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The Hitler I knew: the memoirs of the Third Reich's press chief
By Otto Dietrich. 2010
When Otto Dietrich was invited in 1933 to become Adolf Hitler's press chief, he accepted with the simple uncritical conviction…
that Adolf Hitler was a great man, dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. At the end of the war, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write what he had seen and heard in twelve years of the closest association with Hitler. c2010. Uniform title: 12 Jahre mit Hitler.The handkerchief drawer: an autobiography in three parts
By Thelma Ruck Keene. 2002
The author relives an extraordinary life, often at odds with the fog of convention surrounding religion, class distinctions, sex and…
war. During WWII she freelances her secretarial skill from the Balkans to the Middle East and Sicily. In 1966, she and her young son emigrate to Canada. Book reflects Thelma's curiosity, wit, and independent streak. 2002.The Hawk: Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks (Quarry rocks!)
By Ian Wallis. 1996
Traces the life and times of musician Ronnie Hawkins, from his early rockabilly days in Arkansas through his later recording…
career. At the leading edge of the rock'n'roll era, he played with legends Bo Diddley and Roy Orbison, and formed friendships with Bob Dylan and John Lennon. Some strong language. 1996.The holiness of God, extended version
By R. C Sproul. 2013
In this expanded edition of his classic series The Holiness of God, DR.R.C. Sproul provides a comprehensive, biblical survey of…
God's holy character and demonstrates how the demands of His holiness are met in Christ. 2013.Tells the story of how three scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored…
psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. 2017.The Hebrew bible (The modern scholar)
By Lawrence H Schiffman. 2008
The Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as the Old Testament, is the basis of…
our tradition of monotheism as well as the main avenue by which the ethics and teachings of the Hebrew spirit entered Western civilization. In these lectures, eminent scholar Lawrence H. Schiffman discusses how that collection came into being and how it was passed down and interpreted throughout the ages. He provides details on how this tradition developed into the basis of Judaism and Christianity and how it continues to mold our society and culture today. 2008.The heartache no one sees: Christ's promise of healing for a woman's wounded heart
By Sheila Walsh. 2004
Walsh shows why some people are able to access and maintain an absolute hope that cannot be shaken, while others…
lose it like the morning mist. You're invited to join her on a prayer-filled, God-seeking journey to understand how to live in this world, with all its potential for hurt, pain, and fear, and still experience a deep healing that you are able to hold on to, no matter what life throws at you. 2004.The hiding place
By Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten Boom, John L Sherrill. 1972
The hemlock cup: Socrates, Athens and the search for the good life
By Bettany Hughes. 2010
Award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster examines the life and times of Athenian philosopher Socrates (469-399 B.C.E.). Explores the world Socrates…
inhabited, the ideas he espoused, and his seminal influence on Western thought. 2010.1734. Marie-Joseph Angélique is a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal. On…
appeal, her punishment of death was modified to torture, to encourage her to name an accomplice, a white man, Angélique's sometime lover. A narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her indentured lot. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2006The gospel according to god: rediscovering the most remarkable chapter in the old testament
By John MacArthur. 2018
Written to help readers better understand Jesus's life, death, and ultimate mission, this new book by well-known preacher John MacArthur…
looks at an important'yet often misunderstood'section of the Bible: Isaiah 53. Often hailed as one of the greatest chapters in the Bible, this passage foretells the crucifixion of Jesus, a critical event in God's ultimate plan for salvation. Explaining the prophetic words of Isaiah 53 verse by verse, MacArthur highlights important connections to the history of Israel and to the New Testament'ultimately showing us how these prophetic words to ancient Israel illuminate essential truths for our lives today. 2018.The greatest story ever told: a tale of the greatest life ever lived
By Fulton Oursler. 1949
The dolorous passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: from the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Recorded Books inspirational)
By Anna Katharina Emmerich. 2004
This book, one of the sources for Mel Gibson's motion picture, The Passion of the Christ, is taken from the…
eighteenth-century journals of the Catholic nun who had visions of scenes from the life of Christ. 2004. Uniform title: Bittere Leiden Unseres Herrn Jesu Christi.The education of Henry Adams
By Henry Adams. 2003
Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics. Here he tells not just his own story, but…
also the story of an America divided by civil war and grappling with the rapid growth of industry and technology. 2003.The education of Laura Bridgman: first deaf and blind person to learn language
By Ernest Freeberg. 2001
Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.The diamond that cuts through illusion: commentaries on the praynaparamita Diamond sutra
By Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen. 1992
The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world…
in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us. 1992.The doors of the sea: where was God in the Tsunami?
By David Bentley Hart. 2005
The divine dance: if the world is your stage, who are you performing for?
By Shannon Kubiak Primicerio, Johanne Sheridan. 2006
Recognizing that teen girls spend much of their time trying to please their friends, parents, and teachers, Primicerio encourages these…
girls to stop performing for the world and start dancing for the One who matters. 2006.The dollar princesses: sagas of upward nobility, 1870-1914
By Ruth Brandon. 1980
A witty social history of the parade of American heiresses who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, captured…
aristocratic European husbands by their fortunes and their charms. Includes such foster princesses as Consuelo Vanderbilt, Nancy Shaw, Anna Gould, Winnaretta Singer, and many others. 1980.The Dead Sea scrolls: the truth behind the mystique (The modern scholar)
By Lawrence H Schiffman. 2007
New York University professor, Lawrence Schiffman, discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the…
centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity, because Christianity came into being only after these texts were composed and copied. 2007.