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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans: a must-read for anyone on the journey of doubt, deconstruction, and ultimately faith reborn.
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.
In Faith Unraveled, Rachel
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life.
Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole had...
Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole had...
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Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a fun picture book biography of Tad Lincoln, his relationship with his father President Abraham Lincoln, and a story about a parent's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Part of the Turnabout Tales series that explores the hidden, pivotal moments that define some of history's greatest men and women.
Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the...
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. Through inexperienced and unprepared, she feels drawn to the Appalachian Trail and sets out along on the long-distance footpath that stretches 2, 175 miles from Georgia to Maine. The next five months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life—coping with blisters and aching shoulders, hiking through endless torrents of rain and a blizzard,...
Author
Publisher
Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In Lessons My Father Taught Me, Michael Reagan looks back over his years with his father and reflects on what he has learned from the greatest man he has ever known--and one of the greatest men the world has known,"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
The story of how the associate editor of Birding magazine set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year.
In 2015, for 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, Noah Strycker traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species—by far the biggest birding year on record. This is no travelogue or glorified...Author
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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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The stand-up comedian and podcast host shares stories of his crazy life on the road and punishing schedule, including bizarre celebrity encounters and his philosophy that in an increasingly insane world, sometimes you just need to be alone.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of ǵenocide ́and ćrimes against humanity, ́both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, t́he little Paris of Ukraine, ́a city variously called Lemberg, Lw©đw, Lvov, or Lviv.
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
A nonstop maelstrom of combat action, leaving the reader nearly breathless by the end. The human courage and carnage described in these pages resonates through the centuries, from Borodino to the Bulge, but the focus here is on the Vietnam War, and a unique unit formed to take part at its height.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was created from three U.S. infantry battalions of long lineage, as a fast reaction force for the U.S. to place in Indochina....
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war.
Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil.
These amazing and unbelievable stories
...4275) Unbeaten tracks in Japan
Author
Publisher
Publishers Group West [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Isabella Bird's 1878 expedition through Japan, chronicled in 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' immerses readers in an extraordinary odyssey across the seldom-explored territories of Japan's remote northern and central regions. Breaking away from conventional travel narratives, Bird adopts an unconventional prose style, crafting a captivating tale of her off-the-beaten-path escapades.
Rather than confining herself to the urban bustle, Bird ventures deep...
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