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2011
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My purpose and goal for this book is to help anyone who might be in need of finding answers to the questions facing them. This has been my desire for 50 years in the ministry. The length of the ministry is a qualifying factor, plus the wide range of involvements have given me proof of success in helping people who sought out or were present under my ministry. I found out a long time ago, this ministry is much more than standing behind a pulpit. Some of the rewarding parts of the ministry f...
The Search for Rosita
A Joe Kepper Mystery
2003
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THE SEARCH FOR ROSITA is a fascinating tale about a murder in a plush resort in Arizona that takes Joe Kepper across the Atlantic to three foreign countries to find the elusive Rosita. The novel is a continuation of a short story written by the author five years earlier about an armored truck robbery gone bad. The thieves were caught but the money was never recovered. Rosita is always a step ahead of the law until Kepper, helped by a pretty Dutch free-lance writer and a small town police c...
2007
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Angelo's Guest is John E. Mann's third mystery novel. It reaches back as far as the Korean War and winds its way into the modern day world of Detective Joe Kepper, a top investigator on the Marlboro County Maryland police force. Most of the action takes place in and around Washington DC where high level officials with connections to the DEA decide on new and more lucrative approaches to operate the drug trade. Like all major cities, a drug culture already exists a...
Peril in Parksdale
(A Joe Kepper Mystery)
2004
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Joe Kepper travels to Parksdale, Kansas to find the person who attacked his teenage daughter and left her battered body for dead. The assault against his daughter is only one of many mishaps to keep Keppers life in a tailspin. A failed marriage and a hostile relationship with his boss add to his many problems. The Parksdale police do not welcome Kepper with open arms as he offers his assistance. He finds help from an unlikely source when a young and beautiful policewoman comes to his aid. ...
Doctor Faustus
The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
2026
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"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." -The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." -The New RepublicThomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonis...
- Translated by
- John E. Woods
2027
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One of the greatest works of twentieth-century European literature, in the definitive English translation‘Home and a settled life not only lay far behind, but also, and more importantly, they lay fathoms below him, and he was still climbing’It is summer time in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an ‘ordinary young man’, has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans h...
Available Feb 11, 2027
- Translated by
- John E. Woods
2027
EN
The acclaimed, definitive translation of Mann's magnum opus‘Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?’Thomas Mann described Joseph and His Brothers as his ‘pyramid’: his towering literary achievement, although the Nazi regime tried to sabotage its first publication. This lavish, sweeping saga retells the Biblical story of Joseph, whose dreams and visions set him apart from his siblings and lead him first to slavery and ultimat...
Available Feb 11, 2027
- Translated by
- John E. Woods
2027
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**The definitive translation of 'perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' (**New York Times)‘I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavours. Where might I be, if I were not here?’Buddenbrooks is one of the original, and greatest, of family chronicles: the story of four generations of a wealthy and bourgeois German dynasty as they experience all the anguish and rewards of human life: ...
Available Feb 11, 2027
Joseph and His Brothers
The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider
- Translated by
- John E. Woods
2026
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This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event.Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the w...
- Translated by
- John E. Woods
2027
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**The definitive translation of 'Arguably the great German novel' (**New York Times)‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle’In May 1943 a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer and the flower of German culture. He recalls how, consumed by over-reaching...
Available Feb 11, 2027
Classic Sci-Fi - Venus Enslaved
and Other Venusian Tales
Unabridged
3 hours 25 min
2023
EN
Venus EnslavedA thrilling 1940s science fiction tale written by Manly Wade Wellman. Can the castaway Earthman and his Amazons armed with crossbows defeat the powerful Frogmasters of the Veiled Planet? With his impressive physique, fighting spirit and smarts, our protagonist fights his way to triumph and possibly romance. Tune in for an exciting experience.Track List1) Venus Enslaved Part 1 - Manly Wade Wellman











