The End of Your Life Book Club

The End of Your Life Book Club
By:"Will Schwalbe"
Published on 2012-10-02 by Knopf Canada

Mary Anne Schwalbe was a renowned educator who filled such august positions as Director of Admissions at Harvard and Director of College Counseling at New York's prestigious Dalton School. She also felt it incumbent upon herself to educate the less fortunate and spent the last 10 years of her life building libraries in Afghanistan. But her story here begins with a mocha, dispensed from a machine in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Over coffee, Will casually asks his mom what she's been reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they mutually agree to read the same books and share them together as Mary Anne waits for her chemotherapy treatments. The books they read, chosen by both, range from the classic to the popular: from The Painted Veil to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; from My Father's Tears to the Christian spiritual classic Daily Strength for Daily Needs. Their discussions reveal how books become increasingly important to the connection between a remarkable woman whose life is coming to a close, and a young man becoming closer to his mom than ever before.

This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword life.

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The Runaway Pokemon

The Runaway Pokemon
By:"Simcha Whitehill"
Published on 2011-01-01 by Scholastic Inc.

When Ash's Gible starts pounding on Dawn's Piplup during training, the Piplup runs away from the team, straight into the arms of Team Rocket.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword pokemon.

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Forever Barbie

Forever Barbie
By:"M. G. Lord"
Published on 2009-05-26 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie's fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword barbie.

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Women and Politics Around the World

Women and Politics Around the World
By:"Joyce Gelb","Marian Lief Palley"
Published on 2009 by ABC-CLIO

A unique two-volume examination of the progress women have made in achieving political equality, Women and Politics around the World addresses both transnational and gender-related issues as well as specific conditions in more than 20 countries. * Topical essays on a broad range of gender-related policy issues, written by international scholars * Focused explorations of women's political and economic progress in more than 20 individual countries * More than 70 photographs of both elected officials and women from all walks of life in countries around the world * More than 50 tables and charts presenting relevant data * Approximately 20 sidebars with additional in-depth coverage of important policy trends and events

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword women.

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Life of Adam Smith

Life of Adam Smith
By:"John Rae"
Published on 1895 by

This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword life.

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I Can Be...a Baby Doctor (Barbie)

I Can Be...a Baby Doctor (Barbie)
By:
Published on 2013 by Random House Childrens Books

Barbie visits the hospital and learns how to be a baby doctor from her friends, Doctor Green and Nurse Kay.

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword barbie.

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God's Enduring Love in the Book of Hosea

God's Enduring Love in the Book of Hosea
By:"Joy Philip Kakkanattu"
Published on 2006 by Mohr Siebeck

Joy Philip Kakkanattu provides an exegetical and theological analysis of an important and difficult text of the Old Testament through a synchronic and diachronic reading. Detailed critical notes, which discuss the textual difficulties, accompany the translation of the text from Hebrew. In the detailed exegesis, special attention is given to study of the key terms theologically significant in Hos 11:1-11 against the context of the whole book. The exegesis shows that in Hos 11:8-9 it is not the repentance of Yahweh that causes the withholding of His anger against Israel, but Yahweh's constancy in His election of Israel as His son. More than a change of heart, the decision not to execute the deserved judgement witnesses Yahweh's divine nature. Special attention is dedicated to the parent metaphor employed in Hos 11:1-11. It is concluded that more than expressing the Yahweh-Israel relationship as a father-son relationship, the text speaks of it in terms of parent-child relationship. In the diachronic analysis, the author deals with the origin and formation of Hos 11:1-11.

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword love.

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Love, Power, and Justice

Love, Power, and Justice
By:"Paul Tillich"
Published on 1954 by Oxford University Press, USA

Speaking with understanding and force, Tillich offers a basic analysis of love, power, justice, and all concepts fundamental in the mutual relations of people, of social groups, and of humankind to God. His concern is to penetrate to the essential, or ontological foundation of the meaning of each of these words.

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword love.

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