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Alcatraz is possibly the most famous prison that has ever existed, here is a fascinating history of this island in San Francisco bay, with interviews and biographies of some of the notorious people who called it home.

A SCIENCE FICTION HEIST FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SMASH HIT FILM 'ATOMIC BLONDE'. It’s just another job… right? Nicco Salarum is a thief, and a good one. In the rough-and-tumble city of Azbatha, where every street hustler has an enchantment in his back pocket, Nicco prides himself on using his skills...

Many anti-abortion groups will pressure a child, teen or woman into not having an abortion. Why do you think they do that? Is it really to save a life because abortion is murder? Or is it because they want to grow their numbers in church? One more lifelong member of the church to pay the tithe? Pressuring...

Increasingly, thinking Christians are examining the influential role that movies play in our cultural dialogue. Reel Spirituality successfully heightens readers' sensitivity to the theological truths and statements about the human condition expressed through modern cinema. This second edition cites...

This Changes Everything

This relatively short book is widely regarded as the best on the apparition of Our Lady in 1531 in Mexico City. Tells the complete story: From the Conquest of Mexico and the conversion of the Aztecs through the development of the devotion and on into the modern era. An enthralling story and an essential devotion for our times!

Do you find it hard to pray?  Do you struggle to know what to pray about?  Are you unsure about how to pray? Do you wonder what the point of prayer is. This short book can help  by exploring 6 phrases from what has been commonly called "the Lord's Prayer" - just a few dozen words, but all we need to have a meaningful and powerful prayer life!

Examines marriage as lived in the context of the Catholic community, which supports the couple spiritually, emotionally, and in many other ways.

The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne — one of very few female cult leaders in history — captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hamilton-Byrne, who some followers believed was Jesus Christ, was glamorous and charismatic — and, many...

Aged 33, Fr Damien de Veuster left his mission parish to work among the lepers of Hawaii. He died there of leprosy aged only 49. Like Christ himself, he became rejected for the rejected, a leper for the lepers: something rare in a world that wants to eliminate suffering. The author updated and revised the text in light of Damien's canonization by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.

In 1902 in an Italian village a young girl, Maria Goretti, was murdered during a sexual attack. Her killer, Alessandro Serenelli, himself a teenager, was a close neighbour well known to her and her family. He had been threatening her for some time. What does it mean, how can it help, to say that she...

Partial Contents: The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis; Secret of the Sphinx; Mrs. May Bank-Stacey; Is Theology Teaching Christianity; Occult Science of Ancient Egypt; Nature and Number; Romances as Seen in Nativities; A Rosicrucian Interpretation of Genesis; plus much more!

The book that Christians wantand needFor this urgent hour in history   As ISIS dominates news headlines, attention is given to the terrorist group’s ideology… when the truemotive of their mayhem is actually revealed in their theology!   Major General Michael K. Nagata of the Special Operations...

A novena is a way of praying, often for a particular intention or need. It consists, very simply, of a prayer or prayers said for nine (usually consecutive) days. This ebook contains newly composed novena prayers asking for the intercession of various saints. The long experience of praying Christians,...