I stumbled upon this one at the bookstore and I wanted to buy a copy to give away. This edition is light-weight and the pages are breezy and flippable. This is not the whole of the Scriptures, but the excerpts are very substantial chucks of the Bible, giving special attention to the Gospels. I ha...
I'm a big football fan, so when I didn't get tickets for a major tournament taking place in my country, I decided to work there as a volunteer and see it from the backstage. The fan's curiosity is natural in any sport, so books like this one is a 100% hit to get attention.Would I recommend it to ...
Take Action Bible NKJVWant to be more active in your faith and be inspired by others stories of action, then this is the perfect Bible for you. This New King James Version Bible reads like similar Bibles, yet has stories of people from around the world who are making a difference in the Body of ...
I don't know that one has much choice but to rate this book highly. Even if you are not a religious person, it is one of the most diverse, thought-provoking and influential books of all time. As a professing Christian it has even more significance to me . . . This is my third or fourth time rea...
* this review contains spoilers*This book is one of the most famous, and certainly one of the most intriguing historical family dramas ever written. Psychologically and emotionally it is in many ways "ahead of its time", charting as it does the life, loves and turbulent relationships of a father...
Wow! I asked my local librarian for some Young Adult fiction that included football in the plot, looking for something my niece might enjoy reading. This is the book she recommended. I finished the book in one night. I was expecting football, and I definitely got plenty of that in this excell...
Njal's Saga is by far the longest of the sagas of the Icelanders, and it appears to be the general agreement that it is also the best among them, an assessment that I am not going to deviate from. In principle, Njal's Saga is just like the other sagas (The Sagas of Icelanders) - it has their fres...
The Arabian Nights are famous for their magnificent storytelling, and their illumination of the Eastern world. This translation is simple and literal while maintaining some of the poetry and mystery of the stories, as accomplishment to be sure. However, the brutality of stories, even when told in...
Explores the question of why we die14 July 2012tWith the possible exception of sections of the Bible (and many of the dates that we ascribe to the various books are speculative at best) this would be the oldest piece of literature that I have read and reviewed. The epic was discovered in 1853 and...
[As I have not read the Nights yet, this is not a commentary on them, but rather a comparison of the many translations available. This used to be a comment on my not-yet-review of the first volume of the Lyons translation of the Nights, but I thought it would be more helpful if it was a review. I...
الحقيقة اني فخورة اني انجزت اخيرا قراءة اول كتاب في العالم و في التاريخ :) ! على حسب ما وصلنا .. إلى الآن *****حاجة على الماشي كده ؛> :واضح ان البيروقراطية دي إرث أصيل في مجتمعنا المصري :)) المتوفي عندهم كان بيتحول في 100 حالة و بيؤدي 100 طقس ، و بيمر على 100 محكمة و 100 إله ( المئات دي كلها مج...
God's first foray into the world of literature has made quite a splash. People the world over are talking about this book (or series of books if you want to get pedantic) and for good reason; It makes some grandiose claims, it purports to be the complete authority on almost all areas of human end...
Edit: 18/07/2014 After some research, I've finally found out that this book is NOT a true story, at all. It was passed off as a real, anonymous diary for years and years, but the author is actually Beatrice SparksDoes this change my opinion of the book? Only slightly. I'd like to know when I'm ab...
A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer an...
Top contender as the best smut book ever written. Outside of violence, bestiality, and watersports—sorry, aficionados, but you'll have to seek elsewhere—there is no perversion that is not committed by the cheerful congeries of libidinous Victorian Era libertines who populate the cast. Most impres...
With a voice as rich as it is recognized, James Earl Jones brings The King James Version of The New Testament alive with his narrative talents. Oscar nominated, Emmy and Tony Award winning actor James Earl Jones has earned a worldwide reputation as one of the worlds most versatile actors and voic...
Poema épico, se trata del texto más representativo del arte de los juglares españoles de la Edad Media. El poema fue escrito por primera vez en 1110, inmediatamente después de sucedidos los hechos a los que se refiere. El poema, dividido en tres partes o cantares, narra el injusto destierro y las...
