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LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE: The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands. The daughter of an enterprising...

For those in Christian ministry, resources are valuable. Many pastors don't want to do the same old thing the same old way, but want fresh materials and approaches. After many of my weddings, guests would say, "That was refreshing," or, "Where did you get that service?" From my...

Protágoras es uno de los diálogos de juventud de Platón, en los que interviene activamente su maestro Sócrates. El tema es la naturaleza de la virtud.

Spanning the colonial, independence, and dictatorship periods in Burma (Myanmar), A Burmese Heart is a gripping personal account of one woman and her family who lived through the making and unmaking of their country’s turbulent history. Tinsa Maw-Naing is born into privilege as the daughter of a...

Books audiotapes and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years in fact. In the early part of the 20th century it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...

Meet this mother who bore and raised ten children, Julia Mae Jones Eastman, and yet was fervently determined to preserve the stories of her family ancestry. She meticulously filled the old black and white composition Sterling notebooks in a beautifully flowing longhand using pencil to write down her...

Do you want to maximise your short stay in the beautiful city of Budapest? If so ... this could be the guide for you! Particularly pertinent if this is your first visit to this wonderful city. This ebook travel guide: * Gives daily itinerary’s which you can follow, or tailor to suit...

Do you want to maximise your short stay in the romantic city of Riga? If so ... this could be the guide for you! This ebook travel guide: * Gives daily itinerary’s which you can follow, or tailor to suit yourself * Has a map, pictures and information on locations and attractions (including...

Quien mal anda mal acaba tiene un argumento recurrente en el teatro de la España del siglo XVII, el del monje tentado por el diablo, usado por Pedro Calderón de la Barca en El mágico prodigioso y por Mira de Amescua en El esclavo del demonio.

In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines...

This book is dedicated to anyone who has earned their diploma from the University of Hard Knocks! Be thankful for your own resilience--not everyone can take a beating and stand up. In 1993, a family counselor told the author it was remarkable that she had not attempted suicide. "You haven't even...

S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these...

The complicity of the Hungarian Christian church in the mass extermination of Hungarian Jews by the Nazis is a largely forgotten episode in the history of the Holocaust. Using previously unknown correspondence and other primary source materials, Moshe Y. Herczl recreates the church's actions and its...

Forty-something-year-old Melinda doesn’t need a new dad. She had a father. A very good one, thank you very much and she’s not a kid who needs an eager face in the crowd cheering her on at her dance recital. So when her stepfather-to-be Melvin asks her to participate in a dance with him...