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Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946 — despite having no money or professional skills — his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering.

The sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is the most important and cherished event in human history. Still, the accurate cause of how Jesus died remains a mystery to this day. Dr. Gary Hassmann relies on his years of experience as a physician and surgeon to utilize his findings gathered from three decades of extensive scriptural studies, medical research, and pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Rome to unravel and solve the mystery of how Jesus died.

The Greatest Religious Question reveals three heavens in the Genesis, unnoted by many, more so, Jesus spoke of two saves; they amongst other (unnoticed and misunderstood) sayings are brought to light. This audiobook shows that the KJV Bible is more reliable, for example; 1 John 5:7 and Matthew 19:9 (fornication) are explained and should not have been taken out of other Bibles.

Lima the dog just wants a friend. When he is not chewing up the furniture or sleeping in his crate, he looks outside his bedroom window for someone to keep him company. Unfortunately, all he sees are squirrels and birds. Lima feels sad. Then, one morning, when Lima sees a teenage boy walking by with a dog, he gets so excited! Little does he know he's about to get the surprise of his life when he realizes who the teen is really walking.

A predator exists, one of flesh and bone, an inquisitive nature within the human mind to delve into lives of others. The Diary preys on ones need to satisfy a curiosity, enticing those to open its cover and face their innermost fears within a 12-month term in order to survive, pages self-induced, giving written notice that a life far more interesting counteracts their own inside a subconscious state of mind. Children serve its needs, but one child escaped its clutches, needing to be reclaimed, giving an opportunity for Elfie Odges to right a wrong.

Destry Cotton was not from Amity, nor did she care about its rich and colorful past. However, this Christmas, her husband insisted they travel to his home, where Destry met her in-laws for the first time. Trapped with the Cottons by a terrible blizzard, Destry not only began to learn about Amity, but Bill Cotton spoke of his own struggle with life and the impact that doubt and fear had taken on his family, his friends, and his nation. As Bill told of God's supernatural intervention, Destry began to wonder if the God she professed to believe would actually interact with humans.

Alice in Genderland is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a caring doctor at the office and a loving husband and father at home. But one night a week, he is Alice, a brave trans woman about town, shopping, dining, dancing, and more.

Set during World War One, The Cellist’s Friend is the story of one man’s battle to redeem his own cowardice while recovering from a near-fatal war wound. Ben has witnessed his cello player soldier friend shot for desertion. The soldier they nicknamed Cello played his instrument while his firing squad sang the poem “Invictus” before they shot him.

A fearless Jewish-born Israeli-American Marine and survival expert, Jasmine “Jaz” Steiner, is sent on her final covert mission in Afghanistan—only to be abducted by the Taliban. Major Selim Aslan, a skilled Muslim-born Turkish-American operative, is sent to rescue her, but their plane crashes deep in the Afghan wilderness, leaving Selim gravely injured. Jasmine’s survival skills, courage, and resourcefulness, keep them alive.

This book traces the lives of a lion and an antelope, with the lion learning the hard way that life is not meant to be easy. The antelope also learns about the unforeseen values of friendship resulting from his saving of the lion’s life.

This mostly true book is about a golden retriever named Montmorency. He was raised by a loving rural family in Australia after being rejected by others because of his color. His outstanding loyalty is shown in the six stories contained here.

The moon, stars, wind, the sea, and occasionally even the sun, paint every nuance of his feelings with the music of words. In 42 poems that capture the magic of the night, we get to share a palette of emotions by one who sees and loves life in all its moods and shades, the dark and the light, and every facet of the spirit.

Arlo’s dream was to leave a system of oligarchy and turmoil in the lands of Boorish, where it’s survival of the fittest. To escape war, he had to seek Nirvana. Here, Nirvana is not only a state of mind, but rumored to be a physical place, a paradise. Join Arlo and others on their attempted pilgrimage for a better life, steered by a bunch of heroic pirates aboard the Imhotep, flying through dangerous skies. Here lies a quest in question: Will the Imhotep arrive safely in Nirvana?