This is the story of a love so powerful it felt remembered, not discovered. A stranger walked into her office, and in an instant two lives collided with an energy neither had ever felt. It was the beginning of a twenty‑year bond that would shape a lifetime of joy, heartbreak, miracles, and awakening. What follows is a journey that moves from the ordinary to the extraordinary with a force that refuses to let go.Across these pages, Robert Hall recounts the moments that defined him: t...

The child of Italian immigrants struggles to find meaning in Edwardian-era London.Olga Boselli, a young Italian woman who immigrated to London with her parents at the turn of the century, dies during childbirth. Her son, Gian-Luca, is raised by his grandparents, but his grandmother, a hard woman with a nose for business, resents him-and God-for taking the life of her daughter.As Gian-Luca comes of age, he struggles to find an identity and meaning in his life. His grandmothe...

The Book of the Feet: A History of Boots and Shoes is a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of the evolution of footwear, tracing the story of boots and shoes from ancient times to the 19th century. Authored by Joseph Sparkes Hall, a renowned bootmaker and inventor, this book delves into the cultural, social, and technological significance of footwear throughout history. Hall examines the origins of shoes in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and follows their transformation through th...

A successful, 'forty something'-year-old professional embarks on a long overdue journey back to Norfolk Island - her birthplace and spiritual home.Sailing solo, as she did decades ago, she wrestles not only with the sea but with her regrets as well. Clinging to hopes, memories, and a powerful connection with one man, she pushes beyond the limits of human endurance and doggedly sails onwards - to a new life, back on the island she loves.An emotional journey of survival, love...

Candy-Making Revolutionized: Confectionery from Vegetables is a groundbreaking book by Mary Elizabeth Hall, first published in 1912, that transforms the art of candy-making by introducing innovative methods for creating sweets from vegetables. This unique guide challenges traditional notions of confectionery, offering a fresh perspective on how everyday vegetables can be transformed into delicious, healthful treats. Hall’s work is both practical and inventive, providing detailed instructio...

A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting: Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material is a comprehensive manual authored by E. Goodrich and originally published in the 19th century. This classic work serves as an essential guide for watchmakers, horologists, and anyone interested in the intricate art of watch repair and construction. The book meticulously details the processes involved in crafting and fitting new balance staffs, a critical componen...

“Consciously I was neither radical nor conservative, and yet my reading was drawing me inevitably out of the narrower field of polite literature into the new world of social thought that was rising about me. Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris became increasingly my teachers-above all others Morris. I have always been a rebel, I think, but with the bias of my training in art and letters I must enter the field of radicalism through such an avenue if at all. My economics must be sugar-coated for me. She...

Abigail Nicole Baker grew up in upstate New York in the countryside. She didn't have the greatest childhood or parents that loved her, but she had a best friend and their family become her own. But at the age of 18, Abigail left the countryside after a traumatic event and never looked back. She worked multiple jobs to save every dime she had to open up her own business. Eventually, Abigail met Theodore Allen Kingston, a very wealthy man. He dotted on Abigail for the first few months, but a...

Human beings live prospectively. Even memory, on close inspection, is in service of anticipation - the brain uses the past to estimate what's about to happen, prepares the body accordingly, and treats the resulting experience as evidence for the next prediction. The Predictive Life develops this single mechanism across a full clinical and conceptual arc: how old learning becomes prediction, how prediction organises attention and bodily preparation, how behaviour changes the eviden...

This landmark text offers critical reflection and practical tool for pastors working and leading congregations where there is a large percentage of African Caribbean worshippers and other marginalised communities. Drawing from real-life pastoral examples, socio-political analysis and the theme of Eucharist as a means to human healing and restoration, it outlines and explores what a black British pastoral theology might look like.

**A “vividly, chillingly current” (The Washington Post) novel by the author of The New Me, one of the boldest voices in American fiction“[Halle Butler's] talent lies in depicting how these sore winners think, and the quiet madness that comes from measuring every interaction in your life by what might be gained in power and status. . . . [Banal Nightmare is] her most accomplished novel." —The New York Review of Books“So funny, so ...

The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review).**Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers.In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, ...