"When someone is stricken with cancer, one of three things can happen: Doctors treat the disease and cure it; professionals can't cure the disease but can control it so that the person suffering can live with the disease for the rest of his or her life; or the cancer can be of a kind that cannot be treated and all the medicine and treatments in the world are powerless - the person dies. Emotional depression leading to suicide can work the same way....

Sorrow is a dark and painful road. You don't need to walk it alone. The Bible says that "God is near to the brokenhearted," but what does that look like when you're lost in the darkness of agonizing grief? How do you engage with your sorrow when the world tells you to shoulder through or move on? Award-winning writer and podcaster Clarissa Moll knows this landscape of loss all too well. Her life changed forever in 2019 when her husband, Rob, died...

The Koran is one of the most ideologically influential texts in the world, with over a billion Muslims following its precepts. Yet within this singular religious community there are profound differences in attitudes about peace, violence, punishment, forgiveness, and the status of women. This eye-opening film goes deep into the heart of the Muslim world to explore the history and current state of Islam. It also delves into the personal lives of its...

"For women who love God but have a love/hate relationship with their bodies, join Jess Connolly to discover a bold new way to rest in God's workmanship and heal the broken beliefs that have held you back from your fullest life"--

A down-to-earth orientation demonstrates how to make practical use of Buddhist principles in solving everyday challenges and problems. This edition contains several new chapters on how to practice the Bodhisattva Path in daily life.

Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward, and he beheld his ship coming with the mist. Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over...

Origins. East and West ; The Holy Land ; A family war ; The ocean sea ; The end of the world ; The rivals -- Exploration. The commander ; Learning the ropes ; The Swahili coast ; Riding the monsoon ; Kidnap ; Dangers and delights ; A Venetian in Lisbon -- Crusade. The Admiral of India ; Shock and awe ; Standoff at sea ; Empire of the Waves ; The King's Deputy ; The crazy sea.

Six hundred titles that explore the globe are shared in reading lists organized by region, country, and age range.