Bps Books: 69 books
A Good Home
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A Good Home is an addictive read, a profoundly emotional book about the author's early life in rural Jamaica, her move to urban North America, and her trips back home, all told through vivid descriptions of the unique homes she has lived in -- from a tiny pink house in Jamaica and a mountainside cabin...
Messala
The Return from Ruin -- A Sequel to Ben-Hur
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A brilliant sequel to Ben-Hur -- a colourful, compelling tale of love, ambition, and faith, set in ancient Rome.
In the original novel of Ben-Hur, Messala is seriously injured in a chariot race with his boyhood friend, Ben-Hur -- who had been imprisoned, based in part on Messala's mistaken...
Raising Great Parents
How to Become the Parent Your Child Needs You to Be
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Raising Great Parents shows parents how to define long-range goals for their family and then reach those goals through LRB -- love, respect, and belief -- creating an atmosphere and a set of principles that together move parenting past power struggles over getting out the door in the morning and into...
Finding Matthew
A Child with Brain Damage, a Young Man with Mental Illness, a Son and Brother with Extraordinary Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
During the first few weeks after Matthew Kirk was born -- brain-damaged as a result of oxygen deprivation during delivery -- the doctors advised his parents, Donna and Ed Kirk, to put him in an institution, have another baby as soon as possible, and get on with their life. But what the doctors didn't...
Closing the Mind Gap
Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from the ones that generations of our ancestors faced,...
Health First
Winning at Weight Loss and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
For years a distinguished family doctor has quietly and effectively helped his patients prevent or deal with diabetes, heart disease, and other problems through his Health First program, which teaches:
Mindfulness about health and diet
Budgeting of food types through daily/weekly diet plans
A...
by Paul Flaman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Jesus' prayer was "that all may be one."
In this clear, concise, and compelling book, Paul Flaman addresses ways in which we can contribute to fulfilling this foundational prayer of the Christian life when it comes to the issue of homosexuality -- an issue that has caused much division...
The Third Craft
A Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this dramatic one-volume sci-fi trilogy, three spacecraft crash land on Earth following the destruction of a far-off planet by two warring royal houses. Now, with the discovery of the third craft, the rivalry breaks out in an apocalyptic battle to determine Earth's future.
And what a battle...
Confessions of a Trauma Therapist
A Memoir of Healing and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
To her surprise, dismay, and eventually relief, Mary Armstrong, a therapist with over thirty years of experience helping people heal from childhood trauma, uncovered her own history of child sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather and father. As she tells her harrowing but heroic tale, she casts...
All My Loving
Coming of Age with Paul McCartney in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A memoir of the vibrant mid-Sixties that illuminates both the real life and powerful imagination of an articulate Beatlemaniac spending a lonely year in Paris.
She didn’t want to go overseas with her family when her dad takes a sabbatical from his university to study in France. That would...
by Syd Kessler, Ellen Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Don't worry -- the Kesslers know that parents aren't perfect. But they do believe that imperfect parents can raise their children on the foundation of a perfect system: the laws of nature, in particular the principle of causality -- that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction. The Kesslers...
Inland Navigation by the Stars
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“Coleman’s keen observations about her long life make INLAND NAVIGATION BY THE STARS not only an intimate personal memoir but also a work of social history. Her reflections of the times she grew up in are compassionate yet critical and provide a unique and engaging insight into both Coleman herself...
If Your Business Could Speak to You, What Would It Say?
How to Develop an Equal, Co-creative Partnership with Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In this insightful new book, business and life coach Debra Bajoras invites you to develop an equal, co-creative relationship with your business -- the ultimate process that will offer you the opportunity to become fully self-expressed in tandem with each other. Intuition is the tool you will use to...
by Raymond M. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A multilayered memoir of a life well lived, told in words that are informative, entertaining, funny, and truly inspiring.
In A Diplomat in Environmentalist's Clothing, Ray Robinson relates how, as Canada's youngest diplomat, he rose to become, arguably, his country's most influential environmental...