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How to Be Rich Its Not What You Have ...
Brief Summary
How to Be Rich: A DVD Study is a small group Bible study from Pastor Andy Stanley exploring 1 Timothy 6:18. Andy biblically redefines what wealth is, how to use it, and helps you and your group practice being rich so you will be good at it if you should ever be so fortunate.
The early Christians took this command seriously. Generosity was the hallmark of the early church. They did for those who could not do or would not do anything in return. That was new. That got people's attention. Is that how people in our communities would describe us? This small group study is a tool that will force conversation and reflection around the topic of what to do with what we have. Jesus could not have been any clearer. It's not what you have that matters. It's what you do with what you have that will count for you or against you in the kingdom of heaven.
Andy will encourage you and your group to look at richness differently, which might just lead our families, communities, and world to looking at Christians differently. Pack contains How to Be Rich: A DVD Study and How to Be Rich, which includes small group discussion questions. Sessions include: Celebration Is in Order Side Effects Dollar Cost Living Diversify.
ISBN:9780310818175
Author:Andy Stanley
Everyday Greatness Inspiration for a ...
Brief Summary
Every issue of Reader's Digest features a story that exemplifies people living to their best, often through adversity and challenge. This collection of inspiring stories, the best from the Reader's Digest archives, are brought together with pertinent commentary from Dr. Stephen Covey to become an inspiring and life-changing resource for anyone who wants more from life. The format lends itself to either serious study or more casual perusal.
Topics include: Searching for Meaning, Taking Charge, and Starting Within, Creating the Dream, Teaming with Others, Overcoming Adversity and Blending the Pieces.
Includes some of the world's best known and loved writers, leaders and celebrities. Only from Reader's Digest could such a broad and deep collection of writings be collected and assembled into this cohesive work.
ISBN:9781401603564
Author:Stephen R Covey
The Teenagers Guide to Money by Jonat...
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan Al Shaykh
Brief Summary
A bold, tragicomic novel about two clever thirty-something women--successful in their careers but unlucky in love--from one of the most important Middle Eastern writers at work today.
On a sunny beach in the French Riviera, Yvonne and Huda relax by the sea. But as their vacation unfolds, their troubled pasts seep through to the present. Both women spent their childhoods in Beirut--Yvonne raised in a Christian family and Huda raised in the Muslim faith--and find that while they left their families behind, they are still unable to escape their families' reach.
As the novel unfolds, and as the story moves back in time to Beirut, and then forward to London, both friends undertake their own quests for romance and love. Here we follow the tumultuous lives and occasionally shocking choices of these two complicated, deeply engaging women torn between the worlds they were born into and the worlds they've created for themselves.
The Occasional Virgin is a witty and wry, poignant and perceptive novel for our time.
ISBN:9781524747510
Author:Hanan Al Shaykh
Still Lives by Maria Hummel
Brief Summary
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women—the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others—and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.
As the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances.
Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her.
Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets.
ISBN:9781619021112
Author:Maria Hummel
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Brief Summary
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances.
To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby—Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
ISBN:9780525520047
Author:Haruki Murakami
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gu...
Brief Summary
For Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, and freedom, but now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city, and nowhere is safe. While the fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls, and grime.
Their friend Yusuf is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism surging through his local mosque, threatening to carry his troubled brother, Irfan, with it.
Provocative, raw, poetic yet tender, In Our Mad and Furious Citymarks the arrival of a major new talent in fiction.
ISBN:9781472250193
Author:Guy Gunaratne
Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
Brief Summary
Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novel to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling ring in contemporary China.
Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China, Dream of Ding Village is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling.
Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the Party pile as he exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way.
ISBN:9780802119322
Author:Yan Lianke
P S I love you by Cecelia Ahern
Brief Summary
A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.
Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers' hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women's fiction Cecelia Ahern.
Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed.
The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!
ISBN:9780786890750
Author:Cecelia Ahern
All the Good Things Around Us by Ivor...
Brief Summary
"This collection edited by Ivor Agyeman-Duah is an important and timely publication that brings together bright voices comprising budding and accomplished African writers under one roof. The collection is dynamic and engaging in covering different experiences within Africa and its Diaspora.
There are stories of harrowing experiences that document human interaction that are emotionally charged and full of pain and sadness. However, there are also several life-affirming narratives throughout the collection that give hope to the possibilities of human bonding in multiple and appealing ways and bear testimony to the ultimate power of human goodness.
The writers are skilled artisans who display their dexterity in the way that they deploy language and images to engage their readers’ attention and imagination."
ISBN:9780992843663
Author:Ivor Agyeman Duah
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
Brief Summary
The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu--born a boy, but a eunuch by choice--who has spent most of her life in a close-knit clan of transgender sex workers in Kamathipura, the notorious red-light district of Bombay. Madhu identifies herself as a "hijra"--a person belonging to the third sex, neither here nor there, man nor woman.
Now, at 40, she has moved away from prostitution, her trade since her teens, and is forced to beg to support the charismatic head of the hijra clan, Gurumai. One day Madhu receives a call from Padma Madam, the most feared brothel owner in the district: a "parcel" has arrived--a young girl from the provinces, betrayed and trafficked by her aunt--and Madhu must prepare it for its fate.
Despite Madhu's reluctance, she is forced to take the job by Gurumai. As Madhu's emotions spiral out of control, her past comes back to haunt her, threatening to unravel a lifetime's work and identity. This is a dark, devastating but ultimately redemptive novel that promises to be one of the most talked-about publications of the year.
