"A beautiful and poignant novel that humanizes the Armenian genocide for a contemporary audience." -Kirkus ReviewsThe year is 1915. War rages in Europe while Armenians in the Ottoman Empire find themselves unfairly blamed for a major military defeat. Cooped up at home, fourteen-year-old Arakel tries to ignore rumors of arrests and beatings of Armenians by focusing on the journey he'll take with his two best friends, one Turkish and the other Armenian, on t...

Fast weight loss feels like success until your body decides it's starvation, and what comes next isn't a willpowerproblem-it's biology defending itself. Ignatius Amaral's insightful book explores the trap of rapid results andthe mechanisms that make dramatic weight loss unsustainable.Slow Weight Loss: The Long Way Down is not a meal plan, a workout program, or another 90-daytransformation promise. Instead, it dismantles the psychology of quick fixes and show...

The refund you celebrate every April is your own money that never belonged to the IRS, and the comfort youfeel receiving it masks the year-long emergency you've been funding with interest-free loans to the government.Ignatius Nightingale's insightful book explores the psychological trap of treating withholding as forced savings,and the financial strain that results when you need money today but it's locked away until spring.When your paycheck shrinks every t...

Mankind exists today during the time when the first epoch passes into his second epoch; mankind passes from childhood to adulthood; youth and our simple existence gives way to accountability and responsibility; two-thousand years have passed since the son-of-God walked the Earth; God has now delivered His modern message through the powerful gospel. Angel Fury enables the progressive words necessary to embrace the past, and to mold the future as the shepherd intends. God did send what He pr...

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A completely new design and typeset edition of the popular Ignatius Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition Bible, with minor revisions to some of the archaic language used in the first edition. This revised version is a contemporary English translation without dumbing-down the text. This second edition of the RSV doesn't put the biblical text through a filter to make it acceptable to current tastes and prejudices, and it retains the beauty of the RSV language that has made it such a joy...

Furtive Activity is a gripping espionage thriller that blends psychological suspense, covert intelligence operations, family drama, and emotional conflict into one unforgettable story. Mickey Rybak appears to be an ordinary Catholic school principal, devoted husband, and loving father. Hidden beneath that respectable life is a dangerous secret: he serves as a highly trained intelligence operative working alongside the CIA and Navy Intelligence. As classified missions grow more dangerous, M...

A prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, David Ignatius penned this riveting suspense tale ripped from today's headlines. Deep within Pakistan's borders, a secret CIA team is being systematically dismantled by a cunning enemy. Soon, Sophie Marx, a young, ambitious agent, is on the ground searching for answers. But as she gets closer to the truth, she suffers a devastating betrayal and must risk more than her life to save the world from a terrifying fate.

"Prayer is a refuge of God's great mercy to the human race." The refuge is a place of inner stillness and peace where the heart is fully opened to the embrace of God's love. It is a return to the ancient paradise from which the human race, in Adam, had to depart because of disobedience to the command of God. The Refuge is an exposition of the concrete actions we should take if we truly desire to live with and in God. It weaves together meditations on scripture (from the Psalms in ...

One of the most important and accessible texts of Eastern Orthodox Christian teaching on the spiritual life, this book draws upon the ascetic and mystical doctrine of the Greek Fathers and greats of the Orthodox Christian church. In an age alienated from spiritual culture and rooted in materialism, these teachings pose both a challenge and an invitation to those seeking heightened spirituality. This book is essential reading for anyone who desires a profound spiritual journey based upon an...

St Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867) is renowned as a writer on the spiritual life in general. What is less well known is that throughout most of his adult life, he struggled with chronic illness and disability. Thus his own life experience disposed him to reflect on the meaning of suffering for human existence and how through it we might find "a harbor for our hope." The saint frequently returns to these themes in many of his letters, newly translated into English and excerpted, adapted,...

Saint Ignatius (1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church. He stands out as one of the greatest Eastern Orthodox patristic writers of the nineteenth century. He was glorified (canonized) as a saint by the 1988 meeting of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. His relics are preserved at the ancient Tolga Monastery on the Volga River near Yaroslavl. Essays Included in this Collection: On Signs and Miracles On the Deadening of the Human Spirit On Vigila...