the adventure and experience I have lived and the philosophy these 59 years on Earth ...

The Silent Patient - A True Story

I was in my thirties when I attended nursing school, and I took the year-long crash course to get it over with as a LPN (licensed practic...

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover

In and out of public schools, ESE programs, and through a stay at a psychiatric facility, Chris Moultry knew that he was meant for someth...

Elvis As We Knew Him - Our Shared Life in a Small Town in South Memphis

You are invited to take a journey, along with the author, to her hometown in the American South, a unique culture of relative safety with...

The Countess of Erroll

My journey encapsulates a three year mystery that began in Edinburgh, Scotland in October 2006 in which I was led by a variety of mysteri...

Son of a Highlander

Casey Jones - Epic of the American Railroad

There is a wide difference between the saturated steam locomotives of the late nineteenth century and the sleek aluminum, streamlined Die...

Agnes the Secret Princess - An Australian Story

In 1824 Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Elisa Radziwill were very much in love, but they had been forbidden to marry. Their story ...

Fatima, Daughter of Muhammad

This work, based almost entirely on the primary Arabic texts of Sunnî and Shîca Islam, offers a fresh examination of the life of Fatima, ...

Kim Kardashian

Kimberly "Kim" Noel Kardashian West, born on October 21st, 1980, Los Angeles, California, U.S., is a media personality, businesswoman, so...

Letters Home - Glimpses of a Cuso Cooperant's Life in Southern Nigeria 1970-1971

Witness the rebirth of a Biafran war-gutted mission hospital in the sub-tropical villages of Ogwashi-Uku. Share my memoirs of the people ...

MADNESS !

Madness are a ska band from Camden Town, north London, England, UK, formed during 1976. One of the leading groups of the late 1970s - ear...

Understanding Bonhoeffer

How are we to understand Bonhoeffer? In these essays, Peter Frick attempts to answer this question by examining different aspects of Bonh...

The Winning Habits Of Steve Jobs

The Winning Habits of Steve Jobs provides a glimpse into the successful attributes of this remarkable icon of the technology industry. Of...

The Call to China

Sandra King went to university in China in September 1992. She was so excited. She had sold her home, furniture, car, and everything else...

The 13 Steps to Riches - Habitude Warrior Volume 6 - ORGANIZED PLANNING with Erik Swanson and Marie Diamond

Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your life or business benefited from the timeless truths ...

Blessed to be a Blessing - In Good Times and Bad Times

In her life, Kim Cassandra Ridley has always tried to be a blessing to someone else. She feels we are all called to help one another. Whe...

BRIAN HARRADINE (Australian Biographical Monographs 21)

Brian Harradine, Independent Senator for Tasmania from 1975 to 2004, refutes the view that independent parliamentarians have no place in ...

My Second University - Memories from Romanian Communist Prisons

How does one adjust to undeserved captivity, survive, attempt to return to normalcy, and succeed? My Second University tells that story, ...

Under the Big Top

Come one, come all... the greatest show on earth! Stories, poems, whimsical drawings performed by senior writers on the "down side of the...

The Story of Channon Rose Part 2

Porn star turned social media influencer, Channon Rose takes you through her life in the adult entertainment industry. She shares secret ...

Get It Done

How do you truly want to live? The most interesting subject offered in acquiring what we most desire is the development of self- discipli...

A Daughter to Many - My Journey to Find Family and Forgiveness

Andrea June was given up by her family for adoption before she was two years old. Andrea was introduced to a family that already had two ...

The Sonnets Of Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel And Stella (1898)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

The Man Who Swam into History - The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania-or did he? Then there are s...

A Story of the Fifth Longest Held POW in US History - First POW Released from North Vietnam

More LIGHT THAN DARKNESS

This is the story of a young woman named Sue who forwent the right of passage from teenager into womanhood. Becoming a psychological crip...

Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated

Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harris...

John Dee 1527 to 1608

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

Entering the Diamond Way - My Path Among the Lamas

A perfect book to introduce Westerners to Tibetan Buddhism. This is the genuinely compelling story, and spiritual odyssey, of Ole and Han...

Life - My Story Through History

For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—fro...

The Guns 'n' Roses Worker - Traveller

Description In 1987, a few months before I left home to hobo around Europe, Guns N' Roses released Appetite for Destruction. The band and...

Family First 90 Years Of Sex, Politics, and Religion

Family First - Written from 1980 to 2016. It is an account of one family's life during the 20th century. The family consists of a father,...

Collaborate to Succeed

Having mentors and influencers can provide a huge advantage in your journey as an entrepreneur. My goal is to inspire you through the sto...

The Merciful Door - Living with a Sufi Teacher in India

"Wherever it may be, the candle burns, and in burning it gives others light. That is the way you must be." When the soul burns with love,...

Language as Hope - L. L. Zamenhof and the Dream of a Cosmopolitan Wor(l)d

Ludwig Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917) was not the only one promoting the idea of a constructed language in his time. Numerous efforts - draw...

Swami in a Strange Land - How Krishna Came to the West

"In 1965, a seventy-year-old man set sail from India to America with a few books in his bag, pennies in his pockets, and a message of lov...

The Emperor Gaius (Caligula).

Paul Robeson - Essays on His Life and Legacy

Paul Robeson was born April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of an escaped slave. He rose to unparalleled heights as an athlete...

Miramar II - Gambier Island's History

My family and I have owned property on Gambier Island since 1979 and, in the passing years, have seen the community evolve into what we r...