Atlantic Books: 762 books
Animal Wisdom
Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming...
The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
The Extraordinary Story of a Victorian Wife
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The remarkable true story of the life of Mary Benson: wife of an archbishop, friend of
Queen Victoria, mother of three "unpermissably gifted" children—including E. F.
Benson, and in love with dozens of women
Sometimes touching and sometimes hilarious, this is the story of one...
Surviving Execution
A Miscarriage of Justice and the Fight to End the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
A tense mix of Dead Man Walking and Making a Murderer, Surviving Execution combines the very best in true-crime writing with a searching exploration of our most barbaric punishment.Imagine being condemned to death for murder, when even the prosecutors admit that you didn't actually kill anyone. This...
by Marcus Scriven
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
**From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums—**the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of three of Britain’s most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and the scapegraces responsible
Splendour & Squalor traces the disintegration...
Walking Point
From the Ashes of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In this intimate memoir, Perry A. Ulander chronicles with powerful clarity the bewildering predicament he confronted and the fellowship and guidance that transformed him during the year he served as an American GI in the jungles of Vietnam. Conveying with unadorned precision the harrowing experiences...
by Robert Fabbri
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
The final, thrilling installment in the epic Vespasian series from Robert Fabbri. Vespasian is tasked with the impossible. Should he quell the revolt in Judaea, as Nero the emperor has instructed, or must he resort to the unthinkable and sabotage his own campaign? If his conquest succeeds, he risks...
Your Soul's Plan
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness?
Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We...
Britannia
100 Documents that Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Graham Stewart traces 2,000 years of an island's story—from Roman province to 21st century European nation-state—through 100 historic documents
From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of Norman bureaucracy, the Domesday Book, and from the designs for the Union...
by Charles Lewinsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The international-bestselling saga of a large and colorful Jewish family buffeted from quiet respectability-of-sorts in 1871 to the Nazi death camps of 1945. 1871: cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews...
Fart Proudly
Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A mention of flatulence might conjure up images of bratty high school boys or lowbrow comics. But one of the most eloquent—and least expected—commentators on the subject is Benjamin Franklin. The writings in Fart Proudly reveal the rogue who lived peaceably within the philosopher and statesman....
On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition
Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
The urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. On the Warrior’s Path connects the martial arts with...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Awakening Upon Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying, with introductory commentary by Dzogchen Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, is a new translation of the ancient text also known as The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State. Both a practical guide and intriguing historical,...
Exit Laughing
How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
There’s nothing funny about dying … or is there? Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and 22 more share hilarious and moving stories of confronting death. Exit Laughing makes death more approachable as it reveals the funny side of “passing on.” As painful as it is to lose a loved one, *Exit...
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga
Reclaiming Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Survivors of trauma—whether abuse, accidents, or war—can end up profoundly wounded, betrayed by their bodies that failed to get them to safety and that are a source of pain. In order to fully heal from trauma, a connection must be made with oneself, including one’s body. The trauma-sensitive...