Robert Cook

Patriot and Assassin

The first in the Cooch series of national security, special-ops thrillers. Alejandro Mohammed Cuchulain, called Cooch or Alex, became a Marine at sixteen and a CIA special-operations trainee at 17. His father is a wheel-chair bound former Marine and Medal of Honor winner who gives Alex advice as to how to survive in a violent world. His mother is the daughter of a Bedouin sheikh who sends a young Alex off, during his summer breaks, to experience the Bedouin life. The combination of a very young start in learning the art and craft of violence, combined with a thirst for knowledge combine to help him to become both a noted designer and user of explosives and an expert in Islamic affairs. Violent, yet thoughtful, Cooch represents the best in fast-moving, popular thrillers. www.robertcooknovels.com

Cooch

A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. He begins with the development of segregation in the late nineteenth century, but his main focus is on the continuing struggle this century. It is a dramatic story of many achievements - even if in many respects it is also a record of unfinished business.

The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century

Sweet Land of Liberty?

The American Civil War was without doubt the defining event in the history of the United States. This up-to-date analyisis of a critical period goes beyond the origins, course and consequences of the Civil War to bring in other important themes such as racial conflict, gender relations, religion, the popular memory and state formation.

Making a Nation, 1848-1877

Civil War America

Karim and Salima Kufdani have survived the streets of Tangier. Orphaned and alone they've found their own way, until a fateful night and a cafe brawl see them shipped away from everything they've ever known. Now in the cold, barren expanse of Scotland, Karim and Salima must learn to navigate the waters of the exclusive Bairdston School and cross a cultural divide neither ever expected to face. Can Karim overcome the vendetta of a coach who doesn't want him on the team? Will anyone ever accept uneducated Salima for the prodigy she really is? A story of love, acceptance and perseverance, Bairdston asks if the principles of peace and the virtues of intelligence can ever truly light the darkest of all places. Award-winning novelist, Robert Cook paints an irresistible portrait of teen life in a Muslim meets Western world. Bairdston is a triumphant tale that will capture readers and leave them breathless with every exhilarating page.

Bairdston

The concept of the absolute biblical truth is fading away, and it is being replaced by seeker-sensitive doctrine that desires not to offend. It seeks the pleasure of this world and not the things of God. The church has been led astray by a desire be accepted and to fit in. But by forsaking scriptural integrity, the body of Christ can largely be seen chasing spiritual rabbit trails, entangled in every sort of worldly device. But God is calling his church back to basics. And what are the basics? Taking us back to the early church's beliefs, Robert Cook brings clarity to the murky waters of supposed Christian tradition. By illuminating the worldview that Christ gave to his followers, The Jerusalem Church gives us the pure doctrines of the church before it was entrenched in heresy, corruption, and wealth. You will learn more about: - The origins of Christmas - The Eucharist - The doctrine of hell - Eschatology - And more!

Learn Not the Way of the Heathen

The Jerusalem Church

Viðar Hreinsson

The set contains "the first complete, coordinated English translation of The sagas of Icelanders, forty in all, together with forty-nine of the shorter Tales of Icelanders."--Preface.

The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Including 49 Tales

The Stranger by Albert Camus, is a French philosophical novel written in the mid-1940s. In the novel, we are introduced to our narrator, Monsieur Meursault. Meursault is a French man living in Algiers and has just received word via telegram that his elderly mother has passed away. He notes that he has asked for two days of leave from his job, even though his boss is quite annoyed by this. He is to travel to the Home for Aged Persons in Marengo, which is at least fifty miles from Algiers. He takes the bus and sleeps for most of the trip from Algiers to Marengo. Once he arrives in Marengo, he realizes he has a one-mile walk to the home. When he finally arrives to the home, he is greeted by the doorkeeper. The warden meets him in his office and tells him that even though Meursault all but abandoned his mother in this home, it was the absolute best decision he could have made. The director knows that Meursault makes very little money at his job and could not take care of his mother. He also claims that Meursault's mother had made great friends and had enjoyed spending her last few years with people of her own age. Meursault had felt judged by the warden, but after this conversation, he agreed with the notion that his mother had been better off in this home, instead of living with him. We see Meursault rationalizing why he had not been to visit his mother much, as it cost him an entire weekend day on Sundays, the commute to the home was an hour each way, and getting a ticket for the bus was a hassle in and of itself. The director then informs, Meursault that he has arranged for a religious funeral ceremony to be performed the next day. Meursault knows that his mother was not religious and would not care. When it comes time for Meursault to see his mother, he does not want to see the body as it was already sealed inside the casket. This causes the doorkeeper to ask Meursault why, to which he responds he cannot think of a reason. The doorkeeper describes why the hold funerals so quickly in Marengo. He tells Meursault that it gets too hot there for them to keep the bodies for four or five days like Paris does. Meursault finds this topic interesting. The old man then informs him of the custom of allowing all the other residents to hold an overnight vigil by the casket before the funeral. Meursault finds this odd, but plays along. The doorkeeper offers him some coffee. Meursault gladly accepts and gives the doorkeeper a cigarette in exchange. Meursault eventually falls asleep in the room waiting for the elderly residents to arrive for the vigil. He is eventually woken up by the sound of people shuffling into the room. Once people are settled in their seats the only sound he hears is the sound of a woman sobbing in the second row. This perturbs him for a bit, but eventually he falls asleep again and sleeps until morning.

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