An "exceptional" historical detective story that follows one man's quest to find the German commander who saved his mother—and many other Jews ( Booklist).Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto —including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?After ...

Never Surrender Your Soul "Your Very Essence" is wriiten by a Genius, Autistic, Empath, and Savant; "a beautiful mind".If you wish for personal – spiritual growth and fulfillment in your life and less fear, it is possible! Never Surrender Your Soul unlike other religion & spirituality books, is written specifically to help you to find the encouragement, strength, and spiritual growth that you will need to change your perspective with less mind control so you can live a hopeful life...

The human race is on the cusp of either taking more strategic steps towards a more Peaceful World and eventually World Peace or Game Over — Armageddon. Ask yourself this… What would you do for World Peace if you knew the end was near… Game Over — End of the World? The future; a more Peaceful World — Peaceful Worlds can only be changed in the present. Free will, a human's greatest gift after life itself comes with a price. God will not save you. The human race (women) must save themselves. ...

RESET, You are in > CONTROL, Change your Perspective > ALT, Forget the Past > DELETELearn how to rise from the ashes of defeat and how I got rid of my suicidal thoughts… Get Depression, and Anxiety Self-Help, Embrace positive thinking, Live a happier life, and Find your destiny.RESET: Control, Alt, Delete is a synopsis of the author's triumphs over his near-death suicide attempt, life's challenges, hardships, and obstacles, and his struggles with mental health. Derived from...

There is no better gift to yourself or another person than the gift of knowledge and understanding derived from wisdom." - Brian Michael GoodRecharge your life with over 400 quotes organized in seventy chapters that deal with self-esteem, self-worth, abuse, feelings, emotions, challenges, hardships, and obstacles. "Quotes Of Wisdom To Live By" can reduce depression, anxiety, stress, and frustration with positive thinking: the author provides the reader encouragement, comfort, peace...

Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto—including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?After five years of research—interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years, following every lead he could, Good was able to uncover the...

On June 6, 1944, Werner T. Angress parachuted down from a C-47 into German-occupied France with the 82nd Airborne Division. Nine days later, he was captured behind enemy lines and, concealing his identity as a German-born Jew, became a prisoner of war. Eventually, he was freed by US forces, rejoined the fight, and participated in the liberation of a concentration camp.Although he was an American soldier, less than ten years before he had been an enthusiastically patriotic German-Je...

The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying eventOn November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is th...

Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, Willis asks listeners to imagine—and choose among—five scenarios for fin...

Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself against bullies and aggressors but finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city outside her hilltop home, convinced she is Saint Garnet, healer of skin ailments and maker of miracles....

For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign—a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the domination of the "Holy Land" come to mind. Yet the medieval world produced much that is part of our world today, including universities, the passion for Roman architecture and the emergence of the Gothic style, pilgrimage, the emergence of capitalism, and female saints.This new narrative hi...

“The Negro worked as farm hand and peasant proprietor, as laborer, artisan, and inventor and as servant in the house, and without him, America as we know it, would have been impossible.”—W. E. B. Du BoisAlthough the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the country’s civil rights movement. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois was among the first generation of African American scholars to spearhead this movement towa...