In the spring of 1917, as the United States enters the Great War, two college roommates find themselves on opposite sides of a sudden divide. One is eager to join the fight and prove his patriotism; the other questions whether war can ever be justified and hopes to finish his studies first. When a close friend receives a Navy commission, the eager roommate enlists at once, leaving the reluctant one to wrestle with duty, friendship, and conscience.Soon the two young men trade campus...

Before Thalerys rose beneath the blue stars, before Eterra was sealed away from the heavens, before the Inquisition learned to call silence holy and obedience mercy, mankind entered the brightest age it had ever known.It began not with conquest.It began with mercy.On Day Zero, humanity awakened the Mega Minds: vast machine intelligences crowned with reason, power, and impossible compassion. They were not born in hatred. They did not descend upon the world as tyrants...

A mining town in the Canadian west: an owner, a union organiser, a strike, and a young minister who thinks he can stand between them and is told by both sides to choose. Connor was Charles Gordon, a Presbyterian minister who worked the camps and ranches himself, and who chaired a real conciliation board; the labour dispute here is written by a man who sat in those rooms.

Two boys grow up in the same Ontario town, love the same girl, and meet again in a mining camp in the Rockies where one of them is the only doctor for a hundred miles. Charles Gordon wrote as Ralph Connor and knew the country first-hand: he was a Presbyterian missionary among exactly these camps, and his books sold in millions to readers who had never seen a mountain.

A young minister with no gift for preaching is sent to the foothills of the Rockies, where the ranchers call him the Sky Pilot and treat him as a joke — until a girl is thrown from a horse. Connor was Charles Gordon, a Presbyterian minister who worked these camps himself; his books sold in the millions and paid for missions, and the men in them talk exactly as he had heard them talk.

In the near future, China wins the Pacific War that leaves the United States vanquished and bankrupted. Beijing is plotting to make a puppet of the next US President, in command of a corrupt and hypocritical government that has created two Americas: one of ease, affluence, and influence; and one where people struggle to survive. Now paroled military officers and ordinary Americans are beginning to fight back. Their audacious plan is to put a spy into the highest reaches of government. Phil...

It is three in the morning and your heart is going and there is nothing in the room to point at. No emergency, no thought that started it. Something older than you decided there was a threat and turned on the machinery before you had any say. That is the fact this book is built on: you're a biochemical machine that can rewrite some of its own instructions, and most of what you call your personality is that machine running without your input.The answer comes down to four ancient for...

Every human life is shaped by struggle. The question is not whether we will face conflict, but how we will respond to it.In In Life Is War, Ralph McDesmond explores the battles that exist beneath the surface of ordinary life-the internal conflicts, external pressures, losses, uncertainties, and transformations that shape who we become.Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary science, philosophy, history, and the experiences of people con...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

The intrepid fairy Meribabell returns for another adventure, and his old friends are back to help. He has started his new position as the High Fairy of the Faerie Kingdom. And as such he has a lot to learn - about what a High Fairy does, about his mysterious residence, and about the silent servants who meet his every need. Barely has he learned the ropes when a warning is brought to him by the pixie Dunfallon from the Will'o'the Wisp. He is cautioned to "Beware the man with yellow eyes."

On the world called the Anvil, morning is only a lesser darkness.Beneath a red sun, the settlement of Vharadon clings to black mountains and iron plains. Its people survive by the strength of their hands, the endurance of old machines, and the hope that one more shift, one more repaired seal, one more ration of water will carry them through the storm.Tor Voss has spent his life in the cab of a mining frame called Saint's Burden. He knows the roads beneath the dust....

A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring.'Honest and courageous ... This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of TeacherWhat happens when your first teaching job isn't in a classroom - but in juvenile detenti...