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''Lay Siege to Heaven'' by Louis de Wohl is a historical novel that tells the vibrant life story of St. Catherine of Siena (14th century), focusing on her mystical experiences, refusal of marriage, intense devotion, and extraordinary influence in a turbulent era, as she...
''The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas'' is a classic 1935 mystery novel by R.A.J. Walling, featuring his recurring detective Philip Tolefree, about a baffling case where a corpse appears and disappears, challenging Tolefree to unravel hidden truths and impossible...
A corpse is found in the Jeu de Paume Court of the Lanivet Castle. The corpse was bound, gagged and almost strangled before it was shot. And the white glove on one hand was smeared with oily graphite. Tolefree was not surprised when he discovered the body was that of...
''Detective Ben'' by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a Golden Age mystery featuring Ben, a resourceful Cockney tramp who stumbles into crime, becoming an accidental detective who thwarts international conspiracies with humor and thrills, starting with finding a dead man on a...
''Set All Afire'' by Louis de Wohl is a historical novel about the life of Saint Francis Xavier, a pioneering Jesuit missionary to the Orient, detailing his journey from student days in Paris, his conversion, founding the Jesuits with St. Ignatius of Loyola, and his...
Ronald Knox's ''A Retreat for Lay People'' is a collection of spiritual talks (conferences) designed to guide everyday Catholics in living a deeper spiritual life, bridging the gap between retreat experiences and daily life by exploring faith's foundations, Christ's...
12,000 A.D. The Earth, after the atomic holocaust, had reverted to a strange kind of barbarism, where men could build space ships but could not communicate except by the most primitive means. Alien invaders had been sighted at the edge of the galaxy - but no one took...
THE following pages contain my memories of many years spent in the African bush, where I did little else than hunt game and study their habits and tracks. In 1906 my friend the late Major (then Captain) C. H. Stigand and myself brought out Central African Game and its...
First published in 1987 by the National Defense University (NDU) Press, a government publishing arm, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, publishing vital national security materials like Joint Force Quarterly, books, and monographs for military and government...
One of the foremost resources on existentialism from renowned philosopher, poet, and Nietzsche translator Walter Kaufmann—a must-read for philosophers, both armchair and professional. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre provides basic writings of Dostoevsky,...
Man's Higher Consciousness is a book written by Hilton Hotema in 1962 that explores the concept of human consciousness and its potential for evolution. The book delves into the idea that humans have the ability to tap into a higher level of consciousness, which can lead...
The successful novelist and writer recounts the events that led her to become a born again Christian, and describes the ways her faith has sustained her.
A fascinating analysis of world history immediately after WWII, including the causes of the War from the post-War perspective. This work will forever change your understanding of how America was dragged into that war. Chapter 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout...
In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant's son who might have been right-hand man to a king ... and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous...
This panoramic novel of the last days of Christ ranges from the palaces of imperial Rome to the strife-torn hills of Judea-where the conflict of love and betrayal, revenge and redemption, reaches a mighty climax in the drama of the Crucifixion. Louis de Wohl considered...
Shortly after the end of the war, an American hospital ship rescues passengers and crew from a sinking Argentina-bound freighter. It's soon discovered that one of the group has been murdered, apparently by one of his own companions. After the second of the group is...
This book combines a world-famous Catholic novelist, Louis de Wohl, with one of the most thrilling and dramatic saints' lives in history, St. Joan of Arc. De Wohl uses his famed narrative skill to tell young people about the brave teenage French girl who had visions and...
This book is on the Inquisition, particularly the Spanish Inquisition as opposed to the Roman Inquisition in the years following the Spanish Reconquista. Walsh delves into the Inquisition, its practice, purpose, history and personalities.
Aimee Crocker (1863-1941) was an heiress to gold and railroad fortunes and a daughter of Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818-1875), legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1865 and founder of the Crocker Art Museum, the...
Hermes -- trickster and culture hero, divine child and patron of stealthy action, master of magic words, seducer and whisperer -- is a vital and complex figure in Greek mythology. Shepherd, craftsman, herald, musician, athlete, merchant -- who is this tricky...
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