This is a short story about James Norton, whose life was changed after an accident. He became obsessed with our existence and the meaning of life**.**

James is a wonderful book in the New Testament, and the fact that James was a brother of Christ makes it even more special. Although it is a short book, it is filled with practical advice for living out our faith.The book serves as a practical how-to manual for living a Christian life; it emphasizes the importance of putting our faith into action. James asserts that if our faith does not lead to action, it is dead.Moreover, the book teaches us that ...

Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day 16 June 1904 in immense detail as Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer’s Odyssey, internal thoughts Joyce’s famous stream of consciousness give physical reality extra colour and perspective. This long-awaited unabridged recording of James Joyce’s Uly...

It’s been five years since Gully’s inflatable dragon put the air traffic controllers across England into a tail spin.His little chain of noodle bars has taken off too and he’s somehow become a celebrity chef into the bargain, but it seems that success brings its own challenges.But for Polly Gilmour, the opportunity to help to launch her quirky cousin brings consequences she couldn’t have imagined when she’s instructed to negotiate the company’s first faltering steps abroad....

Before he was Gonzo, he was David.David was the weird kid that we all knew but would ignore at school, but he didn’t really mind, he had his sister, his dreams and his imagination.He would go to university and learn all about what he loved most; about shape and structure, about energy, proximity and symmetry. And he would be successful too because he was good at what he dreamed about.But reality can cloud your dreams and without his dreams, his reality seemed pretty...

All Change!Jack and Gill are trying to make their house into a home, but the reality of D.I.Y. isn’t making the process any easier. Luckily, they know a bloke who can transform what Benny has called “a third world dump” into a bijou “des res”. All they need is the cash.If only this was the only concern, then Jack should be content. He only wants to make his young bride happy, but all work and no play is making him an unhappy bunny. But even if he knew what he wanted, dare h...

**A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year“[E]xcellent . . . a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography . . . a kind of intellectual thriller.” —Becca Rothfeld, Washington PostFrom an eminent historian and classicist, an incisive portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested by violent events in the most powerful Greek city of the era.**Plato is one of history’s most inf...

Considering he was only a young man himself, Wedge’s father brought him up as best as he could. Along the way he taught his boy a few rules to get by in life: never get into debt if you can avoid it; always look after your woman as best as you can; and, always, always, help your mates when they need you.But what are mates? Wedge knows: “Mates” can either be your true mates, as in the expression, “I’m meeting me mates later”, or, some blokes you’ve only just met that very night whil...

A lively dual biography of the two great English orators of the eighteenth century, who cultivated a friendship across their political differences.In eighteenth-century Britain, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause for twenty-five years. They supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended religious liberty, and attempted to shield Britain’s public credit from the crisis-prone East India Company. The two me...

A devastating critique of our failure to prepare students for citizenship—and a roadmap to a better way.America’s Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young people to understand our political system and to engage in reasoned political debate as adults. Yet today, when virtually all Americans graduate from high school, we remain stunningly ignorant of history and government. In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Prog...

“A provocative history . . . helps us to understand why the Arab spring is so important and valuable.”—David Ignatius, National InterestIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region between them to the birth of Israel, A Line in the Sand is a gripping narrative of the last gasp of imperialism, with tales of unscr...

Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—TimeIn 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic storm. All seven perished on what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Mac...