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  Spurgeon on the Christian Life -...

  Michael Reeves

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  Charles Spurgeon, widely hailed as the “Prince of Preachers,” is well known for his powerful preaching, gifted mind, and compelling personality. Over the course of nearly four decades at London’s famous New Park Street Chapel and Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon preached and penned words that continue to resonate with God’s people today.Organized around the main beliefs that undergirded his ministry―the centrality of Christ, the importance of the new birth, the indwelling of the Spirit, and the necessity of the Bible―this introduction to Spurgeon’s life and thought will challenge readers to live their lives for the glory of God.Part of the Theologians on the Christian Life series. 

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  Brotherhood of Warriors - Behind...

  Douglas Century, Aaron Cohen

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  Beverly Hills native Aaron Cohen was eighteen years old when he left behind his privileged American life with the single-minded ambition of joining Israel's top anti-terrorist commando unit. After fifteen months of grueling training, Cohen was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold: a top-secret, highly controversial unit that dispatches operatives disguised as Arabs into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank to abduct Hamas leaders and bring them to Israel for trial. Cohen learned flawless Arabic, lost all semblance of his all-American appearance, and participated in countless life-or-death missions. A propulsive, gripping read, Cohen's story is a rare fly-on-the-wall view into the shadowy world of "Black Ops."

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  Under Five Flags

  Marta L. Tullis

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  This book is a memoir of my husband (Hackchan Rhee) for the first 25 years of his life. It addresses not only his family life, but his family life as portrayed against the historical backdrop of Korea, which was often dangerous, and full of rigor. Reader needs to be able to be forthright, but also be capable of expressing the tension and difficulty in various situations.

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  The Girl with Seven Names

  Hyeonseo Lee, David John

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  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
  An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. 
  As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told “the best on the planet”? 
  Aged seventeen, she decided to escape North Korea. She could not have imagined that it would be twelve years before she was reunited with her family. 
  In The Girl with Seven Names, Hyeonseo Lee shares her personal and political journey, making this biography a top pick for those interested in understanding the realities of life in North Korea. This autobiography is a testament to her resilience and determination. 
  For fans of Blaine Harden (King of Spies), Masaji Ishikawa (Senza via di scampo. La storia vera dell'incredibile fuga dalla Corea del Nord...), Yeonmi Park (In Order To Live), Suki Kim (Without You, There Is No Us), and Daniel Tudor (North Korea Confidential).

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  What Men Live By and Other Tales

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways. His views transcended the specifics of religion, as known in his day - so much so he came to be a helpful guide both to Mohandas Gandhi and to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The four stories in this collection ask profound questions and gently supply helpful, non-dogmatic hints to their answerings: What is the most important thing to do? Who is the most important person? When is the most important time? What is worth owning? What is the most profound religion? What rules should men live by? How much land does a man need? Who is God? What should we bother to discuss? How should we act towards one another? How should we respond to cruelty and violence? And many more. Wonderful stories written in a relaxed style.  (Summary by Alan Drake.)

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  The Markets of Paris

  Émile Zola

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  The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L'Assommoir. It must have been in his early manhood, when poor and friendless, he lived among the people, that much of the information which makes these pages so startlingly vivid, was acquired. How many mornings, long before dawn, must he have visited these markets – how many hours and days must he have spent there, to have mastered the habits, manners and ways of these people, who are a class by themselves, and of whom we do not lose sight, from the beginning to the end of the book. He introduces us to the Parisian charcutier – the cook shop – and in La Belle Lina, the mistress of the establishment, we find the sister of Gervaise, the woman who stirred the depths of our hearts with pity, in L'Assommoir. In truth The Markets of Paris stands as utterly alone in modern French literature, as it is distinct and apart, from any other work even by Zola himself. It is a book for all to read

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