First Easter

When hope died on a Roman cross, no one expected what came next. Three days after Jesus's crucifixion, his tomb stands empty and Jerusalem buzzes with impossible rumors. Through twenty powerful chapters, experience the first Easter through the eyes of those who lived it—Mary Magdalene's desperate vigil at the tomb, Thomas's demanding skepticism, Peter's guilt-ridden journey to faith, and James's transformation from doubting brother to believing church leader. From the sealed tomb to the ascension, witness how ordinary people grappled with extraordinary claims: that death had been ...

Read by the author. Keep Jesus in the center of your family's Easter celebrations with this beautiful Holy Week storybook from N.T. Wright, one of the world's most loved Bible scholars. With a holistic approach that readers worldwide have learned to trust, N.T. Wright weaves together the pieces...

To save her life, a woman tells a story — and breaks it off at dawn, on a cliff, so the king who has sworn to kill her by morning must let her live one more day to hear the end. A thousand nights and one night later, Scheherazade has talked her way out of death and given the world its greatest treasury of tales. This Erato Press edition presents the Nights complete and unabridged — the full nine-volume cycle in the first complete English translation, made by the poet John Payne (1842–1916). Payne was the first to render the entire Arabic compendium into English; Richard Burton's more ...

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever.

Narrated by Derek Perkins From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land. Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope...

End every day wrapped in God's love — one gentle Bible story at a time. From Creation's first light to the joy of Easter morning, this treasury carries little listeners through 37 of the Bible's most beloved stories — each retold in soft, soothing language that makes hearts calm and eyelids heavy. Inside this storybook treasury: 37 read-aloud stories spanning the Old and New Testaments A beautiful full-color illustration for every story Gentle, bedtime-friendly endings that settle little ones for sleep Warm, simple language for ages 3–8 — perfect for reading aloud together A ...

One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but none encompassed the work in its entirety. Now, in one of the year's most important...

Bloomsbury presents The Splintered Empires by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh. The last volume of Prit Buttar's best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was...

Was there a woman before Eve? The question does not arise from a single text or a single moment in time. It moves across centuries, reappears in different forms, and is often attributed to writings that never posed it in this way. Between what is written and what later came to be told, a space opens—and it is within that space that legend takes hold. This book traces the emergence and development of this idea through the very texts and traditions that shaped it. It begins in the ancient world, where names associated with night, wilderness, and desolation belonged to the religious and ...

You’ve fallen in love with the Hawthorne brothers, now discover the love story of the lost scion of Hawthorne House. Read Hannah’s side of the story, then flip the book over to experience their love anew through Toby’s eyes in this deluxe novel that you can read backward or forward! The...

The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.

A fresh, modern re-imagining of the essential Osho meditation text For decades Meditation: The First and Last Freedom has been the essential guide to meditation and Osho meditation techniques. Developed specifically for a contemporary audience, this foundational guide shows that meditation need...

Join Junie B. Jones, the world's funniest first grader and star of a beloved and mega-bestselling chapter book series, on this egg-citing springtime adventure! Barbara Park's New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, is a classroom favorite and has been keeping kids...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Miquoting Jesus comes the “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West. How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote...

Sunny the little chick is excited when Easter Meadow begins getting ready for its very first Easter parade. The ribbons are bright. The grass smells fresh after the rain. And all of Sunny’s friends are helping make the day special. Then Mrs. Hops gives Sunny a very important job - carrying a beautiful ribbon at the very front of the parade. Suddenly, Sunny feels shy. What if she trips? What if everyone is watching? What if she is too small to be brave? With gentle help from Clover, Daisy, Lamby, Squirrel, and wise Mrs. Hops, Sunny learns that courage does not mean never feeling scared. It...

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing. The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German...

One hundred girls. One reality show. One date with America's most eligible teenage bachelor. Addy Davidson wants absolutely nothing to do with any of it. Perfect for fans of Lynn Painter. Seventeen-year-old Addy has a plan: get good grades, earn a scholarship to an Ivy League college, and stay...

HBO Max animated special premieres March 25, 2021! The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, beloved children’s book author of Goodnight Moon, is now available in digital audio read by audiobook star Robin Miles! “If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you. For you are my...

Bloomsbury presents Between Giants by Prit Buttar, read by Gordon Griffin. From an expert on the Eastern Front of World War II, this book chronicles the cataclysmic experience of the region that includes modern-day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. The Baltic States suffered more than almost any...

The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern Front. At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern Font, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherland, pushed back German forces steeled by the vision of the ubermensch, the iron-willed fighter.