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 Alice Murphy, "A Showgirl's Rules for Falling in Love" English | ISBN: 1454959460 | 2025 | 400 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century-framed by mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian.  Z W Ski Kowalewski, "A Sailor's Life: In World War II" English | ISBN: 1888215682 | 2018 | 78 pages | AZW | 7 MB The story of a twenty year old enlisted in the US Navy before Pearl Harbor; his flights as turret gunner in torpedo bombers, perilous flying from aircraft carriers, bombing flights from Guadalcanal, attacking and sinking of a Japanese aircraft carrier, and the burial at sea of a German submarine captain in the North Atlantic. From the foreword by Robert Mrazek, author of A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight: "This is the story of a true American hero, one of a small group of Americans from every part of the country who joined Torpedo Squadron Eight in the early days of the Second World War. Through a combination of courage, sacrifice, and fate, these men helped to change the course of history at the momentous battles of Midway and Guadalcanal. Their story is truly one for the ages." Ski Kowaleski's account of Navy life provides a unique view of what it was like to be a pilot during and after World War II.  Luke Bretherton, "A Primer in Christian Ethics" English | ISBN: 1009329022 | 2023 | 388 pages | EPUB | 778 KB How does Christian belief and practice relate to living well amid the difficulties of everyday life and the catastrophes and injustices that afflict so many today? In his introduction to Christian ethics, Bretherton provides a new, constructive framework for addressing this question. Connecting the theory and practice of Christian moral thought to contemporary existential concerns, this book integrates classic approaches to the pursuit of wisdom with contemporary liberationist and critical voices. The relationship between human and nonhuman life provides a central focus to the work, foregrounding environmental justice. As well as addressing a broad range of ethical questions, Bretherton situates moral formation and the pursuit of human and nonhuman flourishing alongside a concern for spirituality, pastoral care, and political struggles to survive and thrive in the contemporary context. Written for those seeking a place to start, as well as those seasoned in the field, Bretherton's book provides an innovative ethical framework that moves beyond many of the impasses that shape current moral and political debates.  Alex Brown, "A Postcard from Italy: The most uplifting and escapist romance from the No.1 bestseller " English | ISBN: 000820666X | 2019 | 384 pages | MOBI | 703 KB 'Be whisked away in this sunny, heartwarming read' Woman's Own  David Horowitz, "A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next" English | ISBN: 159698290X | 2011 | 256 pages | MOBI | 209 KB A Matter of Life and Death  Guy Standing, "A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income" English | ISBN: 0141985488 | 2017 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 699 KB 'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason 'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough survey he explains how it works and why it has the potential to revitalise life and democracy in our societies. This is an essential book.' Brian Eno Shouldn't everyone receive a stake in society's wealth? Could we create a fairer world by granting a guaranteed income to all? What would this mean for our health, wealth and happiness? Basic Income is a regular cash transfer from the state, received by all individual citizens. It is an acknowledgement that everyone plays a part in generating the wealth currently enjoyed only by a few. Political parties across the world are now adopting it as official policy and the idea generates headlines every day. Guy Standing has been at the forefront of thought about Basic Income for the past thirty years, and in this book he covers in authoritative detail its effects on the economy, poverty, work and labour; dissects and disproves the standard arguments against Basic Income; explains what we can learn from pilots across the world and illustrates exactly why a Basic Income has now become such an urgent necessity.  Rochelle Alers, "A New Foundation " English | ISBN: 1335404775 | 2021 | 288 pages | MOBI | 2 MB He's the man with the plans  Harry V Jaffa, "A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War" English | ISBN: 1538114321 | 2018 | 592 pages | MOBI | 1238 KB Now reissued on the centenary of Jaffa's birth with a new foreword by the esteemed Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, this long-awaited sequel offers a piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln and the themes of self-government, equality, and statesmanship on the eve of the Civil War.  Phillip W Stokes, "A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam " English | ISBN: 180511834X | 2026 | 436 pages | PDF | 8 MB This volume offers the most comprehensive linguistic analysis to date of Vatican Arabic MS 13, a late 9th/early 10th-century Arabic Gospel manuscript. Combining meticulous quantitative study with wide-ranging comparative evidence, this book provides an in-depth examination of the manuscript's orthography, phonology, morphology, morpho-syntax, and syntax. Through extensive charts, tables, and multiple interpretive frameworks, the author illuminates how linguistic features pattern across every dimension relevant to accurate analysis.Crucially, the study does not treat MS 13 in isolation. Its features are systematically compared with those of other Christian Arabic manuscripts, Quranic traditions, medieval Arabic registers, early poetry, and modern dialects. This contextualised approach situates the manuscript within the rich linguistic diversity of medieval Arabic and challenges long-standing assumptions about 'Middle Arabic' and 'Classical Arabic'. By demonstrating that many features of MS 13 align with broader scribal and linguistic practices of the period, the book makes a compelling case against the notion that scribes worked towards a single, unified register or variety. Rather, they drew creatively and pragmatically from a diverse repertoire of features and linguistic traditions, revealing a far more dynamic and multifaceted approach to written composition than previously recognised.An outstanding and field-shaping contribution, this volume provides an essential model for future work on Christian Arabic, medieval Arabic varieties, and the history of Arabic more broadly.  Lucia Berlin, "A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories" English | ISBN: 0374202397 | 2015 | 432 pages | AZW3 | 693 KB One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 |
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