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When Lisa Najeeb Halaby was 26, her father introduced her to King Hussein of Jordan. Within a year, she became his fourth wife. Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa was unsure what her role would be. King Hussein was not only the head of state in Jordan but also considered the spiritual leader of all Muslims. This memoir provides a vital perspective on 30 years of turbulent world history from the Arab point of view.

The Memoirs of a Gunner offer a powerful, documentary style reflection of a young U.S. gunner's experiences in five major World War II battles. Written six decades later, he shares a rare, balanced and convincing view of the war he was part of as a paratrooper and combat soldier capturing both youthful emotion and enduring humanity. He describes several times moments of tragic events, which are part of the price for the later outcome. David Bowman talks not only about combat actions. There was still life 'in between' worth telling, when a huge army prepared for the next combat.

SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take the way it habitually postures its joints. I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally. It took me quite a few years to analyze it fully, and then a few more to turn the results of my analysis into a feasible action plan. And now, SKELETAL LEAP is that feasible action plan for self healing, resulting in mental health and wellness as well as physical health and fitness. I come up with a new weekly episode every Sunday morning for miraculous healing enthusiasts to ...

It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.

The Podcast that interviews creative, successful, inspirational people about the risks they’ve taken to pursue their dreams.

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight...