Detail of Book the everyday life bible the power of gods word amazoncoukdiv :
Author : anonymous
Descripton : for years audiences have watched joyce meyer deliver powerful messages while holding the source of her inspiration the bible
Detail of Book a rogue of one s own a league of extraordinary women 2 :
Author : evie dunmore
Descripton : a lady must have money and an army of her own if she is to win a revolution but first she must pit her wits against the wiles of an irresistible rogue bent on wrecking her plans and her heart lady lucie is fuming she and her band of oxford suffragists have finally scraped together enough capital to control one of london s major publishing houses with one purpose to use it in a coup against parliament but who could have predicted that the one person standing between her and success is her old nemesis lord ballentine or that he would be willing to hand over the reins for an outrageous price a night in her bed lucie tempts tristan like no other woman burning him up with her fierceness and determination every time they clash but as their battle of wills and words fans the flames of long smouldering devotion the silver tongued seducer runs the risk of becoming caught in his own snare as lucie tries to out manoeuvre tristan in the boardroom and the bedchamber she soon discovers there s truth in what the poets say all is fair in love and war
Detail of Book sabriel :
Author : garth nix
Descripton : with sabriel the first installment in the abhorsen series garth nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn t always clear and sometimes disappears altogether
Detail of Book leaving the witness exiting a religion and finding a life :
Author : amber scorah
Descripton : a riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world s most restrictive countries a third generation jehovah s witness amber scorah had devoted her life to sounding god s warning of impending armageddon she volunteered to take the message to china where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse here she had some distance from her community for the first time immersion in a foreign language and culture and a whole new way of thinking turned her world upside down and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true as a proselytizer in shanghai using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities notice scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores to support herself she found work at a chinese language learning podcast hiding her real purpose from her coworkers now with a creative outlet getting to know worldly people for the first time she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life when one of these relationships became an escape hatch scorah s loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse the only kind of ending possible for a jehovah s witness shunned by family and friends as an apostate scorah was alone in shanghai and thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery with no education or support system a coming of age story of a woman already in her thirties this unforgettable memoir examines what it s like to start one s life over again with an entirely new identity it follows scorah to new york city where a personal tragedy forces her to look for new ways to find meaning in the absence of religion with compelling spare prose leaving the witness traces the bittersweet process of starting over when everything one s life was built around is gone
Detail of Book stay up with hugo best :
Author : erin somers
Descripton : an incredibly timely terrifically witty and moving debut about a young writer s assistant on a late night comedy show and what transpires when she accepts an invitation from its enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his mansion in connecticut june bloom is a broke cynical twenty nine year old writer s assistant on the late night comedy show stay up with hugo best hugo best is in his sixties a beloved icon of tv and humor and a notorious womanizer after he unexpectedly retires and a party is held for his now unemployed staff june ends up at a dive bar for an open mic night and prepares for the sad return to the anonymous comedian lifestyle what she s not prepared for is a run in with hugo at that dive bar nor for the invitation that swiftly follows hugo asks june to come to his mansion in greenwich for the long memorial day weekend no funny business he insists june in need of a job and money confident she can handle herself but secretly harboring the remains of a childhood crush on the charming older comedian and former role model accepts the exact terms of the visit are never spelled out but june is realistic and clear eyed enough to guess even so as the weekend unfolds and the enigmatic hugo gradually reveals himself their dynamic proves to be much more complicated and less predictable than she expected at once hilarious and poignant brilliantly incisive and terrifically propulsive stay up with hugo best is an incredibly timely exploration of sexual politics in the metoo age and the unforgettable story of one young woman s poignant stumbling into adulthood
Detail of Book itsur toldot ha enoshut :
Author : yuval noah harari
Descripton : how did our species succeed in the battle for dominance why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms how did we come to believe in gods nations and human rights to trust money books and laws and to be enslaved by bureaucracy timetables and consumerism and what will our world be like in the millennia to come in sapiens dr yuval noah harari spans the whole of human history from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical and sometimes devastating breakthroughs of the cognitive agricultural and scientific revolutions drawing on insights from biology anthropology paleontology and economics he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies the animals and plants around us and even our personalities have we become happier as history has unfolded can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors and what if anything can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come bold wide ranging and provocative sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human our thoughts our actions our power and our future
Detail of Book these truths a history of the united states :
Author : jill lepore
Descripton : new york times book review jill lepore s one volume history of america places truth itself a devotion to facts proof and evidence at the center of the nation s history the american experiment rests on three ideas these truths jefferson called them political equality natural rights and the sovereignty of the people but has the nation and democracy itself delivered on that promise these truths tells this uniquely american story beginning in 1492 asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation s truths or belied them to answer that question lepore wrestles with the state of american politics the legacy of slavery the persistence of inequality and the nature of technological change a nation born in contradiction will fight forever over the meaning of its history lepore writes but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship with these truths lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of american history for decades to come
