A collection of ancient Indian moral fables in which the Buddha is reborn in many lives—often as animals or humble humans—to demonstrate virtues such as generosity, compassion, wisdom, and self-sacrifice; each tale uses vivid characters and simple plots to teach ethical lessons about karma, right action, and the rewards of moral conduct, making complex Buddhist teachings accessible through engaging, instructive stories.

Thomas Howard contrasts Christian and secular worldviews and aims to refresh readers' sense of Christianity as an illuminating framework. He shows how Christianity once imbued culture and contends that people cannot live meaningful lives without that Christian understanding. Howard offers a defense of Christianity and a critique of secularism. He argues that losing the Christian understanding undermines the possibility of meaningful modern life.

Ellen Rogers is nineteen, pampered and playful, beautiful but bored, who finds tormenting boys more exciting than horseback riding or piano lessons. She has already twisted Bill Northrup around her fingers and discarded him, and now looks for a bigger game. Ed Lanson is good-looking, powerful and self-educated, with a brutal ego that can crush Ellen; his quotations from Swinburne and Nietzsche, studied lovemaking and calculated ruthlessness reduce her to a bewildered, love-sick girl.

A high-stakes techno-thriller in which a clandestine U.S. intelligence vessel is seized by hostile forces, triggering a tense race by intelligence operatives and special-operations teams to unravel a wider conspiracy, reclaim the ship, and avert an international crisis; the novel blends political intrigue, espionage, and high-technology action as the protagonists confront betrayal, shifting alliances, and the dangerous consequences of modern surveillance warfare.