About the Book Dr. Michael Frederick Walker was born in Australia and moved to the United States to study for a Ph.D. in Mathematics. In the United States, he met the Bahá'í Faith. Soon after graduating, he moved to South Africa as a pioneer for the Bahá'í Faith. At his pioneering post, he served as a Coordinator on the Literature Committee, translating Bahá'í Writings into South African languages. During that time, Dr. Walker, or "Mike Walker,"...

In 2021, author Kevin B. Jones was diagnosed with cancer. His friend Billy told him, "Let the medical team take care of the cancer; you take care of Kevin." Kevin runs ultra-marathons. Could he run through cancer? This is the tale of Kevin doing what Kevin does–living each day, running each day, as cancer and the treatment wrought their changes. This celebrates those who shared their lives and love with him in the most brutal race he ever attempted....

La vida de Aroldo Quiroz Monsalvo es un inspirador viaje que comienza en las calles de Valledupar, donde vendía arepas para sobrevivir junto a su familia y nos lleva, por ahora, hasta el logro de convertirse en el presidente de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Colombia. Este abogado, hijo del amor entre un chofer de provincia y una ama de casa, descendiente de esclavos, logró superar incontables dificultades y tropiezos para alcanzar la cima de...

„Jeder von uns hatte ein mehr oder weniger großes Rucksäckchen aus der Vergangenheit bei sich", stellt der Ich-Erzähler fest, als er aus der Hauptstadt Wien in das Dorf zurückkehrt, in dem er aufgewachsen war. Hinter dem Beziehungsgeflecht zu Familie, alten Freunden und neuen Bekanntschaften verbirgt sich Sinnlichkeit, Bitterkeit und Trauer sowie Harmonie, Heiterkeit und Lebensfreude. Überraschend liegt im vermeintlich Bekanntem ein Geheimnis. Eine...

Good luck meets an otherwise-doomed poet who was all but certain to perish on the streets of San Francisco. By sheer luck, he falls in with a group of poets whose psychological and physical illnesses almost mirror his own. For the first time in his life, he feels his entire person is understood. He begins to tell his life story and the stories of others he has known in short prose works which also double as poems. His works slowly begin to get published...

I Was Man's Trash, Now I'm in the King's Treasury, is about a woman writing to her daughter, Tee, who wanted to know about her mother's life, and to any other daughters and sons that have been hurt or devastated in life no matter how old or young they may be. All though this is a story about my life, and my choices, as you read this please remember that it is never too late to change your future. This is not meant to be a sad story, but one of victory. It...

This memoir stands out as a beautifully written account of a mostly happy, mostly normal, fully real life at once both ordinary and extraordinary. Sheirer explores intensely personal experiences and relationships with humor, surprise, awe, suspense, and deep insight. With the depth of a memoir and the flow of a novel, Sheirer chronicles how his simple youth of farm, sports, school, nature, and family led him to an unlikely adulthood as an author and...

Cuántas veces te has preguntado: "¿Por qué nací?" Creo que todos nos hemos hecho la misma pregunta sin tener respuesta pronto, yo tuve la respuesta después de muchos años, cuando experimenté aceptar a Cristo en mi corazón y lo fui conociendo cada día y me di cuenta que Él sufrió más que yo, más que nadie en este mundo. Que aún siendo el hijo de Dios lo crucificaron en una cruz dando su vida por mí, por ti, por todos. Entonces comprendí...

"Ramon Llull, el filósofo hispano de mayor renombre mundial, todavía no contaba con una biografía que explicara su vida y su pensamiento a un público general. En lenguaje desenfadado y directo, el autor aborda la biografía, los avatares históricos de una época densa y agitada: el maremágnum de la filosofía, de la teología, de las ciencias nacientes, de la política: Dios y el mundo, la mística y la sociología, la psicología (incluso patológica)...

"You have to love the mountains to live here." Nevertheless, at seventeen Salva left, returning many years later with Àngels to the family farm. Now it's a holiday centre. "I was sleeping in the tent. The bear was eating a sheep fifty metres away," says Mustà, a shepherd who moved to the Pyrenees from Morocco. "Born here… without doctors, without anything." Josep has never left his mountain village. Once a secretary in Barcelona, his wife María...