Modern Western

Only two years after Pope Pius IX’s election in 1846 had triggered great popular enthusiasm across Italy, the pope found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The revolutions that swept through Europe and shook Rome threatened to end the popes’ thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not the papacy itself. The resulting drama was rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics. David Kertzer, one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, brings this pivotal moment vividly to life.

Have you ever thought that maybe things aren’t as good as you thought they were? Take a look inside and explore the War on the West, the new and explosive guide from Neville Patrick Carter that takes a look at some of the key issues in the political and societal downfall that we are currently facing in countries like America, Australia and England. Carter takes a refreshing and new aged approach to analyze some of the big issues facing your ordinary citizen in the 21st century including free speech, social media and most importantly, the Emu War. Prepare yourself for memes and a guide ...

October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.

Taking Love and Law Seriously... Aiden O'Connell is a decorated search and rescue K-9 officer in Clear Mountain, Colorado. His partner is a fierce and loyal German shepherd named Cooper and together they find missing hikers, lost children, and natural disaster victims. Even though his career is on track, he is still missing one piece in his life-a woman with whom he can share his success. Lindsay Wright has a calling-to help displaced children find loving homes. As a social worker, she sees all sorts of situations that break her heart. She is so busy helping the children she is responsible ...

The Trail of Tears is a tragic chapter in American history - as is the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the many that preceded it. The legacy of the European invasion of North America is, at this point, exhaustively documented; the abuses and injustices unleashed by white men on the indigenous inhabitants are, at this point, well known. What is less well known is their actual legacy. Many, if not most, think of the Native American tribes as bands of savages – violent, brutal, immoral. But they are wrong to think so. In fact, the legacy of Native America lives in our deepest commitments as a ...

NOW AN AMAZON #1 BEST SELLER! Travel back in time with Joshua Daklugie (Dak) and his beautiful young wife Kwanita (God is Gracious). Their journey has been prophesied and known by the people for generations. Might Dak hold the wisdom to turn back an army from across the sea? Book 2 in his Amazon #1 best seller “A New Beginning Series”, author Steven G. Hightower delivers yet again for his readers. Walk with the Numunuu (The People) across the plains and mountains of North America. Experience the heartache of war…and the joy of new birth. See the vivid imagery of life in a bygone era, ...

She’s a city girl determined to leave the past behind. He’s the cowboy who was her first love. Can love lead her home?Emma Books never imagined she’d return to Crystal Creek, the small town she left behind years ago. But when her father’s unexpected passing leaves her in charge of the family’s struggling ranch, she finds herself torn between her big-city dreams and the pull of her roots. Determined to sell the ranch and return to her life in the city, Emma is caught off guard by the warmth of the tight-knit community—and the unexpected presence of Cody Hawthorne, her childhood ...

Reckoning, a small western town, plans to honor The Adventurer’s heroic flight over its heart one year ago. Sheriff Nathan Miles, a former army special operator, has been the town’s lawman for more than a year. Chosen by Reckoning’s beloved first sheriff to replace him before he passed, Nathan accepted the role of protecting a place he does not feel he deserves. Nathan struggles with guilt over his actions in wars past, as a part of him will not allow himself to be happy and embrace the paradise he swore to protect. On the day that the world celebrates what The Adventurer did, a new ...

So, the gorgeous cowboy billionaire I slapped in the club last night is not only my next-door neighbor but also my fake fiancé, and now we live together. Boy, are we polar opposites. Not to mention this single dad is the grumpiest man I know. After a storm damages my home, his proposal to be his fake fiancé to secure a business deal became an offer I couldn't refuse. Watching him with his daughter reveals the tender heart beneath his rugged exterior. Plus, his piercing emerald eyes and rock-hard body are distracting me from our business agreement. Now, I can’t stop wanting him. But he's...

In the Rocky Mountains, there are a million stories, but not everyone lives to tell the tale. When Brent Chase watches a local low-life get murdered in his coffee shop, he thinks it's the worst thing that can happen. Then the killers come to his door. Not with a threat, but with an offer. Work for them as they help the mob set up shop in the small mountain vacation town. They'll bail out his failing business if he cleans their money and gives them space to meet. Trapped between bankruptcy and a life of crime, what choice will Chase make? Remington Dean is a man of contradictions. After ...

Sixth-generation Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk is granted permission to go after the two survivors of a group of terrorists who intended to bomb the Alamo. Jim's Texas Ranger father stopped the plot, killing four of the terrorists, but at the cost of his own life. Now, almost two years later, the remaining men have been seen, deep in the Big Bend. Jim will track down those killers and mete out justice ... or die trying.

In small town Montana, deserted mother Maisie finds unexpected love with protective cowboy Joe, but can they overcome her violent past and find happiness together? Maisie’s wedding night did not go as she expected. Five years later, deserted and with two kids, she keeps her head down terrified her husband might return. The married and the moms are on Joe’s ‘not to be messed with’ list but when he sees Maisie being molested by a customer where she works he steps in to protect her. As Maisie and her kids start to slip under his skin and into his heart he begins to realise that he ...

In this fascinating book, David Barash highlights an intriguing patch of common ground between scientific and religious thought, illuminating the many parallels between biology and Buddhism, allowing listeners to see both in a new way. Indeed, he shows that there are numerous places where the Buddhist and biological perspectives coincide. For instance, the cornerstone ecological concept - the interconnectedness and interdependence of all things - is remarkably similar to the fundamental insight of Buddhism.

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution, or single events into a story.

Have you ever wanted to meet the heroes of the Bible? This book will give you the opportunity to interact with many of the Biblical characters - to ask them what they're thinking and feeling, and why they behave the way they do. You'll also meet God, ancient man's imagined version of the prototypical forefather. You probably have a lot of questions for him about his behavior; this time, for a change, he'll answer. The heroes of the Bible spoke their own language. They never said, “In my opinion,” or “I don’t know,” or “That’s interesting.” They never asked themselves why ...

Uncover the vibrant saga of triumph, tragedy, and transformation that underpins the Dominican Republic's storied past. This audiobook invites you on more than just a journey through time—it invites you to explore the soul of a nation. Beneath the sun-soaked beaches and the lively rhythm of merengue lies a land shaped by its historical crucibles.

The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A. C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature.

Dive into the amazing story of Jamaica, a country shaped by the trials of slavery and the incredible strength of its people. This audiobook tells how enslaved Africans, despite enduring terrible hardships, built the foundation of Jamaica’s vibrant culture and heritage.

Once Upon a Broken Time A simple man in a complicated time. When a city cop turns up dead in a quiet town under suspicious circumstances, the official story doesn’t sit right with Dave Miller. Among other hints of fowl play, whispers of a drug pipeline running through backcountry trails start to surface, and more indications of turbulence are in the air. With law enforcement looking the other way and too many folks content to stay quiet, Dave does what he’s always done: he gets to work. Alongside his loyal dogs, a sharp-shooting wife who’s as steady under pressure as he is, and a ...

Each person has a “Vector of the Mind” whose direction and magnitude can be assessed by using the questionnaire appearing in the book. For people with a western paradigm of mind who locate their self at the center, the “Vector of the Mind” is inwardly oriented. People with an eastern paradigm of mind, who are focused on the group, have an outward oriented “Vector of the Mind”. The encounter with an individual whose “Vector of the Mind” is opposed to ours creates a cross-cultural gap that hinders communication. “Babel – a Guide to the East-West Encounter” surveys the ...