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A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces, and questions flash through his mind. His family before and during the unspeakable Event. The gifts of marriage and children and grandchildren that followed. In his writing, in his teaching, in his public life, has he done enough for memory and the survivors? His ongoing questioning of God - where has it led? Is there hope for mankind?
The world's tireless ambassador of tolerance and justice has given us this luminous account of hope and despair, an exploration of the love, regrets, and abiding faith of a remarkable man.
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The Chopra brothers were among the most eager and ambitious of the new generation. In the 1970s, they each emigrated to the United States to make a new life. Both faced tough obstacles: while Deepak encountered resistance from Western-trained doctors over what he called the mind-body connection, Sanjiv struggled to reconcile the beliefs of his birthplace with those of his new home. Eventually, each brother became convinced that America was the right place to build a life, and the Chopras went on to great achievements.
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How to Toot Your Horn
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When God Doesn't Make Sense
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Every person who lives long enough will eventually encounter circumstances that are difficult to explain theologically. From years of counselling experience, Dr. James Dobson offers assurance of God's constant care, even when human suffering is beyond our comprehension.
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Good book for difficult times
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Raising the Dead
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Dr. Chauncey Crandall IV was a Christian who kept his faith and his profession mostly separate when he first encountered a man named Jeff Markin. Jeff had collapsed during a massive heart attack at the entrance of the emergency room, and forty-three minutes later he was dead. He had been shocked repeatedly several times with defibrillator paddles but his heartbeat had flatlined.
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POWERFUL BOOK!!!!
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My Sisters the Saints
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- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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In My Sisters the Saints, author Colleen Carroll Campbell blends her personal narrative of spiritual seeking, trials, stumbles, and breakthroughs with the stories of six women saints who profoundly changed her life: Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein of Germany, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary of Nazareth. Drawing upon the rich writings and examples of these extraordinary women, the author reveals Christianity's liberating power for women and the relevance of the saints to the lives of contemporary Christians.
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Beautifully written and sincere
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Divine Alignment
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In his charmingly avuncular and wonderfully optimistic voice, SQuire shares moving stories from his own and others' lives to show the awesome strength inherent in what he calls God's positioning system, or GPS. Each of us, he assures listeners, can use our own personal GPS to grow more closely aligned with God to become vastly more effective, successful, and fulfilled in our relationships, our career, and everything we do.
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I loved it. Very interesting.
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Death Is Hard Work
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Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is - after all - only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.
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The bleakness of living in a war-torn country!
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To Love and Be Loved
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Best book I've read in a long time
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Lara
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When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak - whose novel in progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet - he persecuted Boris' mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris' affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga's role in Boris' writing process.
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A wonderfully enjoyable read
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Fire Road
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Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine-year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames - before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death.
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The subtitle should warn what the book is
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More Beautiful Than Before
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Every one of us sooner or later walks through hell. The hell of being hurt, the hell of hurting another. The hell of cancer, the hell of a reluctant, thunking shovel full of earth upon the casket of someone we deeply loved, the hell of betrayal, the hell of betraying, the hell of divorce, the hell of a kid in trouble...the hell of knowing that this year, like any year, may be our last. We all walk through hell. The point is not to come out empty-handed.... There is real and profound power in the suffering we endure if we transform that suffering into a more authentic, meaningful life.
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Learning from Pain
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Already Here
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Already Here tells of the death of Leo Galland's son, Christopher, at age 22; the direct visual evidence Christopher showed Leo that our souls do go on; and the communications from Christopher's spirit that changed Leo's understanding of life and its meaning. In life, Christopher was a brain-damaged special-needs child who challenged everyone he knew with unpredictable behavior and uncanny insights. After his death, he revealed to Leo the real purpose of his life, as a spiritual guide who taught others by confounding their assumptions and expectations.
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I needed this book. thanks Doctor.
- By Anonymous User on 08-08-18
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- Aaron Joseph Post
- 04-09-16
One of my top 3 favorites of his for sure
I have read several of his works. My favorites are Night and From the Kingdom of Memory. This one goes right up there. It is sincerely moving, beautiful and masterfully simple. Nothing I did not like.
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- R. Lynn
- 03-16-17
Great man with a life s story everyone should read especially young people
This is his second book I've read and both are outstanding reads. So much can be learned from our elders if we would just slow down and listen to them.
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- Elle.Inn.Esse
- 02-14-23
Good, quick read
I had to read this for class. it was a good, quick read. I liked it.
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- GH
- 12-04-12
Every Moment is a New Beginning
I had the privilege to listen to Elie Wiesel as the keynote speaker at my son’s University Graduation. Imagine an audience of 8,000 or so, students and parents, crammed armpit to armpit in the blazing sun of a hot St. Louis high-noon. A distinguished man makes his way to the podium after being introduced, within seconds of pleasantries the audience is mesmerized. In the sea of humanity, the only sound is of this gentleman’s clear voice and perhaps the accidental chatter of a few squirrels. Who knew then that one month hence this story would start for him?
This introspection of his open-heart surgery is at times intense, often moving and always insightful. For a man who has witnessed so much, his optimism in fellow man is unbounded: he urges us to grasp “every moment is a new beginning” and “… go on minute to minute.” The description of he and his son will especially pull at your heart. He urgent and continual plea is for us to battle against indifference and resignation and to "not sit idly by."
This is a must read book because of its simple truths. After all, simple truths are what speak to us most. Those truths help us understand and reach for goals that inspire and guide or moral compass. I very much recommend this exceptionally short listen. It will appeal widely to those who have a lot of mileage on their souls regardless of which religion you embrace. For those of us you have faced death and struggled back, it is especially moving.
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- Marion Willms
- 07-12-15
Short biography
This is an excellent biography of Elie Weisel reflecting on his open heart surgery. I am so grateful to have listened to the thoughts of this wise man who has experienced the unimaginable.
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