From leaders of the Congress of National Black Churches, edited by Gary L. Knapp
Toby Stephens takes us back to the world of cunning, adventure, mishap and fun. Sheherezade, night after night, weaves her tales and Aladdin and his Magic Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and other tales come alive. The unforgettable music of Rimsky Korsakov sets the scene ...
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed ...
If you like reading about brave and honorable warriors in a strange faraway land, you might like this -- just as much as you like some fantasies, even though these stories are based on historical facts.This is the Japanese version of Homer. We don't really know the very original author, but we kn...
Not nearly as good as the first volume, which seems strange as it contains some of the more famous stories. But the entire book is consumed by extremes, which renders most of characters and plotting woefully inconsistent. Characters are intelligent in one moment and stupid the next. Circumstances...
This work features ten stories from the 'Tales of a Thousand and One Nights' including the well-known ones of 'Aladdin and the Lamp', 'Ali Baba and the forty thieves', and 'Sinbad the Sailor'.
Living Sober is an extremely informative book which does not offer a plan for getting sober but does offer us sound advice about how to stay sober. Basic, essential information from Alcoholics Anonymous. As the book states, "Anyone can get sober. . .the trick is to live sober."
The sexy classic fantastic tale brought to comics life without a single cut! The raunchiest nights have been chosen for your enjoyment, o, reader, by the agile hand of the one who did the Robinson Crusoe ribaldization. Except you will note how his art has gotten even more remarkably beautiful and...
The most important, the most influential, and the most luminous of all the Hindu scriptures.” —R.C. ZAEHNER Vivid literature, lofty philosophy — the Bhagavad Gita distills the finest in India’s vast and varied culture. • On the morning of battle, facing Armageddon, prince Arjuna loses his nerve a...
Here are some of my favorite passages:2:47 - You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.2:48 - Perform your duty equiposed, O...
To celebrate Steven Johnston's 25th year of recording the Holy Bible, Hendrickson Publishers is pleased to announce new remastered audio Bibles. This dramatized edition features actors and actresses, sound effects, and background music.
Journey into a realm of legend, where heroes from an ancient age do battle with savage monsters, and every man must live or die by the sword. When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast. Elsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of champions, incl...
glamour. access. scandal. Ever wonder what your favorite pop divas are like AFTER the cameras stop rolling? What do they do behind closed doors? What are their parties like? What do they think about? What do they fight about? What do they really want? And who do they REALLY hook up with? Kell...
The Soul Care Bible helps identify common counseling problems and needs, shows the reader how to cope with, manage, or overcome each problem with scriptural support and expert Christian advice, and gives hope and reassurance for resolving each problem with God's help.The Soul Care Bible helps pe...
The popular teaching of renowned pastor T.D. Jakes coupled with the timeless message of Scripture. Woman Thou Art Loosed addresses emotional and spiritual issues from a biblical perspective and offers encouragement as only T.D. Jakes can do. Countless women of all ages, races, and denominations h...
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahraza...
The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers...
Hurt people hurt people. Say Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and somehow they met in Bright Lights Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition.
MRS. EGERTON TO MRS. BENSON. I How can I ever sufficiently thank my darling Lizzie for her delicious letter, I have devoured its delightful details a dozen times already. I keep it in my bosom, and renew the pleasure of its perusal at every spare moment. Too long? Oh! with such a charming power o...
So when we finally sighted the island of Palma de Mojarca several weeks later and had sailed into its spacious harbor, I was agog with excitement that ordinary Fleas would never have felt but which I, as an extraordinarily perceptive creature – despite the humbleness of my station – endured with ...
The pink phone. It’s like everything I have tried to do to walk away from that existence is falling apart around me. First that horrible experience with Tyler, so I don’t even feel safe in the water anymore. I told my parents I don’t want to go back to the pool again, and ...
Like so many others, they headed straight for the boxing tent, although for different reasons than most. They had been watching the bare-knuckle fighting for just over an hour before they arrived at an obvious conclusion. Hammerhead was the man in whom their money should be invested. He had fough...
He lives far away now and I don’t know what his reading habits are because all of our conversations now start with ‘We never dance together any more, you and I …’ and end with ‘Well fuck YOU.’ Like all true friendships. When I’d run out of books to read and I didn’t have any money to buy anything...
