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By David Halberstam. 2006
David Halberstam offers listeners this moving profile of NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick. Early in his life, Bill realized he…
had a special aptitude for football and teaching. During his 31 years in the league, he would parlay a lifetime of experience into one of the most successful careers in NFL history. Bestseller. 2006.By Primo Levi. 1988
Primo Levi spent over a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. This book is an attempt to make some sense…
of his experiences, and to try to understand how a nation could set up a system to butcher millions of people. Eventually he gave up the struggle to come to terms with it and committed suicide in 1987. 1988.By Aldous Huxley. 1952
A reconstruction of sensational occurrences at the Ursuline Convent in Loudun during the early 1600s. After a group of nuns…
were swept into a prolonged state of frenzy, they accused Urbain Grandier, Loudun's parson, of witchcraft. Huxley includes insights of modern psychology as well as his own speculations on good and evil. 1952.By Neil Hanson. 2002
In 1666, a ten-month drought had turned London into a tinderbox, and when the spark ignited, there was no stopping…
it. Gales, dry timber and the riverside warehouses full of flammable goods ensured that five days later city was in ruins. This is the human story of that "dreadful judgement". Includes strong language. 2002.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.By Thomas F Madden. 2008
By Christopher Hibbert. 1980
Overview of the violent upheaval in France from the convening of the Estates General in 1789 to Napoleon's rise to…
power in 1799. Emphasis is not on ideas, but on events and the personalities of Robespierre, Louis XVI, Mirabeau, Danton, and others. 1980.By Nitya Lacroix. 1999
This text provides information on: how to provide and achieve complete satisfaction; enjoying, exploring and refreshing a loving sexual relationship;…
creating the right environment, identifying needs, sharing fantasies. It is a guide book for today's sexual attitudes. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1999.By Pierre Goubert. 1988
By Mark Batterson. 2011
Pastor of the National Community Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., offers suggestions for using the ancient practice of…
prayer circles. Provides examples of what the ritual can achieve and asserts that "who you become is determined by how you pray." Bestseller. 2011.By Augustine Meier, Peter VanKatwyk. 2001
The editors have assembled 17 leading practitioners and theorists, who discuss forgiveness and pastoral counselling in such areas as youth…
suicide, persons with disabilities, abuse, and First Nations people. A sourcebook for those who are interested in or who work with the pastoral dimensions of counselling, as well as for people involved in mediation. 2001.From your fingerprints to the patterns in your eyes, each of us is unique. This collection of fun facts and…
activities will help you to discover more about human nature and yourself. Find out about body language, left brain vs. right brain, personality types, and more. Grades 4-7. 2000.By Tima Kurdi. 2018
Alan Kurdi's body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2, 2015, and overnight, the political…
became personal, as the world awoke to the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tima Kurdi first saw the shocking photo of her nephew in her home in Vancouver, Canada. Tima recounts her idyllic childhood in Syria, where she grew up with her brother Abdullah and other siblings in a tight knit family. A strong willed, independent woman, Tima studied to be a hairdresser and had dreams of seeing the world. At twenty two, she emigrated to Canada, but much of her family remained in Damascus. As Tima struggled to adapt to life in a new land, war overtook her homeland. Caught in the crosshairs of civil war, her family risked everything and fled their homes. Tima worked tirelessly to help them find safety, but their journey was far from easy. Although thwarted by politics, hounded by violence, and separated by vast distances, the Kurdis never gave up hope. And when tragedy struck, Tima suddenly found herself thrust onto the world stage as an advocate for refugees everywhere, a role for which she had never prepared but that allowed her to give voice to those who didn't have an opportunity to speak for themselves. Bestseller. 2018.By Daniel Brown. 2013
Traces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936…
Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower. Bestseller. 2013.By Andrei Cherny. 2008
Cherny tells the saga of a rag-tag band of Americans - with limited resources and little hope for success -…
keeping West Berliners alive in the face of Soviet tyranny, winning the hearts and minds of former enemies, and giving the world a shining example of fundamental goodness. 2008.By James Redfield. 1997
James Redfield writes widely on the topic of spiritual awareness. Here he discusses the background of an awakening which will…
shape our world in the new millennium. Using his own experience, he clarifies how mysterious coincidences lead us towards our special destiny. He suggests that the inevitable synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas forms part of an evolution towards a better world. He guides our own vision for our lives, delving into hidden energies and the discovery of our unique missions on this planet. Companion to "The Celestine prophecy" (DC16050). 1997.By Germaine Greer. 1991
Drawing on anthropological, medical, historical, and literary sources, Germaine Greer passionately argues that "the change" need not be a dreaded…
tragedy, but rather, a spiritual liberation of women. Among her arguments, she questions estrogen replacement therapy, and goes on to propose a new "art" of aging through menopause. 1991.By Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster. 1998
Researched and compiled by the staff of ABC News, this chronicle of the twentieth century charts changes in popular attitudes…
in the United States and describes key events in other countries as they affected the American worldview. Personal interviews and a series of story-filled essays provide a "coherent picture of a remarkable time." Bestseller. 1998.By Jeff Rubin. 2015
The author vehemently believes that Stephen Harper's economic vision for our country is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in…
the US - where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking - are quickly turning Harper's dream into an economic nightmare. The same trade and investment ties to oil that pushed the Canadian dollar to record highs are now pulling it down. But the very climate change that will leave much of the country's carbon unburnable could at the same time make some of Canada's other resource assets more valuable: our water and our land. Canada won't be an energy superpower, but it has the potential to be one of the world's great breadbaskets. And in the global climate that the world's carbon emissions are inexorably creating, food will soon be a lot more valuable than oil. Bestseller. 2015.A battlefield guide to the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps in April 1917. Includes a history of…
the battle, biographies of soliders, and information on the French town of Arras. 1996.