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Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946 — despite having no money or professional skills — his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering.

Alice in Genderland is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a caring doctor at the office and a loving husband and father at home. But one night a week, he is Alice, a brave trans woman about town, shopping, dining, dancing, and more.

This mostly true book is about a golden retriever named Montmorency. He was raised by a loving rural family in Australia after being rejected by others because of his color. His outstanding loyalty is shown in the six stories contained here.

This book traces the lives of a lion and an antelope, with the lion learning the hard way that life is not meant to be easy. The antelope also learns about the unforeseen values of friendship resulting from his saving of the lion’s life.

This nonfiction audiobook takes the listener into the hopes, hardships, and tragedies of four generations of ambitious individuals, connected by lineage and marriage. They emigrated to America from Norway, England, and the Isle of Man, seeking freedom and free lands offered by the federal Homestead Act. Settling in Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and Nebraska, they were challenged by economic humiliations, locust plagues, blizzards, prairie fires, accidents, and illness. There were good times too, like picnics, family bonding, and baseball.

Thomas Jefferson: Inquiry History for Daring Delvers contains multiple questions which are reactions to presentations the author has made about The Others At Monticello. The new work reflects a continuation of extensive reading and other pertinent research. For those of us in the field of education who study the past to understand the present, this book guides the way to Thomas Jefferson's contributions to our thinking and institutions. Pertinent quotes lead the listener to explore the most fruitful research literature.

Nearly 10 years of life conveniently and inconveniently occurring but entirely authentic - that is the journey Charles K. Poole had been on and shared in times good and bad. In this third volume of his I Am My Own Cause series, Poole picks up from 2010 - where the second volume ended - and crafts more personal, insightful, and inspiring stories that will make you think and make you cry but ultimately make you glad you took time to listen what he has to say. 

Geography dealt Korea a fateful role. Sandwiched between China and Japan, and within easy reach of Russia, Korea has suffered five major foreign occupations-by China, Mongolia, Japan, and after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union. It was in that tiny peninsula I was born when Korea was under the heel of Japan, when we were forced to take Japanese names and speak Japanese. With the end of World War II came the liberation, which was soon followed by the Korean War.

The sequel to Deadly Distrust occurs three years later during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The morals of sex are changing, and the LGBT community is in turmoil. Our heroine, Elinor DeMartini, inherits a large estate. However, the board of directors doesn’t want her knowing about their corruption, and they don’t want to stop the flow of money. When Elly tries to learn about her inheritance, one of the board members is killed. And so starts an action-packed struggle to survive the many dangers surrounding the pursuit of wealth.

All through life we experience a multitude of events that change us and alter the course of our story. Sometimes those events are planned; other times they happen to us with little if any explanation at all. How does God use our experiences to reveal the purpose he has for our lives? In The Master’s Key, you will be challenged to re­flect on the pain and joy of your life and consider how God has used those very experiences to reveal his purpose and plan - both for you and for his people. 

Melanie Simpson is desperate when she calls 911 for help controlling her psychotic husband, Jared. When a dangerous and brutal police lieutenant responds, he shoots Jared with his Electric Gun, initiating cardiac arrest. After their son seeks revenge, the police lieutenant kills him as well. A shocked and grieving Melanie asks family for help. Now it is up to her brother, Jason “Bear” Judge, an ex-FBI agent turned trial attorney, to vindicate Melanie.

A few days after the passing of his beloved wife, author Jim Reuther, better known as Gunky, discovered her extraordinary letter in a handwritten notebook titled, “How to Get Along Without Me.” The notebook was a simple “How to Guide” for the tasks she had done faithfully for him until the end. But one request stood out; she challenged him to continue his writings. 

Island of the Assassin is about two kinds of silence in conflict. A covert killer, Kai Landrie, contracted by the CIA to target Islamic terrorists, develops moral scruples. He shares his doubts in confession with Peter Quince, a priest, who gets renditioned for receiving classified information. The result: two unconditional secrecies, sacred and profane, tragically collide. 

There are trials and struggles. In the midst of all this, mistakes are made. Guilt and shame are the driving force in the search for hope. Pain and sorrow cause us to question more than we ever did before. Life is leading us somewhere, but where and why? He never promised a life without these issues. What he promised was that we wouldn’t be alone during them. He waits for us to enter his gates to find rest and peace. His courts are ready for forgiveness and healing if we’d only come. He calls us to come enter his courts.

The sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is the most important and cherished event in human history. Still, the accurate cause of how Jesus died remains a mystery to this day. Dr. Gary Hassmann relies on his years of experience as a physician and surgeon to utilize his findings gathered from three decades of extensive scriptural studies, medical research, and pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Rome to unravel and solve the mystery of how Jesus died.

The Greatest Religious Question reveals three heavens in the Genesis, unnoted by many, more so, Jesus spoke of two saves; they amongst other (unnoticed and misunderstood) sayings are brought to light. This audiobook shows that the KJV Bible is more reliable, for example; 1 John 5:7 and Matthew 19:9 (fornication) are explained and should not have been taken out of other Bibles.

Lima the dog just wants a friend. When he is not chewing up the furniture or sleeping in his crate, he looks outside his bedroom window for someone to keep him company. Unfortunately, all he sees are squirrels and birds. Lima feels sad. Then, one morning, when Lima sees a teenage boy walking by with a dog, he gets so excited! Little does he know he's about to get the surprise of his life when he realizes who the teen is really walking.

A predator exists, one of flesh and bone, an inquisitive nature within the human mind to delve into lives of others. The Diary preys on ones need to satisfy a curiosity, enticing those to open its cover and face their innermost fears within a 12-month term in order to survive, pages self-induced, giving written notice that a life far more interesting counteracts their own inside a subconscious state of mind. Children serve its needs, but one child escaped its clutches, needing to be reclaimed, giving an opportunity for Elfie Odges to right a wrong.

Destry Cotton was not from Amity, nor did she care about its rich and colorful past. However, this Christmas, her husband insisted they travel to his home, where Destry met her in-laws for the first time. Trapped with the Cottons by a terrible blizzard, Destry not only began to learn about Amity, but Bill Cotton spoke of his own struggle with life and the impact that doubt and fear had taken on his family, his friends, and his nation. As Bill told of God's supernatural intervention, Destry began to wonder if the God she professed to believe would actually interact with humans. 

Set during World War One, The Cellist’s Friend is the story of one man’s battle to redeem his own cowardice while recovering from a near-fatal war wound. Ben has witnessed his cello player soldier friend shot for desertion. The soldier they nicknamed Cello played his instrument while his firing squad sang the poem “Invictus” before they shot him.