Hong Kong, 2019. Communist China wants to bring the former British colony under its control. The people of Hong Kong - used to the freewheeling democracy that has made it Asia's financial capital - take to the streets to protest. The stage is set for one of the most dramatic political showdowns since Tiananmen Square. Liberate Hong Kong takes readers to the heart of the protest movement in Hong Kong. It tells the stories of the people of Hong Kong - the shopkeepers, musicians, young radicals to middle-aged moderates - who have led the way in demanding universal suffrage and freedom from control by the Chinese Communist Party.

Gregory the Great was pope from 590 to 604, a time of great turmoil in Italy and in the western Roman Empire generally because of the barbarian invasions. Gregory's experience as prefect of the city of Rome and as apocrisarius of Pope Pelagius fitted him admirably for the new challenges of the papacy. The Moral Reflections on the Book of Job were first given to the monks who accompanied Gregory to the embassy in Constantinople. This first volume of the work contains books 1-5, accompanied by an introduction by Mark DelCogliano.