So now I was ready to pass on my learning to the uninitiated. The unhurt. The innocents. With the girlfriend out of the way I’d be better able to dedicate myself. I was seriously pissed off and all I wanted was for others to feel this too. ...
My only obvious problem (apart from chronic overwork) was that I kept receiving emails from Joy Pickles, the Registrar’s paramour in the Admissions Office, informing me that potential philosophy students were intending to come to the university and would come to see me for interview. Each time I ...
Human mental function; how humans observe and interact with the world around them is a vast topic. Vast enough that we would need a lot of time and several crates of juice to deal with even the basics, and we are running short of both. Most of the really interesting concepts are too advanced for ...
— Conversations on sodomy with Sarah. — I suggest. — She refuses. — Mutual incitements. — Mutual consents. — Trials and failures. — Successful at last. — Her sensations. — Effects on her bum hole. — Another trial suggested. — I decline. — A lewed evening. — Fucking, minetting, and masturbating. —...
Following fast upon the seduction of sweet Susan, some conversations between Pearl and myself brought matters to a head, as I shall explain, for they preceded in essence at least the nuptial ceremony. Certain theories had been formed in my mind and in Pearl's which I was minded to put to the test...
"Oh, yes, you darling, but you have so excited me talking about it, that you must fuck me directly." We indulged in a most exciting fuck, and when recovered from the confusion of ideas the delightful crisis always produces, we resumed our conversation on the interesting subject of my sisters. I o...
— Cunt inspections. — The way ladies go up stairs. — A large clitoris. — Flat fuckers. — Gay ladies’ letches. — A stercoraceous letch. — Another lapunar and other whores. — My habit of questioning women. — My lascivious questions. — A year later on. — The ocean crossed. — Negro and Negress copula...
I asked. “Let me tell you something,” Mitch replied, his nose dotted with the foam of a triple-shot cappuccino. “Joey Lovecraft’s moods are like Martian weather. Little understood. Spectacular from afar. And basically unsurvivable by humankind.” “Ah.” I tilted my head to catch more of the early a...
That was exactly ten years ago. This time round, the King simply used his fists. Inside ninety seconds, the brawny security guards were sprawled on the tile floor of the washroom, unconscious and bloody. He’d saved Sanchez’s ass once again. With a combination of speed, skill and brute force, the ...
In the time I knew her she visibly brightened only twice. Once when she swallowed an entire glass of whiskey in one gulp, and once when she talked about her combat-training as a child; “I am proficient with a Kalashnikof” I had hopes for some heavy petting and a handful of arse in preparation for...
The Olé Au Lait was renowned as the best place in Santa Mondega to get a decent fried breakfast. Even better, the food was brought over to you by the delightful young waitress, Flake. Today she had even been kind enough to place a newspaper by the side of Sanchez’s plate. He knew, though, that sh...
Historical documents show that the King of Castile had turned against the Cid and given him nine days to leave.] 1 De los sos ojos tan fuertemientre llorando, tornava la cabeça e estávalos catando; vio puertas abiertas e uços sin cañados, alcándaras vazías, sin pielles e sin mantos e sin falcone...
We consider family support to be a vital ingredient for success at the institute. Mr and Mrs Zipzer, how would you describe the Zipzer family and home life? STAN ZIPZER: Loving, warm, scientific. Has Emily told you we bought her a lizard? DR MEHAT: At length. ROSA ZIPZER: And don’t forget, Stan, ...
It was hard after not having been there in a while. Ian says yoga is surgery without knives, and he’s right! That’s what it feels like. Afterward Cam and I went shopping for Dad’s birthday (which is today!) We got him some running shorts and a running shirt, the kind that wicks the moisture off o...
They wore coats of mail, woven with interlocked rings. The coastguard watched the approach of this band, as he had done before. He did not insult them by greeting these guests from the rim of the cliff, but rode down toward them, proclaiming these shining warriors returning to their ship would be...
Part of me wants to run down the hall right now after my mom and scratch her eyes out. I’m going to write until that part of me is silenced. That’s the part of me that is out of control, the part of me that must be contained. That’s the part of me that will cause me to lose it and go berserk, to ...