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The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture ChurchOur world is marked by unprecedented degrees of multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, social shifts, international collaboration, and technology-driven changes. The changes are profound, especially when you consider the unchecked decline in the influence, size, and social standing of the church. There is an undercurrent of...
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The Smell of Sawdust: What Evangelicals Can Learn from Their Fundamentalist HeritageMany evangelicals paint fundamentalism with the same broad, negative brush. But we owe more to our pietist-revivalist roots than we realize.Richard Mouw's awareness of fundamentalism's problems hasn't robbed his appreciation for its strengths. The Smell of Sawdust sheds thoughtful and revealing light on the...
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Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World WarMore than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German...
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Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care ReformA leading expert explains how Americans trapped themselves in a costly and complicated health system--and came to fight so bitterly about changing it In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century...
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The Last LoverWinner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into...
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Jacob: Unexpected PatriarchFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the complex life of the father of the Twelve Tribes and how the ancient writers and storytellers shaped his identity "An engaging analysis of one of the Bible's most complex figures."--Kirkus Reviews A powerful hero...
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Visit to Priapus and Other StoriesJust as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried from 1938 until this century in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals,...
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For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black PoliticsElena Georgiou's debut collection of poems unveils the story of a vigorous soul's journey in and out of love. Whether her speaker is buying lunch at a falafel stand or bumping into the ghost of Marvin Gaye in the supermarket, Georgiou's zesty clarity prevails.Author:...
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H. H. Bennett, Photographer: His American Landscape"My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography."--H. H. BennettHenry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) became a celebrated photographer in the half-century following the American Civil War. Bennett is admired for his superb...
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Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of AntarcticaAntarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. The fishbowl communities at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and in the remote field camps intensify relationships, jack all emotion...
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Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to SedarisIn the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing over the last...
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Slingin' Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the GameDan Jenkins calls him "the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro." Slingin' Sammy Baugh, who played for TCU and the Washington Redskins, single-handedly revolutionized the game of football. While the pros still wore leather helmets and played the game more like rugby,...
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Writing from the Center" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry." --Library Journal"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural...
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The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the HolocaustIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French Jewish history from public archives and collections in France and moved them, illicitly, to New York. Why did this respectable historian become a...
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Please Bury Me in the LibraryThere's nothing like curling up with a good book, but you have to be careful. Before you know it, a minute turns into an hour, an hour turns into a day, and a day may turn into . . . eternity. Inspired by the...
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Mrs. HemingwayThe Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . . A New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Richard & Judy UK Pick Paula McLain's New York Times-bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest Hemingway's romantic life. But Hadley was only...
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Highway CatsA heartwarming tale that's great for fans of Warriors When three kittens are thrown off the back of a truck, none of the highway cats knows what to make of them. They seem to have an appeal--an energy, even--that Khalia Koo, Jolly Roger, and...
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The Puzzling World of Winston BreenWinston Breen says the only thing better than discovering a puzzle is stumping someone else with it. But when his sister uncovers mysterious strips of wood with words and letters on them, even Winston himself is stumped. Soon the whole family (and some friends)...
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Freak ShowSoon to be a major motion picture with Bette Midler, Laverne Cox, Abigail Breslin, and Alex Lawther starring as Billy Bloom Freak Show has it all. It's hilarious, sad, sexy, and glamorous--just the way life should be.--Perez Hilton Gutsy, funny, over-the-top Billy Bloom is...
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The Anti-Pirate Potato Cannon: And 101 Other Things for Young Mariners to Build, Try, and Do on the WaterSpark a passion for sailng and the outdoors in your child From the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards bronze medal winner Ever since humankind began seafaring, boats and shoreline adventures have produced sturdy, independent, creative, self-reliant kids. From the author of the bestselling Complete Sailor...
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