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"I recommend this book highly to everyone." —Deepak Chopra, M.D. This special updated version of the New York Times-bestseller, Kitchen Table Wisdom, addresses the same spiritual issues that made the original a bestseller: suffering, meaning, love, faith, and miracles. "Despite the awesome...

A spellbinding, timeless and beautifully told adventure about two sisters and their journey to find each other again. Sisters Tansy and Belle are the stars of the grand finale of a circus show; a dazzling and perfectly timed trapeze act where they soar through the air like shimmering butterflies...

What if you do not have to wait until you feel ready? So many people wait for the perfect moment, the perfect plan, the perfect confidence, or the perfect version of themselves before they begin. But what if beginning is what creates the readiness? In Begin Before You Feel Ready, Becky Vannes shares the deeply personal stories behind her 100-day workbook, What Future Are You Willing To Wake Up To?

For two thousand years, faith has carried a quarrel inside it that no council ever settled and no creed ever named outright: the war between the body and the soul. Somewhere along the way, the flesh became the enemy. Desire became danger. The bed, the womb, the smell of bread, the warmth of a hand on a sleeping child’s back — all of it was filed under suspicion, something to be disciplined, confessed, and overcome on the way to God.

Seventy years ago, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that one is not born a woman but becomes one. It was meant as a liberation. It became a prophecy whose second half no one had read aloud. We have spent three generations dismantling the cage of the eternal feminine, only to discover that freedom, when it finally arrives, does not feel like the morning after a revolution. It feels like standing alone in a very large room with no instructions on the wall. This book reads Beauvoir as she deserves to be read: not as a banner but as a skeptic, a witness so honest she indicted even the women she defended.

In Choose the Handle That Holds, Becky Schmooke dismantles the myths that make leadership seem out of reach. Through her own candid stories, humor, and lessons from professional athletes, military leaders, media executives, and more, Schmooke proves that leadership isn’t about power but about small, intentional choices that lead to big impact. More than anything, leadership is the difference between merely passing time and truly living.

Somewhere in the world there is a poet whom millions of people know by heart, quote at weddings and funerals, teach to their children before the children can read, and treat as a kind of shared inner weather. He is, by general agreement, the greatest writer his language has produced. And almost no one outside that language has read him. For the English-speaking reader, Alexander Pushkin occupies roughly the place that Lord Byron occupies for a Russian: a famous name, a respectful nod, and a strange blank where the actual experience of the poetry ought to be.

Featured on BBC radio and nominated for multiple awards including Anansi Archive and The Sun Still Rises, these stories are about mostly lovely people (and some damp ones). Funny, heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure, this collection includes courageous grandads, love struck commuters, awkward acts of bravery, and the tiny human connections that quietly keep the world turning.

He saw a woman made of light three times in his life, once in a London reading room and once in the Egyptian desert, and he spent the rest of his days trying to explain her to people who had not. Vladimir Solovyov was the strangest and most generous mind that nineteenth-century Russia produced: a philosopher who befriended Dostoevsky, begged a tsar to spare his father's assassins, gave away his money until he had none, laughed a laugh that frightened strangers, and devoted an enormous intellect to a single impossible task. He wanted to put the world back together.

When a tiny three week old street dog, finds himself amongst the congregation of Sunday service in a beautiful white church in Gorai, India, he sits in wonder and fascination of the sights before him. The people, the clothes, the golden goblets and the Priest's white wafers.

Throughout history, people from every culture and generation have passed down lessons through short, meaningful sayings words of wisdom that carry the essence of experience, truth, and humanity. These timeless expressions remind us of what truly matters: kindness, patience, courage, humility, and love. Creating an audiobook of Popular Words of Wisdom is not only a celebration of language but also a tribute to the wisdom of the human spirit. In a world that moves quickly, these short yet powerful messages encourage reflection and remind us to live with purpose and understanding.

Peter Griffin, the cartoon patriarch of Family Guy, is in a theater and says what no one else in the theater dares say: what the hell is this! The audience is frozen. The actors are frozen. He is the only living person in the room. And—strangely—he is closer to what Anton Chekhov actually wanted than any of the reverent strangers around him. This book is about a writer who quietly invented something nobody had named: a literature that works the way real life works. Without resolution. Without verdict. Without the lies of plot.

Jessica Cooper married the love of her life right after high school graduation only to have her happily-ever-after dreams burned to cinders the night her husband broke her arm in a fit of rage. Twelve years later Jesse says yes to Garrett's proposal, convinced it's finally her turn to have the life and love she's always longed for, with a man who can be trusted to hold those dreams safe. When Garrett is accused of the unthinkable and her ex-husband turns up on her doorstep, offering apologies and undying love, who should she believe?

Legacy Restored She's a new Christian working to take down a murderer. He's a grieving man who refuses to let another woman suffer. When their desires clash, will it spark hostility…or fireworks? Angel deserves to be behind bars. But when the police offer her a deal—go undercover to help catch an art thief in exchange for her freedom—she can't refuse, even after discovering the thief is a brute and a killer. As a former con artist, Angel has learned to take care of herself.

Three Christian romantic suspense novels from a USA Today bestselling author. The Nutfield Saga Boxset is a gripping collection of books 4-6 in Robin Patchen's bestselling series. Set in the picturesque town of Nutfield, New Hampshire, these tales of love, betrayal, and suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.

For half a century, cosmology has relied on two invisible ingredients to explain the universe: dark matter, a substance that has never been detected despite decades of experimental search, and dark energy, a repulsive force whose physical nature remains entirely unknown. Together, they are said to constitute ninety-five percent of the cosmos. The remaining five percent—ordinary atoms, light, everything we have ever touched or measured—is treated as a minor addendum to a universe made mostly of darkness. This textbook presents a different cosmology. It is not speculative.

Freedom is a choice. Love is a battle. Both demand a price. Karin Krejikova receives unthinkable news—her husband, famed Hussite fighter Pavel Krejik has vanished. The news is delivered by someone from her past. Someone she believed dead–her former betrothed. The disgraced Lukas Vitek may never again breathe air as a free man. But his family’s appeals culminate in a plan to wed his childhood friend Anicka Vorisek. Passed over by other suitors, she has become a burden on her family. Stepan puts his honor on the line to see his former friend rescued.

With the war on Earth nearing its end and peace reigning on Felidia, Seth faces a new and final mission—one that could decide the fate of the galaxy. The Terrapian king still rules his empire with an iron fist, and to secure lasting peace, Seth must travel to the heart of the enemy: Terropia itself. Joined by a coalition of Terrapian rebels, Seth embarks on a dangerous journey to overthrow the ruthless king. But in a land where betrayal lurks around every corner, and trust is a rare commodity, even the strongest warrior may find himself tested beyond his limits.

Angelica Rossi deserves to be behind bars, but if secretly working with the police to take down an art thief will keep her out of prison, she’s willing to take the deal—even when she discovers the thief is also a brute and a murderer. As a former con artist, she’s learned to take care of herself. Grieving his sister’s fatal overdose, Donovan Gilcreast retreated to an eighteenth-century lakeside Victorian owned by an old friend, where he works on his paintings in the mornings and restores the house the rest of the day.

The iron in your blood was forged in the nuclear furnace of a dying star. The gold in your jewelry was born in the collision of neutron stars so violent it sent ripples through spacetime itself. The carbon in your DNA survived a stellar explosion and a billion-year journey through space before becoming part of you. Born from Catastrophe reveals the extraordinary truth behind these statements: we are not just made of stardust, but of stardust created through the most violent events in the universe.