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  The Complete Novels and Essays...

  Mark Twain

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  What if laughter were the sharpest tool for telling the truth?
  
  The Complete Novels and Essays of Mark Twain brings together the full range of one of America's greatest writers and most original voices. Known for his wit, humor, and fearless honesty, Mark Twain captured the spirit, contradictions, and conscience of America like no other author.
  
  This comprehensive collection includes Twain's classic novels alongside his brilliant essays and reflections. His fiction explores boyhood, freedom, morality, and society along the Mississippi River and beyond, while his essays deliver satire, political insight, and unforgettable commentary on human nature.
  
  With clarity, humor, and moral force, Twain's writing entertains while challenging readers to think deeply about justice, hypocrisy, race, and personal integrity.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  All major novels by Mark Twain in one collection
  
  Sharp, humorous, and insightful essays and commentary
  
  Iconic works such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  
  A cornerstone of American literature and cultural history
  
  Studied worldwide and endlessly quoted, Mark Twain's work remains as relevant, funny, and powerful today as when it was first published.
  
  Laugh, reflect, and rediscover America's greatest storyteller. Buy now and experience the complete novels and essays of Mark Twain.

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  Angelique - A Journey of Becoming

  Sylvia Suhr

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  Angelique is more than a story — it is a vessel of healing, hope, and divine encounter. 
  Through this powerful journey, you’ll meet a young woman whose life unfolds like a prayer — answered slowly, then all at once. Her path is woven with grace, shaped through brokenness, and emboldened by a relentless pursuit of belonging — not just in the world, but in the heart of God. 
  Inspired by moments of clarity and struggle from my own walk with Christ, Angelique carries pieces of my testimony while standing as her own unique voice. Her story will resonate with anyone who has questioned their worth, battled loneliness, or longed for freedom. 
  Let these words speak truth into the quiet places of your heart. May you discover that you are seen, loved, and lifted — not by chance, but by divine design. 
  Welcome to her story. Welcome to yours.

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  Places I've Taken My Body

  Molly McCully Brown

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  In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body--in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder.  
   
  In spite of--indeed, in response to--physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned streets of Bologna, Italy. Moving between these locales and others, Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theatre, the American Eugenics movement, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human--flawed, potent, feeling.  
  ‘These remarkable essays invite us to look long and hard at our own interior landscapes, and to negotiate exterior ones with as much grace and gratitude as we can muster’ Eliza Griswold 
   
  'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful.' Psychologies Magazine 
   
  Molly McCully Brown received her MFA from the University of Mississippi, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Simon's Rock of Bard College. She has published poems in Gulf Coast, Image, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

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  The Line of the Ball -...

  Beh Chun Chuan

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  In the game of polo, "following the line of the ball" means staying on the optimal path to maintain momentum and control. For Dr. Beh Chun Chuan, this principle has guided not just his polo playing but his entire approach to business and life.

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  The Wrong Calamity - A Memoir

  Marsha Jacobson

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  An intimate and compellingly honest memoir of a woman coming into her own after profound pain and grief.Grappling with neglect, eating disorders, domestic violence, single parenthood, and the contagiousness of trauma, The Wrong Calamity is a powerful story of calamity, discovery, and triumph.Marsha, a freshman lacking self-confidence, falls prey to a controlling man at college. Afraid to say no, she agrees to marry him and move to Japan, where she unexpectedly gets a job at Mattel Toys. As she becomes successful, her husband becomes more abusive. Back in America, she and their two toddlers escape from him in a dramatic police chase. Determined to succeed, she earns a Harvard MBA and builds a career, all while raising her girls and fending off her vengeful ex-husband. Later, she marries a former colleague. Their marriage is joyful—until his buried past reveals itself and shatters their marriage, her career, and many close relationships.With brave honesty, Marsha gives voice to the lived experience of grief and shares her insights on how she became resilient, rediscovered herself, and now has a happy, fulfilling life. The Wrong Calamity is a compelling and inspiring memoir.

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  Golda Meir: The Life and Legacy...

  Editors Charles River

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  Israel’s Day of Independence, Yom Ha’atzmaut, is celebrated on the fifth day of the Hebrew calendar in the month of Iyar. It is immediately preceded by Yom HaZikaron, the Memorial Day for the fallen Israeli soldiers who gave their lives for Israel’s establishment. Emphasis switches from the memorial celebration to the celebration of independence a few minutes after sundown.  
  	The day on which the state of Israel was signed into existence was May 14, 1948. Many important figures in Israeli history played a part in the establishment of the new state, and among the most iconic is the nation’s first female premier, Golda Meir. Known as the “uncrowned queen of Israel” and “Mother Courage,” Meir was an activist for many years, lobbying for a Jewish state in the Mandate of Palestine. She served in numerous capacities before her appointment as Prime Minister and remains one of the most revered Israeli leaders from the pre-state years through the long-sought dream of a Jewish nation.  
  	One of eight children from a poverty-stricken family, she was to become an immigrant to a new land twice in her life. Meir and her parents fled from Kyiv during Russia's antisemitic pogroms in 1905, about a decade after the Dreyfus Affair in France. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before rising the ranks back in the Middle East. When it came to Israel and her role in its early years, she noted, "We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go." 
  	As in the days of the Biblical Hebrews’ migration out of Egypt under Pharaoh, finding a Jewish homeland meant the adjustment of national boundaries and the displacement of certain neighboring cultures. In the modern age, this has led to several major military conflicts and the need for an ongoing state of readiness within the Israeli military. Meir found herself at the helm of the Yom Kippur War, a time in which Israel was at its most vulnerable.

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