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The High Sign

by David S. Heeren

What will be the celestial sign of Jesus’ Second Coming and why will it be important for Christians to recognize it when it appears? These two themes are discussed at length in Jesus’ only sermon that fills four chapters of the Bible (Mt. 24-25, Mark 13, Luke 21). In this sermon, Jesus stressed the need for believers to be watchful (for the sign), prayerful, standing firm, fearing nothing and prepared for anything. Prepared believers will have a chance to share their faith during a great revi... more

Bright Yellow Souls

by Luca Favaro

This is the story of the very deep relationship between a young Nurse called Kevin and the sick people he assisted. These are real stories of illness, pain, but also hope, love and enlighten by the silent presence of God.

Solomon

by Gail Gilmore

When a stray dog named Solomon, scheduled for euthanization in a Georgia high-kill shelter, is pulled by an out-of-state rescue and placed in a Maine foster home, everyone hopes he’ll soon find his forever family. But after only a month in his foster home he bolts, beginning an epic two-year journey south through New England. Traveling solo, Solomon survives by his instincts, wits, and the occasional kindness of an ever-changing cast of humans. Eventually he settles down in the peninsula town of... more

It's Come to This: A Pandemic Diary

by Laura Pedersen

As New York becomes the world’s hardest-hit city by the coronavirus, best-selling author and former New York Times columnist Laura Pedersen reports on how the populace is turned upside-down. Practically overnight millions of people went from living according to facts and figures to being at the mercy of fever and fate. It’s Come to This chronicles the pandemic year as it unfolded, with every week bringing a new set of seemingly impossible challenges and contradictions. Pedersen explains how peop... more

English-Khmer Phrases Medical Dictionary

by Bunleang Kors

Have English and Khmer words Easy to learn clear and simple for Cambodian People who wants to learn English

Why Travel?: A Way of Being, a Way of Seeing

by Bill Thompson

In Why Travel? A Way of Being, A Way of Seeing, Thompson writes about one subject as a way of exploring a multitude of others. With 40 years' experience as a world wanderer and travel writer, he guides readers in discovering new ways of seeing themselves, as travelers, individuals, and world citizens, buttressing his approach with personal experience, practical advice, arresting anecdotes and real-world stories. Why Travel? differs from many a travel book in that its approach won’t be obsolete i... more

Book of Living

by Ashok Kumar

The book develops and describes a cogent framework in which human living takes place. The framework depicts linkages and interactions among our behavior, actions, survival, and evolution, and delineates the relationship between survival and morality, and morality and religion, as well as rationale for the latter. Additionally, the framework describes how evolution in humans is similar and yet different from other species.

Tour of Insanity: A Manifesto for Better Home Design

by Kelly Mitchell & Matthew Zakutny

Have you ever walked around your house wondering WHY this was installed that way or WHY there is orange shag carpet in the kitchen? Maybe you wondered WHY there has to be a front yard or WHY do pests keep getting into your home? We provide a comedic look at the WHY and some insight on what should be. This book provides a tour of the insanity of past, present, and future home design highlighting the tragic comedy of why things are the way they are and what could be done differently to elevate ... more

Clap If You Can Hear Me

by Kelly Mitchell

When a teacher exclaims, “Clap if you can hear me,” students are meant to clap once in unison in answer to demonstrate they are attentive, focused, and processing what is being said. The essential ingredient in enhancing education is paying attention. This book presents practical solutions to empower students and parents in education. Clap If You Can Hear Me is a navigational guide that exposes critical deficits in PreK through higher education programs. It also illuminates best practices to ... more

Perfect in Weakness: The Original Resistance

by Peter Munoz III

Do today’s resistance movements pose a real challenge to power? The present volume argues that only the Bible offers a coherent basis and strategy for achieving an authentic resistance, one grounded paradoxically in a radical embrace of nonresistance and a total rejection of violence. This thesis is pursued in conversation with the ideas of Michel Foucault, René Girard, and John Howard Yoder, among others. Beginning with the Hebrew scriptures, the author identifies a dialectical movement tracing... more

Sicily Destination Wedding

by Luana Andronico, Iolanda Muscia

You have always dreamt to get married in Sicily but you feel overwhelmed by the number of things to do and don’t know where to start from? Maybe you have already read tons of guides and blogs but you feel like they have not given you the right information and have not succeeded in making you comfortable to jump on this adventure? Taormina or Noto, Palermo or Etna, where would you like to get married? How can you find your vendors and how can you trust them? What is it and how important is the w... more

The Idea of Things: How Things Really Are As They Seem

by D W Hoyle

The Idea of Things is a detailed and systematic, yet patently playful and consummately comical overview of how the brain strives to represent the things in our world, while also imbuing things with feeling—and how the ensuing ideas the mind generates about things, swayed by selective attention, shape our everyday experience with its many ironies and subtle shadings. It's mind candy. With extra sprinkles.

Rightsize Your Home

by Belinda Woolrych

Like many thousands of mature Australians, you are not alone. Transitioning from your family home can feel incredibly overwhelming and stir up mixed emotions from the past. Downsizing can be difficult or even overwhelming if you have lived in your home for 20, 30 or 40 years. It's a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Belinda Woolrych, Downsizing Expert & Author, has written a comprehensive and insightful dow... more

The Little Encyclopedia of Modern Ignorance

by Kevin Casey

This book takes a no-holds-barred look at some of the baffling ways our brains temporarily cease to function as we navigate the 21st century. As a species, we appear to be transforming from healthy scientific skeptics into ill-informed, outraged cynics. We are losing our intellectual humility, reluctant to accept the limits of our knowledge. We are entering a new post-factual age in which spin overrides reason and science is forced to compete with head-in-the-sand denial. Alternate truths are d... more

EXCEPTIONALLY UPSETTING: How Americans are increasingly confusing knowledge with opinion & what can be done about it

by Howard Burton

As American society becomes more polarized by the day, the question of how this "exceptional nation" can hope to regain its mojo is more pressing than ever before. With his unique blend of wry humor and clear-headed analysis, Howard Burton, creator and host of the award-winning Ideas Roadshow, wades into America's partisan fray, weaving together historical investigation, pop culture and a passionate belief in the country's true strengths in order to develop a concrete way out of the current cult... more

Politics, Police and Other Earthling Antics

by Mickie Winkle

94, irreverent,illustrated, anecdotes satirizing: politics, police, our renaming mania, California, ATT, Comcast, Charities and our whacky human ways.

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