ISBN:9789352642632
Author:Anosh Irani
Africans and Their History by Joseph ...
Brief Summary
Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human evolution, including the use of fire, food production via plant cultivation and animal domestication, as well as the creation of sophisticated tools and hunting weapons from iron took place in Africa.
Other historical events such as the slave trade, which played a critical role in Western economic power, the rise of Islam as one of the world’s dominant religions, and colonization and struggles for independence occurred on African soil. Africans and Their History chronicles in fascinating detail African history from prehistoric times through the present.
This concise and authoritative overview of the diverse peoples and societies of Africa now covers recent events, including the emergence of a free South Africa and its landmark enactment of a constitution that recognizes even more rights than the American constitution.
The dynamic history and the relationship Africans have with the rest of the world is revealed in Africans and Their History, exposing and shattering ugly stereotypes that for too long have dominated Western thought.
Africans and Their History has been updated to reflect the past decade of African events.
Ever growing number of African Studies departments on college campuses insures a constant audience for this book.
Africans and Their History has a long and steady backlist life--first published in 1972.
ISBN:9780452011816
Author:Joseph E Harris
Post Truth How Bullshit Conquered the...
Brief Summary
2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.
From Trump denying video evidence of his own words, to the infamous Leave claims of £350 million for the NHS, politics has rarely seen so many stretching the truth with such impunity.
Bullshit gets you noticed. Bullshit makes you rich. Bullshit can even pave your way to the Oval Office.
This is bigger than fake news and bigger than social media. It's about the slow rise of a political, media and online infrastructure that has devalued truth.
This is the story of bullshit: what's being spread, who's spreading it, why it works - and what we can do to tackle it.
ISBN:9781785902505
Author:James Ball
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Brief Summary
A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself.
So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out, much less speak her words out loud. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
ISBN:9780062662804
Author:Elizabeth Acevedo
Worlds of You Poetry and Prose by Bea...
Brief Summary
Another gorgeous collection of poetry and prose from Australian poet and social media sensation Beau Taplin.
Beautiful, inspiring, and empowering, Worlds of You sweeps readers away on a journey of emotion.
Filled with lyric wisdom, Taplin’s second book expands on the themes introduced in Bloom, offering insight and comfort.
ISBN:9781460709825
Author:Beau Taplin
Applying the Kingdom by Myles Munroe
Brief Summary
Applying the Kingdom: Rediscovering the Priority of God for Mankind
In Applying the Kingdom, the third book in his Kingdom series, Dr. Myles Munroe makes the case that the key to abundant living is found in establishing priorities in one's life and living by them. Topping his list is the priority, kingdom first.
ISBN:9780768424898
Author:Myles Munroe
Success Or Your Money Back by Shed Si...
Brief Summary
Success… Or Your Money Back is a refreshingly unique success manual that actually delivers practical advice quickly and easily.
In this powerful and easy to read book, Shed outlines 30 SHORTCUTS that show you how to GET ANYTHING YOU DESIRE.
If you’re someone who wants to have great ideas and make them happen, this book is a must-read for you. It's an ENGAGING, FUN and EASY guide to being successful… and vital for anyone wanting to WIN AT THE GAME OF LIFE.
Inside you'll find brand new, POWERFUL and FAST ways to get exactly what you want - and concrete techniques for success in your business or personal life.
Shed is so confident that these methods will work for you - as they have for him - that he's able to make his astonishingly bold and exciting promise.
After reading this book, you'll be INSPIRED, ENERGISED and EQUIPPED FOR YOUR FUTURE SUCCESS… or your money back - see inside the book for details.
ISBN:9781910670460
Author:Shed Simove
Relationship Rescue A Seven-Step Stra...
Brief Summary
After successfully helping hundreds of thousands of people take responsibility for their own actions, Dr. Phil McGraw now turns his expertise to the primary area of concern troubling most people: their relationships.
In his tell-it-like-it-is style that already has influenced millions of Oprah viewers, "Dr. Phil" blows the whistle on the rhetoric of traditional "couples therapy" and instead tells you that -- no matter what state your relationship is in -- not only are you responsible for it, you are responsible for getting it back on track.
By doing this, he offers readers the chance for further happiness through meaningful, fulfilling relationships that work.
ISBN:9785559504018
Author:Dr Phil McGraw
Life Strategies Doing What Works Doin...
Brief Summary
Are you capable of more than you are accomplishing, or just going through the motions of your life with no passion, no plan, and no goal? Learn to take control of your life, right now, using Dr. Phil's Ten Laws of Life in this book.
These laws will help you improve virtually every aspect of your life, from work to home to spiritual to physical.
Life Strategies shows you how to strategically control your life, rather than continue as a frustrated passenger.
ISBN:9781593598266
Author:Phil McGraw
The Upside of the Downturn Ten Manage...
Brief Summary
Never waste a crisis.
Some businesses—and some people—will emerge from today’s economic tumult stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right now.
Geoff Colvin, one of America’s most respected business journalists, says even the scariest turbulence has an upside. The best managers know that conventional thinking won’t help them in tough times. They’re taking smart, practical steps—frequently unconventional and even counterintuitive—that will not only keep them strong, but will also distance them from the pack for years to come.
The dozens of top-performing leaders Colvin interviewed reject the common view that slashing costs and firing employ¬ees are the only effective tactics. They see volatility as a rich opportunity to reinvent their organizations and lay the ground-work for future growth.
Colvin shows us how these strategies really work, using examples of major companies that have successfully applied them.
ISBN:9781591842965
Author:Geoff Colvin