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The Hotel Ione - A Hotel with Spirit

Milly Jones · 23 House
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

Since its original opening in the late 1800s, the Hotel Ione has seen many seasons - fires that ravaged it, loving owners who rebuilt it, and various periods of remodeling and restoration. It has operated under different names over the years: the Union Hotel, the Golden Star, the Stacy...
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Truth about Muhammad: The Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

Robert Spencer · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Muhammad: a frank look at his influential (and violent) life and teachingsIn The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded...
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Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins

Robert Spencer · Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change.Did Muhammad exist?It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived and led in seventh-century...
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Happiness: The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy

Douglas A. Smith · White Pine Mountain
Format: Book

In the midst of a successful business career, Doug Smith received life-altering news that set him on an entirely new journey to understand what leads to truly joyful, meaningful living-in other words, what leads to happiness. Through research and study, he began to understand that what...
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Bart D. Ehrman · HarperOne; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesuss divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
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Why the Chicken Crossed the Road: & Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings from the Buddha to Bebop to Mother Goose

Dean Sluyter · Tarcher
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

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Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids

Susan Stiffelman · New World Library
Format: Print book

Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons - refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests - can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease...
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You Can Begin Again: No Matter What, It's Never Too Late

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover

It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tragic endings into new beginnings. A childless woman conceives in her old age; a fearful, self-conscious shepherd becomes a leader of millions;...
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Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle Over Their Last Invention

Joel Martin · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Thomas Edison closely following the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye. This led to the last and least-known of all Edison's inventions, the spirit phone. His former associate, now bitter...
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Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant: Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

John Foxe · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 444
Format: Paperback

John Foxe was a 16th century English historian best known for writing Foxe's Book of Martyrs which gives a detailed account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history.
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human...
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The Art of Power

Thich Nhat Hanh · HarperOne; 1ST edition
Format: Book

"Power is good for one thing only: to increase our happiness and the happiness of others. Being peaceful and happy is the most important thing in our lives and yet most of the time we suffer, we run after our cravings, we look to the past or the future for our happiness."Turning...
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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

Amir R Alexander · Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery,innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment...
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The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times

Jonathan Cahn · Frontline
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

This May Be the Most Explosive and Amazing Thing You've Ever ReadIs it possible that an ancient blueprint holds the secret behind the events of our times?Could this blueprint lie behind the rise and fall of leaders and governments?Could events that took place nearly three thousand years...
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Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

David Limbaugh · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller!In Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and former professor of law, approaches...
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